The Waffle House and oyster-dressing dreams

By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s Thanksgiving, so, naturally, I’m writing about Waffle House.Believe it or not, and defying all odds, I ate there on Tuesday for the first time in about a year. My breakfast hangout was always Steamers until it stopped being a breakfast hangout. Then it stopped being open at all for …

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‘Happy Thanksgiving from the Fam-uhhhh-leeeeee’

Clinton, South Carolina, Friday, November 23, 2018, 8:46 a.m. When Ray Phillips was a child, he realized that Betty Dutton’s oyster dressing was a national treasure, not to mention a rare and precious thing. Ray is my nephew. Betty is my mother and his grandmother. Ginger Sacarrere is his mother and my sister. For two …

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