There are at least five Waffle Houses in a three mile radius of my house that I can immediately call to mind. I am not a breakfast person, but I tend to date men who are. In an attempt to avoid IHOP (mostly due to crowds) and other such places, I tend to lure them to a place we have in the ATL named J. Christopher’s. I just noticed the one nearest to me closed. A couple YEARS ago. Did I mention I don’t do mornings, or breakfast?
But Waffle House never dies. It used to be the last refuge for smokers. Back before people got to pick and chose what vices to chastise people over. Waffle Houses were essentially trucker food. There is one at nearly every interstate exit in the south. On a long trip at any hour you could get your eggs and bacon with a Pecan Waffle. I do love me a Pecan Waffle…though it has been at least a decade since I had one. I don’t know why. Waffle House was either road trip food or hangover food in Grad school.
In Athens Georgia, home of the Georgia Bulldogs, I lived in five points in a rental duplex not far from my brother and the Waffle House. My brother lived in the fancy pants part (and still does) and was very cheap. He would or his wife would suggest that the only reason I stopped by was because I wanted a free co-cola. Which I did. But it wasn’t that serious. It was certainly not the only reason I stopped by, I adored my brother. But they were all busy upholding their fancy pants reputation in town. They were not happy to have not one but two single sisters (me and the dead one, she was getting her doctorate) in town who were sexually active. IT WAS AN ABOMINATION. lol. I am on good terms with my brother now. Perhaps he realizes how ridiculous and hurtful he was at the time. Oh and he has found Jesus. A racist Jesus, but a Jesus nonetheless.
Anyway, I used to call in either a cheeseburger with Scattered Smothered and Covered (SSC) or slice of country ham with SSC and a co-cola or maybe two the morning after. I also rescued one of the guys I was fucking for Thanksgiving one year. Waffle House is the only place the exchange grad students can eat on holidays. It’s the only thing open. I was um, into Greece that year. A real Greek not the frat kind.:)
Anyway it’s 4:30 am. I am not going to make the farmers market, but I am craving Waffle House and thinking of the glory days when I could eat Waffle House and not get fat.
I really does suck that we can’t have wisdom, and hotness all at once. I’d love to live my life backwards. I’d be so much more respectful of my parents. Especially my mother. I remember being 5’9″ and 120 pounds with a 25″ waist saying, “I don’t understand fat people. I will NEVER be in the double digits in clothing sizes. Why don’t they stop eating so much when they start getting fat?”
I miss being young and knowing everything about the world and being smarter than everyone. Okay, so I am still smarter than everyone, but you know what I mean. 🙂
I will miss the farmer’s market today, but if the rain doesn’t cancel it on Sunday, they don’t start until after church on Sunday because the parking is in Church lots. So it runs from like 12-3. Maybe I’ll grab some SSC on the way. What are y’all doing this weekend?
Hmmmm… sounds like someone else has the “I want something to eat, but can’t figure out what”‘s. Don’t you hate not being able to eat whatever you want anymore? When I was younger, I could eat those yummy fried burritos without it burping back up, and giving me SERIOUS intestinal distress…or the greasy hamburgers of my youth – the one with the bun cooked in the burger grease with all the fixings! Hmmm, I would love to have something crunchy right now – Frito pie, nachos with guacamole and extra jalapenos…But with extended age comes extended gastro issues. Would you go back to teens or twenties, if it were an option? Me? I don’t know – my thirties, maybe? Childhood and teenage years were NOTHING I would want to relive, that’s for certain. Sometimes families are not what they are cracked up to be, ya know?! Need to sleep, but not in the cards right now…Of course, we pay a pretty penny for cable and nothing to watch at this hour…sucks a big one!
I’m going to be a negative dick and just throw out that not being subjected to the toxic waste of second hand smoke in an enclosed eatery is a “vice to chastise” I fully support.
And yes I’m smoking a cigarette while I type this – but it’s an American spirit so they’re BETTER for
Hence the smoking section. Or outdoor seating that permits smoking. I smoke as well. I understand that the smell of smoke is something some people just don’t like, but, again: Outdoors eating/smoking area.
I don’t know where you’re from, but here in L.A. I’ve been yelled at, scolded, harassed and people have threatened to call the cops on me, just for smoking a cigarette, OUTDOORS ON THE STREET FAR AWAY FROM ANY BUILDING OR AREAS WHERE PEOPLE CONGREGATE! That’s just too damn much!
I think of myself as one who’s got good home training, so I don’t tell people to fuck off. Sigh. Sometimes I wish I could let myself be bad like that.
It’s out of control.
I was recently lectured on Facebook for posting an article about sparrows using discarded cigarette butts in building their nests.
I just thought it was fascinating that wildlife would take our trash, and use it for something positive. My friend was outraged.
And, for the record, I am not a smoker. If I go to a place where people are smoking, and the smoke bothers me, I just go somewhere else.
It’s that easy. Live and let live. I am not territorial. Except in my own space.
Minky I understand, I ask people if I know them. Like you I go as far away as possible and still rude people find me. Oh well…
That’s it! I’ve had it! I’m gonna buy some land and put up a cigar shop/restaurant. I’ve heard that you can do whatever you like on you’re own land. I’ll serve coffee, pie, and tobacco products. Ashtrays everywhere! I’ll call it “The Smokey Pie”. Now all I need are investors. Who’s with me?!!!
At this point, smoking is like so many other things in that it is pointless and almost impossible to change people. So for those who hate smoke like me, just let it go and let them be. That said, I do hate when I’m behind a smoker who literally reeks of cigarettes/cigars in a grocery store aisle, in the bank, or at the mall shopping. The smell lingers and I have to hold my breath till I get far enough away.
Once, years back, almost twenty years ago now, I was the airport in Los Angeles waiting for a plane and I overheard two ladies talking. One of them was going on and on in outrage about having thrown a dinner party and one of the guests lit up in her house and put the cig out in one of her plates. She said she took the butt and put it under the slice of cake she served him to teach him a lesson. True or not I don’t know, but it’s a testament to the feelings some non-somkers had even back then in California.
Waffle Houses are for truck drivers and fat people with type 2 diabetes who smoke. When they banned smoking it was as asinine as a no nudity policy in a strip club.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Those of use that can’t sleep reads TT…
Isn’t that the truth! I’m here just about every morning by 3am. I need my fix!
Good Morning! For those of us up and down all night it is questionable how good it is. You gave me the idea of going to the Farmers MKT, so I am going to give it a try. Oh…pecan waffles are my favorite! Also been years since I had one. I hope you have a great day. Thanks for being there in the early morning hours. It is nice 😉
That picture is making me want hash browns! Here we have a lot a pancake houses. Once you cross the border into Louisiana, it’s all waffle houses with all kinds of grits and hash browns. Yum for hash browns not big fan of grits.
Then you haven’t had them made by your Paw Paw with bacon grease. It’s out of this world!
True but I just don’t like the way they feel in your mouth. I have a problem with cottage cheese for the same reason.
LOL I live in New Orleans and do not like the grits. My friends all think I’m crazy, but grits, to me, are just mostly nasty. And I’m a fan of farina so go figure.
I’m chopping my hair and getting a manipedi. I cannot WAIT.
I’ll be working on putting my life back together. I lost my car in the floods here in Houston and have spent the entire week on the phone with insurance, car rental places, etc.
I’ve been in a weird, stranded bubble but am extraordinarily grateful that I (and my pets) are safe. I could have saved the car if I hadn’t been so preoccupied with work that night. Lesson learned: I need to make sure I’m taking care of home. Take a full day off everyone so often. My clients can wait.
In happier news, I may venture out to a graduation open house this afternoon and a friend’s birthday dinner tonight.
Sorry this is so long. I know I rarely post here, but I felt like sharing a little. Thank you TT for the great blog and these daily tea posts.
I’m so sorry to hear about your car. I’m glad you and family are ok. Crazy wasn’t it? I’m south of y’all in Victoria, but because of relatives, I’ve been around Houston my entire life and have never seen it flash flood like that. Another round of rain today and then a week of sunshine! Stay dry!
Thanks, Angel! I got my rental yesterday so I’m finally able to get out. 🙂 Glad you’re okay, too!! (I’ll admit to only knowing Victoria from the signs on 59 but I’m also a transplant to the area)
Angel- My great-great grandfather settled in Victoria after the civil war.My great grandfather left and moved to NYC. I’ve always been curious about what it is like there.
Well I call it the black hole, you try leave but keep getting sucked back in. It’s ok but nothing exciting. It’s 30 miles from the coast. And it’s with in a 2 hrs or less drive from Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. It’s a big oil and gas, ranch, and farm area. We have a large medical community here. It’s nice area to raise a family. Not the best schools though, but you don’t have to worry about your kids as much as you would in a larger city. If you like fishing, it’s a great area.
Angel- Is there some pretty old architecture? I mean more specifically has the town retained it’s charm like so many old towns?
Sorry you are going thru this miele. Glad everyone is safe. I hope you enjoy dinner tonight…good luck to you.
So sorry you, and other Texans, are going through this. Hope things get back to normal soon. And glad everyone is safe.
So sorry to hear about your car. There are a lot of folks from Houston here!
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thank God, you and the pets survived.
SSC is grated potatoes scattered over a greasy grill, smothered with onions and cover with a slice of cheeselike product. It can also be chunked with ham and topped with jalepenos but that’s just taking things too far. 🙂
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thanks. Sounds deadly. And fabulous.
Goddamn! SSC sounds like it could make grandma’s house slippers taste good.
We have something similar at our local breakfast joint. They call it garbage potatoes and it is delicious!!
Don’t forget the sauteed mushrooms can also be a topping
You never take it beyond SSC. That is the perfect combination. I still blanch at he idea of “capping” them, which is Wafflese for adding in mushrooms.
This is correct. All the other stuff came after SSC and it’s just being ridiculous. Don’t fuck up SSC with anything else.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thank you all for the support and kind words!!
I forgot to mention that I have the best property management company!!! Maintenance worked into the night Tuesday to get the elevators up and running and the office staff have had resident dinners and continental breakfasts for us in the clubhouse this week. So that was a great, unexpected blessing.
So very sorry to hear about your car, I’m glad you are ok
Oh horrible about your car, but so glad you and your pets are okay! Hope all goes well with insurance. Has it dried out at all?
We’ve actually had a decent amount of sun this past week,so most of my car was dried out by Wednesday evening. It’s in a garage, so the more recent showers haven’t affected it much. The city seems pretty dried out, too, from what little I’ve seen. Still waiting on an insurance adjuster, though. Going to enjoy the rental in the mean time because the weather has been pretty nice lately.
Miele, glad it was no worse for you with the flooding. Hope your life gets back to normal soon.
Be extra careful when you buy a car to make sure it wasn’t flooded out and then dried out just waiting for electrical problems to start cropping up everywhere. That goes for pretty much everyone because I’ll bet those cars are going to be bought up at auction at a discount by used car sales lots all over he place like they did after Katrina. There’s even an international market for them now.
Yep. I went to CarMax once when I was younger to look at used cars. I thought maybe I could get a fancier car than the Honda Civic I planned to buy. I loved the older mode Jaguars and Mercedes and to me, the new ones were ugly, so I thought it was sort of now or never time to get those models. I drove a Jaguar and it was really nice. And actually cheaper than the new Honda. Still, I was worried about the high cost of repairs compare to my old reliable Civic.
When you go to CarMax, they have you pull into to the front row if you want to negotiate on the car. The salesman Knew he had a virtual idiot on his hands who was really liking the pretty jaguar. He convinced me to just pull into the buyers section so he could show me a few more features. So I did. He wanted to show me something special about the trunk. What he accidently showed me was that the entire trunk was FULL Of WATER! He was embarrassed and I was confused. It was clearly from a hurricane sale.
I bought the new Honda. And the jaguar was sort of an omen of things to come…jaguars are not always as exciting as they seem.
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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The universe had your back that day TT!
I’m just catching up on my reading. So I know this is late…I’m so sorry for what you’re dealing with Miele. Very happy you and your fur babies are safe! Hoping your car situation gets figured out and you are able to venture out soon. Stay safe out there!
Waffle House was a favorite of mine also in my youth. After partying at the clubs and dancing and drinking till 2:00 it was just what the dr. ordered. Never gained a pound from all that junk I ate. Now a days I will probably gain a couple of pounds just looking at that picture of the hash browns lol.
Power of prayer! Thanks to everyone for the positive thoughts for our rising Guadalupe river. It has crested in Victoria, Texas today and the only major flooding we had was our 580 acre park. Unfortunately, Cuero and Gonzales (up stream) took the hits. If anyone is watching the History Channel’s special Texas Rising, the area of Texas where the big massacres took place is the area where I live. Goliad, Fannin, San Antonio, and Gonzales all surround Victoria. Haha, no one ever knows where we are located.
Hope things get back to normal soon!
I just got back from taken my Mom to dialysis. On the way, we drove past the park area. There were two herds of deer running across the road to higher ground. You never see deer in town! I hope they will be ok until the river goes down.
I know where you are – I live in Houston, but my husband’s family on his mom’s side is all out there. His mom and stepdad are actually moving back there right now, so we’ll be around there more. They have a river house on the nastier part of Guadalupe River near Port Lavaca as well.
Keep dry and stay safe, Angel(?). Hope your mom was okay with the dialysis. <3 <3 <3
Wow Angel! I hope you all are hanging in there. I can’t even imagine. Especially, knowing the News can do it no justice. Have been sending multiple positive vibes and prayers to Texas and all of those affected
I’ve never been a waffle person, but I love pancakes. Blueberry.
And thanks, TT. You reminded me that I need to reconnect with my brother. We haven’t spoken for about 20 years. And it’s stupid, because the feud is between my brother and sister, it had nothing to do with our relationship.
He did reach out to me by letter (an ACTUAL letter, I didn’t know people still did that) when I was sick. But I was too sick to answer.
I don’t want to leave him hanging. He wrote to me because my sister had lied and told him I didn’t have much time left. I imagine she has not updated him with the news that I am OK now. She likes to use info to make people suffer.
Ugh. Families.
So, before it gets lost in the chemo fog again, I think that will be my project for the weekend.
By the way, what does “scattered, smothered and covered” mean? Is it something fabulous, like hash browns and that wonderful Southern gravy?
I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. That’s South Kansas. Can I be a “token” Southerner? I did live in Florida for 16 years. Does that count for anything, or should I start licking snozzberries from the windows?
Love blueberry pancakes. Love waffles too. Love food period. After all this talk about waffle house, i fixed myself a croque madame for breakfast. I had to fix a smothered somthing for brunch. I can make home fries, but not decent hasbrowns. The closest Waffle House is in Tucson, about 4-5 hours away. That is also where the InandOut and Trader Joes are located. I live in a backwater. Since my Auntie passed away, I don’t get to Tucson.
Do you remember one of the early seasons of Hell’s Kitchen where all the snotty culinary school grads were nasty to the Waffle house cook, Julia? They would not let her fry the expensive plover eggs that garnished some salad. They kept screwing them up. She said: “I may not have gone to culinary school, but after years in a Waffle House, I sure know how to fry me some eggs”. I think Chef Ramsay interfered and Julia cooked the plovers eggs perfectly on the first try.
I think I remember. Didn’t Chef Ramsay say that the sign of a good chef is a perfectly fried egg?
Yes, he did. I think he also sent her to culinary school He is actually a big softie. I love to watch him with the little kids.
I agree. And he’s hilarious on “Kitchen Nightmares”. Or was that “Motel Hell”? Anyway, he was visiting a place, and sampling their awful food. They had a huge dog that would roam the dining room. Since Ramsay was the only one there, the dog parked himself under the table, and fell asleep. At one point, Ramsay reaches down to touch the dog, and the dog wakes up. Ramsay said he was just checking to make sure the dog hadn’t died from the food. It was hilarious.
I saw the one where the owner fancied herself a singer and they wanted a deposit for the walls. I live very close to that place. Haven’t had the courage to eat there.
Was that the one where he froze her microphone in a big block of ice? Too funny!
Yes
Don’t forget you can make them “country” that’s gravy added to the top!! * wipes drool from mouth*
You can get your hash browns several different ways… I believe scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, country and I think topped(?) and I think there’s another one. Each stands for something ( I can’t remember it correctly for nothing!) either cheese, onions, ham, tomatoes, gravy and a few others. I like a double order, well done with cheese.
âYou don’t say. Please tell us more about the waffle house. *Rests chin on fist*
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Yep. I repeated something you already said… This was after several adult beverages to celebrate my 17 year wedding anniversary. ☺️
You should try that First Watch that J. Christopher turned into…it’s decent. I look back at my old ‘fat’ pictures wistfully. If only!
I just dropped my mum and the kids at Stone Mountain and escaped to get some work done. I have landed in Snelville….it’s just okay. Tomorrow is my mum’s last day visiting from England so she wants to spend 4 hours (yes you read that right) at Target. So that’s the Sunday plan.
Have a great weekend everyone!
OMG I love smothered anything.
I haven’t even had breakfast yet, but I know what I’m having for dinner tonight. A grilled pork chop SMOTHERED in sauteed onions with lumpy mash potatoes & gravy.
Omg, that sounds good!
Sounds wonderful. I’ll bring pineapple upside down cake and vanilla Ice cream. Cat can bring the wine.
Yum.
@cat, are you going to drive or shall I?
If there is alcohol involved, I suggest a taxi.
Smart woman.
I am on the next plane! Save me a spot at the table, UF.
We do not have Waffle House here in California, but I have been to Georgia and have eaten there. What I remember getting there is a tumbler size glass of OJ for 99 cents. I could not believe how cheap it was. My favorite was Cracker Barrel !! We do not have that here either, but every time I go to a state that has one, I cannot wait to go there. In 2004 I worked in Memphis for 5 months and there was a Cracker Barrel in West Memphis (it’s in Arkansas just over the bridge) we visited frequently. More heart attack on a plate, but it was good!
@Miele – So sorry about the car, but you are blessed to have the family, including the doggies be OK….
We have many here in Northern California. Love, Love me some Waffle House! This thread about food is killing me. The only thing that doesn’t have me running to the kitchen…my disgusting ass neighbor! Just imagine… (Insert musical chimes here) sitting in your quite backyard, your Dog’s are relaxing, bird’s chirping, coffee, cigarettes and reading your TT…HOWEVER…every fucking 5 minutes for the past 6 or so months this ass coughs, blows snot out his nose, sucks it back in, does the nasty throat thing, spits it out and to top it off! He does the thing I hate most in this world…that put your finger on one nostril and blow it all out the other thing! WTF!? I’m not exaggerating in the least bit either. I wish I could add sound. We don’t know if he is “Cooking” or it’s from the Telephone Poles he enjoys burning or a combo! Lovely, huh? Sorry. Rant ovah
For some reason I want chicken fried steak so bad I can’t stand it. Smothered in tons of gravy. Or really crispy hashbrowns.
On a road trip to Athens right now!! Maybe we need to make a stop at Waffle House. I used to get mine scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, and topped. At least, I think I did. I was wasted for those 15 years. It would be slightly different with my husband and kids, I reckon.
Athens is right up the road!! Go Dawgs!
When I come to the Atl, I pester relatives to take me to Picadillys (maybe spelled wrong) I love their food. We don’t have those in my area. TT I feel you on being young and thinking that the nice tight body will just last forever and ever. I remember making fun of the heavier girls that had to (or chose to) wear their blouses outside of their skirts or pants. I always wore mine tucked in because it was cute I was cute and so on and so forth. Now guess who not only wears her shirts blouses what the “F” ever, outside of her pants? And the bigger the better. I think being stupid in youth is like a built in thing and you are not supposed to realize that til you are not young anymore. Oh well 🙂
YES! I grew up in Louisiana and on Picadilly’s. Luby’s and the others had nothing on that place and I thought it was so damn fancy as a child in Cortana Mall. I don’t know what it is about cafeteria food, but I am happier gorging at something like that than a steak dinner
We are finally getting our Luby’s back! Didn’t they use to have Picadilly’s in the the Galleria Mall in Houston back in the day?
If there had been a Picadilly’s in the Galleria next to the ice skating rink or between Prada and Tiffany’s or something, I think I would have cracked up. Talk about worlds colliding!
I was trying to remember where my Grandmother would drag me to eat lunch in the Galleria. This was back in like 1970. She loved cafeterias.
Angel- was it called the Coquery/ie? Some of the staff members at my office were reminiscing the other day… I have no idea how it was spelled. I just like listening to the stories of what Houston used to be like. 🙂
It was some place with a funny name. My Grandmother taught me how to shop at the Galleria from a very early age. You go in the morning. You browse all the stores. Do not buy anything. Go have a leisurely lunch. Then go back to specific stores and actually the items you really want. A lesson I still use today.
Rifht now I am out finishing my shopping. Then it’s home to finish planting the garden. It’s a gorgeous day!
Right now I am out finishing my shopping. Then it’s home to finish planting the garden. It’s a gorgeous day!
Sorry about the double post. I’m still getting used to this iPhone!
I am in Northwest Louisiana and it’s pouring here again. I am not far from the Red River and it will crest sometime this next week. We have spotted three gators so far and I mean mature big ones. Have to watch for snakes when walking my dogs… we are up on a hill with woods all around. To all of you dealing with these storms please stay safe.
Funny you mentioned alligators, because I’ve been wondering about something. We have small zoo in our park area of our city. They evacuated the Zoo to the Community Center on higher ground. I keep wondering about the alligators! How do you move them? There are some 10 footers in there. Are they going to end up in the Guadalupe River?
Mamacita, you be safe too. I am praying for all of you getting so much rain, flash floods, tornadoes, it sounds awful.
Don’t beat yourself up about your weight Tamara. As long as your health is alright, it really doesn’t matter. Fat-phobes be damned. I too am curious about what constitutes SSC. It sounds delicious.
Minky you’re right about the healthy part and weight. I used to weigh 50-60 lbs. more than now. My doctor never told me to lose weight. Now she is constantly giving me a ration of shit about gaining some weight. She tells me that at my age it’s actually better to have a little extra weight in case you get sick. She says I have no fat in reserve if I need it. At my last appointment recently it took me 10 minutes to convince her that the reason I weighed less was because I was wearing less clothes because it was summer.
I got a good story too. At my last doctor’s visit, the nurse, right before she’s about to do my blood pressure reading, asks me whether of not I smoke. Like an idiot, I say yes. Nurse doesn’t say a word. She takes me blood pressure. It’s 117/65. Not bad, huh?
THEN, Nurse says: “I knew it.” I say: “You knew what?” Nurse tells me the majority of her patients who smoke have normal blood pressure readings. The ones who don’t usually have high bp. I say: “Really? That doesn’t sound right.” She assures me that she’s been keeping track of this for years. In addition, she says that she brought this up to her nurse colleagues at a conference and they basically told her to keep that bit of observational data to herself. That it’s not a good idea to encourage smoking, even if it does look like smokers have lower bp. Hmm?
I know that smoking isn’t the best thing for a body, but I gotta admit, it’s a helluva stress reliever, which might explain the good bp readings. I mean, shit, they used to say coffee was basically poison. Now it’s supposed to prevent type 2 diabetes. I don’t know what to think anymore. The whole world’s gone plumb loco!
Minky, that’s funny. I’m a heathen smoker myself and my blood pressure last time was 90/60. The machine took it 3 times before it finally believed the reading. It kept going up higher each time it tried. I think my BP was so low it thought I was dead lmao.
Ah yes, youth is wasted on the young…now, looking back, I had no appreciation for how good I looked. Sometimes it seems Father Time isn’t marching across my face, more like stamping his big feet real hard! I’m not really complaining (okay, that was a lie) but I’m wise enough now to appreciate that I don’t look even worse 🙂
During my college days, WH had an all you can eat menu. This was not good for either my waist line or their bottom line.
It was the goto place after Rocky Horror, too, and the mixture of RHPSers and truckers was fun.
RHPS – haven’t thought about that movie in ages. When I was in college it was playing every Friday night at midnight. Lost track of how many times I saw that movie.
Aaaah! I love that movie! Is it just me, or is Tim Curry the sexiest mofo to ever wear a bustier? He was so handsome when he was young.
“Aaaah! I love that movie! Is it just me, or is Tim Curry the sexiest mofo to ever wear a bustier? He was so handsome when he was young.”
He was until he played the killer Clown in It. Now he just makes me want to hide under the bed.
I’m going to dinner w/my hubs tonight for our anniversary. Hoping to eat something smothered in seafood or chocolate with a side of steak. And a marg or three. So over dieting, but I’ll get back on the wagon tomorrow. Oh, and I’ve got a tee-niney green mater growing outside ☺️
I went to the Waffle House with my boyfriend & watching him eat the Allstar plate. Eggs, bacon, waffle, grits, toast, hash browns…..with utter distain in my eyes. Oh those egg whites of mine were just dandy. That bastard. I could have stuck a fork in his thin, slender male body.
Kayla, life is too damn short to order egg whites in a Waffle House. Denny’s and IHOP, yes. Never Waffle House.
Not sure if they have Waffle Houses in California. I’ve never seen one. I went to one when I was visiting a friend in Indiana, about ten years ago. I remember asking the waitress if they had rye bread. I swear, the place went silent and everyone turned and stared at me. The waitress sputters, only wheat or white. I squeaked, “wheat, please”, from my hiding place under the table. The scrambled eggs and cheese were pretty good, as I recall.
No work, this weekend, yay!!! I just got back from the gym. My shoulder is feeling no pain. Yay again! I am still going light on weights for upper body, but working it.
Going to make this a spa day and get a massage. Love massages. If I were rich, I’d get a massage every week!
Hope everyone is doing well and having a fun calamity free weekend.
How far down south are you? They don’t have Southern style waffle houses in my area, but there’s “Creme de la Crepe” in Redondo and “The Omlette and Waffle Shop” and “Rex’s Cafe”in Pedro. That’s about all I know. Oh, and “Norm’s”, in Torrance. Do those qualify?
Norm’s might. Not sure about the others–haven’t been there. We have a Shakers and a Conrads close to our home. The waiters and waitress all know my son and me by name because we are there so much. I got off of work last night at 11PM and met my son at Conrad’s for a late night dinner. Shakers has the best corn beef hash in the universe. Another one is Eat Well. We have one in Glendale, and there’s one in West Hollywood. They have some healthy dishes with broccoli and tofu, but they have amazing Louisiana hot links and their biscuits and gravy are perfection. They know our names too…
Call me crazy, but I love Glendale. They have a really awesome Italian restaurant there. For the life of me I can’t remember the name, but I had the best pesto pasta with pignoli nuts and italian sausage there. It was so good I can taste it now. It’s in a strip mall off of Montrose, I think. There’s also an Italian dessert shop close to it. So good!
I am guessing you are talking about Divina Cucina. Yes, serious yummy. I love Glendale too. Wide streets, lots of trees, and beautiful San Gabriels behind us.
Norms steak and eggs. DuPars French Toast. Oh that is the best.
I love Glendale. My favorite place to eat is on Brand Ave. Carousel. There also used to be one of those fabulous meat places (also on Brand) – where you turn the spool green side up and they come to your table with all sorts of meats. Argentinian? Brazilian? Loved that place too.
No, Minky. Those most definitely do NOT qualify.
When you find the right WH for you (based on cleanliness, location, and number of WH songs on the jukebox), you’ll know. Its like church, but scattered, smothered, and covered.
TT~ If you ever do decide to venture OTP, I highly recommend Henry’s Louisiana Grill & Henry’s Uptown in Acworth. The French toast with infused chantilly cream is beyond beyond. Actually, anything there is wonderful.
jrleaguer, I’ve been, it’s to die for! While we’re on topic, Marietta Diner is a fun, good food place to dine as well!
You are SO right about wisdom and hotness TT. I may not have been “hot” back in the day but I could at least wear a bikini without looking like a boathouse. I had a really cute bikini that just sat lonely in a drawer – would try it on occasionally but was always to insecure about my shape to wear it. Looking back I realize that I should not have been so critical of myself and should have felt beautiful. Now I would give anything to look decent in a bikini. Those days are long gone!!
Whenever I talk to my niece or any other young woman and the conversation of body image or weight comes up I tell them about my bikini in the drawer, to love their body and that they are beautiful and should be proud of it!
On a side note I am feeling like a real yankee – SSC is definitely a new term for me. And I don’t think the ham and jalapenos is taking it to far – yum!
Working all weekend here – had to check my favorite blog. Oh my, reading the verbal smackdown on the TRav and Katherine post was a sight to behold! You rock TT!! Have a great weekend ~
I’ve never seen a Waffle House in SoCal but would love to go. Hungry Man frozen TV dinners just came out with a new meal of chicken and syrup drizled waffles with potatoes and cran sauce. I bought one just to try the waffles… it was sorta good.
I believe the closest would be in Arizona. With that exception all Affle Houses are in the South.
I agree TT. MANY times I have wished I could go back to college and my 20s with my hot, skinny self and my 45 year old brain. I would fucking OWN that campus because I would be confident, whereas back then I was a scared, unassertive girl with low self esteem. I would start by putting my rich bitch roommate in her place. I would really do things so much differently. I was invited to backpack across Europe with a girl I worked with and I was way too scared. Now I would go in a heartbeat. Looking back I almost wonder if she was a lesbian. A very hot one…..either way it would have been quite interesting. I missed out on so many experiences in my youth.
Loved the WH. Especially like reading about it as I ready to prepare a tofu eggplant “lasagna” for dinner. Oh well. Hitting the farmer’s market tomorrow. Won’t be too, too healthy as my favorite stop is at a bread and pastries stall.
Got the dirty nails of a gardner today. Planted basil, lemon balm, rosemary, mint and parsley, and lots of tubs of flowers. Oh, and another tomato plant, Big Boy, I think, since TT said my upside down plant didn’t count. 🙂
Enjoyed the read! Have a good weekend, all!
Oh my, I make tofu & eggplant lasagna too. My friend from Istria taught me to make it with cinnamon & nutmeg with the normal spices. It is to die for!
Ate at Gloria’s yesterday. I am in Texas yall. We ordered the special – red fish with shrimp in garlic sauce. My daughter said never order the special if it is fish (Anthony Bourdain tip) because it’s old fish they are trying to sell before it goes bad. She remembered that after we ordered. Fish was dry and garlicky. That’ s all you could taste. Manager let us order again and didn’t charge for the bad fish. I had the jumbo shrimp cocktail. So good.
TT’s pic of the hash browns had me drooling. Love them. We have Crackerbarrel here for pecan waffles. I have spent many times at Waffle House after the bars closed in my younger days. TT doesn’t do breakfast because she is not an eary riser? Or do you just plain not care for breakfast food? I have to rise early for my job so I eat breakfast, yogurt and granola during the week.
Lots of rain here at night mostly.Big storms after midnight. Lots of thunder. So loud it wakes you up. Dry during the last couple of days. No flooding at my house though. Thankful for that.
Drinking, smoking the good stuff 😉 cooking out, drinking more, making homemade ice cream! and drinking more!
Might try to get flowers and hanging baskets for the front porch, cannot decide on colors: have not researched which plant do best in morning shade and part to full sun in the afternoon. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
I’m going to try to do useful things like gardening, going to the gym, or cleaning my messy house. But I’m exhausted from just thinking about all that needs to be done, and from banishing sugar until Monday..
I’m originally from Delaware. I didn’t know anything about SSC. Back then, hashbrowns we’re just plain hash browns. So many of us ate home fries with some fried onions and optionally a little bit of hot sauce. However, I moved to Florida in 2007 and I’m proud to say I quickly learned about southern hash browns
I needed to google over 3/4th of that. I got the Greek reference but only if you’re talking about anal sex w/o protection and I just can’t tell if you are or aren’t. Racist Jesus lol. It’s hot in my back yard and with 3 days of 100+, it’s now 107 and we are getting in the pool.
What’s a co-cola????
It’s a coke. I remember when we called it coca cola. Maybe the name came from when it had other ingredients?
People from Greece are called Greeks.
Co-Cola is the number one selling soft drink in the world. No matter what rock you live under, there is a place nearby where you can buy a Co-Cola.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Well me and my perverse brain went straight to something other than a nationality and Coke, got it!
So many people have found Jesus that I wonder if he just keeps getting lost or if maybe he’s playing hide and seek.
Hasa Diga Eebowai, from what I can gather Jesus hangs out in jails and prisons most often. I’ve heard that lots of people have found him there.
Hannah, that’s some funny shit right there! LMFAO
I just woke up at 6pm. My sleep is so messed up and I don’t know why. It’s making me cray cray.
I adore Waffle House! I have one very close to me and now want to order a bacon,egg, cheese wrap and SSC. Yummy!!! No plans for me this weekend. I taped all of southern charm and may watch that since I have never seen it but love the recaps!
Heading back to new orleans mon or tues for the next 8-9 days which will be fun!! I also love Lubys when I go to San Antonio to see my family.
I too wish I had appreciated how great I looked in my 20’s. Need to go bathing suit shopping tomorrow and that is painful just thinking of that process. Have a great weeknd y’all!
If anybody is a baby boomer on here, remember how when your young girl body started to ‘blossom’ everywhere, and your mother insisted that you wear a girdle or waist cincher? Mine did. I was so GLAD when that stuff went out of style. Now of course we have spanx and corsets. We have come full circle 🙂
@eg~ I did not wear a girdle, but I do remember being dragged to Lord and Taylor at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta for my fist bra fitting. Mom tried to make it an event…lunch, salon, etc. but I was beyond embarrassed. 🙂
Shapewear is my best friend. I love it.
I love chicken fried steak! If it’s for breakfast I can do CFS covered in gravy with hash browns and a fried egg on top!!! Sooooo good! Lunch or dinner calls for gravy smothered CFS mashed potatoes ( with more gravy) and some good green beans!!!
I’ll also eat some good chicken fried blackstrap!!! Now I’m just hungry
I love Waffle House hash browns. And in case you don’t know, you can order them extra crispy! I like them with cheese and a side of jalapeño peppers. Yum! Tomorrow I’m makin’ hash browns to go with my eggs.
I forgot you need to top those super crispy cheesy taters with Casa de Waffle Salsa.
Here in North Carolina there’s a Waffle House on every corner even in the little backwater towns lol. Ten years ago when I managed and bartended, the nearby Waffle House staff knew my bartenders and me by our 1st names. When the bar closed and we were done cleaning, we’d head there for breakfast and hang out till about 5:00 a.m. before going home. We’d always wait until all the drunks who left the bar had eaten and were gone lol.
My plans for the weekend are to get my husband to charcoal chicken for me to make “Wallace’s BBQ Chicken”. My Dad’s name was Wallace. It’s a eastern North Carolina style bbq sauce which involves Apple Cider Vinegar, water, 3 sticks of butter, salt and pepper and crushed red pepper. When the chicken is done you steam it in the sauce for 15 minutes. The sauce is so good we dip white bread in it. It is so good it will make you slap your granny.
Good one HannahKing, I remember doing the same, we would all go to Denny’s. Your recipe for BBQ sounds delicious!
@hannakingrose~ Eastern NC bbq rules!!!!! To me, no other compares. 🙂
Waffle house is sooooo good. I like my hashbrowns country smothered, which is with onions and cream gravy. Delicious!
TT rather enjoy the fact that i have absolutely no clue what race you are. Says a lot about how u see the world. keep it up!
…there’s always a fly in the ointment…
Which brings up the latest question for Ask Tamara: Gravy – should it be applied in the kitchen or brought out separately for each person to dole onto their food as needed? Both in restaurants and at home?
ALWAYS separately. With perhaps a Salisbury steak/ Chicken fried steak exception. DID I TELL YOU THAT THE DAMN GREEK RESTURANT COVERED MY FILET MIGNON IN SOME HIDEOUS SHIT? Who does that?
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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My Mom and I are STILL talking about “Gravy-Gate” We would have been pissed off too! You absolutely do not F with a Filet Mignon! This happened once before to my Mom (YEAR’S AGO) at a really nice Steakhouse…and this has brought it ALL back up! LOL
Xanaxdude, I believe gravy should be served at table. Then the crazy people who abstain from gravy can leave it for the ones who know better and their food can be eaten completely smother in deliciousness as the Lord intended!
LOL That’s funny. I’ll admit I’m an abstainer when it comes to white gravy especially that globulous stuff so common in commercial eateries. It made me start retching the first time I had it, seriously. Chipped beef, or chicken fried steak, it SHALL NOT PASS over those! Seriously though I’m not a picky eater for the most part it’s just this thread is bringing out the few food hangups I have.
I love the white sausage gravy. The homemade kind especially but I also love the cafeteria kind and the Hardees kind… I’m not particular. I am particular about brown gravies. I don’t think steak should ever have gravy. I don’t consider that pounded or ground beef stuff like hamburger “steak” or Chicken fried “steak”to be actual steak.
Mashed potatoes can have either white gravy or brown. Assuming the brown is edible.
Turkey gravy, the kind my sister makes, is the best gravy. My sister makes the best everything.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I hope it’s okay to post this here but I had to share this..
I called someone a cunt satchel last night!!! I’ve called people cunts before but never added satchel. That part just came out & Let me tell you, it felt GOOOOOOOOD!!
Oh and just so that nobody thinks I’m a complete lunatic or bitch, it was totally justified. A woman (maybe late 40’s) started a fight and pushed my tiny 65 year old mother all because she (the cunt satchel) was trying to cut a merchandise line at a concert & people (including my mom) wouldn’t let her. I went insane on her but I had to share the cunt satchel comment, being that TT is who I learned it from lol.
I can see my obituary now. ” Her greatest achievement in her sad lonely existence was the coining of numerous derogatory terms, of which ‘cunt satchel’ had the greatest successs. That pretty much sums up her life.”
Heh. I should write my own obituary. It would be epic.
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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So I finally heard from Asshole and his ex BFF this weekend. I blew asshole off and he threw a fit like someone in their late 30s should do. I’m on good terms with the other though. We were friends before and I hope we can still be friends. It really took everything in me to tell asshole I had plans then to ignore his antics and him for days. I’m proud of myself and embarrassed that I freaked out in the first place.