Bree: Excuse me?

Katherine: I experimented for years before I came up with my secret ingredient.

Bree: Which is what? Vanilla? Nutmeg? Cardemen?

Katherine: If I told you it wouldn't be a secret anymore. It would just be an ingredient.

Bree: Well that hardly seems neighborly after all I just gave you the recipe for my Minced Meat pie.

Katherine: Yes, it's a very good one. I have the book it came from.

Bree: The recipe's not from a book. That recipe was handed down to me from my mother.

Katherine: Well unless your mother was Betty Crocker she got it from a book. Oh dear, now I've upset you.

Bree: No, no, I'm not upset. I'm just confused as to why you seem so determined to get off on the wrong foot. First you bring a pie to Lynette's when I clearly assigned you the salad.

Katherine: Now see, that's where I'm confused. Just what, please, gives you the right to decide who brings what to a luncheon that I suggested.

Bree: Well, it's tradition! I always organize our little get togethers and I always bring dessert.

Katherine: Well then how lovely that I'm back to shoulder that burden for you.

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