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After a long time drving on the Interstate, dining at a Denny's.


Such is the life, am I right?

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Only if you are eating a moons over my hammy

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It's all about that t-bone (medium rare) with mashed potatoes and corn! Or if the gout hits, the Tex-Mex chicken and Chorizo skillet.

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I haven't had Dennys in many many moons and all I remember is the moons over my hammy.

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I had breakfast there this morning.

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Ah cool!

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To paraphrase Patton Oswalt: "Denny's isn't someplace you go. It's where you end up."

That aside, it can be decent diner grub.

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I do like the food as well, and I'm sober! But I guess there's some truth to that statement.

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Is Denny's where the truck drivers eat?

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Yeah.

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Did this particular Denny's have a bar/lounge separate from the rest of the restaurant?

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Nope. I don't think Denny's serves alcoholic drinks.

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Some of them did have a bar/lounge back in the day. There was one in Rosemead, California off of I-10 that closed sometime early 1990's. Apparently there was one in Ontario, California that closed in 2017 (I was never in that one.)

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I did not know that, actually!

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Sambo's was a neat place that I liked as a kid, I didn't know it was a racist term, I liked the Indian boy and his tiger. It was like Denny's/Howard Johnson's. The last one closed in Santa Barbara (but that one was kind of a hipster cafe, soy sausages, that sort of nonsense...

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I'm not a food complainer, I'm just not. In a world where people are literally starving to death every single day, complaining about food just seems so wrong.

But, I can recall only two bad restaurant meals I've had in my 66 years - one of them was at Denny's. Now, I've had breakfast there and it's pretty hard to screw up breakfast, but the dinner we had on a road trip was really really bad.

I think the problem is that I ordered something was supposed to be the kind of meal one would have at home, not a fast food burger and fries, which in retrospect, would have been the better option I didn't make.


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You make good points about how wrong it is to complain about food, as well as the importance of ordering something you can't easily make at home (to avoid comparisons with your cooking.)

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I love me some good from Waffle House!!!

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Waffle house looks gross.

Signed, million man

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