"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:26:45 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
> > wrote:
>
>
>>The world is full of people who rave about bad food.
>
> Don't I know it.
>
> I am planning a Thanksgiving dinner for a bunch of traveling nurses
> who are on assignment here in the SF bay area. Due to many of us
> working on Thanksgiving, we will more than likely be having dinner the
> weekend after.
>
> Of this group, there are a few nurses that proclaim that they are good
> cooks, and they offered to help with the cooking, and putting on the
> meal.
>
> One suggested to me (knowing that I love to cook) that she could go
> pick up some pies from Costco, since it would save a lot of time, and
> "Costco does a great Pumpkin pie and other desserts that are just
> like home made". She suggested that we didn't need to kill ourselves
> doing this, which is true, but I am not going to sacrifice flavor and
> quality in the interest of expedience.
>
> I suggested to her that I preferred homemade. Now I am wondering
> what her idea of good homemade food is, if she thinks Costco pies are
> just like homemade.
>
> Christine

Maybe she ate most of her meals on airplanes while growing up.