Waffle House is definitely Southern, I think the furthest north I’ve seen it is Pennsylvania. As for sausage patties vs links - you can get actual breakfast sausage inna skin but it’s less common in restaurants like that for some reason. And I’m not surprised they all taste the same - for all our profusion of food choices, most American restaurants are buying a lot at least partially pre made (truly cooked fresh from scratch in a restaurant is a noted cost difference here) and the various bulk food companies and food distributors have all bought each other until there’s maybe 3 choices left. Also someone decided that all breakfast foods are sweet so then “breakfast sausage” has maple syrup in it. I like it but it’s it’s own thing aside from other sausage.
Waffle House is definitely Southern, I think the furthest north I’ve seen it is Pennsylvania. As for sausage patties vs links - you can get actual breakfast sausage inna skin but it’s less common in restaurants like that for some reason. And I’m not surprised they all taste the same - for all our profusion of food choices, most American restaurants are buying a lot at least partially pre made (truly cooked fresh from scratch in a restaurant is a noted cost difference here) and the various bulk food companies and food distributors have all bought each other until there’s maybe 3 choices left. Also someone decided that all breakfast foods are sweet so then “breakfast sausage” has maple syrup in it. I like it but it’s it’s own thing aside from other sausage.