Post #508908 by beadtiki on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 9:46 AM

On 2010-02-03 11:25, Bora Boris wrote:
The Coffee Shop side of The Peppermill in Las Vegas not only has pour your own sugar but it's Colored all Crazy!! :o

Picture stolen from Yelp.

When my grandfather was still alive, my dad and I took him out for breakfast and they had those colored sugar dispensers. Being English, my grandfather must have put a half inch of that sugar in his coffee cup! My dad and I about fell out of our seats - and WE love sugar too (so much I gave myself diabetes!)

As for Denny's as a diner - uh, no. Although I DID "learn" to drink coffee in a Dennys back in high school (a group of us went there after watching the midnight viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show and drank coffee until 6 in the morning) it just doesn't have that diner feeling. The waitresses aren't old and haggard enough, they don't have the smoker's lip lines where the lipstick bleeds away from the mouth, and although they DO have the diner waitress attitude - there's just no "quaintness" behind it. IHOP is a LITTLE more dinerey - I like that they leave the pot of coffee on your table - and the waitresses there seem more on target. I always think of diner food as greasy yet tasty. IHOP's and Denny's food is DISGUSTING and the portions are WAAAAAY too big and WAAAAAAY too full of chemicals - the "butter" in both places tastes so bad it actually swamps any flavor of meat, eggs or toast. Real butter, real lard, real grease - these are what make diner food taste better and cause heart attacks sooner!