8 Greatest Ever Film Moments Featuring Pancakes

2. Groundhog Day

We know a thing or two about Groundhog Day in these parts - in fact you might say it's something of a personal obsession - and I maintain that any life lesson that is worth learning can be found withint the couple of hours of entertainment provided by Harold Ramis' time loop comedy.

That goes for the correct way, and indeed the incorrect way to eat breakfast - depending on your mood. Aware that he is likely stuck in Punxsutawney forever, Phil Connors realises that he has been granted unlimited access to the fattiest, greasiest breakfasts known to man, without the health-consequences that would usually limit such intake.

He piles his table with pancakes and buttery pasteries, much to the disgust of Rita, displaying exactly how life should be enjoyed without consequence.

But of course that's not the message here: for Phil, pancakes mean empty gluttony - no matter how much he gourges on the same thing, he will still end up stuck reliving the same moment over and over, and it is only when he realises that he must put down the pastries and do something good for others that he will be able to live his life.

Profound stuff indeed, and all thanks to pancakes.