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The end of the Waffle House
Indiana Daily Student ^ | Thursday, November 7, 2013 | Jessica Contrera

Posted on 11/07/2013 2:22:07 PM PST by virgil283

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To: virgil283

When I was at Little Rock AFB in 1990 it was called “Waffle Awful” by the locals!


21 posted on 11/07/2013 4:34:25 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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22 posted on 11/07/2013 4:40:28 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: 21twelve

I bet it was a direct quote.


23 posted on 11/07/2013 4:42:51 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: 21twelve

Yes, the article was written by a student. That what the Indiana Daily Student is for. I didn’t go to the “Awful House” too many times. We usually went to The Big Wheel on College Ave. It was easier for my roommate to D & D there. And the food settled my stomach settled easier on the stomach. But there were a lot of Awful House fans among my IU friends.


24 posted on 11/07/2013 5:58:39 PM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: virgil283; Slings and Arrows; KoRn; DocRock; Gefn; miss marmelstein
This thread wasn't originally about THE Waffle House, but has since evolved.


FReepmail me or KoRn to get on or off the Waffle House Ping List.

25 posted on 11/07/2013 8:54:46 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: virgil283
Beautiful. Thank you for posting this!

Time travel apparently can leave a mark, as I just found out. Jessica Contrera's writing caught me completely off guard and unprepared to see all of the familiar places she showed me.

Too good not to share, I passed this gift along to friends and family. Thank you for sharing it here!

26 posted on 11/08/2013 9:05:28 AM PST by GBA (Ezekiel ch. 7, verses 1-14...our consequences?)
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To: GBA

Thank you you are kind to say so


27 posted on 11/08/2013 2:52:08 PM PST by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: virgil283

Just hope this isn’t a trend.


28 posted on 11/08/2013 3:33:24 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: virgil283; mickie; flaglady47; pax_et_bonum; Chigirl 26; hoosiermama; oswegodeee
I don't know if it's the same Waffle Houses referred to in the article, but in the olden days before the superhighways and Cracker Barrels we usually stopped at a chain Waffle House or two on the way from Illinois to Florida.

The waffles were made of flour, air and a prayer, but with a lot of syrup they were edible. The rest of the meal.....sausage, bacon, bisuits or whatever was equally non-memorable.

However, sitting at one's table watching the Waffle House's varied (cough) clientel come and go was well worth the price of admission. I knew that any mornng of the week I WOULD definitely see a table for eight filled with local old geezers all with blue jeans and their John Deere caps on, having great gab fests over hot mugs of coffee.

I still miss the days of that familiar roof looming ahead in the distance while driving the various highways throughout the middle west and south.

Leni

29 posted on 11/08/2013 3:52:38 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

A while back I drove my favorite uncle home, some eight hour drive. He was in his eighties and his wife kept him on a strict diet, which I pretended not to know about. When it was time to eat, He would suggest stopping....always at Waffle House, where He would have breakfast. We had breakfast three times that day....I loved that man, He was as a second father to me...He’s gone now but I will see him again.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 4:48:47 PM PST by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: F15Eagle

(Thanks for the ping!!!)


32 posted on 11/09/2013 7:09:05 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: F15Eagle
There's also a knock-off chain called "The Huddle House" which has some 450 restaurants scattered throughout Waffle House territory. Now Waffle House has nearly 2,000 locations but Huddle House is closing that gap.

The Huddle House was named after the "huddle" you have in football. I think it's a stupid name for a restaurant.

33 posted on 04/30/2014 3:31:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: virgil283

For some reason the Waffle House in Virginia Beach, VA on Indian River Rd near I-64 sucks. This place is so bad, they shouldn’t be allowed to display the Waffle House sign. Not anything like the Waffle House experience I had in Charlotte , NC.


34 posted on 04/30/2014 3:35:56 AM PDT by csvset
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To: AlaskaErik

We call it the Awful Waffle. It was always the first breakfast on the road when on vacation.


35 posted on 04/30/2014 3:54:42 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Slings and Arrows

Please add me.

We had a neighborhood fun run/walk event last Saturday AM and had the new Waffle House food truck do the catering. One of the corporate office honchos lives in the neighborhood. It was great! I was there early and talking to him, and so got one of the test waffles. It was great!

http://foodtruckssouth.com/portfolio-items/waffle-house-truck/


36 posted on 04/30/2014 4:06:01 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

You’re added.

Waffle House food trucks, mmmmm...


37 posted on 04/30/2014 8:51:43 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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