We make our own bakery every day (usurping earnest, squeaky-clean proletariat labor, as you now know) from scratch. So here is a fresh, hot muffin for our anonymous post. Just look at that sweet thing...
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Recently, I dined alone at The Mermaid for the first time. Lingering to savor the heady mixture of coffee fumes and clubby camaraderie pervading the bistro, I thought smugly to myself that I had made a discovery--a "little place" that would soon know my name and favorite table, a place I could recommend to intimates. Enchanted, I quickly signed up for the blog, and felt I had become a full-fledged member of The Family. Now I'm scared that this is truer than I knew.
Before I proceed, I should mention that I have only just finished John Grisham's THE FIRM. In it, ambitious Harvard Law graduate Mitch joins a fat cat Memphis practice only to learn that it is controlled by the Mafia. No one quits The Firm; anyone who tries to resign from it or report its activities is soon the victim of an unfortunate accident. I think this piece of fiction may be coloring my view of the world.
Be that as it may, the references in other posts to Sicilian enforcers named Jimmy the Tool are making me edgy. Does anyone ever leave the Mermaid Family? If I stop at Denny's for a change of pace, will I be served an exploding muffin? I seem to remember that "mermaid" is underworld slang for the unfortunates tossed into the Chicago River at 3am. If I withdraw, will I be the Yahara's newest "mermaid?"
I would appreciate reassurance that these wild fears are baseless. I won't even mind some fun at my expense and will heartily join in the laughter. A cafe where you become a patron for life? I mean, come on. Heh.
No one at the Mermaid would dream of kneecapping you for trying to leave, and rest assured that we neither have the desire or capability to either follow you to Denny's or create the mechanism necessary to build an exploding muffin, and we would never dream of poisoning your latte if you ever mention this again.
sincerely,
Uncle Merman.
Hey Shannon!
Thanks for the tips on what to see in Galena. We liked it enough to, as you suggested, have dinner at the Log Cabin and stay overnight at the DeSoto.
On the way back to Madison we took the Great River Road along the Mississippi on the Iowa side. The best part of the trip was lunching on left-overs from the L.C. at a scenic overlook high above Old Man River.
Nice to get travel tips at our neighborhood cafe! And that Mermaid banana-walnut muffin with two-shot cappuccino got us all the way to Mineral Point, where, on our way to Galena, we stopped for lunch.
Appreciatively yours,
~Ellen & Zaza
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