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‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Tackles Baffling Waffle House Trainee Videos: “Dinner At The Fyre Festival”
John Oliver kicked off 'Last Week Tonight' with an extended segment on hurricane season and the unofficial Waffle House Index.
Throughout the introductory bit, Oliver joshed everything and everyone from Dancing With the Stars to president Joe Biden, with a number of minutes dedicated to Southern breakfast food joint Waffle House, the Index of which serves as an unofficial but much relied-upon metric by FEMA categorizing the severity of extreme weather storms. The Waffle House Index, originated by the government and coined circa 20 years ago, is based on the restaurant chain’s business strategy of staying open as much as possible, knowing that profits increase before and after climate catastrophes. Oliver pointed to the irony that the chain’s open doors signify a beacon of hope of sorts during hurricane season when the establishment otherwise embodies chaos with frequent patron brawls and “staggering variations of hash brown bowls, described by Waffle House as ‘the jazz music of the breakfast scene,’ which I guess makes sense because, like jazz, the idea of a hash brown bowl sounds fun but what you actually experience is, you think to yourself, ‘There is too much going on here and I’m not sure I’m enjoying any of it.
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