Smothered and Covered for the last time

Atlanta Journal Constitution said: If you’ve ever eaten at a Waffle House, you can thank Roswell architect Clifford Nahser for the boxy, ubiquitous yellow building. Mr. Nahser attended Atlanta public schools, went to college in the city, and then worked with the school system supervising construction and renovations on some of the schools he attended. Co-founder Joe Rogers Sr. asked him to help design new restaurants from the prototype diner he opened in Avondale Estates in 1955. Mr. Nahser worked on the blueprint for one of the earlier units, then went on to help design hundreds more as the restaurant chain grew. Tweaked and updated a little over the years, the same basic plan was used for Waffle Houses in 28 states, said his brother Donald Nahser of Alpharetta. “He used to say, ‘Anybody who’s ever traveled through the South by car has been in one of my buildings,’ ” his brother said. Mr. Nahser would draw plans in his basement office when he wasn’t working at his real job as architect for the Atlanta Public School System. The color scheme became part of the company brand. “He wanted to make it so that when you saw it, you knew what it was,” said Marianne Tolbert Wade Nahser of Roswell, his wife of 58 years. Clifford A. Nahser, 82, died Monday at North Fulton Hospital of heart failure. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Roswell. The Roswell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. He also became an early expert in the installation of AstroTurf when it was added at one of the high school stadiums. He knew enough about it that Georgia Tech officials called for advice when it was originally installed at Grant Field in 1971, his brother said.

wow. i might leave a smothered, covered, and chunked hashbrowns for him...

What exactly is the difference between Waffle House and Huddle House? Which was first, and which is um......least bad?

Might have to swing on by the ol' Waffle House tomorrow and have breakfast in Clifford's honor. I've never heard of a Huddle House.

I've only seen one huddle house, and it closed down too fast for me to ever try it.

Hashbrowns on two, make one a double, scattered and covered, the other scattered, smothered and covered.

Thanks, Cliff.

I haven't been back to a Waffle House since Matt Lee and I (and out food!) got sprayed by filthy dishwater. That pretty much ended my meal.

Seriously, who puts a sink right behind a booth?

off exit 13 in Forsyth County in Georgia, there are 2 within a half mile of eachother...

I have been to the first waffle house.

There is a huddle house across the street from work. Unfortunately, Huddle is not near as good as the Aweful House!

reply to Joe Gearing

Huddle House has better fluffier omelets, Waffle House has better...waffles and coffee. I hit one of them for lunch every time I feel my arteries unclogging. Good old southern greasy food.

You can't really think that is "Good old southern greasy food" can you?

I'll give it the greasy part, but it was never good and certainly never represented southern food.

I like um both.. but I like Huddle House a smidgen better... but either will do fine when I'm hungry ... lots better than most (if not all) fast food joints

I always loved the Awful Waffle...pecan waffle and a glass of milk was just like Christmas...

But...nowadays I have to herd the family to Cracker Barrel...makes everyone happy.

maroon92 wrote: I have been to the first waffle house. There is a huddle house across the street from work. Unfortunately, Huddle is not near as good as the Aweful House!

No you haven't. The one that claims to be is actually a pretty recently built one (in the last 15 years) that is a few blocks from the real first one. I'm pretty sure the real first one is now abandoned, but it may still be a Chinese restaurant.

Pecan waffle, egg cheese, on wheat. Never been a fan of hash browns, or much of anything made of potatoes, but I do love some WH.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: off exit 13 in Forsyth County in Georgia, there are 2 within a half mile of eachother...

Exit 144 on I-20 in Alabama is the same. One on either side of the freeway.

There's a Huddle House on the main street of Lexington , Tennessee. Eaten there many's a time. Can't pass a Waffle House either.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: off exit 13 in Forsyth County in Georgia, there are 2 within a half mile of eachother...

There are/were WH's on either side of I-85 at the Suwanee exit. The unit on the southbound side was once a Stuckey's. The one on the northbound side was a traditional design and was patroned by people who would never dream of crossing the overpass to eat "over there".

I just got a hankering for a ham'n'cheese omelet.

Patty melt plate with a double order of hashbrowns...scattered, smothered, covered, chunked and topped. That is a meal that will stick with you all day and part of the next.

If you upgrade to the Texas steak melt, you get bacon on it.

oldsaw wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: off exit 13 in Forsyth County in Georgia, there are 2 within a half mile of eachother...

There are/were WH's on either side of I-85 at the Suwanee exit. The unit on the southbound side was once a Stuckey's. The one on the northbound side was a traditional design and was patroned by people who would never dream of crossing the overpass to eat "over there". I just got a hankering for a ham'n'cheese omelet.

In their defense, it can take the better part of a lunch hour to cross that bridge.

DILYSI Dave wrote:

oldsaw wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: off exit 13 in Forsyth County in Georgia, there are 2 within a half mile of eachother...

There are/were WH's on either side of I-85 at the Suwanee exit. The unit on the southbound side was once a Stuckey's. The one on the northbound side was a traditional design and was patroned by people who would never dream of crossing the overpass to eat "over there". I just got a hankering for a ham'n'cheese omelet.

In their defense, it can take the better part of a lunch hour to cross that bridge.

This is true "now", but it wasn't that way "when".

carguy123 wrote: You can't really think that is "Good old southern greasy food" can you? I'll give it the greasy part, but it was never good and certainly never represented southern food.

Depends on where in the south you grew up.

If your granny didn't keep a can of lard and/or bacon fat on the stove for cooking everything you're not far enough back in the woods yet.

The lard was the greasy part, but the rest is just a parody of good southern cooking.

Waffle House is a BABE rally tradition. Some days you are so busy fixing things/chasing points there's no time for lunch and dinner comes late so a good Waffle House breakfast that sticks with you all day is a godsend.

Ate many an Awful House Southwestern Omelet in my motorcycle racing daze. Something about the combination of grease and spice...