In honor of National Fast Food Day: What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
@GaryPoole: Does Waffle House count?
@thedisasterautist Waffle House fits in the diner category, not fast food. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist Who does make these rules?
I find culture and language fascinating in this way, there is this subconscious gestalt that exists by which we interpret elements of our world.
This is one of the reasons why I love GIF’s so much. The first forms of writing were pictographic. The world now has a unified meta-culture via the internet and mass communication, enabling a new form of pictographic communication.
@NiveusLepus I think the accepted distinction between fast food and diners are drive thru windows and table service. A fast food place has the former but not then latter, while a diner is the reverse.
@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist But Chik-fil-a and a few other fast food restaurants do offer a type of table service.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: Waffle House doesn't have drive-thrus, and Waffle House's food preparation is different from McDonald's, Chik-Fil-A, Little Ceasar's, KFC, etc. Hence, diner.
@thedisasterautist @GaryPoole I feel like we are all working on a philosophical treatise on American Restaurants.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: That said, I do often pick up on various distinctions in all manner of things quite quickly, including languages and usages, including subconventions, regionalisms, etc.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: It's already a well-established set of distinctions. I learned it by the time I was an eighth-grader or maybe a ninth-grader, and I lived in a rural mill town.