Cooking Show at Sigma Nu Alpha

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"I liked this one a lot," wrote Dan Jarrell. "It had the verisimilitude of a bunch of college kids looking for a new way of getting fed, saving money, and appealing to the narcissistic personality of every Gordon Ramsey wanna-be." Wow. "Verisimilitude" and "narcissistic" in one sentence. Who says America is being dumbed down?

Debbie Ash thought those fictitious fraternity fellows were up to something. "Seemed suspicious," she wrote, "like a sneaky way to get a free fraternity cook."

Sheila Darden "actually cut out the ad and put it in my bag to take to church with me to give to one of our church members," she wrote. "Then, I made it to the end of the Observer and saw the information about 'Fake Ad.' ... it would have been a little embarrassing since it did not exist."

Eric Sobicinski found the giveaway: "Arborweb" bridges the 5th and 6th lines of [the] ad body," he noted, from "Ann Arbor" to "We buy all the groceries."