# Play your cards right and I'll invite you over for a plateful

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 3, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988 "2004-09-03T17:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![anitanita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@anitanita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anitanita)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988/1 "2004-09-03T17:50:04Z")

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Love getting a good dose of The Straight Dope each week! In this weeks question about salt and pepper, Cecil , you said your spaghetti sauce would heal the sick and raise the dead. Instead of inviting us all over, how about giving us the recipe! My Italian husband would love a sauce like that!

Thanks! 😃

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988/2 "2004-09-03T18:30:37Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB, **anitanita**.

You apparently are already aware of it being required to [link](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_051.html) to the column you refer to, but as your link didn’t work (it refered to your private inbox) I’ve provided it just now.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988/3 "2004-09-04T00:17:27Z")

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> [@anitanita](#):
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> In this weeks question about salt and pepper, Cecil , you said your spaghetti sauce would heal the sick and raise the dead. Instead of inviting us all over, how about giving us the recipe!

I say we hold his feet to the fire and **demand** a sit-down meal. I’d wager that, given the number of board subscribers, and an opportunity to break (garlic) bread with the Master, he should set the table for, oh, about _2000!!_. This number does not include the dead whom we may bring along. I personally have three stiffs to feed. (I lied, one is still alive, but boring).

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-your-cards-right-and-ill-invite-you-over-for-a-plateful/262988/4 "2004-09-04T15:42:30Z")

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How will playing cards get us food? Are we betting with pasta?

Hey!

Ante Pasta

sorry