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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There’s a few good bagel and pizza joints in FL. Their secret ingredient is tap water imported from NYC.
Great things Waffle House and Click film A a southern tradition...they are the go to place when no one knows what they want to eat...
It gets you return rights without a receipt
Have to check those out when I’m in FL.
Thannks——I never knew that.
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Yankees don’t understand that it’s the equivalent of a 24 hour dinner. Dumb city folks.
I do too. Insomnia place of choice.
Real people living real lives. Novel. No script needed just add alcohol.
Hear hear!
FMCDH(BITS)
They say that it is used during returns. I believe it is a method of identifying where their customers are from. Don't know for sure.
Yep - I like Waffle Houses.
I’m glad Chick-fil-a is doing well there. Once people try them they are convinced how wonderful the company and the food is.
I guess bagel’s are like grits. People in the south make much better grits than people in the north so I suspect NY bagels are much better than the southern knock-off. :-) After growing up eating homemade southern buttermilk biscuits, bagels are a hard sell down here.
Before I retired we had a lady on my team that was from up north. She always brought goodies in on Friday for the team meeting. Her preference was bagels but she always included donuts and sausage biscuits for those of us that didn’t like bagels. Even she commented that bagels down here weren’t like bagels from up there.
If the bars had regularly kept the underage drinkers out, they’d have all gone broke.
So where's the nekkid Waffle House?
Nekkid Waffle houses? Didn’t you read the article? Didn’t you see the link? May not have been nekkid but her boobs were out. That’s good enough for a waffle house.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/black-woman-arrest-waffle-house.html
Oh for goodness sake, it’s a down home southern IHOP without the pancakes. A 24 hour diner. Somebody needs to give New Yorkers the National Geographic anthropologist on safari treatment, I’m sure there’s weird behavior galore there in broad daylight let alone in the middle of the night. So annoyingly smug, especially when they’re pretending to “understand” something or someone they hate.
And fails.
Miserably.
Because it's the New York Times.
And it's there for those of us who work 'til the middle of the night ... or get up in the middle of the night to go to work.
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