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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand why people shit on Waffle House.

Where else can you go where someone will cook real eggs right in front of you, and cook them correctly?

Fried over easy, perfect every time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've never been to one as there are none near me. They cook in front of you hibachi style?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Sort of. They're just on the other side of a waist high divider. They aren't cooking for show, but you can see what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Depends on where you sit. They have booths and like a bar seating area. The griddle is behind the counter of the latter. Only been to a couple myself as there also aren't any near me, but if you're ever shit-housed at 2 am and you're South of the Mason Dixon line, give it a go. I was thoroughly disappointed with the last one I attempted to go to though. Apparently some locations since Covid are takeout only after midnight. That was literally the only time I've ever gone. It's not the same taking it to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been to many diners that do that consistently better than Waffle House.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The dividing line I have found is if the diner does really good biscuits. If the biscuits are good, they're generally better than Waffle House. But most diner type places near me are awful. They cater toward the 75+ crowd. Weak coffee and bland, nasty food. It's either mush, or dry as hell.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Or, hibachi is just bougie Waffle House.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Electric bougie waffle house ..... many of them are also gas bougie waffle house

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My favorite time was on the road with some friends (we're all from up in them thar mountains, so it's not like we were a bunch of New Yorkers) and 5/6 of us could not for the life of us understand our waitress, and we thought she might be speaking a foreign language, until one of our number, who was fluent in the Waffle House dialect of gibberish, translated for us.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

no one on earth

fucks better

than waffle house waitresses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the secret ingredient is meth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For the patron or the waitress?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

big mommy tattooed bartender with tongue piercing has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely. We're pretty sure she was shooting up between waffles, but we all knew when walking out that it could've gone MUCH weirder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ok so me (bald white man) and my boy (Puerto Rican, braids), were eating at a waffle House beside our hotel late. The two waitresses came up, very young, and said are you the movie guys?

We're like what?

One of them said yeah you're staying at the hotel, we make a movie and get paid. We tipped and dipped.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Eh? Whoever made this either went to a unique one or don't know what they're talking about.

Waffle Houses are not spectacles. They're as basic as they come. Basic seating. A gal who calls you "suga" and a mute cook who doesn't give you eye contact. You might be able to see the grill if you're sitting at the bar. But that's like saying you can see the grill at your McDonald's.

People go there because you can get a cheap breakfast for like $3.18 cents.

It's not good. It's not bad. It's not anything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Anywhere where you can get a meal for $3.18 in 2024 is good in my book

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

That food is just fine and partially sustained my life for years. Double order of hashbrowns crispy with onion and chili. That's all you need for a day and it's cheap and good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's also how you know to evacuate in the south. Until waffle house closes you're ok.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Also a measure of damage done.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I thought the whole point of hibachi was that they do it right in front of you and maybe even put on a show. Do the cooks at Waffle House even know how to make an onion volcano?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

The show is usually a restaurant-wide brawl. You even get to participate in it if you want.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Japanese Waffle House

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a type of restaurant, Japanese food, where they grill the food in front of you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, is Habachi just like a brand name of teppanyaki in the US?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, it's the name from the Japanese word..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The terms got confused during the introduction of teppanyaki-style food to America in the 60's. One theory being that "hibachi" is a lot easier for Americans to pronounce, so the marketers for the first teppanyaki restaurants in America chose that term instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank god they don’t dump mayo— I mean, “yum yum sauce” — on everything at Waffle House

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That sauce is fucking delicious and I will NOT stand for it being slandered in this fashion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I agree but it is pink mayo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yumyum is watered down Thousand Island dressing and I will fucking stab anyone who tries to take me off this hill. You like Yumyum? That's because you don't know that they used to do a savory mustard sauce that was meant only for gods, but the recipe was stolen and pased on to man, like Promethean fire. Now you just get that plastic encapsulated Kraft dribble instead. Fuck Yumyum sauce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry I'm late to the party.

A single hash brown all the way, meaning with cheese, country, gravy, chili, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions. I think even jalapenos. it's glorious. Add an iced tea and you're at $11.50. just make sure your drive isn't more than 20 minutes to get home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm a fan of the patty melt personally, though a nice loaded hash brown hits the spot too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

My spouse bought a box of the hash brown and waffle mix each from WH online, and so he made them for breakfast at Christmas one year. He also bought me Waffle House socks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is fondue raclette in French Canada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A winery near me does a raclette weekend for Valentine's Day where you get a plate of raclette with a glass of wine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's a restaurant in NYC, or at least there was, where they serve you some basic meat and potatoes then scrape a pound of raclette on your plate. It was delicious. Name of the place? "Raclette"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I bought a bigass camp chef griddle for our back yard based on waffle house and japanese hibachi and it is completely worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Same. Cooking 4 pounds of bacon at once is wild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

it's just a flattop gang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I am starving

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