You might be a Southerner

[Aerows]

If you can order from Waffle House using terms such as "smothered, covered, and diced" and everyone in the restaurant knows how you want your hashbrowns.

[okaawhatever]

1. Puuhhllease...that's with onions, cheese and tomatoes. You only have had to go out clubbin' in the

South to know these things. All good drunks have their designated drivers take them to Waffle House or Krispy Kreme.

[Aerows]

5. Amen

Tomatoes, cheese and onions.

[Buns_of_Fire]

42. I used to be able to recite the whole litany by heart. Even at 2AM.

I even kept one of their old menus posted on the refrigerator. It just totally threw me off my rhythm, though, when they added stuff like "peppered" and "capped". Now it's easier to just say "all the way" and leave it at that. (Which is enough all by itself to be an entire dinner for me.)

For those more familiar with places named La Nourriture de Joie, you simply must try this, dahling. It's delightfully unpretentious, with just a little tacky mixed in. And they also all say "hi" when you walk in and have The World's Best Coffee. What more do you need with your cheesy eggs, grits, bacon, and raisin toast (with apple butter, naturally)?

[Aerows]

48. What exactly, did you think we were discussing

"t's delightfully unpretentious, with just a little tacky mixed in"

[okaawhatever]

60. My favorite: cheesy eggs, ham and raisin toast. I've tried to recreate their eggs 'n' cheese, which

is closer to eggs 'n' oil product that's cheese flavored, but I can't. The best cheese in the world doesn't taste as good as their eggs with cheese-like-product. Maybe it's just one of those things, maybe there was a chemical reaction with the booze?

[OneGrassRoot]

49. word n/t

[X_Digger]

2. You forgot 'scattered'.. scattered and smothered for me. n/t

[Aerows]

7. Not bad :)

I must have mine smothered.

[X_Digger]

32. WH is my comfort food. :)

Sausage gravy & biscuits, 2 eggs over easy, scattered and smothered on the side.

Closest thing to my grandmother's sunday breakfasts I can find.

[Aerows]

36. Biscuits and gravy

I don't even need eggs, and some hashbrowns. Comfort food, indeed.

[d_r]

22. scattered, smothered and covered, peppered

[Aerows]

24. Peppered

Not my thing, because I despise bell peppers, but I'll bet it lights up your tastes buds

[d_r]

26. not bell peppers though

pickled jalepenos.

A meal to me is - triple order scattered smothered covered peppered and topped

[Aerows]

29. I have to have a

patty melt coated with onions and practically dripping down my arm into the scattered, smothered, and diced for it to be a real meal .

[Egalitarian Thug]

52. There ya go. With two over easy, grits in a bowl. No meat. n/t

[BainsBane]

3. If you say Coke when referring to 7 up or root beer.

[KamaAina]

6. I thought that was more of a Texas thing?

"What kind of Coke'll you have?" "Sprite."

[Aerows]

9. I'm so far in the South

that I'll ask how you drink your iced tea.

[Buns_of_Fire]

50. The places I eat at don't even ASK how you want it.

It's a matter of faith that when you order iced tea, everyone knows there's only one proper way to drink it -- so why bother asking? (Sometimes, I'll drop my lemon wedge in the water without squeezing it in the tea first -- but only if I'm feeling cantankerous and looking for a fight.)

[Aerows]

51. You don't live deep enough in the south

because many of us just take it unsweetened, and a lemon is anathema.

I take it that way, and have all of my life.

[Buns_of_Fire]

53. I blame it on my parents (of course).

If it wasn't SweeTea, it wasn't tea. I always preferred mine hot, in a cup, with a dollop of cream.

But please don't tell anyone. I've already been threatened with having my credentials pulled.

[BainsBane]

10. My friend from Alabama said coke all the time

[kickitup]

31. My friend from Georgia

did this and just about drove me nuts.

[Nevernose]

54. FYI: East Texas is the South

n/t

[Aerows]

4. Seriously

besides the grease, why does everyone hate Waffle House? I've seen fist-fights at Waffle House (okay, not a good example) but them people have coffee there every day. They aren't *ALL* plotting right wing terrorism. Some of them are just having breakfast and talking about how they can do something different with the water tower in town to make sure it services more people.

[Notafraidtoo]

8. Waffle house

Best deal in town when you want a big meal.

[Aerows]

12. I'm not even lying

when I say I love some of the food there. It's the ultimate in diner dining.

[d_r]

23. waffle house has the most amazing cross section of the community in there

more cross section that most places, every demographic and SES

[Aerows]

30. It's a neat place

It's like a cross between a Southern diner and a California coffee house just because of the fact that it straddles I-10.

[datasuspect]

11. or if you get into a fight with your baby mama's cousin's niece's girlfriend's baby daddy

at 3am in the waffle house parking lot.

just saying.

[Aerows]

13. That's part of the dinner show

it happens. You just drink your tea, and sit back.

Unless guns get drawn. That's when it get's really interesting.

[KamaAina]

14. Ah yes, Waffle House, the Starbucks of the South

For those of you hard-core Yankees who've never been, there are Waffle Houses every two or three exits off every interstate. By the time you hit Atlanta they're literally everywhere, just like a certain chain of coffeehouses.

[Aerows]

15. You can't breathe without encountering a Waffle House on I-10 between TX and FL

And it's, if not a good thing, a comforting thing for Southerners.

[KamaAina]

16. There are actually very few around New Orleans

but most people going from TX to FL would bypass NOLA on I-12.

[Aerows]

17. I live *VERY* close to New Orleans

on the Gulf Coast. And you head north a bit and you stumble all across a Waffle House on the way to Baton Rouge. I live east of there, and on I-10, you can barely breath without careening into a Waffle House.

But in New Orleans proper? Never happen. Too many other establishments and high rent for a Waffle House to take over the property. If you wish, I can offer some suggestions, because I grew up there

And why would they bypass to go to I-12, I wonder? I never did, but then again, I was going across the CCC.

[KamaAina]

20. For someone going from, say, Houston to Tallahassee, I-12 is shorter

but that way you don't get to go to NOLA.

[Aerows]

25. I never went that way to Houston

I was always going from Gretna to see my girl in Houston. You could be right.

[Butterbean]

18. I love the Awful Waffle! Yum. I heard they now take credit cards. n/t

[Aerows]

19. It really isn't awful, though

I kind of like their hashbrowns and their patty melts.

[Butterbean]

56. It's totally not. Their waffles are awesome. My husband and I

just have doofy nicknames for every place we go. You know, Taco Bell is Taco Hell/Smell, Cracker Barrel is the Crack House, Food Lion is Food Kitty, Harris Teeter is Hairy Peter, etc., etc.. Yes, we're apparently 9 year old boys trapped in the bodies of adults. LOL.

[LittleBlue]

21. Are people in the south as awesome as True Blood

makes them look?

[Aerows]

27. Yes

And twice as sexy.

[kickitup]

34. Oh, hell yes!

Come to the Waffle House and see!

[Aerows]

35. Don't go there

I have several suggestions of places to go.

[Mariana]

37. Bon Temps would be an awesome place to live

if the mortality rate wasn't so damn high there. The whole place will be depopulated within another couple of seasons, at the rate it's been going.

[Shrike47]

39. Think about Forks, WA, where half the guys wear no shirts even though it's 45 and raining...

[Aerows]

46. Not to mention

the STD rate.

[Butterbean]

58. My God if only. I would just sit around on a lawn chair and

watch my neighbors all day if they looked like the cast of TB. *fans self*

[bunnies]

28. which explains why I had no clue what you were talking about.

And I even worked in a breakfast restaurant in NC for a while.

[BlueJazz]

33. You might be a Southerner if your Dog Bowls are old buick hub-caps.

...or your "Septic System" consists of a 2" pvc pipe running down hill.
...or your "Main front-room-light" has a string for on and off.
...or you met your wife at a dog-shitting contest.
...or when your car breaks down...you never go back to get it.

[kickitup]

38. At a Waffle House in Kentucky last Friday night . . .

about 9:00 in the evening, there was quite a mix of people serving as crew, and one crew member's child was there and she happened to be black and everybody in the restaurant, both white and black, was enjoying this child, who was sporting a Justin Bieber t-shirt while dancing to Elvis's Suspicious Minds playing on the juke box. There were hipsters there, truck drivers, one guy that for some reason looked like a depressed attorney, and couples like us. Everybody was welcome and it was like we were all kin.

And that's what I like about the South.

[X_Digger]

40. WH is always a crazy mix of people, all happily chowing down together. n/t

[Aerows]

43. Yep.

Everyone gets together, even if they never fathomed they would, and suddenly, they are all eating together and enjoying life in all of it's strange splendor.

[HillWilliam]

45. I always called that

"Dinner and a Floor Show"

[Aerows]

41. That made me laugh out loud

and you are quite right. That's what makes it a funny place to visit.

[HillWilliam]

44. Scattered 'n' burnt for me, please

Nothing like a goodole Awfulhouse fried breakfast, especially late at night.

[Aerows]

47. Good to see others aren't

above staggering in there.

I usually end up for lunch or breakfast with the family, but we all end up careening into that establishment eventually.

[bike man]

55. It was at a restaurant alongside I 75 in Ga where I saw the choices for "Ice Tea,

sweeten or unsweeten". That's the way it was, no 'ed' at the end of either word.

[DesertFlower]

57. my sister who lives in SC orders

that way. she's originally from NYC. i've never been inside a waffle house, but hubby liked it.

my sister also talks about "sweet tea".

[Sissyk]

59. Oh, hell yeah!

Scattered, smothered and covered for me, along with the steak and eggs (runny).