In Search of the Quintessential Baltimore Diner

This morning, Kenny Sheppard of Prolegomena fame and I continued our quest to find the quintessential Baltimore Diner. Kenny, his girlfriend Candace, and I (the picture was taken just after I detailed for Kenny and Candace what actually is in "Scrapple," a Delmarva breakfast delicacy) visited Frank's Diner near my house. So far we've visited

• The Double T,
  
• The Paper Moon,
  
• Overlea Diner,
  
• Golden West Cafe,
  
• Two Sisters Grill,
  
• Pete's Diner,
  
• & as of this AM, Frank's Diner

This morning we discussed

• Neal Gabler's Walt Disney,
• USA TODAY,
• southern accents,
• Nertz (or Popeye)
  
• Now Discover Your Strengths,
• The Bionic Woman,
• Bible translation theory,
  
• Charles Taylor's The Secular Age,
• marriage,
• the state of the Newspaper Industry,
• children,
• Walter Isaacson's Einstein,
• universal health care,
  
• Lost,
• the gender-variable size of the corpus callosum,
• memory and the brain stem,
• Gallup,
• Cedar Ridge Community Church
• Battlestar Galactica,
• Grace Community Church
• Pushing Daisies,
• Brian McLaren,
• JGA Pocock,
  
• What Color is My Parachute,
• salary negotiation techniques,
• Q12, and
  
• Ironman and Robert Downey, Jr.
  

and the obvious nexi of these topics with the Baltimore Diners in general.