My 4-year old son, Gryphon, selected the UPC Best of Show, though many pancakes boasted top prize in their respective categories.
Best of Show – Mike Daughters
”Mine don’t taste as good either.”
Weirdest – Kaibeezy Tentroy
”6-year-old said ’alien pancakes!’ and consumed the invaders.”
Rorschach Award – Noel Chow
”Making an ugly pancake was harder than I thought! it was not a matter of random splatter though it had to look like it.”
Best Tribute – Matthew Petty
“the worst was a pancake for my ex-Deadhead wife based on the cover of the Grateful Dead LP ‘Steal Your Face’”
Least Pancake-Like – Julia Strand
”The pancake is constructed completely of pancake batter, food coloring, fruit, and nuts. We ate it up and it was delicious.”
Least Recognizable – Heather Nickell
”I Googled ‘world’s ugliest dog’ for inspiration, but this being my first attempt at making fancy pancakes, it didn’t really turn out how I planned and the kids thought it was a strange mushroom.”
Most Psychedelic – Erick Shemkovitz’s son
“No, it’s not a crab with bunny ears.”
Joaquin Phoenix Award – Hannah Wong
”In my head I thought, I must write backwards. I must. So I wrote ‘cakepan’…and by the time I got to the N I was laughing so hard because I wrote it the right way, not the mirror image way.”
Least Appetizing – Beth Septapus
”It’s supposed to be a tapeworm…yep!”
Ugliest Bunny – Nat Conner and Jess Orz
”We had fun trying to make the ugly pancakes.”
Most Intellectual – Peter Conerly
”…a pancake face throwing up more pancake.”
Wow, those are horrible.