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1y ago

Middle of Anywhere, America.

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Well, not anywhere in america. https://locations.wafflehouse.com/
- lol, found the pedant! Entirely fair though, the title was more of a mood than factual.
  
  Not really pedantry when it's associated with a specific region of the US.
  If you grew up in the Northeast or west coast you've likely never seen a waffle house.
  
  Mainly since I wanna try Waffle House but it isn't in my state, or the next state, or the state next to that one.
  
  I lived in NW Atlanta near an intersection with Waffle Houses on two opposite corners. Glorious.
  
  Drove from Baltimore to Atlanta. If my memory serves correct there were 37 visible from the highway. Moved out of Maryland and have never seen one since outside of a meme.
  
  https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/Waffle%20House-USA/
  My nearest is two states away
  
  At least it makes it easy to find the people worth blocking.
  
  Not really pedantic, just pointing out you're wrong...
  Born and raised in an area with no Waffle House for hundreds of miles. I think I would have to go out of state and drive for several hours before coming close to one. They're not everywhere in the US.
- Yup. None in SoCal
  
  Also, none in NorCal!
- None in Nebraska either...

- Do fights actually break out at these things or is it a meme?
  Explain like I'm a foreigner.
  
  They're open pretty much all the time and don't close at night, so naturally drunks and other rowdy folk congregate there. Prime time for fights to break out over silly minor things, which often turn physical. There's a reason most restaurants shut their dining rooms down by midnight.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI
  
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Since it's a WaHo, I'd immediately guess this photo is in Georgia.
- Correct longitude! Ohio in actuality.
  
  Ohio🗿
  (Am I doing this gen z thing correctly?)

Technically, Vandalia, Ohio. But I really like the "anywhere-ness" feel of this image!
- OK, how... unless you are one of those geoguesser nuts?
  
  The street address (380) is visible in the picture. Google says there are only two Waffle Houses with a street address of 380, and the picture doesn't match the one in Lebanon, Tennessee.
  Actually, when the results first came up, the states weren't in the list, just the towns, and for a moment I was delighted and hopeful this was a Waffle House in Lebanon, Kansas, which would've made this post a delicious layered piece of image+commentary!! [The "middle of America" is just outside Lebanon, Kansas.] But alas, the Lebanon Waffle House is in Tennessee, and this image isn't even of that Waffle House, dashing my dreams of delicious and layered meta-imagery ....

Waffle House found its Host

Currently at Waffle House. It's a waffle home. 🖤

Not really anywhere. Statistically likely to be in the southeast, adjacent to a major highway.

The Waffle Hose Index for the uninitiated [Link] was a moderatly usefull (and humerous) idea thought up by the US Federal Emergency Managment Aganecy (FEMA) to determine the accessability of the area after a disaster.
It takes time to get to an area, even longer if the roads are damaged, so one of the first things to do is to try and call someone local. Waffle House happens to be open 24-7, and has an unusually comprehensive emergency preparedness policy. In a lot of cases they can run for days on a limited menu without power and running water. The only reasons they would not pick up the phone is that telecommunications were down (which FEMA would want to know anyway), that the staff cant get to the resturant (which is also usefull to know) or that the resturant is gone and Amaerica is down one of its finest off-hours eating establishments.
- Fascinating and adding it to my haul of TIL!
  Thank you very much!

Now that is a skeleton crew, one employee.
- Eerily similar feel as Nighthawks, except no customers and less focus on people so it feels even more desolate.
  
  When asked why the diner in Nighthawks apparently has no entrance, Hopper was quoted as saying,
  Shit— fuck! Not again! I knew I was missing a door somewhere! Oh, goddammit, this is so embarrassing!
  
  Thanks, I hate it.

Yo I'm going to Waffle House in like half an hour. I'm pumped. Haven't been there in years.
- There's always time for one more bad decision, lol.

I always used to laugh at the scene in Best In Show where the yuppie couple talk about how they met at Starbucks. But they weren't at the same Starbucks, they were at two different Starbucks across the street from each other.
During a trip to the Atlanta area, I saw so many Waffle House locations that I jokingly made a reference to that scene from Best In Show.
Then IT happened. Literally drove past a spot where there were 2 Waffle Houses across the street from each other. It was supposed to be a joke. Only a joke.
- In New England you'll find Dunkin Doughnuts across from each other.
- The only place I know in Atlanta that has a waffle house across from another is in Avondale estates where the very first waffle house is located. It's a museum now that is hardly ever open and across the street is a newer more modern waffle house. I bet you were over there lol.
  
  I suppose it's possible, but I don't think that's it.
  The trip when this happened was 7+ years ago (pre-covid for sure), so I don't recall the specific location, but it wasn't in Atlanta proper. And I don't recall either location looking like a museum or a location where anybody would put a museum, it was a stretch of road/highway with retail space / strip malls on both sides.

pretty fucking solid hash browns from coast to coast.
- The gulf coast? There's certainly no Waffle Houses on the West Coast.
  
  valid. damn.

a fighting arena, america

Getting strong liminal vibes from this

This photo is fake. Affle house is never that empty.
- You've never been to one at 3 a.m.
  Consider yourself lucky. It's like they opened haunted houses that serve food all over America.
- My local waffle house is very often that empty. Day or night. I actually find it interesting that they can afford to operate with how few customers they have at any given time.

Ah good it's still open. Not the end of the world.. or at least the end of America yet.

Based on the title, I thought it was going to be this. (Not that a Waffle House wouldn't be right at home there)
- Holy fuck that could literally be anywhere. My brain had a spasm trying to decide which city I remember that exact view from, and of course none of those were in Breezewood, Pennsylvania lol.

Double covered and chunked, baby.
- Scattered well
  
  Solid choice.

Does it have a fear hole tho?
- I feel kinda cheated that we didn't get to see Rick's fear. Maybe it would have been happiness, but that was just speculation on Morty's mind's part.

I adore Waffle House, this scene is beautiful.

It's a little early for Easter decorations
- Everyone knows waffle houses exist in their own unique temporal planes.
- Carnival season has already started, close enough

This is inaccurate.. There isn't any in NY

Having never seen or heard of Waffle House, I found myself scrutinizing this photo for evidence that it was AI generated.
The internet has broken me.
- To be fair Waffle House's aren't to off from AI fever dreams IRL.
  
  Especially when most people only go at like 3am

I've never been to one since I've never been to the south. How's the food?
- The food is diner food. Not bad for what you pay for it. Tastes amazing when drunk or high. It's a staple in the Midwest and the South!
- I would choose Waffle House over Denny's, but would rather go to a regular non-chain diner over either of those.
  I hope that makes sense because it was the best way I could think of to rank it
  
  Yeah, I get that. We have a really good family-owned place that my boyfriend and I like to go to.
- It's not world class but sometimes it's exactly what you need.
- Is it good?? While that may depend on your buzz, take the word of two remarkable chefs, Sean Brock and Anthony Bourdain: https://youtu.be/qEpXeTDwbk8
  
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Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked and sometimes capped.

Not quite anywhere; mostly rural crap holes.
- As someone who lives in a place you would consider a "rural hole", the nearest Waffle House is over 1000 miles (or about 1600 kilometers for those in Rio Linda) from me. Waffle House is a southern thing not a US wide phenomenon.
- Got them around here, a high tech center in one of the fastest growing counties in the US. Future home of a major Apple campus. Yup, a real craphole. They serve people who want an inexpensive meal.

No Nighthawks

Indiana used to have a different company that was called Waffle House that preceded that kind of Waffle House, so that kind was called Waffle Steak in Indiana until the other business folded. The other Waffle House was closer to a Denny's but kind of scuzzier. There was one in the town I grew up in and we would go there late at night in high school and play Risk because we were party animals.
- I hung out with the mormons in high school, when we were rebellious we would go to WalMart at 2am and buy (caffeine free) soda

I've never seen one.

The "Nighthawks" of Modern America

Everywhere except New England that is. What a shame 😔

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