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[arethinn]

http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2011/01/veggie-might-hash-brownskablammed.html

I now understand precisely what is meant by "Want you smothered, want you covered / like my Waffle House hash browns" (the lyric from "The Bad Touch"). I had no idea these adjectives (participles? adjectival past participles?) actually referred to specific toppings, namely sauteed onions and cheese, although I had guessed that cheese was probably involved. I'd always heard "waffle house" as a generic, because until recently I did not know there was actually a chain with that specific name, and in any case I never made the connection.

I guess this information is now stored in one of the crannies of my brain not used for storing penguins.

Comments

[charcoalfeathers]

Hahah, yes. Waffle House is big in the south. It's pretty much straight out of Clerks or something -- grungy breakfast food diner, 24 hours a day, smoking and everything. Their food is actually really good though, last I checked.

[arethinn]

Smoking in a restaurant? Barbarians!!

I remember being surprised by that when I drove cross-country in 2006. Some places we went asked "smoking or non" and I was totally flat-footed because that hasn't been permitted in California since I can hardly remember when. (1994, apparently; huh. I thought it was longer ago than that.)

[charcoalfeathers]

Yeah, I eventually had to stop going with friends who wanted to go, because my asthmatic reaction to smoke got worse and worse. These days I can get wheezy by having a heavy smoker sit near me on the bus, and I have to get up and move. It sucks.

I'm really happy that those rules went into place.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Given that Waffle House is a regional chain, it's certainly understandable that you'd never heard of them.

They have a surprising number of songs devoted to them, though...and they're on every Waffle House jukebox. :)

[iro-liyulio.livejournal.com]

They don't have Waffle Haus in Californistan?

[arcanetrivia]

Nope. As others have commented, and I believe the article remarks with surprise that it was to be found as far north as PA, it seems to be a southern thing. Closest approximation here would be some kind of crossbreed of a Dennys and an IHOP, by the sounds of it.