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No other restaurant can make hashbrowns or an omelet like Waffle House.

diner snob: Maybe no restaurant can, but any halfway decent diner runs rings around WH. That's going to be one of the smurfy things about moving away from NJ: real diners (usually built from 1920s to the mid-1950s, cooks and waitresses often on the job 25+ years) are very hard to find away from the East Coast.

WH's are everywhere here. Especially now in the richest areas because all the snobs think it's hip.

That's really strange. Almost every WH I've been to, even the brand-new ones, have a decidedly sleazy vibe that scares regular people away. Even in broad daylight they're full of vagrants, truckers, and the odd hooker or two, give or take an old guy muttering to himself. For sure they're a few pegs below even the smurf fast-food chains in respectability, and even most chain/theme restaurant regulars shy away from it.

there's a great diner place in my town, but its only open for breakfast and lunch. i live near chicago

what's it called.

oh, and cracker barrel is great.
and how could anyone forget krispy kreme, i love those, but only when they're hot and fresh (they make original glazed doughnuts from 5pm-11am every day nonstop)

No other restaurant can make hashbrowns or an omelet like Waffle House.

diner snob: Maybe no restaurant can, but any halfway decent diner runs rings around WH. That's going to be one of the smurfy things about moving away from NJ: real diners (usually built from 1920s to the mid-1950s, cooks and waitresses often on the job 25+ years) are very hard to find away from the East Coast.

I have lived all over, and never in my 25 years have I ever had any restaurant or diner or other person make an omelet like WH. It's all in the eggs.

WH's are everywhere here. Especially now in the richest areas because all the snobs think it's hip.

That's really strange. Almost every WH I've been to, even the brand-new ones, have a decidedly sleazy vibe that scares regular people away. Even in broad daylight they're full of vagrants, truckers, and the odd hooker or two, give or take an old guy muttering to himself. For sure they're a few pegs below even the smurf fast-food chains in respectability, and even most chain/theme restaurant regulars shy away from it.

Most of them around here are really new, in fact there are probably 3 total that I can remember being around before we started moving around outside of here. They only have one or two in North City/County to my knowledge, too much risk of robberies and murders there.   But all the ones I have gone to have been full of rich kids and rich women, none of which are hookers...to my knowledge.  Even the staff is made up of teenage girls and college students.

Meh..Oh well. 

But all the ones I have gone to have been full of rich kids and rich women, none of which are hookers...to my knowledge.  Even the staff is made up of teenage girls and college students.

Then you've never been to a real Waffle House.

I should have included this vital piece of info--AROUND HERE.  I thought it was implied considering the context I tried to keep it in. My apologies.

I have been to others. Georgia, KY, and the nasty one just before Columbus, OH. But I have never stayed to eat there. I am a snob, remember?

I thought it was implied considering the context I tried to keep it in. My apologies.

No, no. I inferred that just fine. I just thought I'd give you smurf anyway.

And I love you more for doing so.

I thought it was implied considering the context I tried to keep it in. My apologies.

No, no. I inferred that just fine. I just thought I'd give you smurf anyway.

And I love you more for doing so.

That reverse psychology isn't gonna work on me, bitch.

I thought it was implied considering the context I tried to keep it in. My apologies.

No, no. I inferred that just fine. I just thought I'd give you smurf anyway.

And I love you more for doing so.

That reverse psychology isn't gonna work on me, bitch.

Oh well..I tried.

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I don't exactly live in an upscale area, but the Palm Springs /Rancho Mirage areas are about 40 min. away, so if we want to watch a movie that fills the screen, instead of flowing outside the edges, or buy clothes that aren't from Walmart or Penney's, we go there.
My Point (yes, finally here it comes) is that there is a noticeable difference in chains when you compare lower/middle class neighborhoods and rich ones. The Penney's in Palm Desert for instance, has much nicer clothes than the one here in town (which tends to carry size 3 and size 18, but none in between anyway), and the food, including Big Macs, is made with much  better, fresher ingredients than what one expects any where else. For the same prices though. My hometown doesn't have anything to speak highly of in the way of chains (Denny's, Carrrows, KFC, MacDonald's), but  in PSprings and environs, there are plenty, and they are almost all good. I like Olive Garden, Outback, The Yardhouse (mainly SoCal, but opening one in Lakewood, CO) and several others along those lines. I've eaten at these chains elswhere in the country, and I've been disappointed.
I remember eating in a WH in Cicero, or maybe it was Stickney, back in the '80s, that was definitely a trucker, hooker, general miscreant hangout. Any chain would've match that description in that area, if it didn't burn first.

Ok, I'm gonna have to be a snob and damn you to hell for making me look at the Golden Corral logo.

Stir Crazy.

yuck, that place is worse than pf changs (which, at the new one in chesterfield, once had a 2 hour 45min wait on a tuesday, smurfing unbelievable).  the small authentic chinese places are so much better (and cheaper).

also, in stl, they recently opened the first cheesecake factory.  being from CA, i knew they had pretty mediocre food.  the wait for them makes our pf changs sound like fast food.

Theres a P F Changs here now? No smurfin smurf. Cool. There was one in Pgh and I never got to go. I always wanted to see what the hype was about.

The Cheesecake Factory is in the Galleria. Unless they put another one out in Chesterfield or something.

I love stir crazy. Mainly because it's all fresh and you make it yourself and have the little mexican guy (ain't that the weirdest) grill it up for you. I go there quite often.

Stir Crazy.

yuck, that place is worse than pf changs (which, at the new one in chesterfield, once had a 2 hour 45min wait on a tuesday, smurfing unbelievable).  the small authentic chinese places are so much better (and cheaper).

also, in stl, they recently opened the first cheesecake factory.  being from CA, i knew they had pretty mediocre food.  the wait for them makes our pf changs sound like fast food.

Stir Crazy is a quasi-Chinese chain? I was wondering what the hell it was supposed to be. Here, Stir Crazy is the name of a strip joint. 
I've never been to PF Chang's, and I don't really intend to. I suppose I should go just once, just so I can roundly denounce it with authority. No Chinese chain restaurant could possibly compete with a good local one, I think. Actually, I think the same holds true for any other kind of cuisine.