People all over the world read this blog. What is a bakery? jhoward@hnbbs.net
I was born, in 1941, in Missouri and a bakery is a place that sells pastries and bread. When I think of a bakery I think of donuts.
When I was in grade school and was about 12 or 13 I went to St. Vincent's Catholic school. My last year at St. Vincent's was 1955. I just wanted to give you an idea of the time and place.
You had to eat lunch at school or walk home and eat at home. I walked across the street to a drug store and had a hot dog and a malt each day for lunch. One day I saw the school principal with her robe flying and her rosary swinging coming for me at the drug store. She came in and pulled me off the stool, by the ear, and marched me over to the church. She told Father Oscar Huber that I was eating not at the school or home but at the drug store.
(A few years later Father Oscar Huber would give the Last Rites to President John F. Kennedy in Dallas and then go out side and tell the world that John Kennedy was dead.)
I could not eat at the drug store any more.
I would say I was going home to eat and would walk a few blocks to a bakery. I had the same thing each day. I would have root beer, out of a ice cold glass bottle, and donuts. That is going to be my "rosebud" and my heaven. When I die I may end up young and in a clean bakery drinking root beer, out of a glass bottle, and eating donuts. "Rosebud!"
Now I am in Miami. I walked to a bakery a few blocks from here. I was the first customer. I looked and I saw no donuts. I am thinking no problem she just did not bring them out from the back yet. I asked about donuts and she told me that they do not sell donuts.
How can you be a bakery in the United States and not sell donuts? I wonder if I should contact Homeland Security.
I got some of the stuff she was selling. It came to almost $9.00 and I am not sure what the heck I got. The sign says they sell; Comidas Chilenas, Paila Marina, Humitas, Mote con Huesillo, Empanadas de Pino, Sandwich Chilenos, Paella, Lasagna, Pastelitos Cubanos and Dulces Chilenos y Cubanos.
I wonder if I am the last "American" to leave Miami should I leave the American flag or should I take it down and bring it with me?
