Waffle House

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Youngsville, a nice bedroom community of Lafayette Louisiana has just gotten a Waffle House. Some of the comments are hilarious!
Cheap food, made to order and, as a nutritionist would say, “calorically dense.”


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[Chuck24]

But they’re good for storm forecasting

 

[Maddog 521]

Where does WH get those people that work there? There must be a nation wide training center somewhere.

 

[Wyo]

I cannot hear the term "Waffle House" without thinking about that scene in the Cohen Bros. movie "The Ladykillers" with Tom Hanks. "He brought his b---- to the waffle house!" Critics didn't like it much but I thought it was hilarious, dark and one of their best.

 

[dave1918a2]

Waffle House used to have a super BLT. Ask for one if You go for lunch. One of the best BLT's ever.

 

[rockquarry]

I can't imagine being hungry enough to eat at a Waffle House.

 

[lihpster]

Well the nearest one is in CO. I ain't going three states for a meal, no matter how good the BLTs are.

 

[dockmurgw]

We don't have any in this state that I am aware of...wish we did. We also don't have Sonic's, and for that I am eternally grateful.

 

[SMSgt]

We don't have any in this state that I am aware of...wish we did. We also don't have Sonic's, and for that I am eternally grateful.

My wife would agree with you on Sonic's. She's a Chick Fillet fan, although I am not impressed with Chick's boring chicken sandwich. I've been to Sonic's once for the milk shake, which was pretty dang good.

 

[SMSgt]

I can't imagine being hungry enough to eat at a Waffle House.

The food isn't bad, nor is the service. Not getting shot while at one is the bigger problem around here. It may be open all night, but you don't want to eat there all night.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When WH started, The Company owned stores had black letters on a yellow sign. The franchise stores were yellow letters on a black sign. WH bought all the franchised stores back, as of 1998, there was only 1 franchised store left, In downtown Chattanooga, Tenn. I just had to eat there. It was at a major intersection of two controlled access streets, 3 of 4 corners had a WH on it!

"You might be a Red Neck if you have a Waffle House charge card!" Jeff Foxworthy

Ivan

 

[duane_wade]

I haven't eaten at a WH for a long time. I know that one shouldn't think about eating there until after 8am though. The food is fairly good too (at keast it was when I was eating there)

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[ColbyBruce]

“Try it…you’ll like it.”

 

[GaryS]

We have a Sonic. I ate at one in Texas once and don't see any reason to drive five minutes in my town to repeat the experience.

No WH though.

The food is pretty good, the staff is friendly, the prices reasonable. My wife doesn't like fast food.

They have a specific way that they train employees, including the specific lingo used. They even have menu flashcards for employees to learn the menu.

We don't have any in this state that I am aware of...wish we did. We also don't have Sonic's, and for that I am eternally grateful.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The food isn't bad, nor is the service. Not getting shot while at one is the bigger problem around here. It may be open all night, but you don't want to eat there all night.

About 14 years ago, my wife was out of town and I got and emergency maintenance call in the middle of the night. I was done about 0330 and stopped at a WH for an early breakfast, It was about 6 months old and in a very good neighborhood but being open 24/7, they had been robbed several times already. MY big scruffy butt walked in and they had never seen me before, they got nervous as I sat at the counter next to the cash register! Then I placed my order without being ask, using all their special terms for how to fix my hash browns. Everybody relaxed, I may not be their regular customer, but I was obviously a regular WH customer.

Ivan

 

[GaryS]

Very few places are safe at 3:00AM. My bedroom is, which is why I try to be there at 3:00AM.

The food isn't bad, nor is the service. Not getting shot while at one is the bigger problem around here. It may be open all night, but you don't want to eat there all night.

 

[CH4]

Love their chocolate chip waffle and watching the interesting staff.

 

[Kiwi cop]

Loved a Waffle House breakfast when on the road. Tried the IHOP in Beaumont TX, but Karen didn’t like it. From then on it was WH all the way.

Got Sonic shakes in Clarksdale MS too. Took the drive thru option and didn’t go inside. A meal in a cup.

Chick-Fil-A in Branson was a bit underwhelming for my taste, but Karen loves her chicken.

Have to admit our Kiwi drive through choices of McD, BK and KFC seem very limited in comparison to the U.S.

 

[Rudi]

WH, don't they have "All you can eat fight night"?

 

[GaryS]

We used to have fight night in Boston. The various groups of Youts would leave the clubs at 2:00AM when the bars closed.

They'd then head to the food joints that were open until 4:00AM. The Chinese restaurants used to serve "cold tea." That's if they waiter trusted you. Cold tea of course being beer.

One restaurant was tired of the Youts using the real silver ware for fights, so they replaced it with plastic ware.

One night a fight broke out and one of the Youts took a plastic knife and cut a few people. No one was seriously hurt except the Yout with the knife. The police gave him a pretty good walloping.

Until I retired I referred to that as "The Great Moon Villa Butter Knife Massacre."

WH, don't they have "All you can eat fight night"?

 

[Farmer17]

The last time I went in a Waffle House it was a couple years or so after Oklahoma had banned smoking in restaurants. The cigarette smoke was so thick you could barely see and I think I was the only one in there that wasn't smoking, including the cooks! I walked out before my order arrived because I could barely breath.

 

[Rustyt1953]

For years I was intimately familiar with the nocturnal world of WH. Sometimes it was like being in a Tim Burton movie. Entertaining nonetheless.

Never really had a bad meal there but my taste buds were fairly well anesthetized at that hour.

One of the few places where cigarette ashes came with your eggs.

 

[Heinz]

Notice all those robberies and muggings you do not read about in WH? Up in Cincinnati we referred to WH as the "Mother Ship". Probably no safer place at 3AM, Everybody is likely to be carrying, and nobody wants to be hassled. You will note they build them next to the highways not the Golf Courses. But if you have a blizzard, a pandemic, or a huge rainstorm they are likely to be open, even on Christmas.

 

[rockquarry]

For years I was intimately familiar with the nocturnal world of WH. Sometimes it was like being in a Tim Burton movie. Entertaining nonetheless.

Never really had a bad meal there but my taste buds were fairly well anesthetized at that hour.

One of the few places where cigarette ashes came with your eggs.

I thought Waffle Houses were exempt from "no smoking" ordinances.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

For years I was intimately familiar with the nocturnal world of WH. Sometimes it was like being in a Tim Burton movie. Entertaining nonetheless.

The Wal Martians have to eat somewhere!

Ivan

 

[GaryS]

I can, but won't, top any of those nocturnal night stories. About a month after 9/11 I went to NYC for ten days with a DMAT teams. Mostly I was communications support in nice hotel. One night, however I was assigned to provide communications in the basement of the JFK USPS facility in Manhattan.

I swear I saw a guy with two heads working there.

For years I was intimately familiar with the nocturnal world of WH. Sometimes it was like being in a Tim Burton movie. Entertaining nonetheless.

Never really had a bad meal there but my taste buds were fairly well anesthetized at that hour.

One of the few places where cigarette ashes came with your eggs.

 

[GaryS]

There are still some places in the south that allow smoking. I'm not a fan, but I'm also not a resident and don't care that much.

Another WH fun fact. There are two menus, the regular and the full menu. Most people order off the regular, but you can ask for a full menu.

I thought Waffle Houses were exempt from "no smoking" ordinances.

 

[TXBryan]

There was a Waffle House nearby my abode in Garner, NC when I was studying at NC State. They were an appreciated refuge when coming back from campus in the wee hours after being in the lab all night. I remember the food as being quite good but that was the mid-80s and I've slept since then.

In Carbondale, IL there was a "roughly" equivalent place called "Golden Bear" in the late 70s/early 80s. Frank Zappa played a concert on Halloween (back in the day when Halloween was a very big deal indeed at SIU), and it happened to be Homecoming as well, meaning the bars were open until 6:00AM (ah, the good old days). The concert was fabulous and Zappa played long into the evening making jokes about our football team actually having won a game that afternoon.

Buddies and I stumbled in to Golden Bear for early breakfast prior to staggering home and lo and behold Frank is behind the counter flipping pancakes and eggs in an apron and chef's hat. Not sure he prepared my fare but it was a memorable hoot that my buds and I still occasionally talk about.

 

[glenwolde]

Pork chops and eggs (drops mic).

 

[SMSgt]

There is a WH on either side of I-95 in Ft. Pierce, FL. The one on the west side offered "special" waffles at night. It came with a powder that was not powdered sugar, you know wad I mean?