text: Vols fans engrave selfies on pancakes
  A Holiday Inn Express traveling food truck offers football fans and pancake lovers a treat; a chance for them to laser print their selfies onto freshly made pancakes.
  The Holiday Inn Express food truck combined wifi and laser technology for a rather odd purpose. The laser was flawlessly emblazoning selfies taken by passersby onto pancakes Friday morning.
  The Pancake Selfie Express is a popular SEC Nation pregame attraction which visits football-loving cities in the Southeastern Conference. (Holiday Inn Express is an SEC Nation sponsor.) The fragrance of freshly baked pancakes lured a crowd of millennials into the Crowne at Campus Pointe Apartments on Friday morning.
  The truck will be at Ayers Hall on Saturday, Game Day morning, and at the Schulz Brau Brewing Company from 1:30 p.m.
  Many of the Campus Pointe pancake lovers were out walking their dogs when they came across the truck. They went inside a white tent hung with lights to take selfies of themselves and their dogs. The selfies go via wifi to the computer system inside the truck where a team, including Shannon MacLean, quickly use software to lighten and brighten the images.
  "The lighting and the computer work help eliminate shadows so we have a nice, clear outline of the face and features for the laser," MacLean explained.
  A kitchen appliance that looked like a toaster oven sat on a shelf in front of the truck. It seemed as miraculous to visitors as the laser because, after they pushed its single big button, it popped out a pancake in less than 60 seconds. The hot cake was then handed through the window where the computer technicians plopped it into a machine that resembled a griddle topped with a small laser. The laser zipped back and forth over the pancake, toasting the selfie image into the fluffy surface.
  Meredith Beach took a selfie of her dog, Owen, a crazy-cute pug and Jack Russell terrier mix.
  "He's named after Dr. Owen Hunt, the character from 'Grey's Anatomy'," Beach said.
  Owen the pug was a bit less bold than Owen, the dashing TV trauma surgeon. Owen had been happily gobbling pancake pieces Beach fed him by hand. But when Beach held the plate so he could see his face on the pancake, he shrank back, a bit alarmed. He would lean close to study his pancake portrait then run away when she moved it closer. But when a stranger moved in to take a photo, he moved fast to protect his treat. He grabbed the pancake with his teeth and a moved few feet away to devour it.