Pigs Shudder in Blankets During Cooks’ IHOP Knife Fight
With chefs a combustible lot and surrounded by knives, it’s surprising we don’t hear more about kitchens plagued by battles between one, say, fancying himself Bill the Butcher and a fellow combatant acting out a Sweeney Todd fantasy in the other. I’m always waiting for this sort of thing to happen on Top Chef or Hell’s Kitchen, but I guess (let me be the first to break the news) reality TV isn’t always as real as reality itself. Which takes us to an IHOP in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood:
A knife duel between two workers at a Brighton greasy spoon turned the eatery into the International House of Pain.
The fracas broke out about 5 p.m. yesterday inside the International House of Pancakes on Soldiers Field Road, just as early dinner guests were sitting down to enjoy the food chain’s all-you-can-eat pancakes. But in short order, the clinking of coffee cups was replaced by the sounds of battle.
“We heard someone say, ‘Fight! Fight!’ And we heard a ruckus,” said a departing diner who was quizzed by cops before he and his wife were let go. “I think the cooks were going at it.”
More here. To see IHOP presenting a less dystopic vision of society, let’s venture back to 1969…
Actually, that was downright creepy. Instead, learn more about IHOP’s charitable doings with Miss America, as part of its sponsorship of the 3rd annual National Pancake Day, here.
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