Chicken and waffles, via Unsplash.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
APRIL 22, 2025 | For the life of me, where in the world did someone come up with the food combination of chicken and waffles? To me, that simply does not sound like either a tasty or reasonable combination.
Nothing wrong with chicken. Or waffles. We can understand the time-honored combinations like ham and eggs, shrimp and grits, steak and potatoes. But we see no reasonable way to associate the time-honored waffle and syrup with fried chicken. It’s two breaded items bumping up against one another.
We don’t know who first put waffles and chicken together. Maybe someone might be proud of it. Who can determine the origin of chicken and waffles? We bet some cook somewhere simply ran out of other possibilities, had only chicken possible to cook, and perhaps had a waffle for breakfast, and remembered having flour, so ending up thinking, why not? But for me, it simply doesn’t sound tasty!
Bank overdrafts: If ever there was a doubt about Republicans trying to benefit the wealthy, and Democrats looking out for the working man, look at what happened in the House of Representatives last week. The House overturned a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have capped bank overdraft fees at $5 for many customers.
This means that banks are no longer limited to charging $5 for overdrafts, and they can potentially charge higher fees. The Senate has also approved a similar resolution. President Trump is expected to sign the resolution, effectively repealing the rule. The CFPB estimated the rule would have saved consumers about $5 billion in annual overdraft fees, or $225 per household that typically experiences the fees.
Think about it: the wealthy have enough funds in their accounts that these two rulings would never bother them. But for the lower element of society, often they have little money in the bank. And that overdraft fee has in the past been a mighty wallop to their account. Those hit with the fee felt an impact on average of $225 per household. What was the House thinking?
College schedules: The University of Georgia, along with the entire University System of Georgia, transitioned from a quarter system to a semester system in the fall of 1998.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the conversion from a quarter calendar to a semester calendar in December 1995. The conversion was scheduled to take effect in the Fall of 1998. Georgia Tech was granted a one-year delay because of their involvement with the 1996 Olympic Games. Their conversion occurred in Fall 1999.
Roughly five percent of U.S. colleges and universities currently operate on a quarter system, according to the American Economic Association, with the majority, over 60 percent, using the semester system.
The semester system, with two 15-week terms (fall and spring), is the most common academic calendar. Meanwhile, the quarter system divides the academic year into four 10-week sessions (fall, winter, spring, and summer). Some institutions use the trimester system, which divides the academic year into three terms.
Most West Coast public colleges use the quarter system, specifically the state university systems in California, Oregon and Washington. Other well-known colleges on the quarter system include Dartmouth, DePaul University, Drexel University, Georgia Military College, Northwestern University, Stanford University and the University of Chicago.
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