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No, you aren't alone! Our local mall was built when I was a teenager. I have NEVER been able to breathe in that building. I don't know what kind of air circulation system they put in, but it doesn't work well. Sometimes I'm in there for 5 minutes, sometimes an hour before I HAVE to leave. There are other malls with in half an hour or 45 minutes from me that I can walk all over in, but I can breathe in them, so it's easier to want to look around! As for the server, he needs fired! My thing is that everyone who works with food, be it restaurant kitchen or grocery store, non-register employees, or your local convenience store employees, and here I do include those who run register, as I know they all work deli!, should be required to take and pass the serve safe test. My son took baking and pastry in high school and passed his first try. Needs to renew it. He works in a convenience store as a shift leader, and those who work with him know they better follow the rules or listen to him b)*()&* at them! Tami

Mine are very similar to yours Lou - minus those raisins. We are in a no raisin household mostly because I do the shopping and cooking! I use chopped maraschino cherries and walnuts. Ann yours look so good too. My husband has a no cream cheese policy though - I still married him. Love, love cream cheese. Baking them lower in the oven helped a lot. Thanks for the input.

Made these this morning on an electric griddle - they were delicious. After removing the first batch (I put 5 on the griddle at a time), I was trying to clean the griddle for the next batch. The brown sugar cinnamon swirl filling stuck to the griddle and it wasn't as easy as wiping with a paper towel like the directions said. I was scraping the griddle with a spatula and some of the sugar mixture splattered on my hand - it's just a couple spots, but I do have blisters. What to do different next time? I have a cast iron griddle that came with my new range that I haven't used yet. Was thinking I could heat that up too. There are 4 of us, so if I made 5 pancakes on the big griddle & 3 on the range, that would use up the batter in one batch, but isn't it hard to clean up the swirl mixture? It stuck to my spatula like hardened candy. As an aside, I used Trader Joes Multigrain pancake mix. The swirl mixture lasted for 8 pancakes, so there wasn't too much in any of them, and the frosting glaze again stretched out for 8 pancakes was really like a light glaze, not a thick frosting. So, I actually don't think these pancakes were much different in the butter & sugar catagory than if we had used straight butter & maple syrup like we usually do. Mine didn't look like the pretty pictures, but they were still delicious and not over the top rich & sweet, which is why I would make them again if I could do so without killing myself! They also didn't take much longer than our ususal Sunday morning pancakes, as my son made the swirl mixture & my daughter made the glaze while I made the pancakes.