Posted on 08/15/2005 11:40:41 AM PDT by Rebelbase
We have 2 Waffle Houses within a mile or two of home.
I-75/Wade Green Rd, and the one at I-75/Chastain Rd, Kennesaw College, but the beauty of Waffle Houses, no matter which one you visit, the food's the same.
(Don't bother asking them to warm up your waffle though. Waffle Houses don't have microwave ovens.)
I saw a guy in a Waffle House in Atlanta about 25 years ago who was absolutely amazing! I kept thinking that he must have been a circus juggler at one time, he was so good that a helper would have slowed him down! Just watching him butter toast was a show, he could flip the butter knife in the air when he finished and it would land sticking straight up in the butter dish. I can still remember coming home and telling my wife about this guy. I left thinking that I probably would never do anything in my life as well as this guy cooked.
On GA 400 at Holcomb Bridge there is a Waffle House on both sides of the expressway!
My husband plays golf with The Georgia Seniors group, and a couple of times one of Waffle House founders, Tom Forkner, has played in the same tournaments. Honey says he's never met a nicer man.
These cooks are so efficient - which I'm not. It's a science, frankly - the way the kitchen's set up, the way the food prepared.
As a northener, my wife has noticed on her travels that many, many WH locations have at least one burned out light in the WH sign. Thus, she refers to restaurant as a "Wafle House", with the "a" being long.
We have 2 Waffle Houses within a mile or two of home.
I-75/Wade Green Rd, and the one at I-75/Chastain Rd, Kennesaw College,
Well, gee.
Iffen ya go that far.......
(How comes ya don't use the one at Old 41 and 41?) You know: it's close to Barret Pkwy and 41: Just down the road from the one at Barret and I575, or up the road from Barret and Hwy 120.
Which is only a little bit from the one at Hwy 120 and ....
(You know you're in the South when there are more Waffle Houses and historical markers than traffic signals...)
Having eaten in Waffles House in several different locations/states, may I state that one does not "dine" in one. Eat, in some; be slopped, in others.
I've never seen a greater variation of quality/cleanliness/menu between the outlets of any chain, than this one's.
Looks like I need to hit an Awful House sometime before summer ends to help them celebrate...
Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Topped and Diced, Waffle House rules! Here's to another 50 years.
Heres some more Waffle House tunes.
http://www.wafflehouselouisiana.com/rajukebox.htm
I guess I don't get it. We had these things in Colorado Springs when I was growing up, and they're all over Dallas where I now reside, and to be frank, it's not much to brag about. Denny's or Perkins easily beats Waffle House hands down. Is it just some kind of Southern nostalgia thing that I'm missing? It can't be the grease laden food.
Been there, done that.... Remember 'Susie's tree house.' and 'Rafters'??
I graduated in 94. Susies is not familiar. Rafters yes. How about the Elbow Room, Sports Pad and Wrong Way Corrigans. And do not forget the only strip club in town out on hwy 13 towards Farmville. The Silver Bullet. The main attraction was Lean Mean Colleen. LOL
Some of those songs on the jukebox...weird.
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