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Post #8829 by Formikahini on Fri, Sep 20, 2002 10:26 AM

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On 2002-09-20 07:46, tikifish wrote:
We dont have them waffle houses in Canada, but I did eat at one on my Route 66 trip a few years ago. It was SCARY.

No no! That's the BEAUTY! Even the font on the dishes is scary; it's drippy like the title for a horror movie.

I have now sadly west moved across the Waffle House line (sort of like the Mason Dixon), and I must find some other place open 24 hours that has consistently cheap - and dare I say - yummy food (GREAT cheese eggs). Bringing it back to the original post, the fact that like TC, it is a friendly place open 24 hours, makes it homey. They HAVE to greet you with a sunny, "Mornin'!" Now if only they said "Aloha!", wouldn't that be nice.

Don't get me started on the juke box. A minimum of 20 songs about Waffle House! Genius! Jim Stacy of Atlanta, the man behind innumerable high concept bands like Labrea Stompers (they sometimes wore Waffle House uniforms), Big Top ("All clown, all rock, all the time"), and Grand Moff Tarkin (yes, all Star Wars themed, down to the costumes, including a Slave Leia go-go dancer), used to say that one of his musical goals in life was to have a record on the Waffle House jukebox. Now there's a man with vision. His truck for the Drive-in event at Hukilau 2002 was decorated with flaming tiki torches, for those of you present, just to bring this back around to tiki.