I may have noticed the hash whites once or twice, but I'm always so glad to get hash anything that the doneness doesn't matter too much to me.
(After moving to Connecticut, I was starved for real hash browns because all of the diners here served "home fries", not the shredded variety. It wasn't until Danbury got its first Denny's that we began seeing real hash browns in the area. We were depraved on account of we were deprived.)
So, Waffle House: We probably ate at them a few times when we moved to Florida in the 1960s, but I truly RE-discovered them on car trips to and from Ohio in the 1990s-2000s. The hashes might be a little white, the bacon is greasy, but everything manages to be totally delicious. My only gripe is that they only served margarine or whatever kind of fake butter it was, so you never got the buttery goodness on your breakfast that your tongue expected. I haven't been to one in a few years, and I don't know if that's still the case.