There are plenty of places in Delaware to find buttermilk ... lunch counter tucked into a corner of Wilmington's Forty Acres neighborhood? Get the pancakes and they'll come shaped like Mickey ...

Phil Ley, known as the "The Pancake King," volunteers with the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington. Related: How a Wilmington community farm rises up to help feed families A Kiwanis tradition ...

As a Wilmington club celebrates 50 years' worth of pancakes, here's what to know Long before cooking up pancakes, Ley grew up in Los Angeles, where he began his first career as a Federal Law ...