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a grid that turned breakfast into an efficient syrup-delivery system, no notes required.
means A grid-patterned batter cake cooked between two hot plates, eaten with syrup or other toppings; as a verb, to talk or write at length without saying anything decisive.
from From Dutch 'wafel,' a relative of 'weave' and 'web' — fitting, since the iron presses the batter into a woven-looking grid. The verb sense is a separate thread: it grew from an older 'waff,' an English dialect word imitating a dog's yelp, which softened over the 17th century into the idea of someone yapping on indecisively.
- oldest recipe
- Medieval irons stamped religious imagery onto the batter
- engineered grip
- Nike's first sole was poured in a waffle iron
- named day
- International Waffle Day falls every March 25th
- belgian myth
- The Brussels waffle was rebranded for 1964 New York
- linguistic detour
- To waffle means to dodge, like soggy indecision
brussels waffle — belgian waffle with deep rectangular pockets, lighter and crispier than liège, from brussels
chicken and waffles — american soul food dish combining fried chicken with waffles, popularized in harlem, new york in the 1930s