Way back when I used to go out to clubs and drink we would stop at White Castle. Burgers were 10 cents each. I wouldn’t go there sober.

^Yeah, White Castle! We don’t have any around here. I have to travel a little further north.
Good one though. 10 cents? Times have changed. But not the grease in their fryers :)

@MrGrimm888

Maybe your Waffle Houses aren’t as nice as ours in Georgia. Back when you were allowed to smoke in restaurants, WH used to reek of smoke and idle smokers.

In about 1995 Georgia made it illegal to smoke in a restaurant, and it seemed that the whole chain went up a couple notches. What are the laws on smoking in SC?

I go to WH a couple time a year, sober.

I do not intoxicate myself.

@elbanditoroso . No smoking indoors. It’s funny. That may have at least masked the smell a bit.

I have been to some WHs in GA. Still gross. Yet, severely inviting when toasted….

@ragingloli. Then the q is not for you. Thanks anyway though.

When I was in college, there was a Mexican restaurant in Santa Barbara that was open ‘til 4 a.m. They sold beer after the legal 2 a.m. closing time because it was where the police went after shift.

I only went there after the bars closed.

The chain is nonexistent out here. But I take it from the question that the restaurants serve the equivalent purpose of the I Hops by being open 24 hours and therefore available when the bars close. There are very few all night diners left in San Francisco. The best by far of the 4 that were left, closed down around 8 months ago to my considerable irritation. We’re down to 3 remaining, 2 of which sit literally across the street from one another in what used to be referred to as “the theater district”. Even the I HOPS in the city close at 11pm. This town itself has lost all of its character, and all of the legendary all niterys from Clown Alley in North Beach to the legendary la Rondalla in the Mission wink out one by one as the town crowds up with boorish young people cloaked in entiltlement and vapid personalities.

I don’t know about the Waffle House, but the I HOPS are depressing. There is one in SSF (South San Francisco) off 101 on the way to the airport. It’s open 24 hours, and occasionally I will stop there when on my way either delivering or picking up whatever visitor is cycling a visit. I’ve this inexplicable liking for the chain’s “harvest grain & nut” pancakes. To me the thing that fascinates me about the I HOP is the precision with which the portions are right at the line where the accusation of “skimpy” might possibly fail to be upheld in a court of law. The chain goes to considerable lengths to delude the unsuspecting into believing they are receiving a decent meal for the money through such strategems as serving the 6 inch diameter pancakes on a 6 and a half inch diameter plate. It’s a slick way of deceiving the eye (particularly with kids) and prevents extravagances in indulgences with the syrup, since more than a scant ribbon of the stuff must overflow the crowded little plate onto the table.

I like the Waffle House early in the morning at the start of the work day. When I am down South I try to visit at least once.
Everyone speaks with that southern accent; I can have my hash brown’s served 8,769,324 ways; and the waitresses call me “Hon.” For a Western New Yorker that’s exotic.

(I must be a boring guy. I don’t go anywhere intoxicated.)

Don’t knock Waffle House. It’s an important weather barometer of sorts. FEMA trusts them

<—-Southern girl

I used to sleep walk to Tim Hortons and quick hot food at 7/11 at 3 am.

Does a hangover count? If it does then Brails can’t be beat. They aren’t kidding when they say best hash-browns. And really cheap.

I don’t go anywhere intoxicated but…many years ago there was an all night mexican place right cross the street from my apartment in San Diego. Many nights after partying hardy we would walk across the street at 2–3 a.m. and load up on mexican food. I went there sober all the time too. Right next door was a killer sandwich shop as well but they were not open all night. haha

Denny’s. In my party days, it was the only thing open at 2 or 3 a.m.

Nope, I’ll eat nearly anywhere… Except Waffle House. It’s on the list of Places That Made Me Puke, along with this one really terribad taco place next door to my bar.

^It makes me sick too, but drunk me either doesn’t remember, or care.As of a few years ago, they can even put chili on your hash browns. Day after Montezuma’s chili revenge is no joke. But apparently, not a big enough deterrent for drunk me…

If and when it’s ever suggested we go to Waffle House, my immediate reaction is “Can’t we at least find a Denny’s or IHOP?”

There is a IHOP nearby, but it’s not in walking distance, like the damn Waffle House…. And it’s not 24/7…

Denny’s? Now we’re getting into high class munchies…

Denny’s. I also call the “Waffle House” the “Awful House.” And I am never drunk enough to eat there.

There’s a restaurant in Sarasota called Munchies 420 Cafe. They’re open from 420 pm to 420 am. All the food is basically what would happen if you have a stoner free reign of a diner. Sandwiches made of chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese and mozzarella sticks…

That’s the best drunk food, right there.

The menu

That is awesome @Seek! Pancakes and syrup, eggs and bacon did it for me.

@Seek great menu!

When I got the munchies all I wanted were tacos. They have tacos?

They’ve got quesadillas, wraps, and nachos… So.. yes?

OK! Meet ya there at….4:20. When my son moved out, when he was 17, he set all my decorative, battery operated, dead clocks at 4:20.

No, there are bars I go to get intoxicated,

Waffle House. I would never eat there sober.

It’s after the bars close that bar flies resort to round the clock eateries. Back in the, day bus terminals and train stations all had round the clock cafes or diners. One sure sign of advanced aging is this accelerating yearning for the past. True to form, and counter to what formerly passed for anti trust laws, all of the supermarkets around here have merged into the Kroeger octopus and the last of the 24 hour Safeways now shuts down at 11PM. I have a high metabolism, but the world shifts so relentlessly that the effort to keep pace grinds me down. 40 years ago, when my dad told me “the country’s goin to hell”, I of course didn’t get it.