today we see how ihop stacks up against
denny's let's talk about that
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good
mythical morning when i say pancakes
what's the first restaurant you think of
if you thought ihop well denny's has a
problem with that in fact back in 2017
ihop tweeted this flex we are the
pancake og and will be respected as such
to which denny's threw some serious
shade with this reply wait what's og
mean and then posted their founded on
date of 1953 five years before ihop to
which ihop responded spoken like second
place oh
i hop more like i clap back
denny's ihop two iconic chain restaurant
slash diners battling it out for the
respect they deserve as the one and only
the true restaurant diner og it's time
for food foods denny's versus ihop we're
gonna taste signature dishes from each
restaurant head to head and rate them
one to ten in the end the winner will be
crowned the absolute uncontested best
breakfast skewing diner and og pancake
house of all time according to us and
we'll win a chance to sponsor a gmm
episode you know you want that let's die
we have to kick things off with what
these places are known for throwing
every breakfast item at one plate and
seeing what sticks i.e the breakfast
combos
hi
hey there my name is um
danny's denny
this is the grand slam you build it
yourself it's got a bacon eggs hash
browns sausage sausage yeah okay thanks
for wearing the hair net
hello how are you doing my name is ihop
identity international danny how are we
doing today
great i'm international so what we have
here for you is the breakfast sampler
plate we've got the eggs we've got the
bacon ham sausage and we got a hash
browns katofen as we call it
internationally so enjoy okay
thank you i danny
uh now there are no pancakes on this
plate uh usually these come with
pancakes on the side but we're going to
have pancakes go head to head in their
own round because of course you got to
do that so denny's has one more meat i
think i am what i call the city ham
so let's start over here listen
white's or sausage
that's a good sausage
a little piece of egg
a little piece of spray
bacon
ain't nothing wrong with any of that i
particularly like the sausage sausage is
good mm-hmm
this brows that's a little too to be
desired
this sausage not quite as good
you like
you like these hash browns better
definitely
they're more potatoey
that's good because they're potatoes but
they taste more potatoey than the ihop
hash browns
eggs is eggs man
now if i look at the two bacons
there's a dramatic difference
um with the with the denny's bacon this
bacon looking a lot better you mean the
ihop bacon you're on the ihop side am i
on the ihop side yes oh my goodness
i hop bacon now you know he's not biased
because he was confused yeah i just
blank it all out so and there's extra
ham so the sausage is much better at
denny's the bacon is much better at ihop
i think you're i don't i think the
sausage is equal and the bacon is better
the ash browns are better and you get
extra meat on a scale of one to ten this
isn't bad
no it's good i would enjoy this
breakfast good and if you're not but we
have the benefit of head to head here
and i feel like once you add in the
extra meat
um
the bacon is is is dramatically better i
actually like the sauces better i'm
gonna i'm giving this
a six
uh i was gonna go with a five and then
i'm going with an eight over here i'm
going with a nine because i am very
impressed with that i would be happy
with that
i am happy with it
time for those signature pancakes now i
think i should point out that one of
these restaurants actually has pancakes
in the name you know which one it is
it's not yours danny i am
dilly dally
these are pancakes
you very much have to learn where to go
here we go hi
international danny here to give you the
original full stack buttermilk pancakes
okay so you'll notice the stacking not
so flabby look how flabby and weak that
looks
well they actually are bigger
but there's two and there's three on
those three on this side there's two
they don't help man handle the pancakes
i'm a man and i like to handle do you
like to panhandle them
only in florida
okay oh you're gonna butter it up
man all right well then i gotta butter
this one what do i look like
a man to eat i'm not a five-year-old i
put things on my pancake now we got the
butter from the restaurants too right
that is correct yeah all the way that's
right this is a true test
okay
i'm doing the same thing you are except
i'm doing it to the ihop i i think that
the denny's pancakes they look more
exciting like you've got this like stuff
on the side they look more like
like they were cooked by not a robot is
that what you're getting at
yeah or maybe they just have a form
that they pour them in at ihop because i
don't think they have robot pouring
pancakes back there that's a good
pancake
it's fluffy
it's um
you know it the syrup and the butter
don't take over you can really taste the
nicely balanced the batter itself
is really good and they're very fluffy
now these are a little more dense it
seems
oh
totally different taste the butter is
totally different i don't like the
pancakes from the international house of
pancakes as much as i like them from
danny's and i'm trying to
just isolate a pancake
it kind of tastes like
when i was growing up i would eat a lot
of microwave pancakes and i didn't like
syrup so i would only eat butter on my
pancakes i don't know why i didn't like
syrup that was stupid
um these are more cakey i will say
they're more cakey some people don't
like a cakey
even you can look at the
the color
i don't know if you can see that on
camera but these are significantly more
yellow and these are more white you're
right once i ate these and went back it
literally started to taste like cake
like the taste itself which i like
because it's a pan
cake
eight
i give it an eight
what do you give these well i want you
to score this one okay because that's
how it works not fair they're very good
i'm gonna go with a seven
it's just a question of
once the syrup gets inside of this
pancake they get better they keep
getting better and these are getting
worse they're kind of coming into the
middle of me i'm giving these a six i
still like these better um i'm actually
starting to like these better i'm giving
these
a seven they're too cakey to me
so you're giving them the same score oh
i meant eight
a breakfast menu is not imma let you
finish
omelette you finish
but i could really use some eggs hello
hello
i'm
doris day
okay
this is our philly cheesesteak omelette
it's got um grilled prime rib
peppers onions sauteed mushrooms and
swiss cheese
oh thank you
i go where i want okay
hello philly cheese steak
this is the chicken
fajita omelet it has a chicken fajita it
has
cheeses a blend of cheeses salsa uh
poblano pepper red bell pepper and a
dollop of sour cream so that's more than
a dollar this made us international and
me
now this has got meat on it these are
not apples to apples or
i mean it's
specialized omelette to specialized
omelette philly cheese oh and might i
say rhett that is quite a shirt you got
there oh thanks
mythical.com we're releasing it our
homage to the 90s and uh
it's a shout out in our novel to hyper
color t-shirts
you blow on that thing and look at it or
you just get hot you don't have to put
your lips on the shirt but man whatever
floats your boat it starts out blue and
when you get hot it turns pink
blue
well like a blue to pink purple pink i'd
say purple
i'd say i'm enjoying this
this is weird to me
it's not bad because i'm absolutely
starving i think that ihop has a
tendency to take things even further
than denny's i don't maybe maybe that's
just a
perception that i have in my mind but
this i mean this is pretty extravagant
what do you think of the quality of the
steak uh it's good only some more it's
not bad
i mean
you might think that it's gonna be tough
it's very tender yeah it is i was
surprised by that
so i'm trying to grab
some chicken
the chicken's a little that chicken's a
little dry i can't see through your arm
okay
i'm having trouble
so they both shoved things into an
omelette that typically you'd eat some
other way
that tastes good i mean there's a lot in
there
i'm trying not to be too biased because
i like sour cream and salsa and stuff
like i kind of feel like
the ingredients on the
deni side might be a little bit better
but
these are both this is these are both
really solid omelets
but i really found myself wanting to go
back over here to the steak zone and
i'm definitely preferring it
i'm going to give this one an eight
i think that
if i just isolate it down to the quality
of the eggs in my
my experience with the eggs
denny's has a slight edge
they got a better egg you think uh i'm
going to give it an 8 as well
but this is a very very close second
that i'm going to give a 7.
i feel like it's it doesn't quite work
in an omelette but i still enjoy it i'm
going to give it a 6.
you might remember the stunt last year
where ihop changed their name to ihob
the bee stood for burgers because
apparently nobody knew they made those
right and sometimes when i'm feeling
frisky i call denny's bennies hey
benny hello what do you call it
i'm
walter cronkite
this is our bourbon bacon burger
it's the what
what
nothing
it's what okay keep going bourbon bacon
burger
it's got uh cheddar cheese bacon
sauteed mushrooms all on a cheddar bun
and some wavy fries wavy
okay yeah it's a little wavy ah
goodbye
oh my god uh howdy partners are you
ready to go down to the old town road
and have the cowboy barbecue bacon
burger okay we got some bacon we've got
the burger we've got american cheese
we've got the onion rings we've got is a
barbecue sauce and a little bit of a cut
off and some fries for you so you can
eat it while you listen to dale funky
beats this is for me yeah that's your
tip
okay let's try danny's now that's a good
looking burger
very much like an authentically like
diner which you would expect diner
burger and the way they've done the meat
here
yeah i mean they're really trying with
the bun do they succeed
i wanted more i actually like the fact
that the burger is not too tall it's not
bad
but it's clearly leaving something to be
desired
you know what might help
i just ate a burger then put your face
on my shirt you can buy another one
okay um
now ihop they really made a big deal
about this so the difference is in my
mind it's the those fried onion rings on
there and probably a different barbecue
sauce
same height burger patty the onion rings
i think are proven to be a bit much
overpowering for sure these fries are
absolutely sad looking and crunchy has a
bad toenail honestly i'm just i'm
disappointed in both of them me too man
and i feel like there's just there's a
lot going on i got to isolate this down
i'm just going to go just for the moment
are you going to deconstruct i got to go
straight for the meat i can deconstruct
so okay and this is fair i mean it's
like
if you grab that burger
i've already eaten most of the meat so
give me some of that there you go
i think these were both made in a back
alley that was shared by both
restaurants
they're definitely both getting the beef
from the same place i know they're the
exact same beef i'm gonna give them both
a three five i'll i was i'm a little
more generous but
it's done nothing you know what actually
you know what these fries are better so
i'm gonna upgrade this to a four i'll
stay at five and five which brings us to
denny's having
51 points in ihop
narrowly winning with one more point 52
points ihot you are the absolute
uncontested best breakfast leaning diner
in og pancake house of all time
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