Scattered, Smothered, and Wedded.

[fancycwabs]

If you don't live in the South, you might not have ever experienced a Waffle House--it's nothing particularly special, but it IS distinctive (Distinctive enough that there's a Homestar Runner main page devoted to it). I guess it was inevitable that there would one day be a Waffle House Wedding, where every awful Southern stereotype comes unironically to fruition.

ETA: I was going to try to link to the Waffle House Jukebox classic "Special Lady at The Waffle House," but I haven't found an mp3 of the original. F.Y.P. apparently has done a punk cover of it, however.

Comments

[crankyliberal.livejournal.com]

Arizona has IHOPs and Waffle Houses, thus our identity is confused and misshappen.

I think Waffle Houses are cool, but not as cool as diner cars.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

roman_mclaze took Tory and me to a Waffle House in Dayton for a pre-airport breakfast.

It was great - the waitress said I had a cute accent and wanted to know where I was from, and I even enjoyed the grits.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Ooh. And the grits at Waffle House mostly suck (as they do in almost all restaurants).

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I put hot sauce on them and crumbled little bits of bacon into them, and they tasted lots like bacon and hot sauce, which rocked because...bacon and hot sauce.

I now await the GRITS UR DOING IT RONG commentary.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Nope, that works just fine for me. Crumbled bacon is the premier way of making poorly-prepared grits palatable.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. I'm glad I had it right all along, because I know there are rules for these things.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

There are indeed. For instance:

• Maple syrup is an abomination.
• It is inappropriate to throw grits on Al Green, even if you think he should marry you.
• Grits should not be prepared with day-old hot dog water.

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

There's a Waffle House and an IHoP on Arlington St. in Green, just south of Akron.

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

I had breakfast at Waffle House just the other day. It was damned tasty.

You really shouldn't force yourself to eat grits if you can replace them with hashbrowns. And you can!

[roman-mclaze.livejournal.com]

I agree on all three points.

However, FRIED grits are good with syrup:

1) Put leftover grits (non-soupy kind) in the fridge

2) Next morning, mix them with some egg, and slap them in a greased skillet.

3) fry on both sides until they form small "cakes".

4) Serve hot.

[roman-mclaze.livejournal.com]

Proving once again that we are the bellwether state.

[magicninja.livejournal.com]

I see the other ohio heads have already flooded you with "waffle houses in ohio" thing. :) Im mostly indifferent to them, but thats because Im not a big fan of most of the foods that are "breakfast". I still hate ohio, though.

[arwon.livejournal.com]

I ate there once. It was decent.