Posted on 11/07/2013 2:22:07 PM PST by virgil283
"Regulars say goodbye to Bloomington's second oldest restaurant....That Wednesday in September, the owner didn’t know what to do with himself. The smell of frying oil, the same greasy perfume that had greeted customers for 46 years, wafted into his nose as he wandered past the vinyl booths. He sat down, then stood up again.
Bud — everyone called him Bud — checked on the dwindling supply of breakfast sausage, peered into the nearly empty freezers, tried to explain to his regulars why it had to be this way........"
(Excerpt) Read more at idsnews.com ...
When I was at Little Rock AFB in 1990 it was called “Waffle Awful” by the locals!
I bet it was a direct quote.
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.
FReepmail me or KoRn to get on or off the Waffle House Ping List.
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!
Thank you you are kind to say so
Just hope this isn’t a trend.
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
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.
(Thanks for the ping!!!)
The Huddle House was named after the "huddle" you have in football. I think it's a stupid name for a restaurant.
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.
We call it the Awful Waffle. It was always the first breakfast on the road when on vacation.
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/
You’re added.
Waffle House food trucks, mmmmm...
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