fuck the Cupboard

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Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 7:32 pm went there for my first and last time yesterday...fucking pieces of GLASS in my meat loaf..yes you read that right, sharp jagged pieces of glass in my entree. manager was trying to make excuses also...dude, this isnt a bug or a hair, its fucking GLASS. asshole. fuck that place.
heyradio Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 7:52 pm That's why you should only go to Ellen's for soulfood.
J Cutler Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 9:10 pm yeah man, I used to be all about the Cupboard, especially in the old location before it moved into that converted Shoney's (?) and got all high volume. While I've never come across any health hazards on par with glass, there has been a serious drop in quality.
eric o Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 9:12 pm SERIOUS drop in quality. the downtown cupboard isn't as bad. don't know if they serve glass, though.
J Cutler Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 9:33 pm the one downtown closed recently. Pretty strange since it always seemed pretty busy during weekday lunch (the only time it was open). Maybe having the Blue Plate open up a couple of blocks over hurt them?
sherman Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 11:33 pm Who went to the cupboard for soul food?
Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Sep 28, 2005 11:51 pm I did not go for soulfood...just a meal, i dont why heyradio assumed thats what I was after...
elle Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 12:39 am ugh. i eat there once in a blue moon with my dad. looks like i might have to not go in there anymore, not that it was that wonderful anymore to begin with. ugh. they overcook their squash anyway and their mashed potatoes are kind of blah and their gravy is pretty blah as well.
BigKegShandy Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 10:46 am When we had all our relations over for our wedding, even going out for lunch was an Arnhem-type operation, so we took 'em to the Cupboard, and the grub was OK, and to get folks eating greens & cornbread not 12 hours after landing in town, tickled me & Nadia a lot ... Our relations really liked the place, I thought it was OK ...
Earles Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 3:54 pm The Cupboard SUCKS. Like Danver's, they'd better watch their fucking back!!!
alix Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 4:43 pm Man I ordered the baked chicken and totatally found a mint Lee Bonds 45 in it wanna trade for that meat loaf Ritchie ?
alix Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 4:45 pm that was jay, not me
heyradio Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 5:28 pm Sorry, I just assumed that you went for greens, cornbread, fried chicken, etc. For that, I suggest Ellen's.
Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 5:40 pm who the fuck is Lee Bonds?
fierydrunk Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 5:52 pm \| Edited by: fierydrunk The Cupboard was always one of those places I entered with reluctance and trepidation, like Brother Junipers. I never understood why people smacked their lips at the thought of dining at these rattraps with crap eats. But we have had this conversation ad naseum...remember the huge Barksdale Cafe debate of 2003?
BigKegShandy Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 5:59 pm I like The Barksdale! Oh, ohhhh ... Look, if you had to live and eat in the UK (and I live in London, even), you would not turn yer noses up at the Cupboard (free building material in yer food or not), Barksdale, or even Krystals ...
fierydrunk Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 6:13 pm I believe it. Well, I'd just eat fish n chips everyday.
Matthew Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 7:55 pm That's it, Earles! You diss Danver's one more time on this board and you'll be sucking your glass meatloaf through a straw.
taterhead Member	Posted: Sep 29, 2005 7:57 pm Tea Shop downtown's food is worth dealing with the suits. Pot roast and turnip greens. AND they still had the Goner Flyer.
Earles Member	Posted: Oct 2, 2005 10:12 pm New York Matt Johnson, I'm going to somehow find a way to drop an entire Danver's restaurant on your fucking head.
Matthew Member	Posted: Oct 2, 2005 11:19 pm Bring it!
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fierydrunk Member	Posted: Oct 3, 2005 12:44 am Once you have that Danver's up there, let me know so I can get a roast beef sandwich. With fries.
Earles Member	Posted: Oct 3, 2005 4:38 am I hope you get left a Danver's in a will. Chained to a Danver's for the rest of your life!!! A life for suckers!!!!
miss linda Member	Posted: Oct 23, 2005 2:49 pm I Hate old people(i'm 56)especially when I see them at "DANVER'S"! I hope you choke on that goddamn salad bar,you young whippersnappers ,you!!!!!!
miss linda Member	Posted: Oct 23, 2005 2:50 pm I Hate old people(i'm 56)especially when I see them at "DANVER'S"! I hope you choke on that goddamn salad bar,you young whippersnappers ,you!!!!!!
fierydrunk Member	Posted: Oct 23, 2005 5:52 pm \| Edited by: fierydrunk Earles, the roast beef sandwich with extra "au jus" is DELICIOUS.
Mark Rochambeaux Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 12:18 am I just wanted everyone to know this is the last time I'm ever eating the Cupboard's "food." Especially takeout. sickening ... only thing good is the cornbread nuggets
Miss Faye Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 4:46 pm I like The Barksdale! Fuck the Barksdale. It's so damn smoky in there I can't stand it anymore. And their food is mediocre at best. I like Bryant's for breakfast! And I keep on sayin', King's on Jackson at Evergreen! (but mind the sweet potatoes--too much nutmeg) Oh, and they're about to start dishing out some African food too!
Highway Star Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 5:11 pm cupboard does suck now for sure! but they probably put that glass in the meat loaf on purpose VR. they're in cahoots with the flyer and now they've gone past screwing up your ads, and gone straight to trying to kill you. look out, their agents are everywhere. the flyer has struck again this week saying that "Jonathan Richmond" is coming later this month instead of Jonathan Richman! Hundreds of pissed off cameramen are going to show up hoping to get some pointers from this guy URL and hear about those tracking shots from Children of Men. Those Bastards!
Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 5:50 pm lets see, dont you have a fake rap album to make Justice?...lets see, you made a fake rock album, a twee little sensitive singer songwriter emo record, I think its time for you to get crunk!
jerryd Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 5:57 pm King's on Jackson at Evergreen! (but mind the sweet potatoes--too much nutmeg) Oh, and they're about to start dishing out some African food too! Their veggies are great, except for the sweet potatoes, but maybe they've cooled down on the nutmeg
Illiterate Genius Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 8:03 pm Vinyl, you are an unoriginal, angry little fucktard and I hate you. What have YOU ever done, besides go ballistic on this board? Seriously, I want to know what you do.
Highway Star Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 8:13 pm hey VR . . . if I put up a picture of a bunch of people at our show having a good time, does that mean we're as good a rock band as you are a dj? Vinyl Ritchie Member Posted: Nov 29, 2006, 3:49 pm "had 347 paid at the door this particular night http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/thehookup/soulnight009.gif believe that."
Highway Star Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 8:14 pm anybody remember the great bulletin board dj battle of 2006?
Lettuce Knot Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 8:35 pm Hey, Illiterate Genius, don't be hatin' or I'll put glass in your food.
Illiterate Genius Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 10:48 pm \| Edited by: Illiterate Genius LK, your advice is always salad. I'll quit.
felixthedog Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 11:00 pm has anyone mentioned the fact the Cupboard costs an arm and a leg to eat at?? two people is like $25
dirtywhite Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 11:11 pm jonathan richman is coming?
Rachelandthecity Member	Posted: Feb 10, 2007 11:44 pm who's Jonathan Richman? ah ha, ha ha ha ah hahhahah Anyway. Nobody mentioned Buntyn Cafe. That's the shit. Old school stylee on Southern, not that fake ass Buntyn on Mt Moriah and Park. Come on, everybody who realy knows rock and roll knows that. Damn.
Scott Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 12:31 am Jonathan Richman Thursday, February 22nd at the Hi-Tone! Fuck all of you. Jonathan Richman is coming!
Wire Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 1:47 am That fake ass Buntyn on Mt Moriah and Park has been replaced by Patricks (which also sucks)
Windy Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 2:48 am Jonathan Richman is coming! Could you send him up my way when y'all are done with him? He puts on onehelluva show
Rachelandthecity Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 2:49 am gay
Rachelandthecity Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 2:49 am not Windy - the patrick's thing
Frederico Von Fredericko Member	Posted: Feb 11, 2007 8:39 pm King's on Jackson at Evergreen! (but mind the sweet potatoes--too much nutmeg) Oh, and they're about to start dishing out some African food too! Did they just change owners?
Miss Faye Member	Posted: Feb 12, 2007 3:35 am Yeah, I noticed a sign on the side of the building that said that. I'm thinking it's the African guy I talked to.
eric o Member	Posted: Feb 12, 2007 5:38 pm what? that sucks. mr king is awesome.
ChicoHarris Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 2:06 am The afternoon after Springsteen played the first of two shows in the Coliseum in December, 1984, he went into Rare Records for awhile and then next door to the Cupboard, where he went in, sat down and had the fried chicken. For some time afterward, folks would come in to touch the chair he sat in.
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 2:20 am There's a little more to that Springsteen story. He did not have the money to pay for the meal and the waitresses didn't believe he was anyone famous. Finally a customer paid for him.
Mark Rochambeaux Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 2:57 am \| Edited by: Mark Rochambeaux Springsteen ain't got no money. He's the poet of the working man. Strugglin' to pay for that health insurance on that minimum wage.
Rumpleforeskin Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 3:24 am He did not have the money to pay for the meal and the waitresses didn't believe he was anyone famous. Finally a customer paid for him. All he had was a $100 bill and The Cupboard wouldn't take it.
saispas Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 3:31 am He did not have the money to pay for the meal I remember this era; this was also right before he and his model wife he was with for 2 seconds wanted to buy some huge mansion on Belvedere south of Peabody. This never happened as far as I know.
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 3:33 am All he had was a $100 bill and The Cupboard wouldn't take it. Oh yeah, that was it. I was so pissed when I found out about that (and remember it all these years later) because I was going to go to the Cupboard that very day, and at that very time but something came up. I wasn't living on Willett then, but wherever I was the neighbors sure would have heard some max volume Born to Run that night if I had been there!
Earles Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 5:39 am Chicken still chews like tree bark.
Theresa K Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 5:58 am All he had was a $100 bill and The Cupboard wouldn't take it. don't you all know that is the trick of the wealthy? its how they keep their money!
Rumpleforeskin Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 9:51 am don't you all know that is the trick of the wealthy? its how they keep their money! They stole that gimmick from Ted Knight on the MTM show .
luteinizer Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 11:33 am I think COGIC ruined it, last time I ate at the cub, which was also the first and probably last, lots of hats and really pissy servers
Rumpleforeskin Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 1:44 pm \| Edited by: Rumpleforeskin The Cupboard really sucks since they moved to that old Shoney's location.the quality is like that of the terrible old Britling's buffet.
Uncle Spatula Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 3:27 pm The Cupboard is a Farside comic come to life.
Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 3:28 pm oh Justice, it is so flattering that you keep my old posts...really touching ya fuckin' wannabe
alix Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 5:25 pm I like the cupboard. fried green tomatoes!
alix Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 5:26 pm i likethe lady that always has the black eye
Highway Star Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 9:24 pm ha, when did this come back up? hey vinyl you forgot about the fake punk band i play guitar in.
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 6, 2007 9:40 pm I do love that eggplant casserole at the Cupboard. I have the recipe now, though, so I can make it anytime I want. TK, Mike H. and I went to eat there at GFEST 3. It wasn't THAT bad. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisa_in_memphis/259152837/in/set-7215759 4310035099/
BHa Member	Posted: Apr 7, 2007 2:30 am I do love that eggplant casserole at the Cupboard. I have the recipe now, though, so I can make it anytime I want. What's that recipe?! I'd love to have it!
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 7, 2007 2:35 am I'll look for it tomorrow and post it. It involves eggplant, celery and lots of saltines.
alix Member	Posted: Apr 7, 2007 3:18 pm me and louie went there yesterday and it was great! fried green tomatoes and baked apples!
Mark Rochambeaux Member	Posted: Apr 9, 2007 4:27 am The last time I got the fried green tomatoes, they were hard as hockey pucks. really terrible experience all around.
BHa Member	Posted: Apr 10, 2007 10:36 pm Thanks for looking for the recipe Alisa. I've been looking for a good excuse to buy a box of saltines.
Vinyl Ritchie Member	Posted: Apr 15, 2007 9:38 pm Justice, you looked liked a fire island ice cream man at your show today
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 15, 2007 11:09 pm I'll try to get on that BHa. I've gotten kind of overwhelmed around here.
Highway Star Member	Posted: Apr 16, 2007 12:51 am don't know fire island, but i know that McEnroe sweater is silly looking, and so am i to boot. i do like how this thread about how the cupboard tried to kill you with glass has become about you trying to make fun of me about things i already know are uncool. Twee? Making fun of my outfits? Top shelf humor done with your usual aplomb.
Highway Star Member	Posted: Apr 16, 2007 1:34 am looking back on this last post i realized that maybe eric wasn't even insulting me with that comment. i'm drunk in the middle of the day though and not reading very well. i guess it could go either way, just used to him going negative. in relation to all this i would like to retract my last post and instead say, "thanks for noticing!"
BHa Member	Posted: Apr 17, 2007 12:36 am No worries Alisa. But I am already half-way through eating one of the four packs in my new box of Saltines.
Alisa Member	Posted: Apr 17, 2007 12:54 am Okay, here you go... 4 eggplants (peeled and quartered) 1 medium diced onion 2 stalks sliced celery 4 cups crushed saltine crackers 1/2 lb American cheese (though I would never knowingly use American cheese in any recipe - substitute cheddar) butter, salt, pepper Boil eggplant, onion and celery together for 20 minutes. Drain. Mix thoroughly. Add 2 cups crushed crackers, 1/2 lb. cheese, and salt and pepper to taste. Layer 2 more cups of crackers on top of mixture. Spoon enough melted margarine to cover top. Bake at 350 until bubbly. Cover top if it starts to brown too much. I think this makes a ton of that stuff, and the recipe can probably be halved. Still, I could eat that stuff til I puke so maybe the quantities are about right!
BHa Member	Posted: Jul 25, 2007 4:54 am Thanks Alisa! I tried out a halved version of the recipe and my friends ate it up big time! I only got a taste but it was a delicious one. I'll have to make it again for myself.