"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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| Nancy wrote:
|
| > We haven't been there in a really long time, decided to head over there
| > after attending the county fair. Shared a blooming onion and I ordered a
| > roasted beef filet with port sauce and mushrooms. Now that I think about
| > it, I don't remember seeing any mushrooms.
|
| Roasted beef filet? Was it EYE filet? Because Peter Lucas -- that
| self-appointed spokesperson for Aussie cuisine -- believes that if it isn't
| eye filet it might as well be a plank of oak. And if you paid more than a
| dollar fifty, he'll tell you that he could have gotten it cheaper.

Petey is a plank of oak. Australian oak, you bet, the best in the
world and incredibly superior to the American oak, which he can
buy for pennies on the (US) dollar.

pavane