On 2014-04-22 11:22 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:

>> It is a major pet peeve of mine that the restaurants that specialize in
>> waffles and pancakes are among the worst places to get them.
>>
>
> Corporate chain restaurants can't do anything well. If you want awesome
> waffles start looking into your local diners. They probably have a waffle
> iron made in 1950 and is so seasoned they don't even use oil on it. And the
> waffles will be to die for.

Perhaps our own laziness is part of the problem. Waffles seem to be too
much work and too much mess for most people to bother with. Somewhere
along the line frozen waffles hit the market and dropped the standards
for waffles. People like waffles enough that they are willing to take
the substandard version that can be kept in the freezer and then heated
up in a toaster. They are no more work than a piece of toast. Now
people have an impression of waffles as something easy to do in a
toaster but not good enough to go to the work to make them.