Apparently, Michelle Obama is allowing pancakes at the White House despite her enthusiasm for wholesome school lunches and healthy, active children.
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One of the featured inventions at the White House Maker Faire on Wednesday was “PancakeBot,” a flapjack-generating machine that puts cooking breakfast from scratch to shame. Invented by Miguel Valenzuela, the original creation started from LEGOs and has since evolved into the finest in 3-D food printing.
While innovative and interesting, the machine doesn’t quite align with the first lady’s idea of a healthy meal. Many pancake recipes, like Martha Stewart’s, call for white flour, sugar, butter and oil. Suggested toppings — chocolate and maple syrups, powdered sugar and whipped cream — certainly don’t add more nutritional value. Most of IHOP’s sweet stacks weigh in at well over 600 calories.
Michelle recently criticized Republicans who want to roll back the whole grain-, fruit- and vegetable-centric school lunch program, so she would likely be upset if white flour pancakes with fudge sauce showed up on the menu.
Perhaps “PancakeBot” can do wonders with whole-wheat flour as well, although there’s no guarantee that children would eat those pancakes.