Photo by staceyviera.

According to Stephen Bennett, the director of operations at the IHOP in Columbia Heights, March 1st is National Pancake Day and the chain’s Columbia Heights location will be offering up free shortstacks of buttermilk pancakes. (Well, I know where DCist will be publishing from that Tuesday morning.) You may be wondering: was this post just an excuse to feature staceyviera‘s Rooty Tooty pancake porn? Uh, maybe.