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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

I was THERE!... with my uncle Sir Cedric Dumby-Phyfe. He wrote a letter back home and described this very menu! Here's some of it:

... and the entire First Class was in an uproar over the "hodge podge"... a sort of mousse/pâté en terrine made out of hedge hogs, garden moles, shrews, and the occasional squirrel that may have wandered under the wheels of a local greengrocer's truck and been tossed into a chopper. Then there was the "potted shrimps" and "soused herrings"; fish that had literally been drowned to death in brandies, whiskies... or whatever booze that a drunken chef had lying around... some diners claimed he may even have used cheap French cologne! I certainly wouldn’t have been surprised given his unintelligible accent! The "consommé jardiniere" was accurately named; literally "consume planter" or soup from a garden... meaning that any leaves, twigs, soil, and even bugs might be in it! Other items on the menu such as "brawn", "sardines", "kidney", "surrey capon", "jacket potatoes", "mutton", "corned ox tongue", and "fillets of plaice" were equally unappetizing... or at the very least confusing. And "lettuce" and "tomatoes" was so generic… completely un-fascinating! And "Manhattan apples"!... what?! Bought from some pushcart down on Rivington Street or in a Little Italy alleyway? That's what we paid all that money for, for a First Class passage on the Titanic?... ridiculous!

To be honest, it was almost a relief to strike an ice berg and be delivered from four more days of such rubbish! We were so lucky to have been rescued by the RMS Carpathia... where the cuisine wasn't nearly as aspirational, but where "cream of tomato soup" and something called a grilled cheese sandwich were perfectly understandable and quite cozy, thank you. I shall speak to Cook when we return to the estate! Love to all and especially to the livestock! Ceddie!...

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