Ryan Maloney describes Pancake, Pennsylvania, a fictional town where everything revolves around pancakes: ping-pong paddles with pancake handles, syrup-filled pools, pancake dinners. He uses rapid alliteration and repetition to build an absurd world that pokes fun at obsessive culture.
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At the peak of the Poconos, there was a peculiar place called Pancake, Pennsylvania. And as you might ponder, the people of Pancake were wrapped in pancake mania. Pancakes were packed on for breakfast bites, but what was preferred for dinner at night? Well, if you guessed it, then you picked right. People pigged out on pancakes at night. The people of Pancake played ping pong with paddles made with ping pong pancake handles. Pictures of pancakes were posted on Pinterest while pogo stick pouncers packed streets of pancake mix. Public pools of syrup passed piping days while pancake umbrellas protected from rays. If you were to pass by on any given day, there'd be one thing on people's minds in Pancake, PA: pancakes. And while they pumped iron: pancakes. And while paragliding: pancakes. Pancakes. If playgrounds were sliding, pancakes. To stay warm at night, blankets. They just use blankets for that.