False - I try and sometimes it comes out okay. I try to stay with simple things, though. People have been know to eat my cooking and lived. That talent seems to skip every other generation on my mother's side. My mom's grandma was good, I heard. My maternal grandmother's cooking was the stuff of nightmares. My mom was a wonderful cook. I'll leave the rest to your extrapolative imagination.
When a child, you left refreshments out for Santa.