Harkin's Bakery, Canton, Mississippi **

What a neat little place, right there on the BEAUTIFUL Canton, Mississippi, town square -- what a perfect opportunity for somebody -- but Harkin's Bakery misses the mark. It's a shame, too, 'cause they come mighty close to makin' it. Their breakfast is same old, same old -- eggs, grits, biscuit, choice of bacon or sausage -- served on a STYROFOAM PLATE WITH PLASTIC UTENSILS. Serving on real china and using metal utensils would really bump the place up a knotch, and how difficult could that be? Then, if they added a little something to their breakfast offering -- something a little creative but not too -- this place COULD be a little gem. (I'm thinkin' eggs creole or somethin' like that.) As it is, it's pretty much same old, same old. The bakery offerings looked okay, but not like anything out of the ordinary. For a bakery, the breakfast biscuits oughta have been much better than they were.