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**BONUS** Fishing After Work: Hoagies, Waffles, and One Forever Meal
What single meal could you eat every day for the rest of your life? We put that bold rule to the test and find ourselves torn between the sensible comfort of breakfast and the romance of a perfect 11:30 Italian hoagie—the kind wrapped in wax paper, glistening with oil and vinegar, and impossible to forget. Along the way, we set ground rules, debate calories versus joy, and ask whether food you love in a moment can survive the grind of routine.
We wander into the friendly feud between Waffle House and classic diners, weighing consistency against variety. Waffle House offers a ritual: crisp waffles, hash browns covered and smothered, bottomless coffee, and stories that always start after midnight. Diners fight back with chipped beef on a Belgian waffle, scrapple and pork roll, and the wild-card magic of an unexpectedly perfect pancake. The choice becomes a mirror—do you want dependable anchors or a menu that lets mood lead the way?
The memories pour in: hubcap-sized pancakes we couldn’t finish as kids, late-night Waffle House encounters that got a little weird and very funny, road-trip breakfasts that became markers on a map, and even a hibachi-at-home bit with a lighter and airborne shrimp. We also poke at the infamous waffle challenge—24 hours inside, minus an hour per waffle—and what “punishment” says about our appetite for repetition. By the end, we land on something simple and true: your forever meal isn’t just about taste; it’s about who you are at that same time tomorrow. If breakfast keeps your days steady and a hoagie keeps your soul bright, maybe the best choice is the one you’ll still look forward to unwrapping.
If you had to pick your one-and-only daily dish, what would you choose—and why? Tap follow, share this with a friend who has strong sandwich opinions, and leave a quick review to help more curious eaters find us.
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Welcome back to the Trout Stream. It's a little fishing after work. Paul, explain what fishing after work is to our new listeners.
SPEAKER_00:Fishing after work. This is not a full numbered episode. This is just a 35-45-minute conversation between two brothers. We're going to laugh the whole time. We're going to have a great time. Just sit back and relax and listen in and enjoy the show.
SPEAKER_01:You get done work at five. Wife says dinner will be done at 6:30. I got time to hit the creek after work. Yeah. Drop a line, searching for that beautiful golden trout. Anyway, here we are. Listen, we uh we're a segmented show. We don't have segments on fishing after work. It's just you and I talking. And we were talking today, and you brought up an amazing question, and I said, we're gonna hold that because if we do a full show, if we only do a fishing after work, I want to talk about this with you, not just on our text. Right. You said replace any meal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and you have to eat the same thing for the rest of your life. Couple questions for you. I'm in. I got a couple answers for you.
SPEAKER_00:Do I have to make the food or will the food be provided? Well, that is a phenomenal question. And I'm going to say it's like prison, it's made for you. Okay. Second question.
SPEAKER_01:Do special do I still have to follow along during special occasions? Well, you're talking about big holidays, like the big five.
SPEAKER_00:No. You know what? That's your exception. Your your holidays and birthday. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Now, final question. It shouldn't be death, but if I intentionally skip a meal of my choice, what is the punishment?
SPEAKER_00:Uh, you'll be cattle prodded within 24 hours.
SPEAKER_01:I was just thinking you had to eat plain oatmeal three meals a day for a week if you skip. Wow.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, I don't know which one I'd rather take. Do I want to get cattle prodded one time? Or do I want to have 21 plain oatmeals? Yeah, I don't know. That's that's vicious. I'm so sorry. Like, what would you do? Okay, you have to eat seven days worth of oatmeal, three meals a day. Or you have to eat 21 oatmeals. I'd be like, load up my bowl right now. I'm gonna eat 21 plain oatmeals right now, and let's uh let's get this over with.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'm just thinking about it. I think this is gonna be smart for me. And I think the best call is breakfast. Now, this is just for me. This is for me. Ange, my wife, does not care for breakfast food that much.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Like she could wake up and eat a salad for breakfast. I think it's completely weird. I work with a guy like that. Yeah, it's fine. There's a lot of people like that. She thinks I'm weird because I'd prefer breakfast food in the morning, lunch and dinner, but I can't wake up and eat a cheesesteak. That's disgusting to me.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:All right. I'm in the land of cheesesteaks. You're not. There's a little bit of a difference there.
SPEAKER_00:Duche, yes.
SPEAKER_01:I saw the puzzled look on your face.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I think I am going breakfast.
SPEAKER_00:I believe that's a great answer.
SPEAKER_01:My problem is I don't know what I want. Because it's the same thing. So I imagine a McDonald's big breakfast is not the go-to answer because that's that's a lot of calories. But I don't want to go something super healthy like an egg whitened spinach feta tomato omelet.
SPEAKER_00:No, because as good as that sounds, it's not every day. No.
SPEAKER_01:Every day. That's the problem. It's every day.
SPEAKER_00:The spinach will get tiring.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. I can only be Popeye for so long. Right. I think you tried to make this very complex, and I'm just going to simplize it. I'm going to go with a big bowl of fruity peppers. I think that's my safe answer. That is a safe answer. Now, my unsafe answer is a fresh egg salad sandwich for lunch on fresh white bread.
SPEAKER_00:Oh man, I wasn't even going down that road. But ladies and gentlemen, we've hit our exit and we're going to do 88 miles an hour down this road right now. I'm in.
SPEAKER_01:Like, lunch is packed, you're done. It's easy. Here you go. Here's your lunch. Egg salad sandwich. Egg salad sandwich and chips. Now, we're agreeing it's the same thing for all three meals. No, no, no. One meal. So one of your three meals gets replaced by. So you can pick breakfast, you can prunch, you can pick dinner, but you have to eat the same thing for the rest of your life.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, dude, this is easy. I can do all three meals. No, you just have to do one. No, I can do all three. Go on. Give me a sandwich. Are you going peanut butter and jelly? So, like for me, I want to say for lunch every single day I can eat Italian hoagie. Right. See? Hot and sweet peppers. Do you do oil, vinegar, and mayo or just oil and vinegar? Just oil and vinegar. Do mayo too. Actually, I got it. I had an Italian hoagie from the commissary today for lunch. But they their oil and vinegar is not the same. So I got it with the red onions. I throw jalapenos on there because it's the closest thing. They have the hot peppers. Yeah. And I'm like, uh, throw me some of that boar's head honey mustard on there because you're not going to not. Uh if there wasn't such a long line behind me to those listeners from the greatest Commonwealth in the Union, we'll understand what Seltzer's Lebanon Baloney is, but it was in the display case, completely sealed still, unopened. The whole log. The whole log. I wanted to ask how much of the whole log, but I was like, there's a whole line of people behind me. Yeah, you should have been like, what can you do? Uh can you give me a deal on the log? Can you just cut that log in half, long style, throw some honey mustard behind in the middle of it, and just close it up. No bread. Just no bread. You know what I'm saying? So the only meal you're gonna replace is breakfast.
SPEAKER_01:Right. I feel like that's the easiest choice. I'm agree. I agree with that.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, if somebody's making it for me, you remember the old Sun Gate Diner used to have the uh the two two two two two deal. It was actually the number six. Two pancakes, two eggs, two bacon, two sausage. I could do that every morning.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but that goes back to the calorie intake every day.
SPEAKER_00:You're doing that. I could not eat lunch. Boom. Give me the all-star special from Waffle House. You don't have a gun. Give me that waffle crispy. Give me those two eggs over easy. Give me my hash browns covered, smothered, and chopped. You don't go chunked? Which one's chunked? That tomato? Ham. Ham. That's what I meant. When I say chopped.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I don't know if chopp's one or not.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'll do the ham. That's what I mean. Onions, cheese, ham. Yeah, I can do that. Yeah, that's a great one. Now, question for uh everybody else here, the judges. Beverage. Is it beverage of choice? Yeah, I mean the same, same beverage. Okay, coffee it is. All right, every day. I mean, nothing changes with me. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01:I think, yeah, I'd go Duncan ice latte, caramel ice latte.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Now that's where you pick up your caloric intake. For me, I just want regular coffee, sugar-free French vanilla creamer, called a day.
SPEAKER_01:That's the thing, is like you can have that anytime.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but oh, you know what? Check, check, check, break, break, break. I know what it is. Hang on. I'll eat anything for breakfast. I'll skip breakfast. As long as I can get this for lunch every day. You give me a large Geek Costanzas, Italian hoagie. Oil and vinegar, hot and sweet peppers. I want to just every day at 11:30, me eating lunch. I want the wax paper when I get it to I feel the oil and vinegar on the bottom of the wax paper.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:And Harry, if it is unlimited, like death row meal. This is my death row meal, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. If I ever go on death row, don't even bother looking it up. You know what I'm getting. Because then with that, I am getting a very large. The largest you can get, which is a half gallon, Wawa Lemon Tea. If I can have those two things every single day for lunch, I'm the happiest guy in the world.
SPEAKER_01:Buddy, this is a podcast. It's not church, but you are preaching right now.
SPEAKER_00:This was 0% in my brain before this conversation started, but I don't know why. I really just want that right now in my life. It's not even every day, it's right now. You know, there I listen sandwiches. I'm gonna go off on a tangent here. There was one time you and I were hanging out a while back, a long time ago. And Sabrino goes, Hey, how was it? And I was like, uh, it was probably one of the greatest days ever. She goes, What did you guys do? I said, I don't know, I had three sandwiches today. She goes, What? I was like, I had three sandwiches today. She goes, Can you please elaborate on that? I was like, oh, easy. Uh I had a breakfast sandwich for breakfast. Uh, lunch, I had an Italian hoagie. And for dinner, I had a meatball sub. Yeah. Now, now tell me why I say meatball sub, but Italian hoagie. You know what's funny? I say that too. Everyone says that. It's something, is it because of the meatballs in there that are making it a sub? Because like to me, you tell me hoagie, I'm thinking, oh, dude, we're going way. This is why it's fishing at the work. We're going out of the cast. Do I call it a hoagie because it's got the deli meat and the cheese? Or is it the temperature? One's hot, one's cold. Okay. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Now, likely, obviously, everyone's been toast and everything.
SPEAKER_00:Now, what if you uh what if you want to get a meatball sandwich on uh what they call the hoagie roll? You say, hey man, throw in some uh some pepperoni.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe that's a meatball sub with pepperoni.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe some slices of ham. And some American cheese in there.
SPEAKER_01:That's just disgusting.
SPEAKER_00:I saw a guy at the local deli ordering that the other week, and I thought he was weird. The local deli was called Subway. But anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Well, hold on. I knew a guy that e ate lettuce and tomato on his like a hoagie. So it'll be hot meatballs and sauce with lettuce and tomato. No. Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_00:Was that an MLT? I didn't I didn't like it. No. Like, you're not gonna replace the bacon and a BLT with meatballs. And then he he asked me, he's like, You never had it this way? And I was like, No, because I'm a red-blooded American and I don't think that's appropriate. Don't look at me like I'm the weirdo here, bud. Like, did your summer crops come in of your tomatoes and lettuce and be like, well, Bessie's down. Now we got meatballs, we got tomatoes. What are we gonna do? Put it on a sandwich. No, it doesn't work that way. Did he eat it on regular water bread too? No, it was a it was a hoagie roll.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, okay, okay. I have two funny wappa house stories, if you would let me. I am intrigued. Josh, Blake, and I went to the Middletown Delaware Whopper House at like 2 a.m. Oh, good time. Great time. And it was just the cook. There was no server, it was just the cook. It was like a Wednesday night on top of that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So we get our we get our food spot on, of course. And then like we're getting ready to leave, and the cook was like, hey man, you guys could like hang out here if you want. He's like, you know, you pretty much could just sit here and hang out. It got really creepy really quick. All right. And he's like, you can practically do whatever you want. You ready? Watch this. And I I I I don't know how he did it so seriously, but he he just went, leadl. See, at the top of his lungs. Oh my gosh. To which made me want to leave that much faster. No, yeah, it makes me want to get out of there.
SPEAKER_00:Uh ASAP.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. The second time I was down in North Carolina, went to a waffle house, and uh there was no menus near me. So the server came over and she goes, you know, what are you drinking? I told her sweet tea. And then she's like, she looked at me and she goes, Do you need a menu? And I was like, Yeah, you know what? No, actually, I know what I'm getting. She goes, I thought so. And I thought that was the rudest thing that has ever happened to me. You uh frequent this establishment? No, not that one.
SPEAKER_00:Not really, but all right. I was curious how much the All-Star Special is gonna be.
SPEAKER_01:And she was like, I didn't think so.
SPEAKER_00:What do you have? And I literally said All-Star Special. I didn't know they had anything else on the menu, even though I've read the menu every time I'm there.
SPEAKER_01:I I took Ange to a Waffle House once, and she said she'll never go back. Yeah. And she brought up a very valid point. She goes, Except for the lettuce and tomato on the burger and potatoes and their home price. What other vegetables do they have? I was like, I was looking. I was looking. Now this is just after COVID, so obviously their menu slimmed down a bit. Yeah. Nothing. They had lettuce, tomato, and potatoes. Uh do they have pickles? Ooh. I didn't think about pickles.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. And then the potatoes in their hash browns. Yeah, well, no potatoes. She did say potatoes. Okay. And uh what about bacon? Onion?
SPEAKER_01:Bacon's bacon's not a vegetable.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, well, my bacon eats vegetables, so therefore I classify it as a vegetable. Yeah, she uh she has no interest to ever go back. I get that. I know some people that don't like uh 24-7 venues, a Waffle House or a What? Really? Well, when do they clean them? But I'm like, they have downtime. At 4 a.m., dude. Yeah. Uh between 3 and 4 a.m., they get deep cleaned. Do you know why the floor is always sticky at Waffle House? Because that's the soap they just used.
SPEAKER_01:They just used it and it's not syrup.
SPEAKER_00:I watched D V Ray mop this floor before I walked in because I slid three booths down going, well, I guess I'm sitting at this one.
SPEAKER_01:When I was 19, uh driving down to Dallas, and I don't know if it was Ohio, Illinois, somewhere around there. Yep, makes sense. All the same. Stop at a Waffle House. And the guy looks at me and he goes, Smoking or not? So we obviously said non-smoking. But we grew up in Delaware, you could still smoke in restaurants for the longest time. Yeah. PA, it kind of stopped quick. I don't think I remember going Delphina.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Delaware, Delaware's one of the first states to ban smoking in restaurants. Is that what it was? Yeah, Delaware was the first because I remember that's why Pop always wanted to go to Delaware. And dad's, that's why we went to Delaware a lot. And then PA was a couple years after that.
SPEAKER_01:Right. That's why one of the reasons why we went to Lasta Pasta.
SPEAKER_00:First off, because the name and uh it's really good.
SPEAKER_01:It was really good. RIP. So not only was I still mind blown that they allowed smoking, what blew my mind even more was that in a waffle house, they have a smoking and non-smoking section. A waffle house is 10 feet by 15 feet, including the kitchen. Right. What do you mean, smoking or not? A Waffle House is the uh shipping container. They should just be like, do you want an ashtray or not? Yeah. Please don't use the coffee mugs.
SPEAKER_00:Do you want to be by the door or furthest away from the door? Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay. Are you gonna use your coffee mug as an ashtray? That's all I want to know. Now, Harry, in all of your Waffle House adventures, how much Waffle House swag do you have?
SPEAKER_01:That really upsets me that I don't own anything Waffle House.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's tough. So early on in my career, Vegas on the West Coast, we didn't have much, right? We didn't have a Chick-fil-A. We didn't have we didn't have an In N Out in Vegas, but definitely we did not have a Waffle House. I don't know if they've got one now. I have no idea. I haven't checked. So whenever we would go down to the East Coast, you know, down to the Florida area, it was a big thing for us. Like, we're getting Chick-fil-A and we're going to Waffle House. Between the hours of midnight and 11:59 p.m., we were going to Waffle House at least once, if not twice. Actually, there's one time we were down there in our hotel parking lot, had a Waffle House, so we ate there uh multiple meals a day. Oh, you're not gonna not. You're not gonna not. And so I had a boss, he's like, Man, you know, I was in Florida, you know, I was around somewhere with a Waffle House, and he goes, I enjoy their coffee. Like they had some of the best coffee, but I can never get a coffee mug. And I was like, Bet. Younger, I was like, Bet, I got you. So we went after a night out. We're all sitting there, I got my all-star special, I got my good meal, I'm feeling happy. And I look at the waitress and I got my coffee mug. Now mine's just like three o'clock in the morning, two or three in the morning. I'm getting ready to walk back to my hotel. She goes, You want your coffee to go? And I was like, Absolutely, I'll take it to go king, top it off. She's like, I'm talking about actual coffee cup, like it's a go cut. I was like, Yeah, you're right. How much do you want for this coffee mug? And Misty looks at me dead in the eye and said, Sweetheart, I got a couple hundred of them here. They ain't gonna notice that one missing. To which then I was like, that's weird. Because if I wanted to uh just pocket it, I was gonna pocket it and walk out. I legitimately was gonna buy it for somebody as a gift, saying, I told you I can get I can prove a point. But when Misty was like, just walk out with it and don't look back, and I was like, all right. Harry, that mug is still in my cabinet to this day.
SPEAKER_01:Don't like how small they are though.
SPEAKER_00:Nah.
SPEAKER_01:I will knock them for that.
SPEAKER_00:No, it's it's good when you're there. Yeah, it's perfect when you're there. It's not a home mug. It's not a home mug. I will say that. It's not a uh Sunday morning before church. Let me go check on my garden. Like, by the time I pour it and I get to my back door, you've been in my house. That's uh maybe 13 steps. Somehow my mug is empty. Yeah. I don't get it. But I don't know the science behind a diner coffee and coffee mug combo, but the coffee is drinkable faster than it is at home.
SPEAKER_01:Really is. Well, not only that, but I think it's also easier because there's someone right there to fill it up for you. True, right? And it's usually uh Brenda. Deborah. So we were sitting here talking. I hopped on their website. I mean, their hats are like 25 bucks.
SPEAKER_00:Not bad. No. Like down here in northwest Louisiana with our storm drawing in. I know to panic if my Waffle House closes. Dude, have you been on the Waffle House's website?
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so there's a Waffle House nightlight, which plugs in and then it looks like a sign. Oh man. Uh little tumbler, 18 bucks. Igloop cooler, 60 bucks, stainless steel tumbler, 25. Keychain,$3. You know, a little some things are a little pricey, some things are right on the money, right? Mm-hmm. First off, your mug was$12 in 2025 money.
SPEAKER_00:Holy smokes.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, pickleball set.$180. I don't need all that. That's a lot. Also, they sell sports sleeves that say Waffle House on them.
SPEAKER_00:Well, if you're sponsoring me.
SPEAKER_01:If you're sponsoring me, I'm wearing that all day, every day.
SPEAKER_00:I'm gonna dunk on somebody while wearing that.
SPEAKER_01:That is a lot of money for a pickleball set. But you can get the girls' waffle house youth princess shirts. They're pink. It says Waffle House Princess. You can get three of them.
SPEAKER_00:I'm in. Because that sounds like a great idea. Now, I think we need to go back to the original question. You replaced one meal. Could you eat that meal three times a day? Yeah, I mean, uh really in the ground rules. No, but like the uh for fantasy football leagues where like the last place guy, have you heard about the waffle challenge? Go on. It's uh you gotta sit in a waffle house for 24 hours, but for every waffle you eat, it knocks an hour off of your time. Where's the downside? I haven't seen it yet. Like, I want to join one of these leagues, be like, all right, well now you gotta sit in this waffle house for 24 hours, and you can't leave until the 24 hours is up, or you eat one hot dog or one uh waffle knocks off an hour and be like, all right. Like I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01:I'm with the number one pick. Uh I think I'm gonna take uh Jake Elliott from the uh Philadelphia Eagles kicker.
SPEAKER_00:I'm gonna take uh the Cleveland Browns defense. Yeah, okay. Like, uh, who you gonna take? How about you give me all the New York Jets starting players right now? That's all I want.
SPEAKER_01:Questions asked.
SPEAKER_00:What about bye week? Meet Jacksonville guys as my backup, dude.
SPEAKER_01:That's not a punishment for you and her. Like who's paying for it is all I want to know. You probably have to pay for it too. I mean, that's gotta be part punishment, right?
SPEAKER_00:Probably, but I'd be like, nah, man, leak fees cover that. League fees should cover the but then again, technically you're still paying.
SPEAKER_01:So I mean, I would put an extra 10, 20 bucks in a league if that was the punishment.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know, you gotta tell your family, hey guys, sorry. I can't come home for dinner tonight. I'll see you in 24 hours. I gotta do my punishment. Dude, don't do the crime, can't do the time. I should not have picked the Jets starting defense as my quarterback. Nah, that is what it is. You walk in there and be like, Deborah, go and fire up five of them waffles for me. You know, I'm getting out here early. I'm home here.
SPEAKER_01:Man, I'm so glad we did a waffle.
SPEAKER_00:I just don't get why people don't like Waffle House. You know, I don't want to keep just jumping on this train. So when I drove here, when I moved here in 2018, I drove 30 hours from Sacramento, California area to here. 30 hours. I drove down to uh about nine, 10 hours Seed Regan, hung out with her. And then it was 20 hours from Lake Abbasuda here. I stopped in Amarillo, Texas. Now bear with me here, because as I was driving there, I waited for one very, very important text message or a Facebook post to say, Amarillo by morning. And I got there. And me and the rock star at Waffle House that morning. Like I pulled into the hotel, we go to leave right there by the on-ramp to the hotel or highway was a Waffle House. So I go inside. Rock's hanging out in the truck, he's chilling. I remember ordering my all-star special. And as I sat there and ordered, and I looked at the lady right before I I mean, I think I might have got mine to go. Whatever it was, I was like, oh, can I also get three scrambled eggs uh with one piece of cheese on top to go? And the lady looks at me and goes, you must be hungry. I said, Well, well, yes, I am, but uh, so is he. And I pointed out the window, and there's Rock, my big dumb buddy, with his head out the window, just staring at everybody, like, hey, yeah, uh, he's got a 12-hour car ride today as well. So he's a little hungry. And I get into town here, I get to Shreeport Bozier area, and I get off the exit, and the first thing I see at the exit is so I got to the hotel, drop him off, drop all my stuff, and I literally turn around and went to that Waffle House. Smart. And did the same thing. I ordered, I mean, I know it was dinner time, but I ordered breakfast, and I was like, Can I also get three scrambled eggs or cheese to go? Surprisingly, they did not uh question me at all. No. Weird. You'd rather have a good diner or a waffle house.
SPEAKER_01:A good diner. Really? See, maybe maybe it's because you have Waffle House all the time, and I have diners all the time. Because I'd take waffle.
SPEAKER_00:For me, I can get a waffle at a diner. I can't get pancakes at Waffle House.
SPEAKER_01:True, but the consistency is better at a Waffle House.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, you're not wrong. You are not wrong.
SPEAKER_01:Sometimes pancakes are spot on, sometimes they're the best of your life, and sometimes they are not that great.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but a diner, you also have multiple options. I can sit at the bar, I can get a booth, or I can get a table. True. Waffle House, it's uh do you want a booth? Or do you want to fight over these four seats at the bar? They're always taken. Always taken. Or they're not taken when you have a group of four. You're like, no, no, no, we were looking to sit at the booth and uh converse. And they're like, hmm, well, it's uh the bar or nothing. Well, folks, we're sitting at the bar and we're gonna try and talk over everybody.
SPEAKER_01:Then diner, you can get cream chip beef over a Belgian waffle, which has been my new go-to breakfast order. Yes. The I don't know if it's a sweet and salty thing. I don't know what it is, but buddy, when I tell you it hits so well. So well. I don't it it's the most mind-blowing thing.
SPEAKER_00:It's money. Like, think about it. That's you you took the wind from my sales, but you gave me new life with this conversation, Harry. It's almost like I'm trying to drop in song lyrics, but I'm not. With a diner, I have multiple options. I go to Waffle House, obviously I'm getting waffle, I'm getting a hash brown. Do I want sausage, bacon, or a hamsteak? Take those three options. Now go to a diner. And do I want cream chip beef? Do I want sausage gravy? Scrapple? Pork roll? Do I want scrapple? Or do I want three pieces of pork roll in the side? You know what I'm saying, Harry? Like, yeah. What I my dream is to open a diner. I mean, obviously, not really, because I don't want to cook for all these people, but to encourage somebody locally to open a diner here and name it something diner, Pete's Diner, I don't care what it is, but have pork roll and scrapple readily available daily, Harry. I would finance that diner.
SPEAKER_01:Well, there's a plot of land next to the casino by me.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm like perfect waffle house spot.
SPEAKER_00:Right off the turnpike. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Right off the turnpike.
SPEAKER_00:You remember uh Aunt Jean's old diner set up, what it used to be? Yeah. Used to be in one of those uh silver, what are those trailers called? And it looked like down there, dude. You would make so much money. I'd make a kill. Remember the pan. Oh, you know what? Let's reel it in, Harry. Let's talk about the first time. Me and you went that we remember. It was me, you and Dad. We went, we're going up to Pops. And I was like, I want a short second pancakes. And you were like, yeah, I do too. I want blueberries on mine. I was like, great idea, Harry. I want strawberries. The waitress goes to dad, do they know what they're getting into? They're gonna learn today. And little did we understand. We must have been like, I don't know, seven and twelve. I was young. What did they say? What was the old adage? We were young and dumb. Yes. Because we didn't listen to anybody. And one single pancake is the size of a hubcat.
SPEAKER_01:No joke. It is a small pizza.
SPEAKER_00:No, no, yeah. There's zero line here. Medium pizza. And a short stack is three. Which, first off, nobody's ever explained to me what a stack is. You always get a short stack, which is three. Is short half or short like a third? I don't know. Because like six or nine.
SPEAKER_01:A tall stack is normally three or four. Why would you call it a short stack if it's three?
SPEAKER_00:You shouldn't. That was them. No, you should call it a stack. Yeah. But anyway, uh, between Harry and I, I don't know if we finished one pancake. And we had a lot of leftovers to eat for that weekend. We had a lot of work to do at Pop's house. And boy, did we put in work and we had a lot of pancakes.
SPEAKER_01:You know, it being kids and dad said, I'll never forget dad looking at us and going, Are you sure? And I've never seen dad do that before. Like, no, are you sure?
SPEAKER_00:That is never he gave us the full option. And dad's not the type of guy to give you a second option.
SPEAKER_01:No. And we were like, I don't believe you.
SPEAKER_00:Sure as anything, it was so much pancake. Because the three of us sitting in a booth, and like we had to adjust our seating in the booth just so you can I can have our pancakes in front of us. And of course we got toppings. Which look back, Dad's like, are you sure I'm not paying an extra five bucks for all the strawberries and blueberries that you guys aren't gonna eat? That's probably what it was. And but we had that for lunch and dinner for the next two days.
SPEAKER_01:Dad, I'm hungry. You got pancake in there.
SPEAKER_00:And we ate all of it.
SPEAKER_01:No, we didn't. We did not. No. Tonight, tonight for dinner, we got hibachi to go. Ooh. It's like twice the amount of food for the same price. Really? Yeah. It was like double the food.
SPEAKER_00:But like half the bar, you know, the flaming volcano?
SPEAKER_01:No flaming volcano. So I did take a big lighter and I I lit it in front of Benjamin went, woo. Yeah, I have a train whistle and everything at my house. That makes sense. So do you have the uh the clear squirt bottles for oil, but you you spill it up with water sprayer in the face with it. And Harry's helpful hint here is you can buy, I don't know why this was never put into my brain, and I feel like I discovered this great thing, but you can buy Christmas gift sets for yourself. Yes. And I bought this uh I don't have a Blackstone, but I bought a Blackstone kit. It was like$55 worth of stuff for like 20 bucks. And it came with three of those bottles. So I lit the bick and I squirt it, water at Ange, and I tossed her a shrimp. It was, you know, we made the best of it.
SPEAKER_00:That's a great time. The dog cut the shrimp, though. Ah, that makes sense. With that, be sure to follow us on Facebook at the TroutStream. Look, we have a group and we have a page. Now we are high flying here. Follow that page for the most up-to-date information. And also follow us on Instagram and Twitter at TroutStreamPod. That's right, TroutStreamPod. Three words. Leave a rating review on whatever stream platform you list to us from. Listen, as you're fishing after work, listening to some fishing after work. Leave us those five stars. Not only we get better fish next time you're out there fishing, moves us up the charts, everybody's happier. The best way, Harry, the absolute best way. To expand Trot streams by word of mouth from listeners like you. Tell your friends, family, coworkers. Harry, who else? 50 cents. Tell my Shrepour buddy 50 cents about your new favorite podcast.
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