Good grits.
Love Waffle House. I have not been in a Waffle House before 12 in the morning. LOL.
I love Waffle House!!!! I was at one in Augusta Ga a few years ago wearing a James Brown hat. The nice waitress told me about how JB came into the store just a couple of days before with some people and wasn't terribly nice.
smothered, scattered, and fried.
Thank God for the Waffle House!
Having gotten food poisoning at one of them, I call them the Awful House
You poor southrons have never had the pleasurable experience of an independant Greek-run diner like those of us from the northeast. Puts the "Awful House" and Cracker Barrel to shame.
Good waffles. Good pancakes. Good eggs. Good bacon. Good grits. Good coffee. Good service. Good price.
Waffle House has made it North to Medina Ohio and I can't wait to get to it. One of my favorite things about the South!
We LOVE to get a Waffle House breakfast...anytime of the day or night. Smothered, covered, hashbrowns...YUM YUM!!
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But sometimes you just gotta have biscuits and gravy. For that you have to hit The Huddle House.
Ninteen years ago, fresh out of high school, I worked at the Waffle House on Frankin Road in Roanoke, Virginia for a few months.
I've long since moved up and far away, but last spring I was in town briefly and decided to stop in for a cup of coffee. I SWEAR, every single thing was the same. It was pretty crusty and grimey-looking. Even the orange plastic booths looked like they were the same ones since I was there, but that couldn't be possible.
I chatted with the waitresses and told them my story, and the older one said she had been working there for 17 years. I couldn't remember the names of the other waitresses from when I was there (Betty? Rose? There was always a Rose), but it would have been too weird if she had known them. It all seems like a million years ago to me.
Left a $5 tip for the coffee and left with weird, nostalgic and strangly sad feelings.
In fact, the cutoff is so close to the Mason/Dixon line that we should rename it the Waffle House/IHOP line!
I really hope this chain expands north however because it is hands down the best breakfast chain in the world. Friendly and quick service, excellent food and the prices are so low that they don't even take credit cards!
My favorite Waffle Houses are in the Guntersville/Albertville/Boaz area of Alabama along Highway 431. There is one up by Winchester, VA (near the WVA border just off I-81) that is a favorite spot of mine also.
My usual breakfast there is a ham and cheese omelet with wheat toast, buttered grits and a side of bacon and sausage. I then take the bacon and sausage and make sandwiches out of it with the wheat toast. The coffee is pretty decent there but I have to bring my own Splenda on account of the fact that they don't carry Splenda in their restaurants. Aside from that little inconvenience, it is quite possibly the PERFECT place to have breakfast.
What kind of grandmother did the author have? Mine never demanded cash payment for breakfast!
Thought you'd want to see something "scattered, smothered, and covered" that wasn't Rachel Corrie.
WOW! I remember a Sunday morning a few years ago, traveling from Atlanta to Birmingham, I stopped at four different exits looking for a Waffle House with tables actually available without a wait. Every one of them had full tables and standing room only waiting for tables. The next week I checked with my broker only to find out that Waffle House is privately held!
But that was before I got to the south.
Now it's comparable or pricier than any other breakfast chain.
The waitresses are nice and warm and friendly, though -- problem is, I know one of them in real life, and she's .... well, let's just say she's got some more work to do on herself.
Are there any East Carolina graduates that remembers the waitress in Greenville named Mary Mary? She was an icon for the drunk college students after midnight. Served our sorry butts with a smile. LOL.