• ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
        16·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
          0·
          11 months ago

          Do they also have like kebab/swarma places that are open 24/7? Where I live drunk people always seem to want to eat something like that.

          Can’t imagine getting drunk and thinks let’s get a waffle.

          • grandkaiser@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            You don’t go to waffle House for waffles. The bloodhound gang didn’t sing about waffles.

            “Want you smothered, want you covered like waffle House hash browns”

            Dunno about you but I’ve never not crashed hash browns while hammered

          • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Oh they do all breakfast foods. Get bacon and eggs or some other fried something if you want.

            Also, I’m the kinda person that gets drunk and eats waffles

          • klemptor@startrek.website
            1·
            11 months ago

            In New Jersey we have 24/7 diners. You can get breakfast or a burger, or whatever you want basically. Don’t knock a 2 AM drunken pancake until you’ve tried it!

  • athos77@kbin.social
    15·
    11 months ago

    Technically, Vandalia, Ohio. But I really like the “anywhere-ness” feel of this image!

      • athos77@kbin.social
        38·
        11 months ago

        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 …

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 months ago

    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.

      • Synthuir@lemmy.ml
        3·
        11 months ago

        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!

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I never understood that observation. It’s off frame to the right - is that really so strange or unbelievable?

  • numberfour002@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • numberfour002@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.