"l not -l" > wrote in message
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> On 25-Oct-2013, jmcquown > wrote:
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>> What comes to mind when you think of a "Blue Plate Special"?
>>
>> To me it conjurs up images of an old-style diner with something like
>> meat loaf and mashed potatoes and perhaps another vegetable side or
>> two.
> Yes ma'am, I'm seein' the lunch counter at JJ Newberry or Woolworth.
> Meatloaf, mashed potatoes 'n gravy, cut green beans (from a can), corn
> (canned), and a roll with butter. Funny though, I don't ever recall
> the plate actually being blue.
>
> We didn't eat out much when I was a kid; when we did it was most likely
> when we rode the bus into "downtown" for shopping. Most of the time it
> would be at the lunch counter; but, every now and then we'd go to Ruby's
> Cafe. Ruby's was like goin' to heaven; it was next door to the Kentucky
> Maid Creamery and the scent of vanilla hung in the air from the ice
> cream they always seemed to be mixing. 8-)

Did you get some icecream?
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