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Come to Atlanta, down the street from me are two completely separate Waffle Houses built right next to each other that share the same parking lot.
This sounds possible, but where is it?
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> I can't help thinking its simultaneously ingenious and hilariously convoluted. It's just ingenious, they're coding the order onto the customer's plate by partially setting it up. They're getting some of the work done, and they don't have to fumble with some separate source of truth.
Still would take a lot of training to get right. Its not intuitive. And I can certainly find a lot of humor in how its implemented.
I don't think it would take that much extra training, especially compared to whatever shorthand a waitress or ordering system would have to use.
And it seems like it's something that's possible to get right. All the alternatives I can think of suffer from serious problems this one doesn't (e.g. having to mentally keep track of the correspondence between the order ticket and palate, which invites lots of error).
> Its not intuitive.
It actually seems pretty intuitive. There appears to be a pretty clear correspondence between the code and what it means in most cases.
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Bourdain’s show was about traveling the world, eating cheap food with the local common man. He was good enough to cook in the kitchen at French Laundry and rich enough to eat in their dining room as often as he wanted. But he was very much anti food snobbery.
Being anti-food-snobbery is great. But let's be real: the Waffle House might be fantastic (I've never eaten at one so I wouldn't know), but there's still a reason that the Laundry can charge two orders of magnitude more for a meal than the Waffle House and still be sold out every single night.
Eating at a Waffle House (preferably at 1am following a night out) is a unique American cultural experience that especially those confined to the Bay Area have been denied. It's a place where those from all walks of life come together.
Does USA have places that sell kebab?
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Sure, and if I say that my 4 year olds drawings are better than anything Van Gogh ever made, who could argue against that?
What if Damien Hirst said that about your 4 year old's drawings though?
And then I might tell him to put up or shut up - I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles.
I wonder if Bourdain ever returned to waffle house, despite his proclamations?
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What if Damien Hirst said that about your 4 year old's drawings though?
Then I would say there is some other game Mr Hirst is playing that isn't about judging the quality of art. And then I might tell him to put up or shut up - I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles. I wonder if Bourdain ever returned to waffle house, despite his proclamations?
I mean, unless he's an idiot, he'll still pay the market-clearing price for the drawings. Quality and taste are subjective. Monetary value is not.
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As someone who tries to minimise my sugar intake, one of my nightmares is getting served a non-diet drink by accident, because one of the lids gets pressed wrongly along the way. I wonder if there's technology out there for cheap sugar testing sticks… huh, it looks like a company finally launched like that in 2021.
Wouldn't you just be able to taste the difference, and then not drink it?
I wonder if there's not some sort of genetic connection influencing how some non-sugar sweeteners taste, much like the genetic link with cilantro tasting terrible for some.
Might the commenter really not be able to taste the difference? To me, it would be stark and unmistakable, but perhaps that's not true for everyone.
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I think it's the affordable, approachable 24/7 always-welcome aspect more than the food. People have fond memories of going to Waffle House after partying, or going with their tween friends as the only place they could afford to go out to eat, or going after softball games in their still-dirty uniforms. Another commenter mentioned that Anthony Bourdain said Waffle House was better than The French Laundry (while eatin…
> in (just about) any state you like. In any state but a northern one. Sadly, there are none in the northeast. Waffle House to me borders between being an "american" thing and specifically a "southern" thing
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Then I would say there is some other game Mr Hirst is playing that isn't about judging the quality of art. And then I might tell him to put up or shut up - I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles. I wonder if Bourdain ever returned to waffle house, despite his proclamations?
> I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles. I mean, unless he's an idiot, he'll still pay the market-clearing price for the drawings. Quality and taste are subjective. Monetary value is not.
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Luckily https://dollyparton.com/imagination-library is a thing
On a county level, the south doesn't look too bad as long as you're in an urban area: Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, etc. https://preview.redd.it/adult-literacy-in-the-us-by-county-v...