Pass the Tabasco Sauce. And keep the coffe coming.
Posted on 04/26/2018 1:23:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
NASHVILLE — In the South, there sometimes seems no place more omnipresent than Waffle House, with its yellow-and-black signs surfacing near interstate exits, dotting night life districts and showing up in wealthy suburbs and run-down rural towns alike.
The ubiquity, cultivated over decades of syrup-soaked waffles and strong coffee, makes the 24-hour chain’s booths and barstools a round-the-clock reflection of the South and invites every kind of story, some chronicled on Instagram, others in mug shots.
“There are the drunk Waffle Houses, the late-night Waffle Houses, Waffle House as a house of freaks, but there’s also this kind of nurturing, idealistic vision of Waffle House,” said John T. Edge, the University of Mississippi scholar of Southern cuisine and culture, who proudly rattled off how his regular order involves three eggs, scrambled with cheese, and grits.
This week, Waffle Houses hundreds of miles apart were at the center of a fatal tragedy and a national controversy: Southeast of downtown Nashville, a gunman opened fire and killed four people, and in southern Alabama, near Mobile, a confrontation between a black woman and white police officers over access to cutlery renewed debates about race and police conduct.
Hours after Sunday’s shooting in Tennessee, a woman gave birth in a Waffle House parking lot.
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It's a southern thing. If you haven't been to a Waffle House - you wouldn't understand.
How aobut the New York Times try get a handle on basic journalism ethics instead.
I’ve been to a lot of Waffle Houses over the years. You come in at any time of day or night, you sit down, the waitress gives you coffee, and you can order a meal which tastes good. What’s so hard to understand?
The gun that shot up the “Gun Free” Waffle House here in Nashville was from Illinois. If anything, it’s a portrait of Northern Liberal Politics.
Pass the Tabasco Sauce. And keep the coffe coming.
“Guy” not Gun. Typo.
Waffle House has over 2100 stores and there’s bound to be a lot of stories....................
New York City — In the Noth, there sometimes seems no one more omnipresent than... people that just don’t get it.
I like my hash browns covered, smothered, and chunked.
Because no one ever fights in a northern diner.
My son and a buddy of his used to stop for breakfast on the way to where we deer hunted...
This one waitress was missing a couple of teeth and was not very attractive...
I slipped over and told her my son’s bud thought she was “HOT”...
I didn’t think he was gonna be able to get of there!!!LOL
Me best guide, keep’em you safe, bwana.
Pay in gold first.
NY Times explains to the arrogant, condescending urban elites what the rubes and yokels are thinking
I love Waffle House.
” In 2011, four men who regularly ate together at a Waffle House in Georgia were arrested, accused of plotting attacks on government buildings. “
A rat bastard NYT smear on the South.
Can’t read whole article. Too bad. I wanted to see how snarky they got
WaHo... scattered,capped,smothered,and covered please
I think a few years ago New Yorkers stood on line for hours waiting for something called a “cronut”.
Waffle House is open in the middle of the night.
That’s when all the bad things happen.
It’s not a surprise that some of them would happen at Waffle House.
Here’s a clean old fraternity story with the same general theme. Where I went to college about 50 years ago we had annual Moms’ days when our mothers would come down for a weekend to be wined, dined and entertained. Part of that entertainment would include a visit to at least one campus bar. The smart bar tenders quickly realized that one of the best ways to impress the moms favorably was to card them.
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