Go to IHOP and request no pork/meat with your breakfast...

[Captain Hilts]

and see what happens.

Ask for cheese with you eggs instead and see what happens.

They INSIST you pay for the pork no matter what. I think this is insensitive to vegetarians, Jews and Muslims.

Most chains will accommodate these needs, IHOP does not.

Hell, and I'm not even a vegetarian, but I don't eat a lot of meat.

[chknltl]

1. IHOP must do bang up business with republican politicians!

They sure do love their love Pork!!! (sorry, resistance was futile)

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It sounds like a problem of lack of choice to me

You're saying there is just one 'breakfast' that they serve? Not insensitivity, just a poor offering, I'd say.

[Captain Hilts]

5. No. For nearly every breakfast entree you pay for meat whether or not you want it.

They will not make subsitutions.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. I *am a vegetarian and I've never paid for meat at IHOP

though it's not like I go there very often - maybe 4 times in the last 5 years.
I just don't order stuff that comes with meat.
:shrug:

[Captain Hilts]

6. The vast majority of their meals do, except the featured pancake specials.

But all set meals with either pancakes or eggs do.

They won't make substitutions. I've been on the road a lot lately and since they serve eggs in the evening I go there for dinner. Four different IHOPs have refused to make substitutions. You can't have just eggs, potatoes and toast.

[Clovis Sangrail]

9. The one by where I lived sold something

called migas with no meat.

[Captain Hilts]

10. They're often franchises. You must have had one. Interesting, though it doesn't...

sound too appetizing! But they get an 'A' for effort.

[Clovis Sangrail]

14. it was decent

tortilla chips, onions, and bell peppers scrambled up with eggs and cheese.

I make somethings similar at home sometimes... but I use GimmeLean and it's much better. :D

[cali]

4. How strange. Gotta say though, you couldn't pay me to eat in

one of those. Pancakes with ersatz maple syrup. Ugh. When I go out to breakfast, I eat at the local diner. First of all, I'm supporting an independent and local business, and secondly, the food may be greasy but it's a lot more real. Hell, my local diner serves locally raised meat and their own sausage- not to mention homemade bread and real maple syrup at no extra charge.

[Captain Hilts]

7. I, too, frequent my local, 1930s pre-formica diner, but on the road...

if you want eggs for dinner, it's IHOP or Denny's. I'm still irked at Denny's because of their racist issues.

[Cirque du So-What]

23. Bob Evans serves breakfast anytime

Standard breakfast fare...nothing fancy. Haven't eaten a supper-type entree there in years, but they're fairly bland, if memory serves.

The demographic skews silver-haired, and if the Bob Evans chain is carrying any 'baggage,' I'm unaware of it.

[rucky]

8. Time to rent Five Easy Pieces, again.

Bobby: I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.

Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?

Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.

Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?

Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.

[Captain Hilts]

12. I avoid doing that because the watron doesn't set the policy.

I don't like to hassle someone who does not make the policy.

[vanderBeth]

11. You should speak to the manager about this.

See why they do it and tell them why some people might get irked.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Yes, I tried once. I'm surprised in the dense Northeast where you have...

a concentration of Jews and some Muslims, that this happens.

Like at the IHOP on New Hampshire Ave in MD. Silver Spring has a LOT of Jews. Guess they don't eat there, but you'd think IHOP would understand that the Jews of Silver Spring, and the vegetarians of Takoma Park might like the option.

[tpsbmam]

15. Unhealthiest menu I've ever seen....

I went to IHop once....couldn't find one damn thing to eat. (I went with friends who wanted to go there and I was curious.) Okay, I admit they may have had oatmeal -- don't remember -- sadly, I just don't like oatmeal. I finally asked if I could just get some kind of non-white-bread toast -- nope. I asked for any kind of fruit and they did come up with a banana.....that looked like it was picked when McAddled was born. I gave up and just had coffee.

You're right, it's insensitive and wrong. But then again, I think IHop is just plain wrong -- the one I went to at least didn't have one healthy option I liked (and except for oatmeal, I'm pretty easy to please at breakfast), including meals without meat, and this was in 2007. The portions were obscene, too. They did claim that some IHops had healthy option menus. Whatever, I had yummy multigrain toast when I got home.

[Captain Hilts]

18. That's why I try to get just two eggs, hash browns and toast....

You're RIGHT about portions. I got THREE meals out of one of their omletts once. Never ordered one again. I actually took it home and got two more meals out of it.

The only oatmeal I can eat - don't laugh - is Quaker instant oatmeal with Dinosauer eggs.

[tpsbmam]

30. Oh shit.....

Sorry, I laughed my ass off with that one! :rofl: Yeah, I can eat the Quaker instant dieter's (or whatever it is) cinnamon -- doesn't really taste or feel like most oatmeal I've tried, particularly the lumpy horrible crap that my mother made (that EVERYONE else I knew absolutely loved.....gag gag gag gag!).

[endthewar]

16. IHOP!

Yum!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Huh? Are you talking about a breakfast special? I've had to order meat as a side dish with some of

their dishes.

[IDemo]

19. But you will leave with international experience, ready for high office n/t

[moggie]

24. And you can't say MIHOP or LIHOP without saying IHOP n/t

[Captain Hilts]

29. Now, THAT's good!

[Frank Cannon]

20. This is some sort of joke, right?

My wife shuns pork, and we eat there all the time. Never noticed a problem at all.

If you don't like it, don't eat there. I'm sure IHOP really gives a shit.

[sabbat hunter]

21. you can ask

for ala carte instead of one of the meals. I don't like bacon or sausage. That way I don't get charged.

[Bravo Zulu]

22. I can’t remember the diners name,but,

I ordered two runny eggs , cold home fries , raw bacon , burned toast with rancid butter, cold coffee with curdled cream!

The waitress said she couldn't serve an order like that!

I told her I was there yesterday, and that’s what they served me?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. just order eggs and hashbrowns or toast or something

they come a la carte at our IHOP...i have never had a problem not getting a meat...

sP

[moggie]

26. ...

http://xkcd.com/472/

[aikoaiko]

27. how about not ordering a meal with pork in the first place?

:shrug:

[whistler162]

31. Shhhh..... logic isn't to be spoken!

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. You can't go wrong with a "Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity"

Whatever the hell that is...

[Greyhound]

32. Go to IHOP and try to request food.

Even the syrup is artificial corporate feed.