IHOP Tries to Make a Joke About Women's Breasts, Fails Miserably

Tweet is swiftly deleted

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Brands are generally getting less error prone on Twitter, as evidenced by the longer period of time between epic fails. But IHOP on Sunday obliged with a doozy—a tweet about pancakes that doubled as an insult to flat-chested women.

The tweet stayed up for a few hours until an Internet frenzy forced IHOP to rethink it, and then delete it. Soon enough, there was the requisite apology.

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