At 2am you take what you can get for nothing and besides it's not easy to eat a pancake covered in jam, cream, whatever, while driving down country roads dodging pot holes and kangaroos.
Piklets, pancakes, fruit toast, crumpets and hot cross buns were brilliant trading goods. Half a dozen packets of piklets, a few packs of crumpets, some fruit toast and a few loaves of bread bought me a crate of milk, a tray of meat or a box of vegies. I barely had to shop for the years I drove that truck.