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Gailor was so bored yesterday that she make me stop at the Waffle House to resolve our ongoing argument, is margarine or butter served. (They told us it was butter, and to show us handed us an individual tub labeled "buttery spread.")
We are desperate to find a decent place to eat. A couple of our standbys have closed, including the Burnt Wood Roadhouse. I'm refusing to cook.
The best food we've had (other than at very expensive Pearl's the first night) has been at Stirling's Coffee House, which has a good curried chicken salad. It also has the virtue of having a great porch to sit on, where I can look across the street at the most beautiful graveyard in the world, where both sides of my family are buried.
(Photos of Stirling's Coffee House and the graveyard entrance by me)
Comments
So which one of you thought Waffle House used butter?
I'm not the optimist my daughter is. EL
Posted by: Hal Laurent, VoR, YMMV | June 17, 2008 3:47 PM
I love Waffle House (probably because, as a Yankee, I rarely saw them and even more rarely ate in them), but the thought of them using butter is puzzling.
I mean, that would be like McDonald's serving organic, grass fed beef on a quinoa bun.
Posted by: Lissa | June 17, 2008 6:49 PM
You can't drive more than 5 miles down here without passing a Waffle House. I rarely eat at them though. The last time there, I did have a fairly decent omelet.
Posted by: Rob in PCB FL | June 18, 2008 9:27 AM
Lissa wrote: "...that would be like McDonald's serving organic, grass fed beef on a quinoa bun.
I sometimes stop off at a McDonalds in the morning and order two English muffins, plain. They serve them with packaged pats of what it says on the top is "butter." Jelly too, if you want it.
Posted by: Mr. Old Fart | June 18, 2008 1:33 PM
Mr. O.F., does it say "butter" with or without the quotation marks?
The jelly mention reminds me of traveling in Yugoslavia in the 70s. There wasn't much to buy in the local grocery stores, but there was jam and jelly and good bread. The jars had different names and pictures of fruit, but what was inside was a sort of dark sludge. They all tasted exactly the same.
Posted by: Dahlink | June 18, 2008 2:55 PM
That reminds me of a movie where cintage Soviet jars of goo figure prominently.. Terrific movie .... (IMDB)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot...
Posted by: voodoopork | June 18, 2008 7:21 PM
yes, terrific movie!
but what does IMDB mean?
Posted by: Bourbon Girl | June 18, 2008 8:17 PM
IMDB is the Internet Movie Data Base. It is the canonical place to refer people to for movie information (I can't quite figure out why, myself).
Yes, excellent movie. The way they use food in it is a riot.
Another fun food related foreign movie is "Kitchen Stories." A Norwegian/Swedish joint production, I believe.
Posted by: Lissa | June 18, 2008 9:39 PM
When my daughter went to Hollins University in Roanoke, Va, we stupidly ate at a Waffle House for lunch.
We ordered wraps, thinking that they would be halfway healthy. Silly us. They "grilled" them on the stinky, greasy grill. What a mistake. They were practically dripping grease.
Posted by: Susan WNAJ | June 19, 2008 12:33 AM
Waffle House wrap! Ho ho ho. You can't fool the Waffle House gods. Such hubris.
Posted by: voodoopork | June 19, 2008 7:06 AM
IMDB is your first choice for any movie/tv info.
Let's say you're watching street dancing classic Breakin' (not the superior Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo) and you think you see Jean Claud van Damme bustin' a move. IMDB.
Enjoy enjoy enjoy ...
http://www.theironypony.com/index.php?c=jean-claude-van-damme
Posted by: Voodoopork 2 - Electric Boogaloo | June 19, 2008 7:18 AM
Irony - the opposite of wrinkly
(pervious shirt.woot.com winner)
Posted by: Rosebud | June 21, 2008 2:40 PM
For fans of Broadway Theatre, there is an equivalent to IMDB - IBDB. the Internet Broadway Database.
Posted by: Mr. Old Fart | June 21, 2008 7:40 PM
Irony - the opposite of wrinkly
The problem when move your lips as you read: you have to come back and read this wonderful pun 5 times before you get it. At least I finally got there (and on the same day it was posted.)
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | June 21, 2008 9:06 PM
Hehehe...that should have been previous, not pervious.
Posted by: Rosebud | June 22, 2008 7:15 AM