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    Emerald D.V.Hamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:04am

    This is what you get for leaving the South, where there is an existing way to get cheap food 24 hours a day, along with plenty of local color.

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      TheGreenBuildingEmerald D.V.
      3/01/16 11:09am

      Floridian here. Emphasis on the local color; good old Waffle House gets fascinating after the bars kick everyone out.

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      AcrobackEmerald D.V.
      3/01/16 11:10am

      The above has been designated: REAL TALK

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:13am

    First of all, you order biscuits and gravy at a diner, not an omelette.

    Second, this is a NY problem, not a nationwide problem. Corned beef hash is like $6 at any diner in the Midwest.

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      hntergrenEatTheCheeseNicholson
      3/01/16 11:21am

      It’s not just a New York problem, and, like everything that is “better” in the Midwest, the downside is that you have to live in the midwest.

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      Theburnerabideshntergren
      3/01/16 11:25am

      HA fucking HA so funny I had to comment, gawd.

      back to my meth

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    Group B-raaaaaaaaaap!Hamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:00am

    This has been another episode of Hamilton Nolan’s seminal series: “Everything you once liked is bad now.”

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      hntergrenGroup B-raaaaaaaaaap!
      3/01/16 11:04am

      He’s not wrong though...

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      Stephen Dowling BottsGroup B-raaaaaaaaaap!
      3/01/16 11:07am

      And that mocking, faux-naif shit writer tone affectation. Nails on a chalkboard.

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    brendon bHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:04am

    Like all things in New York City, diners are expensive because rent is expensive. If you want diners to exist in New York City, you have to be okay with the fact that they’re going to charge you ten dollars for an omelet with hash browns or eleven dollars for a club sandwich with fries. It’s better that than that diner closing and a Citibank going in its place.

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      hntergrenbrendon b
      3/01/16 11:14am

      You make a good point, but it’s not just NYC. Diners in Philly are expensive, diners in Jersey are expensive, diners upstate are expensive...

      Another thing, Diners in NYC aren’t even priced proportionally to rents in their neighborhoods—diners in crown heights are just as expensive as diners in williamsburg...

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      fully nude GOP dudehntergren
      3/01/16 11:16am

      Diners in Minnesota are like $2.75 for an omelet, full breakfast with unlimited coffee for $5.25

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    WhatthefoxsaysHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:00am

    I grew up in NJ, which claims to have some sort of ownership of the diner concept, and I have to agree. I spent many Friday nights wondering why I was paying $12 for a pizzaburger that was thawed just before I ate it.

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      ThrumbolioWhatthefoxsays
      3/01/16 11:02am

      Once they banned smoking in diners (IMO, half the fucking point of Jersey diners), I stopped going. I can (and do) make disco fries at home.

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      FuckingOffatWorkWhatthefoxsays
      3/01/16 11:03am

      New Jersey thinks all sorts of stupid shit about itself, but that doesn’t make it so

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    benjaminalloverHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:06am

    Fascinating. In rural Ontario the diners are cheaper than fast food chains.

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      hntergrenbenjaminallover
      3/01/16 11:09am

      Canada is looking better every day...

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      benjaminalloverhntergren
      3/01/16 11:12am

      We’re doing okay.

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    etfpHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:16am

    You spend $10-$15 dollars on BRUNCH?! That’s a goddamn lie. The bottomless mimosa/bloody mary/moscow mules are at least $10 bucks straight up.

    I went to a diner this past weekend (I’m in Chicago) and spent 10 bucks. This included bottomless coffee.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4etfp
      3/01/16 11:26am

      A&T Pancake House FTW. 3 eggs and four sausage links WITH fruit and toast... $6.65.

      This article needs to be re-titled “New York City hipster diners are too expensive.”

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      NicoEvenBaggierTrousers4
      3/01/16 12:21pm

      I feel like no one in NYC should be able to complain about prices being too high in such a general way. Yea, it's NYC, shit is expensive, get over it or move. Does he honestly expect an NYC diner to be able to charge normal diner prices?

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    SoapBoxcarWillieHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:10am

    There’s always a cheap option, like a breakfast of two eggs any style, toast and hash browns for like $6. But, if HamNo wants to get fancy with his eggs benedict and upgrade to the bruleed grapefruit half, it’s gonna cost you.

    Maybe this is because I limit myself to only the best diners out there, and so I always walk away satisfied and unsure how they put out the food for the price they charge. Plus, you only ever need to order one item, not like some “small plates” spot where you have to order like 3 plates per person.

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      Kerberos824SoapBoxcarWillie
      3/01/16 11:25am

      My favorite diner still has a lumberjack special, which is three pancakes, three eggs, hash browns, two pieces of bacon, two pieces of sausage and three pieces of toast. It’s $10.95. And enough food for 3 normal people or one extremely hung over one. This is Albany, so yeah, it’s cheaper here I guess. But my favorite breakfast joint in NYC is 18.95 for dope ass eggs benedict and prosciutto with legit bottomless mimosas. Maybe HamNo forgot that its not 1987 anymore.

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      NicoKerberos824
      3/01/16 12:16pm

      Albany has some sweet diners. I’m a little north and the closest place (Halfmoon diner) is overpriced with "meh" food, but fortunately you've got malta diner just to the north and a wide array of diners in Albany right to the south. Though I love hitting up the diners when I'm visiting my family (northwest), rural/economically depressed areas have the best diners.

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    Jonathon BoothHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:05am

    There are still good and cheap diners. The best diner in the Tri-state area is the Star Diner at 66 1/2 E. Post Road in White Plains. The prices are very cheap and it’s only closed for a half day on Christmas and a half day on Thanksgiving.

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      AcrobackJonathon Booth
      3/01/16 11:11am

      They’re rarely in urban areas, though. I don’t doubt that that diner is tasty, but there’s nothing reasonable in NY, Jersey City, or Hoboken; even Newark gets a little gnarly at times.

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      LandycakebossAcroback
      3/01/16 11:21am

      Newark is getting gentrified as fuck. They have an artisanal pizza shop now!

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    ninjaginHamilton Nolan
    3/01/16 11:33am

    No. You are flat wrong. Diners are not too expensive. The price reflects the cost of running the place. Nobody starts a diner and sits back to enjoy the ceaseless flow of immense gobs of cash it generates.

    • If you want people to have jobs without starving...
    • If you want to have a sit-down place of business in your town, open at all hours, instead of a waffle house...
    • If you want to half-decent food served to you at fast convenience...

    ... you need to pay for it, or you need to cook your own damn food at home. It’s that simple.

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      festivusazilininjagin
      3/01/16 11:39am

      Maybe these diners HamNo eats at have been paying the $15/hr wage he’s been aching for...

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      ninjaginfestivusazili
      3/01/16 11:42am

      The hypocrisy is almost too much to believe.

      I nearly swooned in amazement that he’d even write such a thing.

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