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The Bitter Southerner Podcast

The Ways of Waffle House

The Bitter Southerner Podcast

GPB Digital

Society & Culture

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How could a 2,000-store restaurant chain become, to Southerners, something more than just another place to eat?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for GPB comes from the Galloway School where students ages 3 through grade 12 are part of a community where learning is joyful, individuals are valued, and self-discovery is encouraged.

0:11.0

Openhouse is December 3rd.

0:12.8

More info at Galloway School.org.

0:15.0

It's the Bitter Southerner Podcasts from Georgia Public Broadcasting and the magazine I edit, The Bitter Southerner.

0:26.0

Welcome to episode five of our second season. I'm Chuck Reese and today we take you to a place that is familiar to every southerner, the Waffle House.

0:37.0

Hey, come on with me.

0:42.0

Let's go to my favorite place to eat. Where the food and the service is fine.

0:51.0

Yeah, it's Waffle House time.

0:56.4

Yeah, we even sing about the Waffle House.

0:59.8

When it comes to the best

1:01.7

that not beginners

1:04.3

the Waffle House people best your winners

1:08.8

less head fully in the sign is Waffle House time.

1:15.0

And every southerner has their Waffle House memories.

1:18.0

Many are from late nights and they might be blurry in the brain because Waffle House is after all a place where the night

1:24.8

owls go before they crawl in bed and hide from the sun.

1:28.0

It's more easy little place than there are no hundreds

1:35.0

to get you an hour

1:38.0

but if you want to take your time

1:41.0

and if you want to take your time

1:42.0

and they really don't mind they just I'm going to take you a child, hang a little mind.

1:44.0

They're just going to see a smile on your face.

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