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It's a major continuing Peeve for me that Durham shuts down almost in its
entirety by midnight each night.  Unlike the smaller college town of
Blacksburg, Virginia, where I got my master's degree, Durham has virtually
no late night restaurants or 24-hour convenience stores that sell nachos,
burritos, hot dogs, and other staples of the food pyramid. 

Even the fast food restaurants shut down at 11 pm -- even the ones located
next to the interstates, which by any sane method of operation would
remain open all night. 

Okay, yes, we have Waffle Houses, but if you don't want to eat at a Waffle
House (and I don't mind them -- I've eaten at one as recently as Sunday,
but they get old after a while), you have basically one other choice that
I can think of: the Steak and Egg Kitchen on Main Street, and that might
as well be a Waffle House since the menu and amount of grease in the
atmosphere is virtually identical to what you'd find at one of those
little yellow greasepits. 

I don't have a lot of use for people who move to an area and then belittle
things about it as failing to live up to the way things were back where
they came from (yes, I mean *you*, Yankees-among-us), but in this case, I
truly find myself wondering what's going on here in Durham.  Everyplace
I've ever lived had fast food restaurants open all night, to say nothing
of one or two truly odd diners run by foul-mouthed old men named Herbie
who made really good chicken fried steak.  Not so Durham: Durham has the
Waffle House at 54/55, the Waffle House at 54 and Fayetteville Road, the
Waffle House on Hillsborough Road, and the Steak and Egg Kitchen.  As far
as I know, that's *it*. 

It's not just that we don't have any real restaurants that stay open late.
I am also unaware of a convenience store that stays open after midnight or
a fast food place that stays open after 11 pm.  We do have some bars that
stay open until 1 or 2 am but when I say that I'm looking for a place to
get food after midnight I don't mean going to a bar and ordering a bowl of
peanuts. 

Enlighten me, please.  Tell me about all the great late-night restaurants
and/or 24-hour diners and/or places to grab a bite after 1 am that I have
somehow managed to overlook in my quest.  Surely there must be *some* out 
there, right?
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