Breakfast foods are increasingly escaping the morning hours, and no food has benefited more from that change than the pancake. More Americans are eating breakfast foods outside of traditional morning hours than ever before, and pancakes rank at the top of what they reach for when dinner calls. For a food this embedded in daily life, Sept. 26, National Pancake Day, needs no introduction.
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