Labor Day.
Nothing else to do today but eat a waffle, have a damn fine cup of coffee and hunt for treasure. Surprisingly the goodwill was open.
And the Waffle House is always open.
I love that the Waffle House has more or less remained unchanged for the greater part of its existence. Sure, the food isn't much to write home about. And maybe im just a sappy nostalgic girl (and i am), but in a world where everything is new & improved, modernized, refurbished, whatever you want to call it... I love when you enter a Waffle House and feel like you just stepped back into 1979. Everything is orange and yellow with faux woodgrain. And as most Waffle Houses i've ever been into have been in the south, the waitress usually refers to me as... miss, honey, darlin, sweety... you get the picture. I love it.
Ironically and unbeknown to me until just now, the first Waffle House opened on Labor Day weekend, 1955. Also of curious note: Waffle House has an extensive disaster management plan with on-site and portable generators and pre-positioned food and ice ahead of severe weather events such as a hurricane. This helps mitigate the effects of a storm on the power grid and the supply chains. The ability of a Waffle House to remain open after a severe storm, possibly with a limited menu, is used by FEMA as a measure of disaster recovery known as the Waffle House Index.
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l> I dined in Columbia, Tennessee today.
ll> Yes, i just made a blog post about the Waffle House.
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