My bad, I suppose, Dudley. It sounds like everyone else sees this to mean CP
and Blue Plate were one and the same. I was (still am) confused by your
remark about moving to crepes too quickly. I don't see that has happened.

Mike - going of to get a quick nap....for some reason, barely a few hours
sleep in the past couple of days.

>From: "whodats 41" <whodats41@...>
>To: Multiple recipients of list cumberlist <cumberlist@...>
>Subject: Re: Cumberlist: Blue Plate Cafe....Blue Plate CPs
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:54:12 -0500
>
>Depends on what you term grits and what you term crepes. Crepes means
>extravagant. For the life of me, I'm having trouble seeing where the CPC
>became extravagant, imaginative. Traditional? Bulls-eye. There you go.
>
>Mike, confused, but looking forward to the translation (but I still think
>the order went to the wrong table).
>
>
>>From: Dudley Condron <dcond_2000@...>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list cumberlist <cumberlist@...>
>>Subject: Cumberlist: Blue Plate Cafe....Blue Plate CPs
>>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>
>>Dudley here:
>>
>> On my way today I passed a venerable institution here in Memphis.
>>The "Blue Plate Cafe" on East Poplar was serving breakfast as usual and
>>business, judging from the packed parking lot, was very good.
>>
>> I've not been in the Blue Plate (I have always enjoyed fixing my
>>own) but I have a good idea of what was happening inside the place as I
>>zipped by. Breakfast, "southern-style" was being served to customers who
>>have long enjoyed the food and fellowship there. The menu? Just
>>guessing, of course, but I seriously doubt if the menu included breakfast
>>crepes with the kind of fixings being served at the Summit Club down the
>>street (white glove waiters, don't you know).
>>
>> No, people who meet each morning at the Blue Plate Cafe probably
>>enjoy standard fare such as eggs with country ham or sausage, maybe a
>>stack or two with syrup and unadorned grits. And yes, hot biscuits,
>>jelly and a pot of hot, black coffee. Again, I'm guessing. But, after
>>thirty seven years in Memphis it is my impression that the menu above is
>>what keeps a Blue Plate Cafe in the breakfast business, whatever the state
>>of our economy.
>>
>> But this is not about that of course. This is about the Cumberland
>>Presbyterian Church. This is about what brings customers into our
>>churches and holds them tight for generations. Passing the old cafe this
>>morning with its packed parking lot set me to thinking. Have we missed
>>something here? Did we--in the church--move from grits to crepes too
>>quickly? Just wondering.
>>
>>
>>
>>Dudley------- (not suggesting for a moment that we did. After all, as
>>far as I know the East Poplar Blue Plate Cafe is the only one left in the
>>city). Is it possible that refusing to change the menu will, finally,
>>mean no menu at all?
>>
>>
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