Comments on: Blue Plate Special http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/blue-plate-special/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/blue-plate-special/comment-page-1/#comment-931492 Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:27:58 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6133#comment-931492 The weatherman this evening said Saturday will be a blue plate special. The weather will be warm with clear skies.
It just doesn’t make any sense. This is Tennessee though.

]]> By: Ben Sisson http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/blue-plate-special/comment-page-1/#comment-201770 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 18:08:33 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6133#comment-201770 My mother in her late 80’s informed me that when she was a young girl her father, would travel from New York to east coast destinations by train, and would have a dinner on the train which was served on a blue plate commemorating the railroad fleet trains, I have attached a picture of one of these plates my mother has had since childhood , although I am not sure it has actually attend to this reply form.

The plate is a blue print with eight of the fleet engines named and pictured in the circumferential border of the plate, the a picturesque train on a bridge crossing scene in the center.

The customers were invited to keep these plates as a gift from to railroad which must have been in the early 1930’s.

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]]> By: David Fickett-Wilbar http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/blue-plate-special/comment-page-1/#comment-30905 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:35:57 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6133#comment-30905 A minor correction. There’s no middle “e” in “Wedgwood.” My wife collects it, so I always notice this very common mistake.

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