Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shipley's Donuts
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:37:57 -0500
References: <001901c242cc$4dbd2c00$7f938eac@nsula.edu> <009801c242d8$f711c020$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net> <3.0.2.32.20020813182327.01469f6c@roanoke.infi.net>

Shipley's, at least this one, is locally owned in Natchitoches, Louisiana,
and I am not sure when Dunkin or Krispey were started, but this one was in
business in 1963.   Not pallid, not a clone.
Good donuts.  http://www.sonc.com/shipley

Sonny



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Shipley's Donuts


> What the hell is "Shipley's"?  Is this some pallid West Coast clone of
> Dunkin' Donuts or Krispey Kreme?  (Editorial Comment:  You guys on the
Left
> Coast seem to miss EVERYTHING that is worthy of admiration and respect!)
>
> I did, at one time, know Mr Shipley, the founder of the American Gem
> Society and of the Gemological Institute of America, for whom the late and
> lamented Eric Welch now works.  But he was a rather courtly gent with a
> moustache, and I cannot see him consuming something as, well, common as a
> donut.
>
> (Personally, I hit the Country Kitchen in Lexington, Virginia, when I am
in
> the mood for a REAL Bearclaw but, then, Lexington is also home to the
> primordial and quintessential Apple Strudel and Appel Crumbcake und so
> weiter.  But, back in the Red Dog Saloon era, when I was in the National
> Guard or Army Reserve and often found myself driving halfway across
reality
> at zero-dark-thirty in the AM, I found a box of Dunkin' Donuts and the
> Soybean Futures Reports from WOWO in Fort Wayne a good way of remaining
> awake (this is back in the days when all there was was a thing called AM
> radio and ... well ... argh!   As Joe Pesci might say, you folks are a
> bunch of "yutes"!  Though I have it on good authority that Ted Grant,
after
> he was booted out of Venice after he tried to rig the 1694 election for
> Doge, invented radio.  But that MIGHT just be a story:  mind you, Ted is
> old and acerbic, but, then, maybe he was born that way.)
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
>
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Message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Shipley's Donuts)
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