that was the most fun ... as a “””YANK””” walking in to a Waffle House, everyone there, of course, noticed immediately.
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As a New Yorker (without accent) I had the ‘chickory coffee’ experience in LA back when I was 19 and in the Navy. I ordered coffee black, got a strange look and was asked strong or mild. Being a New York/USN ‘know it all’, “Why STRONG, what do you think”. Wrong answer, but hardheaded me ended up drinking 3 cups of that ‘stuff’ that will show `em.
About the ‘Waffle House’ or ‘all night diner’, even today, in say GA or ALA - when you get (way) off the Interstate you are sure to draw out the local ‘night shift’ PD to ‘get an eye on that flatlander’ etc etc...
I was in Terrell County GA around 3AM and stopped in a local all night eatery wearing my USS Terrell County (LST1157) cap and became ‘quite the celebrity’ after much ‘questioning’ etc...the deputy (and diner) even ended up paying for my breakfast....
Terrell county...home of Dawson and Sasser Georgia.