Taking Sides: Waffle House vs. IHOP

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hahahaha. i wonder how many customers use that "orgasmic" line on him.

waffle house CRUSHES all opponents, but the last time i was at a denny's (in the middle of the night while drunk SHOCKAH), my glob of greasy melted crap was darned tasty.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

mmmm greasy melted crap

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

waffle house, no question

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

A few hot Saturday afternoons ago, a guy came into Waffle House with six kids and played "Purple Rain" on the jukebox. You don't get that at IHOP.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

It's hard to believe anyone would pick IHOP over Waffle House. It makes no sense!

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder how the Best IHOP compares with the Best Waffle House, and how the worst of each compare.

i imagine that the Best IHOP Ever might be pretty great, but by and large they seem medicore at best. Waffle House has more personality, as a chain, but i have had far fewer WH experiences.

― carly (carly), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

For the record, the points for the "Purple Rain" song were awarded to Waffle House - not against.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

We don't have waffle house here in Chicago.

The IHOP has good coffee, good OJ, and I like their variety of pancakes. I'm biased though...IHOP is one of my favorite chains, everything smells so good and looks so good. I suppose they'll get bombed out of business now that I said that.

But I've never been to Waffle House so I don't know.

― simian (dymaxia), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

waffle houses have that romance of 'being tired and miserable on the road' vibe going for them.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

for the record, IHOP never paid me to endorse them. ;)

― simian (dymaxia), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I grew up with Perkin's so that's a sentimental favorite. Waffle House PWNS, though.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

What is good about IHOP: that butter pecan syrup they have. Yum.

I would probably like Waffle House more though, if I had been there more than once. They seem to be KEEPIN IT REAL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I grew up with Perkin's so that's a sentimental favorite.

WHAt ABOUT EMBER'S? ALWAYS FORGOTTEN...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

several x-posts to andrew

but you totally order so much stuff, if memory serves correctly!

my vote goes to waffle house.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Apparently I can't spell "Perkins" anymore!

I like Embers fine but it's no Perkins.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ATTN: MIDWESTERNERS

Are there still Happy Chefs out there? I miss seeing those square boxy buildings with the marquee bulbs lining the edges.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

IHOP gets points for just putting the damn pitcher of coffee on your table, allowing you to serve yourself.

one tired morning at IHOP a few months ago i reached for the maple syrup to pour on my pancakes, only to realize too late i had mistakenly grabbed the coffee. i had actually taken a bite before realizing what happened.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

not the best taste frankly, coffee pancakes.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I did the same thing, but substitute "evening" for "morning," "generic Italian restaurant" for "IHOP," "years" for "months," "sugar" for "maple syrup," "in" for "on," "iced tea" for "pancakes," "parmesan cheese" for "coffee," and accept that I realized what I had done before I took a sip.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

In many many ways, Waffle House is superior, but the thing that IHOP has that totally rocks my world is BLINTZES.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost
it's the food version of beer goggles i think, ai lien. i always worry it's not going to be enough so i order too much. but weren't you impressed how a skinny dude could put away so much greasy brown food?!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

also, have you ever known a waffle house to go out of business (unless it was destroyed by a tornado, as was the case with one here a few years back)? on the other hand, you can drive by a pawn shop or stereo/furniture rental business and go "hey, old IHOP."

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

That would've been a huge container of syrup, bloomer.

I've got a "not-sweet-yams-but-MASHED-CARROTS!" story I could share, but I'll wait for the Luby's/Picadilly's thread.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

How many stand-up routines do you think have been developed around the use of the word "International" in IHOP's name?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

what's the deal, people? i mean, the only thing "international" about this place is the DISHWASHER!!! COME ON!!!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

and pleasant, we could definitely speak about cafeteria culture sometime. of course in mississippi it was Morrison's. OLD PEOPLE (and me and a few others i know) LOVE CAFETERIAS.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

*whispered* luby's

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

MACARONI AND CHEESE AND PILE IT ON PLEASE

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

mashed potatoes...WHITE GRAVY

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I have fond memories of the starry, starry ceiling at Wyatt's on Rodney Parham. The fish was good, too.

Yeah, old IHOPs are about as easy to spot as former Pizza Hut's. Once, I was driving at dusk down Markham without my glasses, and was just amazed by how blue the sky looked. It took me a second to really focus before I realized that I was looking at the high roof of an IHOP.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I have fond memories of my brother upsetting all the syrup pitchers in multiple flavors at IHOP. He was very small, only 3 or 4 probably, but he used the table for leverage to get into the booth, and they all tipped over!

I've never heard of Waffle House.

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I looked in to franchising a Waffle House and you actually have to work there to be allowed to do it.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

why?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

probably so you don't fuck it up.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha I was going to say "Presumably so you don't try to turn it into an IHOP" but I like stence's version of the answer more.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

In many many ways, Waffle House is superior, but the thing that IHOP has that totally rocks my world is BLINTZES.

why i love where i live: i can get blintzes around the corner!

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.sixstringdreams.com/images/roffle_house%5B1%5D.jpg

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

There's no Waffle House in Harlem.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish there were! i was in harlem today.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

the Waffle House in my town got turned into a mortuary shipping service. It still looks like a Waffle House, it's just painted grey and has hearses parked out front.

― jxnx (jxnx), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Several Waffle Houses in my hometown got turned in to "Sunshine Cafe"s. Same exact menu tho.

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a hearse that is frequently parked outside of my closest Waffle House. You'd think that they'd make that guy park around back or something.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3373/im0028864ic.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 17 September 2005 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I owe Hstencil bigtime for taking me to my first Waffle House.

Nickalicious's weed-dealer story is still the hidden gem of this thread.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 17 September 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link

are there ANY waffle houses in areas northeast of, say, the philadelphia metro area? i don't think that i've ever even SEEN on of these franchises.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 17 September 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Waffle House because IHOP no longer has buckwheat pancakes, but I don't get to either very often, just on road trips.

last time I went to WH was on 1-81 in VA where the guy sitting next to me was vehemently refused his special request on the souped-up home fries. those potatoes are over-the-top already.

the original Perkins Pancake House was in my Cincinnati neighborhood. a real hole-in-the-wall on Hamilton Ave.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 17 September 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Waffle House, definitely.

Last time I went to IHOP I ordered the ice cream sundae, and there was a long hair in it. I sent it back and told them I didn't want another one, but they brought me another anyway. I let my friends eat it. When I went to the counter to pay for my drink, they charged me for the sundae too. When I tried to explain the situation, the hostess woman threatened to call the cops if I didn't pay up. I gave them my $3, and will never go back.

― pinkerton, Saturday, 17 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a hearse that is frequently parked outside of my closest Waffle House. You'd think that they'd make that guy park around back or something.

I'd lose my shit if I ever saw a hearse at the back of a Waffle House.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 17 September 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

When they refer to as "Burt's Chili", the apostrophe is being used as a contraction and not a possessive, see...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

i still heart I-SLOP!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

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