National Waffle Day Chocolate Comparison

Today is "National Waffle Day" which marks the date that the first U.S.A patent for a waffle iron granted in 1869 to one Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York.   His was a device that was used in coal stoves to make the baked good by rotating it within a metal griddle with a closed lid within the hot stove.  What separates a waffle from a pancake is that the waffle is made between two layers of