Okay- a friend and I were talking... he confided in me that he always keeps a few fancy/expensive bottles of wine in his kitchen even though he doesn't drink it. He says he keeps them simply to attract & impress girls!

Another friend has simple (okay- JUVENILE) tastes but she always stocks what she perceives as fancy things in her cupboard hoping guys will spy them there and get a totally different impression of her. Like pesto, tapenade, olives, anchovies, oils-...

That got me to thinking... at one time I remember keeping several varieties of hot sauce on a neat little tray in the fridge to pull out only when I had dates over (don't ask why- but when I date it tends to be w/ those who are hot sauce fiends!) just to make my dates feel more comfy and to give us something in common to bond over! Is that whacko, or what?

Have you ever told any food lies? Or used food to pull the wool over someone's eyes, somehow?

My lies tend to be in the opposite direction mainly with my kids. My youngest daughter says she doesn't like onions. I can hide them quite well in certain dishes.

Like Rick, it is usually bending the truth to get the kids to eat something they don't like.

I remember a tv commercial with someone in a kitchen, throwing flour and such around making it look like they had been cooking all day while the meal was being delivered for the date or get together. Of course it tasted like home made, lol.

My mother used to do this with Jello cheesecake from the box when I was young. She would make it about once a year and for all the fuss she made you would think it took her three days.

Lol, that's funny. My wife cooks like that.