#flipper's

[honeyrolls]

My Melody Pancakes / Cinnamoroll Pancakes

[nightmarereverie]

“My Melody Miracle Pancakes & Cinnamoroll Miracle Pancakes” by Flipper's and Sanrio ꕤ(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶*)ꕤ

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Desserts I Ate This Month~~ :)

[soundsof71]

Prince at Flipper's Roller Disco Boogie Lounge March 31, 1981 in Los Angeles, via elle

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Sex, Drugs and Roller Skates

A new book pays tribute to the vanished magic of Flipper’s, a storied if short-lived 1970s skate palace.

“When Mr. Ross first conceived of the club with Mr. Cordell and another investor, his intention had been to make it a cultural mosh pit. The roughly framed notion was to foster an ethos not unlike that encapsulated by Tom Wolfe in his depiction of the ’60s counterculture guru Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters: “Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there’s not going to be anything to apologize about.”

Seemingly, Flipper’s served as a crossroads for the disparate factions and tribes of Los Angeles in a way that seems almost unbelievable in light of the increasingly fragmented place the city would later become.

“People came there from Compton or Watts or the Valley,” Mr. Ross said. “There weren’t any rules or horrible prejudices. And we didn’t ever want to stop anyone from doing anything as long as they didn’t muck about on the rink.”

[Great article, plus a super comments section including this one: 

“It was something about ‘Uptown Girls Going Downtown,’” Mr. Ross said in a conference call shared by his wife, Bunty, from the home of Ms. Ross and Mr. Lovine, where they were looking after Ms. Ross’s children from a previous marriage, to the director Rupert Sanders, while she was in Europe to promote her book." 

 I nominate this as the worst constructed sentence of the year.   Characters who have not been introduced previously, unrelated factoids, and vague references to setting and source, are dropped in and scattered around like the 101st Airborne on D-Day.”

[tiwiat]

From Flipper’s:

Fresh Fruit Flipper's (Soufflé) Pancakes.

Cost: $19

[dekitateyo]

FLIPPER'S was an immense hit in Tokyo's pre-COVID days. Before the bubble tea fever, we had a big pancake boom in Japan and it was impossible to enter this place.

They opened a new department store in Yokohama station that has a small Flipper's stand - takeout-only and sweets were not sold out yet, so we finally had a chance to try one of their treats, yay! 

We brought home a soufflé pancake pudding - some nice layers and yummy flavor, hmmm.