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"  Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Well here&amp;#039;s one way to cure your workday blues: IHOP&amp;#039;s annual FREE pancake day. On Tuesday, March 4, (a.k.a. Shrove Tuesday) IHOP restaurants nationwide will offer each guest a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes for National Pancake Day. All you have to do is show up and eat! More From Delish: Where to Find the Best Pancakes in the U.S.A. Between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., diners at IHOP will each receive a short stack of the eatery&amp;#039;s famous buttermilk pancakes (one stack per customer) at no charge. But the 55-year-old restaurant&amp;#039;s hope is that customers will voluntarily leave a donation for the Children&amp;#039;s Miracle Network Hospitals in an effort to reach a goal of $3 million raised. The event, in its ninth year, has been instrumental in fundraising for the hospitals. Since 2006, IHOP has raised nearly $13 million in support of the charity. Last year, after giving away 4.5 million pancakes, the restaurants donated nearly $3 million to children&amp;#039;s charities. To put that in perspective, if lined up the number of free flapjacks served last year would create a stack more than 13 miles high. That&amp;#039;s a whole lotta pancakes! More From Delish: 7 Fluffy Pancake Recipes Pancake Day has its roots in the traditional purging of the pantry, when the English prepared for the Lenten fast. As dairy products were not consumed during the religious days, households would collect their stock of eggs, milk, and butter and prepare these now popular pancakes. It became known as Shrove Tuesday. Want to get your free stack? Find an IHOP location near you.   Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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