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Middle of Anywhere, America. [OC] (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Technically, Vandalia, Ohio. But I really like the "anywhere-ness" feel of this image!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK, how... unless you are one of those geoguesser nuts?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The street address (380) is visible in the picture. Google says there are only two Waffle Houses with a street address of 380, and the picture doesn't match the one in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Actually, when the results first came up, the states weren't in the list, just the towns, and for a moment I was delighted and hopeful this was a Waffle House in Lebanon, Kansas, which would've made this post a delicious layered piece of image+commentary!! [The "middle of America" is just outside Lebanon, Kansas.] But alas, the Lebanon Waffle House is in Tennessee, and this image isn't even of that Waffle House, dashing my dreams of delicious and layered meta-imagery ....