INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES - Life in America
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When I was young my Grandmother would take me to a local IHOP near her home every Saturday morning for about 5 years , between the ages 11 and about 16. I'd always get the largest stack of those delicious butter milk pancakes 🥞 and pour a ton of syrup on them. Such beautiful memories.
My grandmother did the same thing until she went back to Morocco
WATCHING THIS MADE ME HUNGRY
Is it just me, or is that boy grinning at that stack of pancakes in the beginning of the video Johnny Crawford of Rifleman fame? At any rate, another great video! Have to say though that for my taste buds, Perkins has better pancakes. I know that they are only in certain areas, but here in NE Pennsylvania there are several locations.
Yes it's Johnny Crawford.
And of The Mickey Mouse Club!
RIP Johnny.
@@douglas_drew Yes, he was one of the original Mouseketeers in 1955. He would have been there for the original opening of Disneyland that time.
I like Perkins pancakes better, too. The ihop pancakes are nowhere near the same as they were in the 70's. We used to eat at one around Columbus OH. They were delecious back then, terrible now. We go to Perkins or Cracker Barrel for pancakes.
Nah, just you
The first time I ate at an IHOP was when I was on a business trip to St. Louis in 1998. I instantly feel in love and have been eating there every since.
In the 1960's and 1970's, International House of Pancakes had wonderful food, great service, and reasonable prices. Today, the food is mediocre at best, portions are small, service is less than stellar, and the prices are exorbitant. My wife and I have many fond memories from their early days, but prefer to spend our restaurant money elsewhere. What a shame!
I agree. I went with my friend to an IHOP last year and the food and service was good. So I went there with my friend about 6 months later to the same location. The service was slow, the food had small portions and not very tasty, and a loud conversation was going on right next to us. I'll never go back.
When we would go to visit my uncle in Baltimore we will always stop first at the international House of pancakes, before IHOP, and have a breakfast. We now have one in town where I live. Good food and lots of fun memories.
Going tomorrow morning on our way down to Mass.
I live in Los Angeles and haven't eaten at IHOP for years. Last weekend we went to Dublin, GA for a wedding and at 2 am, the only place open was IHOP. The food was mediocre, but the service was amazing. Never had that attentive, smiling service in LA. Thank you Dublin IHOP.
I am 68 years old, I have been going to the IHOP most of my life. Still do!
On my birthday, back in the 60s when I was little, my family and I would always go to the IHOP (my request) before buying our Christmas tree. My favorite was a stack of buttermilk pancakes with a ton of butter and Boysenberry syrup. Such wonderful memories, thanks.
Boysenberry my all time favorite too !!!!
You had me at “ton of butter”. To this day, and I’m 59, I get extra butter and SLATHER it all on every pancake. They become sort of soggy in all that butter and I’m in hog heaven.
@@friendofdorothy9376Pancakes, Waffles, Bread, Popcorn, Baked Potato...all just a gateway to BUTTER!
😏😋
Boysenberry was the best!
@@friendofdorothy9376 They MUST have IHOPs in Heaven
This is dope. Im having a breakfast sampler delivered now. I never knew they originated from cali.
The last time I went to IHOP was about 15 years ago. I got up to go to the restroom made a wrong turn and ended up almost in the kitchen. That kitchen was absolutely filthy. A kitchen that filthy meant filthy food. It turned my stomach. I left and have never been back since. Not saying they are all like that, but just that one was enough to turn me off....forever.
I've heard other people say the same thing. I won't eat there.
My wife and I go to our local IHOP once a month after church. I never leave hungry and the staff are the best!!!
In the Charleston, SC area there was one of those original style restaurants. I only ate there once and man the space in the booths were tiny.
Always an enjoyable experience!
We have 2 restaurants in our area
One of them is managed by an
ex Walmart manager. He strives for cleanliness, friendly staff,
expedite orders quickly,and food prepared to perfection.
His business has been very good despite the eci.
I have a feeling in the 70's it was good food. In 2022 not so good it seems like food you would pull out of the freezer and heat up in the microwave. Also they keep the place so cold 🥶 you can see your breath!
In the 70's IHOP was the Mother's day breakfast stop every year. 80's & 90's hit it with friends.
as a kid in the 60's we ate at ihop a lot. the food was really good.
The banana and strawberry pancakes were great
I always enjoyed the International Omelet.
Love their omelettes.
🤙thank you
Could you do a video on Ranch House Restaurants? They used to be along the eastern coast of Florida.
I've been going to the "International House of Pancakes" since the 1960's.
I remember when they used to have about 8 or 10 different flavors of syrup right on the side of each table, giving customers a variety of flavors of syrup. I don't see the variety of syrups available on the tables anymore.
I went to an "International House of Pancakes" the other day, and I've been noticing that there are no crepes on the menu!!
I believe that it was the "International Passport Crepes",
that gave the restaurant it's name!!!
What's the deal???
They changed the menu on us!! I thought I was going to "International House of Pancakes"!!!
Now, it appears to be, that they are calling it "IHOP", a whole complete different restaurant!
Would love to see one on Applebees , we don’t have them in Australia and I’ve always wondered what type of food they serve
@Jo Connor Applebees is a neighborhood Bar & Grill type restaurant that serves Ribs amongst many other things its actually one of my favorite dine in Quick service restaurants. as for I Hop we have one a few miles from my house
Applebees has steaks, chicken with tortilla strips and lime, chicken tenders, that sort of thing. Lots of colorful drinks and trendy desserts like a big cookie with ice cream and butterscotch sauce. They have a small steak with shrimp butter sauce that is very good. It has a bar in the center.
Sadly IHOP is but a shell of it's former self just like every popular food chain. Everything sucks now.
@Steven Lindsey
Sadly you are correct, these big corporate outfits water down the brands and lower the quality of food and service so much that they just stop being worth the trip and the prices go way up too. Not just IHOP but many other well known chains.
@@watershed44 So true unfortunately.
Chocolate chip pancakes for meeee 😁💞💖
There are 2 IHOP’s near me. One is the more modern building, the other is the original. The original wasn’t taken care of so it’s dumpy looking and thd last time I was there the service was as slow as Cracker Barrel. I used to love their breakfast but they are so crazy slow I can’t be bothered. There wasn’t one around where I lived growing up.
You know you've made it when Jim Gaffigan makes jokes about it. Unless you are affel House
It's not the best but it's not the worst. I wish they'd go back to real maple syrup.
I love IHOP, but they have a limited menu selection and have gotten rid of Fan favorites, like the Cheese Blintzes.
Not sure why they got rid of some of their menu items, but it isn't like it used to be just a few years ago.
oh lordy ... now I'm hungry for a rooty tooty fresh and frooty
IHOP always taste better when your on vacay
IHOP did sponsor Captain Kangaroo in the late 60s and early 70s.
IHop become my daughter and her friend's place to stop after a late night movie or sporting event to get something to eat and that was in the OO's (she graduated high school in 2010). I thought it weird but teenagers gotta eat I guess.
And parents have to adjust to the fact that it’s their opinions & tastes, not yours.
I heard you mention House Of Pies. IHOP was trying to compete with Marie Callendar's, right? That didn't work at all.
I remember as a kid that their pancakes were great, but in later years, I think they went to frozen pancakes that they just microwaved. They were not nearly so good. IHOP closed their restaurant in my town last year.
Admittedly, I've been there once and it was fine, but it smelt of burnt pancake batter.
Their food isn't as good as it use to be. Last time I ate there was about two years ago and it was horrible. Food tastes like it was microwaved. And the pancakes tasted bland.
Bland = cheap ingredients
Dennys were more popular in Northern CA in the 70s and 80s as IHOP wasn't that close to us. IHOP did have better syrup choices though the few times that I ate there. I do remember getting the red velvet pancakes once, which were delicious, but more like dessert.
I generally like IHOP, the food is always at least decent. However, it just feels like another faceless corporate restaurant the last 15-20 years. I think the focus to modernize and chase trends has been so consuming, they (and some others) have lost their unique character.
i can appreciate international house of pancakes. i did not know understand how important it is to my friend chet lau.(chester) his dad a chinese owner of a restaurant in china town in new york city. it is not the american chinese food many of us so called american think of but true chinese delicacies like chicken feet chicken with the head still on duck with the head still on. i will i did not under it then. but it was a celebration banquet that chets parents had to rejoice that their son married a lady from china and invited good friends of chester from connecticut to they celebration in honor of the married couple.
back to the ihop story before it was ihop. chester went to ihop for breakfast on saturday mornings with his dad religiously. i am not certain if it was a bonding of two cultures the american born son and the chinese born father. a way to blend cultures so no one culture dominated. but i know that chet went with his mother to find a bride of chinese birth and/or friends of the family in the proverbial old country.
i am not sure chet might have been the youngest son. he has an older sister brenda who suggested that my eventual life partner and eventually my wife should get together similar to chet and his life partner ping. maybe a prearranged marriage. since i believe in god i will think of as divine intervention with humans guiding the way. chet settled down in west hartford. with his ping and thier three sons a couple blocks from an old ihops looking building
my dear wife's autistic but functional to normal standards whatever normal is. clayton loved celebrating his birthday at the newer ihops.
and i can be a glutton and eat for an hour on eating all you can eat pancakes and wash them down with a gallon of coffee. and the stand joke where did it go. i pointed to my legs saying that my stomach was full and i was filling my hollow legs. at least it was for a good laugh.
until later my friend.
I agree, I myself like the old classy wood framed signs with the restaurants full name far better than today's smiley acronym that looks drab and cheap.
It is a corporate. Unless the place has a single or maybe two or three outlets, it is a corporate so not sure what your expecting. As long as it serves decent food at a price you like…..otherwise if your after character you need to go elsewhere.
Great explanation
IHOP Has more than Pancakes and Breakfast Fare, they also have some pretty good Dinner and Supper dishes.
When I was a little kid, a new one opened in the neighborhood. I nagged my parents, who were kind of hard, until they grudgingly finally took me. I ordered a big waffle, and I was dazzled by all those colored syrups. My parents warned me to choose only one, but I wanted them all. I started pouring a different one into each of the quadrants against their warnings. Well, the syrups flowed into each other because it was a bad idea to begin with, and I'd put on too much as well. The dyes mixed, and it turned into a soggy, gray, inedible mass. My parents got angry and told me to eat it anyway. The trip to the pancake house had turned into a disaster. I sat there under their glare and quietly the tears flowed. The waitress came over and asked what was wrong and saw the mess. She offered to bring some pancakes. Dad angrily said he wasn't buying anyless else and to leave the waffle. The waitress gave me a pat and left. A little while later she came with a plate of pancakes, removed the dead, grey waffle, looked at my dad and said, "It's on the house," and mussed my hair. Yeah, I only used one syrup.🥺🤤😁
Great story!!
@@friendofdorothy9376 great waitress!
Yeah, I'd guess if I did that too, my parents would make me do the same.
I always thought IHOP's pancakes were much better than Dennys. And yes, I do remember the corny commercials.
For sure. I like Denny’s just fine, but IHOP is just better and more delicious.
IHOP's are definitely better.
That was Johnny Crawford (Mark) from The Rifleman tv series in the intro pic.
Yes, I saw! That was little Johnny!
What about the brief promotion where they went by IHOB For International House of Burgers? I think it was limited to only a few locations in the US and was a big marketing ploy to remind people they have more than pancakes.
I remember that. I think it was kind of silly. 😊
It was just a publicity stunt .
I don't think it was limited to only a few locations... unless all of the Atlanta-area locations were included in that. Because I saw "IHOB" all over the place.
Miss those days back in the 60's.
IHOP is too expensive now.
I think the old buildings and signs of any chain restaurants were much more unique and cool looking compared to today's acronym sign/ box buildings, everything back then from restaurants to automobiles had style and character.
Absolutely!! I really miss the old large unique, colorful, neon blinking Holiday Inn signs. Always beckoning to the weary traveler and promised comfortable beds and a swimming pool for us kids.
They should change the look back to the way it originally did. It's awesome
The acquisition of Applebee's by iHop was the result of iHop's new female CEO had worked at Applebee's and was passed over for promotion at Applebee's. She left Applebee's, went to iHop as CEO. A short time later, iHop was able to buy Applebee's. I found that amusing.
I was in a rock and pop cover band in the SF Bay Area in the mid-'70's, and have many fond memories of us all converging on the International House of Pancakes (pre-IHOP) in Hayward, California, at 2 or 3 AM after our gigs. I'd load up on their delicious corn pancakes, or "Pigs in a Blanket," floated in 3 or 4 flavors of syrup, then go home to bed on a very full stomach! Sure couldn't carbo-load like that today!
I remember going to IHOP many times over the years with my family as a kid. what was nice was it was the only place where you could get boysenberry syrup. I remember my late Father having fun when we went there by ordering the rooty-tooty fresh and fruity meal. One of them recently opened a few years ago in the mall in my downtown area. Nice to see they're still going strong. Great memories of this place.
Wenn we travelled to the States from Europe, we were so early out of bed next day due to time lag, we saw across the street from our Motel an Ihop Restaurant. I never ate so early in the morning fresh eggs, bacon and pancakes. Unforgetable experience 😃
I was just there the other night at the IHOP on Airport Freeway by Westparkway in Euless, Texas near me. I had their chicken fajita omelette and their new protein pancakes. They strongly rival their buttermilk pancakes. As for the Rooty Tooty, do they still have that? I haven't noticed it in years.
I believe that first shot of the tall stack is with then child actor Johnny Crawford. We was in The Rifleman and just passed away a year ago at age 75.
Yes, that's Johnny Crawford.
Yes it's Johnny Crawford.
Absolutely is. I just got done watching the whole series on RUclips. Still great viewing. He and Conners had great chemistry: you believed he was his Pa
@@nicholasschroeder3678 On FilmRise Television?
@@snowcub7139 Yeah, I watched all 168 on them--a couple month's binge watch. I hadn't watched them as a kid, but I really loved them.
As a mid 80s morning paper boy I can remember my dad and I going after the Sunday morning delivery. I loved the big selection of syrups on the table. It was an old school ihop and I fondly remember it.
Holy crap that was a lot of food for $2 !
$2 wouldn't pay for the place mat now.
My sister took my nephew there when he was around 2 or 3, and she ordered silver dollar pancakes for him. It was a whole dish of miniature pancakes, so many she had to help him eat them!
I went to the IHOP to enjoy the boysenberry syrup. It was one of my all time favorites!! However, It seems the boysenberry syrup has been canceled. I haven’t been back since. I would travel across the country just to enjoy it one more time!!
I remember back in the early 70's IHOP opened in Jackson Mississippi. My friends and I were all excited to eat there as young kids. We were fascinated by all the syrups on the table !
Another COVID casualty! 😞 I hope they'll bring em back. Those teeny tiny caps of microwaved "maple" are stingy and quickly get sopped up before you dig into the stack. The franchise owners must have got spoiled by all the money savings as a result of the "pandemic" restrictions.
Same in Tulsa, OK. Loved it as a kid.
I love all the different syrups, I usually use a few of them together at one time. Especially, Strawberry, Blackberry and Maple. I take my Syrup and Melt down my preserves a lot of times and pour over my French toast and pancakes, not as good as I- Hop but, in a pinch it works.
I-Hop is my Favorite Place to eat breakfast, if there was one much closer to me, I would be there quite a bit, I could eat I-Hop 24/ 7. When, I was in Florida on a vacation quite some yrs ago, there was one across from the hotel we were staying at, for about a little over a week and, we ate breakfast there everyday, I thought, I’d died and gone to heaven. I have so many good memories of this place from so, many vacations.
I go every Sunday Morning with the family.
In sixty’s my parents moved from the east to west coast. On the trip west we stopped at an Ihop. My father said order anything you want but no meat. Five kids and all you could eat pancakes at the time that was as good as it gets when your a kid.
In my lifetime of IHOP it's just been
Boison berry (gross)
Strawberry
Blueberry
Butter pecan
on the table
Now they just being maple, idk if because of covid or what, I get NY Cheesecake and regular syrup is fine so idk
I hadn't been to IHOP in years. I was out of town and there was one across from the hotel so I said heck yeah! Pretty disappointed. Way too expensive for the small portion I got and was charged for everytime the waitress topped off my coffee. Never again.
Every Friday morning us 5 business partners meet early for a business breakfast. Each takes turn picking up the tab. Employees know we won't be in the office until 8:30. It' s been a tradition for years at the local Ihop.
I cooked at IHOP. The menu was very tough to master. Blessings
We used to eat there for dinner in the 70's, as I grew up I begged my mom to let me order regular food. Her response was always" You don't go to a pancake place & not eat the pancakes" Miss you mom & our time at IHOP
Ah love IHOP. I used to mix all the different flavor syrups on my pancakes ☺
LOL, I thought I was the ONLY one to do that!
No apparently there are several of you. Did they make a gray mess?😂
When I was a child in the 1979’s my family would eat at International House of Pancakes as a treat. I loved the silver Dollar Pancakes!
That's Johnny Crawford of The Rifleman ogling that big pancake stack.
That's him!
My mom took us to the IHP in the early 60's. Loved it! I didn't like the boysenberry syrup. I always ate Maple.
Today, I won't go into one of those places because I just can't afford it. Great quality food! But way over priced.
I used to work for a company that sold coffee,tea and was a distributor for the syrups, flours salsa and spaghetti sauces. I never went into a clean kitchen they were all filthy. The franchisees were most often pakistanis who were rude, mistreated their employees and these peiople did not like to pay their bills, we would constantly have to get oks the charge orders for them on a routine basis . I slipped once in a kitchen and pulled a groin muscle and another time in the same restaurant fell in the same place due to the floor constantly being wet which was common among all of them as was the practice of piling the trash generated at breakfast time and lunjch time into a huge pile against the back door. Beware of these places.
I'm not a big fan of IHOP. We like Cracker Barrow better.
When I was a child in the fifties and sixties we looked for Toddle House restaurants on vacation, not IHOP. 'My' local IHOP today is a septic tank, poorly run and nasty. But I loved eating there in Houston in the seventies when they still had the high roofed buildings and those Thermo-Serve coffee pitchers.
I used to like the "pigs in blankets." I would have loved to try the Tahitian orange pineapple pancakes. It seems to me there used to be five different kinds of syrup - the last time I was in one there were only four.
My dad used to take us to IHOP once a month during the '60s...
Are you going to do the Sizzler?
I've always liked IHOP. There is one just a couple miles down the road but I haven't been there in a few years. I used to go to this mom and pop place instead because I like supporting small business but COVID shut them down (just one of a million heartbreaking stories there). Anyway, when I think of IHOP I always think of Father Edwards. He was a priest at the parish I was part of as a kid and I used to do Saturday morning Mass with him when I was an altar boy. He was always kind to us and would take the altar boys who worked Saturday's to IHOP after Mass. He was a good and decent man and I miss him and the wisdom he imparted on all us parishioners way back when. RIP Father. I trust God had a few cigars ready for you and a little something for that flask you kept near your vestments. God Bless and I'll be along directly.
Oh dear Lord, this brought tears to my eyes.
Good to hear recollections about a Catholic priest who was kind to the kids he had contact with. There were many of them, but unfortunately we hear too much about the ones who weren't so kind, and that causes the good guys to be overlooked all too often. Thanks for your comment.
We go to the Texas state fair every year. We always stop at ihop on the way and get pumpkin pancakes. 😋 Been doing it for 25 years now I guess.
Their pancakes suck and their syrups are just PURE SUGAR WITH FAKE FLAVORS. Gross. I have 2 different mom & pop breakfast places close to me. The food is great, fresh & they both have REAL MAPLE SYRUP. And one place has BUCKWHEAT pancakes that are fantastic. I would not waste a penny at IHop. I want to pay for REAL FOOD.
They may have 1800 locations, but the brand has lost much of its lustre. Back in the mid 70's it was a frequent stop. Today, I wouldn't go near one.
JASON... AS A 10-YEAR-OLD GROWING UP IN LOS ANGELES I WENT TO "IHOP" FOR THE CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES... I REALLY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT ITS "CORPORATE STATUS"... ALL I CAN SAY IS "YUMMMY"🥰
In 1973 I moved from small town to Kansas City. My parents came to visit and I took them and my little brother (12) there for their 1st time. This was the 1st time my little brother ever saw a round scoop of butter on top of his pancakes. He thought it was ice cream and popped it in his mouth. Not relevant here but a good laugh.
As a kid: _Silver Dollar Pancakes_ 🥞 wherein we tried every syrup flavor!! (Boisenberry was my all time favorite!) 👩🦳
IHOP has gone downhill big time. All of them in my area are run down, in need of repair. They no longer have a unique building design, but have taken over buildings that used to be something else. The food is just ok, the prices are high, and most servers are rude and inconsiderate. They even have "please pay your server" printed on their checks. Servers are STILL wearing masks, something I do not appreciate. The last time I was there I paid $22 for a burger and fries, including tax and tip. That's about twice what it should have cost, especially since the service was virtually nonextant. They have gotten much worse since the fake political pandemic, and don't seem to realize it is OVER. I won't likely be going back.
The IHOP near me absolutely sucks now...as does our Applebee's...
The first time I heard of, or tasted, boysenberry was in an IHOP in the 60s. It felt so exotic to put that on my pancakes.
It’s definitely gone way downhill since the 1960s. It used to be fun when my dad took me there, but now my experience has included so-so service, dirty bathrooms and almost no hint of the international pancake offerings like before. All they have now are different flavored syrups!
15 sec in. Thats Johnny Crawford from the Rifleman. He died last year.
From Alzheimer's.
I hate that they now call it IHOP now exclusively, same with KFC. I remember eating at the International house of Pancakes as a child 71-72-73. These new abbreviated names don't sound appetizing and it seems to be no coincidence that when they changed the names the establishments started to struggle... at least where I am in the greater New York City area where many have closed down or have become a bit of a dive.
When I would stay in Rhode Island in my youth, during the late 60’s-early 70’s, IHOP was one of the few restaurants open after nightclub hours. For this reason it was a haunt for many a teen on date nights, (Wednesdays and Saturdays). Needless to say, many pots of coffee arrived at tables so as to “sober up” before returning home. (The purchase of alcohol was permitted for those 18 years and older at that time. For those too young, there were a myriad of invalid id’s exchanged...to pass getting “carded” by bouncers a club doors.)
I used to be a busboy/dishwasher at International House of Pancakes, 1968-1969 in the North Miami area while in High School. At closing time we had to scrub several grates from under the kitchen cooking grills. Not fun at $1.60 per hour. I have fond memories of this restaurant and the people I worked for!
Love IHOP... The one closest to me closed, unfortunately.
Last time we went to a IHOP we waited 20 minutes at a table. No one ever came by to take our order. We left.
What value is the product served if never served. Horrible franchise owners.
They serve delicious pancakes, but the food industry in general has saturated us with corn syrup and given many of us diabetes and we can't eat pancakes as often anymore.
Who else recognizes Johnny Crawford in the opening picture?
Back in the 1970's, IHOP gave away small plastic NFL football helmets with team colors and logo.
Here's my slogan...I hop to IHOP!
I miss the old colonial style it had.
IHOP used to be good, now if I go my food is always cold, so I haven’t gone in years.
I preferred Howard Johnson's pancakes.
Never forget!
Great memories in the early to mid 70s eating there after Sunday Mass with my grandparents. The A-frame building was it's signature.