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 Waffle House seems to be a hive of social activity in the South... (Original post) |
Human101948 | Apr 2016 | OP |
| JonathanRackham | Apr 2016 | #1 | |
| Major Nikon | Apr 2016 | #18 | |
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| Skittles | May 2016 | #84 |
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:00 AM
1. It's like Walmart went into the restaurant business.
Response to JonathanRackham (Reply #1)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:39 AM
Major Nikon (36,332 posts)
18. It's more like Walmart went into the ptomaine business
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:04 AM
Hortensis (56,705 posts)
3. Hey, don't mess with my Waffle House!
Response to Fairgo (Reply #4)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:51 PM
nolabear (41,096 posts)
45. Oh hell yeah. Waffle House is the most egalitarian place there is, you libs.
Response to Fairgo (Reply #47)
Mon May 2, 2016, 02:58 PM
nolabear (41,096 posts)
68. No, I don't? Was it a single place or a chain?
Response to nolabear (Reply #68)
Mon May 2, 2016, 03:17 PM
71. It was a greasy spoon attached to a flop house
Response to Fairgo (Reply #71)
Mon May 2, 2016, 09:00 PM
nolabear (41,096 posts)
80. LOL! I hated waitressing 11 to 7 in NO!
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Lord, there's nothing like drunk and rowdy people. I didn't do it that long but it's burned into my memory. I was not a natural.
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Response to nolabear (Reply #45)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:46 PM
GulfCoast66 (11,949 posts)
57. I love your last line
Response to nolabear (Reply #45)
Sun May 1, 2016, 07:04 AM
Hortensis (56,705 posts)
66. Great post, Nolabear.
Response to Fairgo (Reply #4)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:58 PM
Skittles (149,451 posts)
58. love it all three ways
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Response to Fairgo (Reply #4)
Mon May 2, 2016, 03:14 PM
70. Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, and Capped
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:10 AM
7. the only place open after 9pm, cept maybe some wal-marts.
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:12 AM
8. Forget it...
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"Forget it, Jake; it's Waffle House."
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Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:52 AM
blogslut (37,306 posts)
12. I adore Waffle House.
Response to blogslut (Reply #12)
Mon May 2, 2016, 06:46 PM
tavernier (11,434 posts)
73. The. Best. Coffee. EVER!!!
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 09:05 AM
14. I love Waffle House but some are definitely better than others.
Response to DawgHouse (Reply #14)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:46 AM
19. I think it's pancake batter. Something like that, anyway.
Response to ladyVet (Reply #19)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 01:45 PM
24. I heard that too! She always turned her back to us so we couldn't see.
Response to ladyVet (Reply #19)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:27 PM
44. I've never heard that before but it makes sense
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 09:30 AM
haele (11,966 posts)
16. FEMA tracks the status of a Waffle House in natural disasters...
Response to haele (Reply #16)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 12:51 PM
sl8 (12,398 posts)
21. "The Waffle House Index"
Response to haele (Reply #16)
Sun May 1, 2016, 07:06 AM
Hortensis (56,705 posts)
67. Another great post.
Response to haele (Reply #16)
Mon May 2, 2016, 09:48 PM
83. I had to read the link because I didn't believe it
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sometimes the feds are amazing in their simplicity
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Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:32 AM
17. But don't forget Pancakes House!
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Sorry. Couldn't resist. I agree with the consensus here. Waffle House is pretty damned good. And yes, also culturally unique. Kind of like what White Castle used to be. Except the food IS awesome at Waffle House. R&K 
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Response to longship (Reply #17)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 06:30 PM
awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)
35. are you insinuating...
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that White Castle isn't?
 I had to hit one in Nashville a few years ago when I was visiting my father. I hadn't had any since leaving Cleveland in 92. I tore it up. I love their onion chips. |
Response to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #35)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 07:37 PM
38. I wouldn't do that. A dozen White Castle sliders and I'm good to go.
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Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:48 AM
20. Waffle House is slowly heading north at
Response to sufrommich (Reply #20)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 06:30 PM
awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)
36. Shit's about to get real
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Response to sufrommich (Reply #20)
Sun May 1, 2016, 01:49 AM
63. Huber Heights OH right off I-70 near Dayton
Response to JVS (Reply #63)
Mon May 2, 2016, 06:52 PM
75. I just looked up Waffle Houses in Michigan,
Response to sufrommich (Reply #75)
Mon May 2, 2016, 09:46 PM
MrScorpio (73,512 posts)
82. Where's that WH at in Mich?
Response to MrScorpio (Reply #82)
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:20 AM
87. It's in Watervliet,which is down by the Indiana border. nt
Response to sufrommich (Reply #87)
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:28 AM
MrScorpio (73,512 posts)
88. It's GONE! No longer there.
Response to MrScorpio (Reply #88)
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:41 AM
89. Well,there goes our lone Waffle House. I wonder
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 02:17 PM
27. Eat at Waffle House or IHOP and get your 2 days worth of saturated fat in one meal!
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 02:19 PM
2naSalit (73,206 posts)
28. I used to stop at
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 02:20 PM
29. Waffle House at 2-4AM is good hunting ground
Response to 1939 (Reply #29)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 05:19 PM
Human101948 (3,457 posts)
31. Do you get discounted rates at that time?
Response to 1939 (Reply #29)
Sun May 1, 2016, 03:58 AM
65. That's why they invented the term Waffle Hoggin
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 05:49 PM
ancianita (31,920 posts)
33. Hah, they are, which is why I haven't been to one in at least seven years of road trips south.
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My last visit, locals -- apparently they are hangouts for locals -- were way too forward with questions and conversations about my life in the North, work, family, etc., cheerfully unaware of our need to simply relax and refresh after hours of driving. Some drama between two men made me decide that cheap eats there aren't worth it.
I like truck stops better, anyway. Thanks for all the Waffle House news! |
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 07:44 PM
40. A bacon chicken cheese salad.
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:21 PM
43. I guess I should go there more often to keep a finger on the public pulse
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:53 PM
46. Any eatery joint open after club hours is going to be a hole of ratchetry and mayhem.
Response to Doctor_J (Reply #52)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 09:49 PM
nolabear (41,096 posts)
54. Bacon-pecan. Heaven!
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:02 PM
59. God
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I have them all around me and I've never been in one!
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Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sun May 1, 2016, 12:32 AM
Are_grits_groceries (17,111 posts)
60. Waffle House is dinner theater 24/7.
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Sun May 1, 2016, 01:02 AM
Algernon Moncrieff (5,721 posts)
62. I think dining and dashing the Waffle House is a right of passage in parts of the South
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Mon May 2, 2016, 03:11 PM
69. I'm just mad my local one stopped strawberry or blueberry waffles
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Mon May 2, 2016, 06:51 PM
74. That'd make one hell of a reality show
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but somehow I doubt Waffle House would play along.
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Response to Separation (Reply #85)
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:00 AM
86. Oh, the green hills of Tennessee....so beautiful, driving through Tennessee.
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That's not bass ackwards, unless you like the ocean. I live right below Tampa now.
I did not come to Florida by choice, really, the huge telecom I worked for closed the data processing office in Bloomington, I got transferred to Durham, they closed that one two years later, got transferred to Tampa. Then they shipped as many jobs as they could to Chennai, laid most of us off due to that and a merger, then replaced what was left with mostly H-1B visa holders. I am retired now, but the pickings were slim, and of course the days of relocation were long gone. Hope, at some point, to get a little place in Gulfport, over by St. Pete. No Waffle house near me, I thought - but looking at the map, there is one 5 miles away, and one 6 miles away. Probably drove right past the nearest one a couple of times in the past week, but looks like it is in the middle of a good-sized cluster of restaurants, not a beacon of warm yellow light, seen from the interstate.
I am a low-carber, so I hate having this information! Orlando is a long way to go for a doctor - I hope things turn out well for your son. |
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Mon May 2, 2016, 07:18 PM
77. But according to Bill Hicks, they do frown on READING at a Waffle House.
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Mon May 2, 2016, 08:42 PM
79. Waffle House makes me think of comedian Bill Hicks talking about being in a small town Alabama WH:
Response to Human101948 (Original post)
Mon May 2, 2016, 09:40 PM
MrScorpio (73,512 posts)
81. One of the few things that I liked about being stationed down south...
Response to MrScorpio (Reply #81)
Tue May 3, 2016, 04:51 AM
Skittles (149,451 posts)
84. I agree with this assessment
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I've never been disappointed in a a Waffle House
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