holdouttrout | Why is it I'd never heard of this "Waffle House?"

Of course now it's all over the place. (Although if there's a PARTICULAR reference I'm missing, help would be appreciated. Right now my understanding is that it's a cultural joke of some sort.)

I also found this helpful repository of information about Atlanta.

My time there makes so much more sense now.

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lmao...if you eat there, bring cash. the food is fantastic

If we had any. *glares at Oregon*

They take checkcards now. (Woohoo!)

There's a Waffle House we should have eaten at? [makes notes for next year]

ETA: I'm texting you with my brain.

ETA: I'm texting you with my brain.

That's not very fair. My telepathy only works once in a while. *g*

Once on a high school youth group trip to the beach, we counted every Waffle House on I-75 between Kentucky and Florida. There were hundreds.

And I'm not sure whether it's a cultural joke, exactly. More like a cultural institution. There are even Waffle House songs on the Waffle House jukeboxes. I spent many late nights studying there in college: it was the only all-night place around. Mmm, Waffle House!

Apropos of nothing to do with Waffle Houses, I went to law school at UK. Hello, fellow Wildcat!

Hee!

My goodness. It sounds kinda awesome, in its own way.

I'm not a big fan of their food, but the last time I ate at one I was sitting in a spot with a bird's eye view of the grill and I think that's what put me off.

It's kind of a good thing though. There's one less than a mile from my house, on my route to work no less, and if I liked their food, I might have a serious cholesterol problem. Luckily the Cracker Barrel, my favorite source of terrible breakfast food, isn't in such a convenient spot. :)

Oh, dear. Seeing the food prepared is not really good for the digestion. I'm sorry. :-)

I saw I don't know how many Waffle House's in Ohio when I went to Kentucky over the holiday weekend. And you know, I was wondering why there were so many of them. Then one of my co-workers mentioned it at lunch the other day, and now you bring it up.

Okay, that's it! I'm going to hunt one down just so I can see what all the fuss is about. :D

Lol. There's probably not much to it, really. I've just been seeing it everywhere, like when you learn a new word and then it pops up all over the place.

Oh, boy! I haven't been to a Waffle House in nearly a decade, but hubby and I used to go a lot when we were dating in college. Good times. *g*

*g*

College was trying--not enough places left open late enough at night.

I've never even HEARD of Waffle House. Are we deprived or something?

I think so!

Ah, the awful waffle: the Waffle House. We have not one, but two, at my exit along I-75. I suppose that's so I can decide if I want to have a more easterly or westerly feeling as I indulge.

I've always been told that they treat their employees very well.

I'm very intrigued. Here, we have a few Denny's but nowhere near the same amount as in other places...

I like the idea of having directional feelings in relation to breakfast foods.

I don't know for sure, but I think Waffle Houses in the other parts of the country are better. Because I've only ever eaten there once and... it was kinda bad.

The joke in my family is that my father loves waffles and once went there looking for *actual* waffles. Of which there is only, like, one on the menu.

Also, the one in Englewood used to be right next to the sewage treatment plant and the air around there was pretty ripe. Not where *I'd* put a restaurant.

Oh, ew. Yeah, that sounds like a bad call.

Oh, going to school in Alabama meant I hit the Waffle House many a time for late-night study sessions. It was one of the very few places that was actually open.

There's a Waffle House (and yes, one of the other names for it is "Awful Waffle")right down the street from me, so if you REALLY want to hit one at con-time next year...

Er...I did mention that I live in Decatur, Georgia, right?

lol. I'll keep it in mind. Thank you.

I like Waffle House. It's one of those local institutions that you just have to love in all of its horribleness.

*totally bumps into trout's LJ conversation*

Oooh! Where'd you go to school? I'm a Jacksonville State alum.

OMG DUDE!! I just looked at your profile and we both went to JSU!!! (I graduated in December of 1996, so I was out of there before you got there. My husband went there, too, and we lived in Jacksonville until he left school in May of 1997.) And we have all this stuff in common...

*hums "It's A Small World," friends you and thanks Trout for letting me hijack her LJ a bit*

Huh. No kidding? What'd you major in? Was Dr. Whitton still there while you were? He was awesome.

Huh. No kidding? What'd you major in? Was Dr. Whitton still there while you were? He was awesome.

Hee! I had Dr. Whitton more than any other professor there (barring Dr. Koss, who taught every single French class I took for four years) - I was an English major and just kept taking all of his electives. Had him for both semesters of American lit, plus a film class and two drama classes (one was 20th century drama and the other was... um... uh... well, another "drama studied as lit" course).

I also was around the music department quite a bit since I was a French/Music minor. I only changed my minor to include French the last semester I was there (I double majored in French and English up until that point but didn't want to wait around a year for a French Civ class). I worked at DSS while I was a student and for a bit after graduation while waiting on my husband to finish up. His last semester was spring of 1998, about the same time we got married.

So what was your major?

English. I minored in History because my eventual goal is go into Library Sciences, so that's a good Humanities mix to go with.

Dr. Whitton's fantastic. I wound up taking so many English electives just because he was teaching them. That had a lot do with Dr. Lemmons and half the History classes I took too.

I did stuff with DSS too. I was helping a visually-impaired friend with her homework one evening during my first sememster and she told me I should go get signed up as a reader because I might as well get paid for it.

I did Accapella Choir and Civic Corale with Dr. Corbin. Was she there when you were there?

And I actually just missed your husband, then. My first semester was Fall of 1998.

I did stuff with DSS too. I was helping a visually-impaired friend with her homework one evening during my first sememster and she told me I should go get signed up as a reader because I might as well get paid for it.

That's what I did. I was a reader. Both of my guys graduated while I was still there, though, although there were a couple of VI friends that were still there at that time. Was Sue Muller still there when you were or had she retired by then?

Dr. Knapp was the choral director when I was there. I'm a percussionist, so I took lots of classes with Tracy Tyler and, of course, Dr. Davis since I couldn't resist taking music theory. I miss Jerkyll something fierce.

Did you pledge SAI, by chance? (I'm an alum of that, too.)

She totally was! I'm not sure what she's up to these days, though.

And...I have no idea what that is, so I imagine the answer is no? I didn't really pledge to anything, although I did live in Sparkman with all the sorority girls in my first year which was kinda scary. Although the first roommate who had NOT made it into a sorority, but had this weird obsession with the Delta Zetas was a whole heck of a lot scarier.

SAI was the music fraternity (professional organization) for women, so it wasn't as scary. But yeah, how weird is being obsessed with an organization you didn't get in? That DOES sound scary.

Sue was my savior when I was in school there. Once I started working for DSS, I never had to sit through registration somewhere else - she did my registration along with all the DSS students. Wonderful woman.

I've lived in Georgia & North Carolina (and drive through South Carolina fairly often.) There are Waffle Houses everywhere on the interstates. (My current town has 2 at sequential interstate exits & are only 1 1/2 miles apart, which is closer than the several McDonalds!)

Oddly enough, the Young Life group I went to in high school had a song "I'm in Love with a WoHo Waitress." As you might imagine, it was pretty silly!

Also oddly enough, I've never been to one. *ponders* Hmm, I may have an unwarranted perception of it as a truck stop style diner. Perhaps I should try it sometime to revise that opinion... *grin*

I love silly self-referential songs. They're so much fun.

Based on other's comments, it sounds much like a sharis in the NW or a dennys in cali, only, you know, under a different name and in the south and midwest. 24 hours joint, popular with the HS and college crowd, edible greasy food. But, having never been to one or heard of one, I cannot confirm my hypothesis.

Yeah. It wasn't so much what it was, but why it was important.

We have Waffle Houses all over the place here. Think Mel's Diner. The food is fairly decent (depending on where you go) if you stick with the breakfast stuff. Their chili is fantastic, and they're open 24 hours. They used to only take cash but they FINALLY started taking checkcards about two years ago. Their normal food is mediocre, but their breakfast is as close as I can get to making it at home.

The cultural joke is that all the people that work there must be some kind of trailer trash. Because it's southern, you see. (insert my irritation with southern stereotypes here)

(There's also another similar place called Huddle House that's located more in the Georgia area, and they're more or less the same creature run by different companies. I have a soft spot for Huddle House because it was the only place in Jacksonville that was open 24 hours and we all used to cram for our exams there in college.)

Checkcards! Hee. Lovely to see people joining the 21st century.

That stereotype is ridiculous, not least of which because we have the same type of place here. *rolls eyes*

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