@GaryPoole: Okay. Then I will have to go with Zaxby's.

Tasty chicken and crinkle-cut fries.

Can't go wrong there.

@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 @GaryPoole: Well, Gary made the rules about his question. He asked specifically about fast food. For myself, I was unsure whether or not Waffle House qualified, seeing as how WH is usually classified by the majority of people not as fast food but, as he said, a diner. I asked for clarification so I could answer his question properly.

@thedisasterautist @GaryPoole This is fair! I should have looked further back. This is the result of me not looking before I leap. ^_^

@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: The first writing was indeed pictographic, but the foundation was spoken language of some kind. Humans had to communicate on the go, i.e., when they didn't have cave walls, rocks, or sand/mud to draw/etch on/into. The pictographs represented the spoken words/terms/phrases, and later written language was developed therefrom.

@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.

/ @thedisasterautist

@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist But Chik-fil-a and a few other fast food restaurants do offer a type of table service.

@NiveusLepus by table service, I mean severs who bring menus to you, take your order, and then deliver your food to your table.

/ @thedisasterautist

@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist Ah fair point!

“So what important thing did you chat about on #CoSo today?”

“Well, we had a long discussion on the differences between fast food places and diners.”

“Umm… okay.”

😎

@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: 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.

@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.