There were two buddies: Benny the Banana and Perry the Pancake. They belonged to the town of Pancakeville. Benny, with his bright yellow skin, and Perry, being round, belonged to two of a kind. They spent all their time together, always on the lookout for funny adventures.
On this sunshiny morning, over a shared breakfast at Benny’s kitchen table, the two overheard an oddly interesting conversation that was being aired on the radio. The Pancakeville mayor was proclaiming, “It’s Pancake Day, and we’re having the first annual Great Pancake Race! The winner gets a year’s supply of maple syrup!
Benny and Perry exchanged excited glances.
“We have to enter the race!”
they declared simultaneously.
And so the two friends got to work—or in Perry’s case, pouring on extra syrup—and got ready for their challenge. Perry got quite busy with his flips and all to be in peak pancake shape, while Benny had his banana legs trained for the ultimate banana dash.
The day of the Great Pancake Race dawned bright and early, with the town square teeming with activity. Crowds came from far and wide to throng and witness the race. Amongst all the pancake-flipping contenders, Benny and Perry took up their starting position.
The race had begun, and along the track, lap after lap, Benny and Perry ran, flipping their pancakes. Perry flipped his pancake so high it would have made a circus tent full of clowns laugh and clap. Benny, on legs like bananas, had somehow managed to pick up a quite phenomenal turn of speed and was holding his end up.
While running through Pancakeville, they met a series of madcap roadblocks. The first was jumping over a river of syrup, which soaked the gosh out of them but really did not let up their spirit. The second was whipped cream puddles that they had giggling falls and slides on.
Perhaps, the funniest of all challenges was the pancake catapult. On a giant spatula, both Benny and Perry jumped and soared into the sky. There was, for sure, giggle gas in plenty up to their takeoff into the sky.
Finally, they reached the finish line, and it was a dead heat. Over the line came Benny and Perry together, somersaulting and laughing.
They were co-winners and each received a year’s supply of maple syrup, presented by the mayor. The syrup that was presented to each of them filled up one giant swimming pool!
Perry and Benny hosted an enormous party, inviting most of the town to the get-together filled with pancakes and syrup. Laughter was turned, and the atmosphere was the most delicious time.
From that day onward, Pancake Day was celebrated annually in the land of Pancakeville, where they laughed with fun and gallons of syrupy adventures, of course.
And so it was that in the Pancakeville’s annals, the Great Pancake Race would ever be remembered—with Benny the Banana and Perry the Pancake, ever there to remind them that, in the zany world of wacky races, fortunes would always be paid twofold and threefolds for greater rewards. And so, with such sweet smiles and syrupy as their pancakes, with hearts deep in their pancake-flipping skills, the people of Pancakeville went to bed that night with the gladness of many more pancake adventures to come.
The end, or should we say, “The end of a very flipping funny story in Pancakeville!”
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