Well I for one find Waffle House rather delightful.

[Fanatical Meat]

On a related note I just ordered one of these. I doubt it will work as good as the old one my Mother gave me but its fun. I bet its made in China but I didn't pay much for it.

 

[zinfamous]

How much would something like that really cost per se?

I don't know--maybe 1-2 hundy?

I guess if you're going to wake Tom up to make it for you, there's even more of a premium.

 

[TeeJay1952]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/
$40

 

[MongGrel]

Hard to believe some people will stoop to the level of WH. I mean, when I get shitfaced on Evan Williams on a Friday night, I call up Tom and roll into Per Se for a couple fried quail eggs and artisanal hashed fingerling potatoes with gruyère bechamel.

()

Let me guess. Magnus Nilsson is your personal chef and you visit Fäviken on a weekly basis?



There are plenty of "American dining establishments" that aren't chains, like Olive Garden.

We're talking eggs, bacon, pancakes, and waffles here; breakfast fare. It isn't fine dining in the first place. Go to a local diner if you feel the need to stroke yourself off about not going to a chain.

Not sure when Olive Garden isn't a "chain" though. That would be like saying "Outback" isn't a chain.

Same company to begin with I believe.

 

[SithSolo1]

I always get the Texas Bacon Cheesesteak Melt w/ well done onions. My parents and I go there every once in a while. Its not healthy or visually appealing but the melt I got Tuesday was the best sandwich I've had in months. Everything about it was perfect.

 

[Bubblehappy]

In my town there aren't many options for a meal at 4am. After a night of drinking, it's really the best place to go for a sit-down meal. It's not great, but hardly not bad either.

 

[CraKaJaX]

In my town there aren't many options for a meal at 4am. After a night of drinking, it's really the best place to go for a sit-down meal. It's not great, but hardly not bad either.

After a night of drinking, I don't think it matters whether it's sit down, delivered, picked up, good, bad, or anything in between. If it does matter, your night of drinking was not good enough.

 

[OutHouse]

I'd hate to eat your breakfast, I can only imagine it has no flavor and tastes like shit. Never eaten at WH, but I have seen videos of the food and how it's made. if you make eggs with cheese on them & hash browns differently, you're doing it wrong.

then shut the fuck up.

 

[OutHouse]

There are plenty of "American dining establishments" that aren't chains, like Olive Garden,

??

 

[OutHouse]

Any dish an American dining establishment touches, it turns it into shit. Another example; Olive Garden. Even American dishes aren't safe from the conglomerate like approach to dining in this country - Apple Bees, TGIF, Brother Jimmys.

And, the point of going out, is to avoid the home cooked meal, because you want something better - from a quality perspective, in both health, taste and even presentation.

You are correct in labeling Waffle House as something that is pretty far from fine dining - but, it is still submerged in raw sewage... like most American dining establishments. And, it takes something pretty basic and still manages to make you feel like you ate donkey vomit.

1. we go out because we WANT a break and want to avoid the home cook meal.

2. if that is why you go out then you must fail at cooking.

 

[ElFenix]

In my area, there are some breakfast places that often have very long lines - like 150-200 people waiting in line to get in, because the breakfast is so good. E.g., https://spraguesmaplefarms.com/restaurant-and-pancake-house Mom & pop places with good breakfasts are very plentiful; we go out for breakfast fairly often on the weekend. Waffle House? Blah. If you opened a Waffle House around here, they'd be out of business in a year.

i can get an entire breakfast at waffle house for the price of one of sprague's sides. good food? not exactly. the price i want to pay for 2 eggs cooked to order, hash browns, and toast? yes. it's cheaper than an egg mcmuffin. damn near faster too.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

My local place a few hours ago

 

[SithSolo1]

My local place a few hours ago

I'll be honest, that looks damn good and if there were a place around here that served food like that I'd eat there before WoHo.

 

[CZroe]

I'll be honest, that looks damn good and if there were a place around here that served food like that I'd eat there before WoHo.

Are you kidding? I mean, sure it looks good, but it looks almost exactly like the All Star special at Waffle House minus the huge waffle and substituting IHOP's seasoned red potatoes (no longer on the menu at IHOP but you can order them off-menu). Even the plates look the same.

All that image does for me is remind me of how much better Waffle House is than IHOP after getting over my initial reaction to seeing the two bastardized... and then it makes me hungry... for Waffle House.

What you are lusting after there and putting on a pedestal above Waffle House is actually the very essence of Waffle House. Waffle House doesn't make it any differently than you would or use ingredients you couldn't buy at the same local grocery store, so it's not like this is more authentic. I'm pretty sure they even use the same pack of jelly/jam when you order to go.

At Waffle House with the All Star special you get a giant waffle with your choice of link sausage, three large strips of bacon, or ham; your choice of grits or hash browns done how you want them; eggs done how you want them; and two pieces of toast done how you want it, all for about $7. You can get your meal almost exactly like that with a fresh waffle to boot.

My All Star Special order:
-meat: bacon
-starch: hash browns, scattered
-eggs: scrambled with cheese
-toast: dry, hold the knife
-waffle: crispy golden buttered with low-cal syrup or no syrup

First thing I do is butter the waffle because if you don't hurry this much food will get cold before you can finish it. I then salt and pepper my eggs and get to work making a bacon, eggs, and cheese toast sandwich (pure bliss). I can do that because I ordered the toast unbuttered and uncut. I fit as much egg and bacon as I can and still have half the eggs and bacon left on my plate. It's a lot of food, which is why I usually split the special with my brother, who usually orders a bacon egg and cheese wrap, so I cut the toast, move my half of the wrap to my plate, and throw half the waffle on his wrap plate (he's usually done before I can finish prep on the special). We both eat our fill and almost never touch the hash browns.

PURE BLISS.

 

[nakedfrog]

And I'll be honest and agree with CZroe, doesn't look any different than what I'd expect at Waffle House.

 

[DrPizza]

i can get an entire breakfast at waffle house for the price of one of sprague's sides. good food? not exactly. the price i want to pay for 2 eggs cooked to order, hash browns, and toast? yes. it's cheaper than an egg mcmuffin. damn near faster too.

Spragues is one of the pricier places - but at least they use real maple syrup, rather than that high fructose corn syrup crap. And, with real maple syrup, note that the breakfasts have unlimited pancakes.

 

[CZroe]

Spragues is one of the pricier places - but at least they use real maple syrup, rather than that high fructose corn syrup crap. And, with real maple syrup, note that the breakfasts have unlimited pancakes.

It is legal to label syrup "Real Maple Syrup" with surprisingly little "Real Maple Syrup" in it... and I don't just mean when prefaced with "Made With..."

Unless you live where it's made, it's actually pretty hard to get real maple at your typical grocery store to use in your home. You have to go way out of your way to make that at home, so Waffle House is a more authentic home-cooked meal for most people.

 

[ElFenix]

I can't eat unlimited pancakes. I also don't eat fake syrup (don't eat much real syrup either, not into sweets for the most part). And let's face it: pancakes kinda suck. There's a reason people eat them out of a pool of liquid sugar. (Which is also gross.)

At waffle house I get exactly what I described: 2 eggs, toast, and hash browns. No syrup required. A little salsa, a little tabasco, some pepper. I give them a $5 bill and I get paper money back.

I'm not at all kidding when I say it's cheaper than fast food and about as quick.

It's cheap diner fare, and there ain't nothing wrong with that.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I meant no disrespect to the chain restaurants. I prefer local because its local. I don't like IHop's omelettes, they add the pancake batter to the eggs and it makes them have an odd consistency and taste.

I do need to find a couple of guys to grow old with so we can hang out and get our special orders like the old guys this morning. Apparently no wives are allowed for man gossip time.

**Almost forgot Death Star waffles should be on for Sunday Morning.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

It is legal to label syrup "Real Maple Syrup" with surprisingly little "Real Maple Syrup" in it... and I don't just mean when prefaced with "Made With..."

Unless you live where it's made, it's actually pretty hard to get real maple at your typical grocery store to use in your home. You have to go way out of your way to make that at home, so Waffle House is a more authentic home-cooked meal for most people.

Not so tough in the NE, I feel for you guys.

 

[CZroe]

I meant no disrespect to the chain restaurants. I prefer local because its local. I don't like IHop's omelettes, they add the pancake batter to the eggs and it makes them have an odd consistency and taste.

I do need to find a couple of guys to grow old with so we can hang out and get our special orders like the old guys this morning. Apparently no wives are allowed for man gossip time.

**Almost forgot Death Star waffles should be on for Sunday Morning.

Interesting.

Eagerly awaiting my roommate's response (he works there as a second job; neither of us get a discount; FML ).

Edit: OIC. You said IHOP does that. He works at Waffle House. IIRC, IHOP has huge omelets but I get mouthfuls of plain dry egg before I get to the good stuff so I never order them anymore.

 

[CZroe]

Not so tough in the NE, I feel for you guys.

Thanks, bro.

 

[CZroe]

Edit: Oops. I know I tapped "Edit" and not "Quote."

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Interesting.

Eagerly awaiting my roommate's response (he works there as a second job; neither of us get a discount; FML ).

Edit: OIC. You said IHOP does that. He works at Waffle House. IIRC, IHOP has huge omelets but I get mouthfuls of plain dry egg before I get to the good stuff so I never order them anymore.

Haha that's funny. IHop definitely does a former boss of mine enjoyed going there its on the menu I remember reading that is how they make their omelettes fluffy.

 

[SithSolo1]

Obviously my intent was not conveyed properly. I enjoy Woho, I do not believe it is the bottom of the barrel a lot of people make it out to be. I'm just saying the meal pictured as it sits is something I would prefer to what I get at WoHo. I can't get link sausage at my local WoHos and I like homefries more than hash browns. I don't care for the waffles so the All Star breakfast isn't worth it for me. Thats why I get the Cheesesteak melt whenever I visit, even for breakfast.

I also can't stand IHOP anything even though I love most pancakes. And yes, they add pancake batter to the eggs.