h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I was in Canada on holiday some years ago I had a 'trucker's breakfast' in a resteraunt one morning. I must have been about 12 but the thing was enormous. You got a huge fry-up with multiple pieces of bacon, a good few eggs, loadsa 'hash browns' etc, but the centrepiece was a stack of five pancakes. Now I was expecting english-style, thin and crispy pancakes, but these were thick American, gloopy ones, covered in maple syrup. The whole thing was quite disgusting, but to my credit, I ate it all...