There is an unofficial Waffle House Index to measure the severity of storms. If the Waffle House is closed, you know it's bad

The waffles themselves are mildly sweet it's the amount of syrup that one puts on determines the sweetness

WH is not just a spot for drunks. You get the whole strata of society truckers, nurses, students, retail workers professionals, senior citizens families et al. The food is amazing. They even have a weather monitoring system that the U.S. federal emergency management agency monitors to gauge the severity of extreme weather events and their effect on the intrrstate highway system. The majority of WH locations are on the interstate highway system exit and entry ramps.

They've said it many times and it bears repeating: It's not like they don't have many of these ingredients in the UK, but the fact that it simply isn't common to prepare them in these ways or with these spices and flavors. It can be mind-blowing to many people whose palettes are not accustomed to the variety of clashing and complimenting flavors coming in at the same time.

My friend...apple butter is the absolute superior apple sauce. The pinnacle of apple, far beyond apple pie. If you can get your hands on a jar of it (home canned quart) and some amish bread...you got it made. My mother used to make it. I do miss it. Shout out to peanut butter & apple butter sandwiches.

I am a born and raised southerner. Southern hospitality is no myth. It is, however, both a blessing and a curse, at least for me. I am pleased to offer food and drink to guests in my home, but it makes me uncomfortable when I have visitors if I am in the hospital because I can't. 🤷‍♀️ 😊

Apple butter is delicious! It's basically an applesauce with all sorts of good seasonings like cinnamon and nutmeg and cooked wayyyy wayyy longer than you would an apple sauce until it becomes thicker, richer and more appley than apple sauce and becomes a great spread.

Waffle House built a location across the street from my university specifically because they knew they were going to get the 2 am drunk crowd after the bars closed. I was definitely one of those people many Friday and Saturday nights

American kindness and hospitality is a very real thing! I hope you get a chance to experience it yourself soon.

when i lived in texas, the 24/7 place to go after drinking was a place called jims. the chicken strips with the peppery white texas gravy is what i always craved. now that i live in florida, its probably steak n shake. people are friendly in general but also because they dont want to get $0 tips

Noah was on Masterchef and was such a nice guy. The Waffle House is the best place to go to after hours to sober up after partying a tad too hard.

They do another BBQ episode .. This time in Texas . Having REAL Texas BBQ At Terry Blacks BBQ They just released a whole series of them in Texas .

You won't break the bank at a Waffle House, and you'll get a hearty meal to boot. Nothing but love for this place.

nothing wrong with a waffle/pancake that's topped with a fried egg, bacon, and cheese. not all waffles have to be sweet.

The servers are friendly because they work for tips. From what I hear, Euros get a higher wage and no tips. Us Americans get lower wage and tips. I have been told that us American's make more with the tips. All breakfast places have stuff besides waffles and pancakes no matter what their names. Also, diners are pretty bad ass for breakfast or just a burger as well.

Don't sleep on the grits, they are great.

Yes many Europeans don't actually understand the vast distances we sometimes travel here in the U.S. Years back while I was in Europe a 4 hour drive could easily take me through 2 or 3 countries, while that drive here might leave me still in my home state (depending upon the direction I travel). Heck twice a years I drive 6 and 1/2 hours so my wife can visit her sisters a couple of states away (we go to them twice and they come to us twice) so everyone can stay in touch. One time I even went with my best friend to see his aunt it was a 22 hour drive (so we traded off driving).

This one and the bbq one with him are my favorite with these guys. Hilarious.

You and your attitude on life is welcome to America every single day.

You really need to check out the number of ways that the hashbrowns can be made.... mind blowing. Besides the waffles my fix is a large order of grits with a egg on top with just a lil Tabasco sprinkled on it. I have never had a bad server at any of the waffle house's I have been too.

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Apple Butter is wonderful, always keep a jar in the fridge.

Seeing their eyes I do believe that all that tasty food ended up on footpath within one hour hahaha

Ah!! There's the grape jelly I was talking about!! You'll notice there's nothing on that plate you'd normally put grape jelly on? Yeah...it's for the breakfast sandwich.

I’m from ATL where “The House” began, best late night after a rugby piss on earth

You'll also see IHOPs (International House of Pancakes) everywhere. It's just another diner. They sell more than pancakes.

I can confirm us in the southern parts of the USA are happy to show ohr southern hospitality.

I would say that the closest to A Waffle House would have been the Chick-fil-a Dwarf House down on the southside, the very first Chick-fil-a restaurant ever! Open 24/7 in Hapeville, Ga., built to service Ford workers and Delta Airlines personnel, one side of the restaurant was standard Chick-fil-A take out service, BUT the other side was a "cook to order" Diner. They had the same decor, the same food, the same kind of customer, always jam packed at 3:30 in the morning, 24 hours every day of the week except Sundays...plus they made better waffles. but recently they broke it all down and put in this new factory fresh store...Waffle House became my goto only after they did away with the old way there, that one was the King!...

A big side of wheat toast, to sop up the egg yolks, a big side of bacon, ham, sausage, all the breakfast meats.

Everyone is friendly and gives great service. a lot of it is about tipping. Most places now share their tips. Everyone gets a share of the tips, including the bus boy the dishwasher, the cooks everyone. So it makes it more in their best interest to be friendly and helpful.

the simplest (not entirely accurate) explanation of *_APPLE BUTTER :_* get yourself some apple sauce. start cooking it. add cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, mace, ginger, or other spices that you might like. cook it down to a thick paste that is the texture of slightly warm (not melted) butter. whip it even smoother in a food processor. strain it through a very fine sieve. enjoy it on toast, pancakes, waffle, roast pork, or damn near anything else. sometimes i will just eat a spoon or two out of the jar.

I love Waffle House. Chicken Melt plate, scattered, smothered, covered and pecan pie on the grill with butter!

That guy should have his own channel

They are so friendly cause their tips rely on it. Most of the time the people are just genuinely friendly too. But the 3am Waffle House shift are probably drunk as well so they are just vibing.

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Apple Butter: Apples, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, brown sugar, salt in a low very slow cook until they break down into a spread. If you have a crockpot or slow cooker, even better. Then blend it up. Awesome stuff. You can buy it in a jar over here, but it's not a hard thing to make at all.

Could you please do the REAL Super Bowl snacks video? There's amazing meat dishes in the video I'm 100% sure you'll love.

Wife of the South African here. (As you could probably guess from the last name.) We live in the heart of Waffle House country. In the US, neither waffles or pancakes are sweets. They are breakfast items. If you want them sweet, you add syrup. If you don't want them sweet, then you leave the syrup off. And Waffle House is not a place for sweets. Nor for that matter is the international house of pancakes aka IHOP. It's a place where you can go and get diner food, like all day breakfasts, hamburgers, grilled cheese, etc. It's open 24 hours, and they are ubiquitous off American highways. So if you're traveling overnight, they are absolute heaven. But the other crowd that tends to be there are drunks. And college kids. A surprising amount of kids from universities. My husband swears that there are no better hash browns around than the ones at Waffle House. You can get them a variety of ways. My husband usually tries a different way each time. He's never complained about any of them. So if you're in the US, especially if you're out late at night, it might be worth a stop. Now personally, I prefer either Denny's or IHOP, which you can often find also off highways and open 24 hours. (IHOP is a lot less likely to be 24 hours since COVID, but you can still find it on weekends.) To me Waffle House is okay but kind of greasy. Now if it's during the day, stop at Cracker Barrel hands down. Better food. Better prices. And a much better clientele.

“Awesome looking artery blocking dishes” 😂😂

This is chef Noah Sims. He has since met a beautiful lady and is married. He has also become a vegan but says it has made him feel so much healthier.

To give you some perspective on distance in the U.S.: One time I took a rental car from Michigan and drove it out to Washington State. I was out there about a week and drove back, and put over 6,000 miles on the car. Thank god for unlimited mileage on the rental car, lol

the middle guy is actually a chef who has been working meal services in war torn Ukraine. I like my waffles with fresh fruit.

Don't let the names of the restaurants make your decision.....always take a look at the menu and you can move on to the next place if you don't see what you want. IHOP (International House of Pancakes), Village Inn, Waffle House, Perkins, and other places known for breakfast, all have menus for around the clock. Usually the draw for them is that you can get breakfast at any time of the day or night. I live in a village in bush Alaska where our only restaurant is a pizza place. So when my family picks me up from the airport after I've been flying for 24 hours to go visit them, they know our first stop has to be one of these restaurants. The first thing I want when I arrive, regardless of the time, is a full breakfast with basically everything these guys just ate. LOL But my best tip for traveling (I travel a lot and have visited nearly every state, Canada, Japan, & Mexico) is to not go to the chain restaurants unless it's one you just have to try. I like to go to small little towns, especially when I'm traveling in rural America, where I can meet local people, get their advice on the best hole-in-the-wall, ma & pa kind of restaurants. Then ask the locals or the waitress what they recommend, or what they are known for. In the south you'll nearly always find a BBQ/TexMex place that has a specialty. On the great plains they have the most amazing steak you'll ever eat in your life (grass fed). In the northeast they have their seafood....but lobster to die for. I don't know much about the southern west coast as I usually avoid travel to California...lol. When I have gone it's been to the city, rather than the rural areas, and you can get basically any kind of food you can imagine. You can still find the ma & pa restaurants but they are more specialized...but it's a great opportunity to try Korean BBQ, Indian, Ethiopian, German....you can find it all there.

Flight from Georgia, where I live, to Hawaii is 12 hours with a layover in Los Angeles of an hour or two. Probably almost that length of time to parts of Alaska.

One of my very favorite videos! I love breakfast! I can eat it anytime of the day or night it’s just the greatest. Especially biscuits and gravy creamy gravy with huge chunks of sausage over freshly made biscuits.

Waffle House in a Southern tradition when your snockered. That chef had to catch a flight at 5am, I pity his hangover.

Miami, Florida to Seattle, Washington flight time is 6 hours 40 minutes. With all the crap at the airport and showing up early for security and such, that's perhaps a 9 hour day. Driving from Miami to Seattle is 48 hours. That's without traffic or construction and without stopping. If you plan on stopping to eat, get gas, wander around a bit, and perhaps sleep, plan on a 4 day trip. For me to shop at any store besides Walmart, it's an hour and half to the big city, shopping, eating, and visiting with family... it's a whole-day affair. Up at 7am and home by 10pm. I usually do that once a month. If family's not available, I can get home by 5.

I drive 10 hours from Idaho to Las Vegas at least 3 times a year to visit family. In the US, it is insanely large, especially out west and in Texas and Florida.

Waffle house has fried pork chops, hams teak, steak, chicken fried steaks and etc. The waffles might be your smallest portion in a combo order. Please understand the most important fact on Waffle Houses, they are not equal. There are most definitely good one and bad ones.

If you get grits there, add salt and pepper. They don’t add it when cooking.

While not always true, because there are always exceptions to the rule, the southern states of the US are known for their hospitality. Anything from stopping and talking to interesting people in the streets to welcoming strangers into their home for food. My own grandmother made it a point that anyone that came to her house was fed before they left, it didn't matter how she felt about that person everyone shared the table. Southern food is comfort food, lots of flavor and lots of love go into it, the dishes are like hugs on a plate.

Country potatoes, which is just chunks of potatoes, fried with peppers and onions.

It took 23 hours to get from orange county California, to Spokane we did stop for the night in Northern Utah. There are routes that will get you there in 19 hours though

I said this on another channel, but I'll spam it here too: You've heard of the "Full English," the All Star Special is the "Full American."

Technically waffles can be made sweet or savoury. A "basic" waffle is, at the most, mildly sweet and close to "neutral" so you can really pair it with anything. It's pretty common for many North American breakfast places (chains or independent) to offer plates that combine waffles with proteins (usually eggs, sausages, bacon and/or ham obviously) and some syrup on the side for you to add to your liking. Some people love the sweet-salty combo so they'll pour their syrup on the waffles and don't mind if it gets on their meats. Apple butter is pretty much a very cooked down apple compote/jam so it's super concentrated apple spread.

Concerning grits: most people probably add butter, salt, and pepper to grits, but I prefer them with sugar, as it turns them into a sweet cereal type dish (think cream of wheat). But either way, I think they're worth trying at least once.

The only time I've ever seen a Waffle House close in Florida was for a hurricane.

You can have chicken fried steak biscuits and gravy. There’s lots of other breakfast foods that are very savory.

Last month I (a Californian) took a trip to Tennessee. My brother in law took me to a Waffle House. First for me as we have Denny's. We were the only white people there but the people were so unbelievable nice (maybe because I'm used to Californians) the food was amazing however I did find the waffles too sweet for me. Bonus: the waitress hit on me.

Being from south Texas I was raised on good food. There a lot of food eaten with your hands. Now I’m in West Virginia where the food is ok. Northern restaurants mislabel chicken fried steak as country fried steak. I was in a Cheddars and ordered a chicken fried steak. I was served a chicken patty instead of beef. I would love a Whataburger. The family sold the business to a Chicago company so it probably won’t be as good but would still beat the pants off of McDonalds or Wendys.

Around where I live, the bar food is wonderful. Great big burgers, fries, onion, rings, mozzarella sticks things like that nachos just things you’d expect in a bar makes me want to go out tonight but you better have your pocket stuff with money it gets expensive, drinking and eating like that.

In America, If you start at a far north or south point on the east or west coast and drive diagonally to the other coast it would take roughly 50 hours of driving at speeds on average of 65-76mph(roughly 105-121kmh) without accounting for gas stops, rests, food stops or any sightseeing you may choose to do along the way. For context the drive from Latvia near the Russian boarder to the southwest coast of Portugal clear across the continent is roughly 44hrs of driving. Just be glad I didn't add travel to/through Hawaii or Alaska to the mix LOL. Alaska is a state that, by itself, is 1/6 the size of the entire continental Europe.

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Jono, there's a KZfaq video of an episode of Anthony Bourdain's show (RIP), where he turns up at a Waffle House with a southern friend/Chef, which likely inspired this. You gotta do that one.

Makes me hungry just watching it.

Waffle House is an American favorite. But not mine. 😂 I do love it when I’m hungover or after the bar closes. The hash browns are an icon and the arguing and fighting just adds to the experience. My daughter used to love it until a cockroach the size of a small dog, walked up her leg! 😂 Everyone should at least experience it one time.

Their are local fast food chains like Whataburger here in Texas which you should check out Texans love Whataburger because they do it the Texas way! Oh... What A Buger Should Be!

The Waffle House is not a tourist spot, it's a locals late night after partying food spot.

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I'm a biscuits & gravy with hash browns and bacon person. Or fried eggs, chicken fried steak and hash browns.

One thing I’ll say about this man is he can order his food absolutely shithouse drunk 100x better than sober customers I deal with at my work😂

I’ve never had a waffle at Waffle House and I hammer it quite often over my 60 years. The hash browns

Waffle House, double hash browns ‘all the way’ is what I always get. No sweet…just rich and savory.

i drove from la cali to nc in 2.5 days

Just a pro tip..... some of the best places to get things like hambugers, sandwiches, (etc.) are bowling alleys. That old greasy spoon type cheeseburger and fries or a patty melt.... great in some grills in bowling alleys. A few comments have already said it, but I will agree about skipping some of the chain restaurants. You'll find some if the best food in smaller mom and pop or family owned type spots. Waffle House does food like you saw in the video pretty good, and so does IHOP.

If ya go to Waffle House ya gotta try the breakfast sandwiches!!! They taste like homemade only better. And while this may sound a little weird you gotta get the Sausage egg and cheese sandwich with mayo and some grape jelly. It's a true southern breakfast sandwich,when we make em we're usually deer hunting and we make em out of biscuits.

Most affordable restaurant meal you will find in the USA. Hashbrowns are excellent. Get them smothered and covered

Apple butter is great

The guy in the center (Noah Sims) was a contestant on Hell's Kitchen.

A southern staple after the bar. I always get the Super Star special. Im in Florida and when we have a hurricane coming, we just call to see if the Waffle House is still open. If not, we hit I95 and go north. Waffle House never closes!

Believe it or not the guy in the middle he's a chef

I love the sweet stuff! ❤ That's my favorite type of dish

Noah was definitely LEAFED! 🍃🤣

18MAY23: Apple butter: Apple slices or chunks stewed down so much with sugar and spices that it loses shape and becomes spreadable like room temperature butter.

waffle house waffles are basically the flavor of butter. the syrup is like an afterthought to the buttery waffle in my opinion. my favorite thing about waffle house is its so god darn cheap. the food can just keep coming and when they get an order wrong, if you sit beside the back door where they go to clean dishes, they might just give you what they were going to throw away, free food. i got like 10 dishes for like 30$, it is always enjoyable when i go there

I used to run three Waffle Houses in Nashville, TN. and we'd have a blast hosting you and your mates for a late-night nosh after you got tuned up at a bar. Now that my family and I have moved up north, we miss the "hot food, fast" at Waffle House.

There was a Waffle House down the street when I was a kid. My sister and I would save some money, walk down there, and get the all star breakfast. Fun times.

If you haven't yet, I think you'd enjoy watching a video on the Blue Angels

Customer service is a way of life in America, in the north, they do it for work but, in the south, its their genes. Even when southerners insult you, they are super nice about it.

Good service is an essential element in American restaurants. Much different than Europe. BTW, Crabs have Shacks. You might like waffles and fried chicken.

Waffle House was my go to place at 2-3 AM after a night out partying 40+ years ago. 2 eggs scrambled, grits, hash browns scattered and smothered, bacon AND sausage, toast with jelly and apple butter, and a decaf coffee. Perfect meal to soak up all the alcohol. It’s also my go to place for an after surgery meal. You haven’t eaten since before midnight the night before and you’re starving. Get a meal to go, eat and then crash to sleep off the anesthesia.

Lol.. you can be more 12 hours drive from one side of Texas... just to THE OTHER SIDE OF TEXAS! lol

My family used to make the trek to the city once every couple of months and we used to go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast at dinner. I like both Cracker Barrel and Waffle House but I prefer the local mom and pop places any day.

Apple butter is not butter. Apple butter is a very thick applesauce. Just cook applesauce until it's very thick. It's delicious.

There's a joke about Waffle House always being open regardless of weather. The weather department and the highway department check with Waffle House about whether conditions are bad enough for things to close.

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9:50 spaghetti warehouse, I dono if it’s a chain but we have one in Columbus Ohio and the food is amazing.. better than Olive Garden.

I've never lived in the south mostly the west like Idaho, cali, and vegas.. They are friendly everywhere.. other than the strip on vegas cause they have so many customers that they don't have the time.

When they say Waffle House is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that's no joke. NOAA has an unofficial Waffle House index to tell how bad the storm damage is in an area. The Waffle House Index has three levels based on the amount of service that the restaurant can provide right after a bad storm: GREEN: Full menu; the restaurant sustained little or no damage and has full power YELLOW: Limited menu; the restaurant is running out of food or has limited power RED: The Waffle House is closed due to severe flooding or damage