Bob Terwilliger replied to Christine Dabney:

>> It did sound good..but as soon as I saw the headers, I realized it was
>> a spoof.
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> (Bob sees ")
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> Oh.
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> Yeah, there is that....!
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> I thought the menu Peter claimed to make sounded pretty good, but
> "Julana's" menu sounded even better (though maybe Peter had the edge in
> the "alleged dessert" category).

You two take away all my fun.

I admit that most of what I wrote was very exaggerated or completely false.
Some of it was true:

- About thirty percent of our friends are Muslims.

- My husband cannot cook at all, but is very good at mixing drinks and
mingling at parties.

- I have cooked all the savoury dishes listed, including the haggis, but not
all at one time. I have made the pavlova and the chocolate torte, but I was
not completely pleased with either one. I also baked the macadamia vanilla
butter tarts, and in that case I had very good results.

Some of the falsehoods:

- We do not have an annual Spring Soiree, and we have never invited 144
guests to a party. We didn't even have that many guests at our wedding!

- We did not butcher 24 lambs for a party.

- We do not employ an eight-year-old clubfooted Boy Friday.

- I have never sculpted a rosella white chocolate bombe or any other dessert
into the shape of the Sydney Opera House.

- In the oyster dish mentioned, the chili-garlic sauce was not encapsulated.
Instead, droplets were put onto a silpat and frozen, then scraped off onto
the oyster with its spring-pea caviar.

I hope you can forgive me for my deception in the name of satire.

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