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In addition to our usual staples, we offer ready-to-go meals perfect for lunch or dinner.

MEAL OF THE DAY

We have hot meals available to order every Tuesday to Friday. Find our current menu on social media.

Dinners are available while supplies last. Order ahead or call day-of to reserve your meal.

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REGULAR ITEMS

Cookies

$1 each or $10/dozen.

Decorated cookies start at $2.

Chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, oatmeal chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, peanut brittle, M&M, shortbread

Squares

Start at $3.

Apple spice slice, brownies, raspberry streusel, date squares, nanaimo bars, buttertart bars, marshmallow confetti, blueberry crumble, skor bar, rice krispie, smores, magic bar

Buttertarts

$2.50 each or $27/dozen.

Plain, raisin, pecan, coconut

Pies

$15.

Apple, blueberry, cherry, coconut cream, lemon meringue, strawberry rhubarb, raspberry, raisin, pecan

Muffins

$2.50 or $25/dozen.

Apple cinnamon, blueberry, raisin bran, lemon cranberry, banana, morning glory, pumpkin

Bread

$5.

Sourdough, white, honey whole wheat, multi grain, molasses oat

Buns

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Dinner rolls: $0.50 each or $5/dozen.

Sandwich Buns: $0.65 each or $6.50/dozen.

Large Kaisers: $0.75 each or $7.50/dozen.

Cupcakes

Basic: $2.50 each.

Decorated: $3.50 each.

Cakes

6″ Basic double-layer (vanilla/chocolate): $25.

8″ Double layer: $35.

8″ Specialty flavour with filling: $45.

Death by chocolate, lemon curd, carrot with cream cheese, peanut butter, mocha, butter pecan, black forest

Lots of possibilities! Just ask!

Prepared Meals

$10.

Meatloaf with mashed potatoes, stuffed roast pork, roast turkey & stuffing, pot roast, chicken curry with rice, mac ‘n cheese

Specialty Meals

$6 for small or $12 for large.

Meat and vegetarian lasagna, meat or vegetarian shepherd’s pie, tex mex beans and rice with chicken or tofu, chicken parmigiana

Meat Pies

$7 for small or $19 for large.

Turkey, chicken, beef, hamburg, steak & mushroom

Chili

$5 for small or $10 for large.

Beef and vegetarian

Salads

$2.50 for small, $5 for medium, or $10 for large.

Potato and egg, coleslaw (creamy or oil & vinegar), marinated carrot, tuna pasta, veggie pasta

Meat Rolls

Beef rolls: $3 each.

Sausage rolls: $2 each.

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Butterfly McQueen (born Thelma McQueen; January 7, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in films as Prissy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater.^[1]Often typecast as a maid, she said: 'I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid.'^[1] She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s, and then moved to television acting in the 1950s. She won a 1980 Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in the ABC Afterschool Special.

Early life and education[edit]

Born January 7, 1911,^[2] in Tampa, Florida, Thelma McQueen planned to become a nurse until a high-school teacher suggested that she try acting. McQueen initially studied with Janet Collins and danced with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group. Around this time she acquired the nickname 'Butterfly' – a tribute to her constantly moving hands – for her performance of the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Disliking her birth name, she later legally changed it to Butterfly McQueen. She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham before making her professional debut in George Abbott's Brown Sugar.^[3] In 1975, aged 64, McQueen received a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of New York.^{[citation needed]}

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Career[edit]

McQueen was appearing on the Broadway stage in the comedy What a Life in 1938 when she was spotted by Kay Brown, talent scout for David O. Selznick, then in pre-production for Gone With the Wind (eventually released in 1939). Brown recommended that McQueen audition for the film. After Selznick saw her screen test, he never considered anyone else and McQueen was cast in the role that would become her most identifiable – 'Prissy', a simple-minded house maid.^[4] She uttered the famous words: 'Oh, Miss Scarlett! I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!' Her distinctive, high-pitched voice was described by a critic as 'the itsy-little voice fading over the far horizon of comprehension'.^[5] While the role is well known to audiences, McQueen did not enjoy playing the part and felt it was demeaning to African-Americans.^[6]

She also played an uncredited bit part as a sales assistant in The Women (1939), filmed after Gone with the Wind but released before it. She also played Butterfly, Rochester's niece and Mary Livingstone's maid in the Jack Benny radio program for a time during World War II. She appeared in an uncredited role in Mildred Pierce (1945) and played a supporting role in Duel in the Sun (1946). By 1947, she had grown tired of the ethnic stereotypes she was required to play and ended her film career.

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During World War II, McQueen frequently appeared as a comedian on the Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast Jubilee. Many of these broadcasts are available on the Internet Archive.^{[citation needed]}

From 1950 until 1952, she was featured in another racially stereotyped role on the television series Beulah. She played Beulah's friend Oriole, a character originated on radio by Ruby Dandridge, who would then take over the TV role from McQueen in 1952–53. In a lighter moment, she appeared in a 1969 episode of The Dating Game.

McQueen was in the original version of the stage musical The Wiz when it debuted in Baltimore in 1974. She played the Queen of the Field Mice, a character from the original L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, when the show was revised prior to going to Broadway, McQueen's role was cut by incoming director Geoffrey Holder.

Offers for acting roles began to dry up around this time, and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of New York in 1975.^[1] McQueen played the character of Aunt Thelma, a fairy godmother, in the ABC Weekend Special episode 'The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody' (1978) and the ABC Afterschool Special episode 'Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid' (1979); her performance in the latter earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming. Her final feature film role was in The Mosquito Coast (1986). Her final appearance was in the TV movie Polly, a reimagining of the Pollyanna story with a Black cast.^[7]

Personal life[edit]

McQueen never married or had any children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in Augusta, Georgia, during the winter.^[8]

In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen $60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pickpocket and a vagrant while she was at a Washington, D.C.Greyhound bus terminal in April 1979.^[9]

A Democrat, she supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.^[10]

Atheism[edit]

In 1989, the Freedom From Religion Foundation honored her with its Freethought Heroine Award. 'I'm an atheist,' she had declared, 'and Christianity appears to me to be the most absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm puzzled that so many people can't see through a religion that encourages irresponsibility and bigotry.' She told a reporter, 'As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.'^[11] This quote was used by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in advertisements inside Madison, Wisconsin, buses in 2009^[12] and in an Atlanta market in 2010.^[13][14] She lamented that, if humans had focused on Earth and on people, rather than on mythology and on Jesus, there would be less hunger and homelessness. 'They say the streets are going to be beautiful in Heaven. Well, I'm trying to make the streets beautiful here ... When it's clean and beautiful, I think America is heaven. And some people are hell.'^[15]

Death[edit]

McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995, at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, from burns sustained when a kerosene heater she attempted to light malfunctioned and burst into flames.^[16] McQueen donated her body to medical science^[1] and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

Filmography[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Bourne, Stephen (2008). Butterfly McQueen remembered. Scarecrow Press. ISBN9780810860186.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'Butterfly McQueen, 84, 'Gone With the Wind' Actress, Dies From Burns'. Jet. Vol. 89 no. 9. Johnson Publishing Company. January 15, 1996. p. 60. ISSN0021-5996 – via Google Books.
2. ^'UPI Almanac for Monday, Jan, 7, 2019'. United Press International. January 7, 2019. Archived from the original on September 21, 2019. Retrieved September 21, 2019. actor Butterfly McQueen in 1911
3. ^JM Appel234. Butterfly McQueen. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Jan. 1 2000.
4. ^Wilson, Steve (2014). The Making of Gone With the Wind. University of Texas Press. p. 86. ISBN978-0-292-76126-1.
5. ^Hunter, Charlayne (1970-07-30). 'Butterfly McQueen Has New Role'. The Palm Beach Post. p. B5. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
6. ^Hubbard Burns, Diane (1980-02-08). 'Butterfly McQueen's a Character'. The Palm Beach Post. p. B1. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
7. ^https://people.com/archive/raiding-cosby-for-her-stars-debbie-allen-turns-pollyanna-into-a-black-musical-polly-vol-32-no-9/
8. ^James, Edward T.; Sicherman, Barbara; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (2004). Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy (eds.). Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Completing the Twentieth Century. Notable American Women. 5. Harvard University Press. p. 438. ISBN0-674-01488-X.
9. ^Place, John (1983-07-13). 'Butterfly McQueen Wins $60,000'. The Pittsburgh Press. p. A2. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
10. ^Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers
11. ^Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8 October 1989).
12. ^'Atheists, church face off in Madison bus advertising'. jsonline.com. 2009-03-11.
13. ^'Billboards shun religion, promote separation of church and state'. ajc.com. 2010-09-10.
14. ^'Freedom From Religion Foundation'. Archived from the original on 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
15. ^Celebrities in Hell, Warren Allen Smith (schelCpress, 2002), Page 76
16. ^Alvarez, Lizette (1995-12-23). 'Butterfly McQueen Dies at 84; Played Scarlett O'Hara's Maid'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-14.

External links[edit]

• Butterfly McQueen at the Internet Broadway Database
• Butterfly McQueen at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Butterfly McQueen at IMDb
• Butterfly McQueen at Find a Grave