IHOP is about to have a free pancake day.
http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/
I'd hate to go to a place worse than IHOP or Denny's. But they're not terrible if you're hungry, and nothing else is open.
And did anybody see the lines around the block to get Denny's free grand slam a couple weeks ago?
I used bisquick because it's just so easy. Sure, home-made would be better, but you don't always have time for that, do you? You do have to add eggs and milk, but everything else is done for you (I can't imagine eating a pancake from a mix that only required water). Bisquick also makes a decent biscuit.
I'm not really a syrup kind of person, but sometimes I like it, and if I'm gonna have it, gotta have maple. My dad is a maple syrup fiend. That Kirkland stuff isn't bad, but the best syrup comes out of a little glass bottle, with a tiny little handle. (Everything is better out of glass than plastic.) Something like the picture there.
But I just gotta say, compared to home made waffles, pancakes suck. If I'm gonna go through the trouble of making a dough from scratch, I'm gonna make waffles.