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Sunday, March 8, 2026
Sign of a real, honest to goodness breakfast restaurant
Back in the early 70's, the company I worked for had pottery made at a little town in SE Ohio. We'd pull into the docks empty and they'd load 40000 of dishes and pottery in our trailers. The pottery company had an employee's breakfast and lunch room. Us Eastern boys would go in for breakfast and order eggs or pancakes. It was strange but all the tables had huge jars of Heinz yellow mustard and quart bottles of Heinz vinegar. NO ketchup? No Pancake syrup? WTF? I'd ask, what's with the mustard and vinegar? According to them, they never used ketchup and never used maple syrup. The mustard was for the eggs and the vinegar was poured on pancakes.........Go figure!
There's no Texas Pete, sad. And has to be a pre-scamdemic photo. WH removed all table condiments except fot mustard, ketchup & salt/pepper. Loved their salsa.
I join a few other "old timers" for breakfast every Wednesday morning. The diner has these same condiments, but they also have small containers of coffee creamer in a bowl and instead of a sugar shaker, they have packets of sugar and several sugar substitutes. And they also have a "table juke box" at each booth.
I've got $20 that says that this is a Waffle House.
You're going to want to sit at the counter and the breakfast to order is the All-Star Breakfast. Eggs-scrambled. Bacon-crispy. Bread-wheat. Coffee.
Do this at 2am at any Waffle House near a freeway, and you'll believe that you've enjoyed your breakfast at the Mos Eisley Cantina. For the price of your breakfast, there is no better entertainment value.
I knew it was a Waffle House right away. Nothing else looks like that. In 1998 I designed the only waterproof Waffle House on the planet on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. It didn't look like a Waffle House. It looked like an Old Florida Style fishing house. Lap siding, tin roof, gingerbread, etc. Apparently beach folk don't particularly care for WH as it did poorly and 4 years ago it closed, torn down, and a large mercantile built in it's place.
You'd win that bet. That's probably a since-the-lockdown photo. The best thing bout Waffle House isn't their food, its their opening hours and their menu. I can get a cheeseburger at 7am, and I can get a waffle at 6pm.
These days I don't usually see mustard on the table anymore, usually it's just ketchup about 75% of the time. Next time you go out, take a look? I would be nice to know I was just going to the wrong places rather than my world is changing that much around me.
Back in the early 70's, the company I worked for had pottery made at a little town in SE Ohio. We'd pull into the docks empty and they'd load 40000 of dishes and pottery in our trailers. The pottery company had an employee's breakfast and lunch room. Us Eastern boys would go in for breakfast and order eggs or pancakes. It was strange but all the tables had huge jars of Heinz yellow mustard and quart bottles of Heinz vinegar. NO ketchup? No Pancake syrup? WTF? I'd ask, what's with the mustard and vinegar? According to them, they never used ketchup and never used maple syrup. The mustard was for the eggs and the vinegar was poured on pancakes.........Go figure!
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DeleteThere's no Texas Pete, sad. And has to be a pre-scamdemic photo. WH removed all table condiments except fot mustard, ketchup & salt/pepper. Loved their salsa.
DeleteI'm having a hell of a time finding Texas Pete. Three big chains in my area no longer carry TP.
DeleteAmazon still has it but that's a hassle.
I join a few other "old timers" for breakfast every Wednesday morning. The diner has these same condiments, but they also have small containers of coffee creamer in a bowl and instead of a sugar shaker, they have packets of sugar and several sugar substitutes. And they also have a "table juke box" at each booth.
ReplyDeleteI've got $20 that says that this is a Waffle House.
ReplyDeleteYou're going to want to sit at the counter and the breakfast to order is the All-Star Breakfast. Eggs-scrambled. Bacon-crispy. Bread-wheat. Coffee.
Do this at 2am at any Waffle House near a freeway, and you'll believe that you've enjoyed your breakfast at the Mos Eisley Cantina. For the price of your breakfast, there is no better entertainment value.
azlibertarian
I knew it was a Waffle House right away. Nothing else looks like that. In 1998 I designed the only waterproof Waffle House on the planet on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. It didn't look like a Waffle House. It looked like an Old Florida Style fishing house. Lap siding, tin roof, gingerbread, etc. Apparently beach folk don't particularly care for WH as it did poorly and 4 years ago it closed, torn down, and a large mercantile built in it's place.
DeleteYou'd win that bet. That's probably a since-the-lockdown photo. The best thing bout Waffle House isn't their food, its their opening hours and their menu. I can get a cheeseburger at 7am, and I can get a waffle at 6pm.
ReplyDeleteThese days I don't usually see mustard on the table anymore, usually it's just ketchup about 75% of the time.
ReplyDeleteNext time you go out, take a look? I would be nice to know I was just going to the wrong places rather than my world is changing that much around me.
Heinz...?! Swap that out for HUNTS!
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