The Magical Pancake Machine

Perhaps this story is or is not true in it's entirety, but it seems entirely possible.  The first part of the story took part twenty years ago. Kadizzle was in the habit of reading the Wall Street Journal every day at his job at the power plant.  Reading the journal one day he happened upon an interesting article about a man who invented the mother of all machines that could turn out 2,000 pancakes per hour.  The strange man who invented the machine would only run it once per year when a small airport in Minnesota had a fly in once a year.  Otherwise the marvelous pancake machine sat idle.  What fat guy could not dream about a pancake machine?  The inventor said his biggest problem was getting the propane heat just right under the large steel wheel that rotated as the pancakes cooked.  Best of all the machine automatically flipped the pancakes.

Now, part two of the story.  It is 2016 and Kadizzle is driving his motorcycle down a mountain road so steep he fears he cannot make it.  About halfway down the road he encounters Frank the hiker.  Frank is an incessant hiker and hikes about six months out of the year on long slogs through the mountains of ten miles per day.  Kadizzle always helps and takes in strangers so he procures some water for Frank and makes arrangements to meet Frank down in civilization and get him a shower and some groceries.

To repay Kadizzle, Frank paid for a dinner for Kadizzle and The Commander.  Last night we had dinner with Frank, and some other traveling friends.  Frank is enjoying the solar showers so much he has decided to stay for awhile before moving on.

Back to the pancake machine.  In the course of doing the FBI interview ( When The Commander and Kadizzle question strangers we call it the FBI interview)  Frank was asked what he did in the summer.  It turned out Frank worked cooking 1,500 pancakes per day in South Dakota at inside a large circus tent.  Kadizzle mentioned the marvelous pancake machine to Frank.  To Kadizzles amazement Frank knew of the machine, in fact they had it.