Published by the Bundaberg News Mail 25/08/2008
By Clementine Norton
IT was like stepping back in time to April 14, 1912 except this time, with a much happier ending.
Jann Duffy and 80 other patrons visited the sights, sounds and tastes of the past during Bargara Golf Club's Titanic-themed dinner on Friday night.
"It was something completely different, it really could have been 1912," Mrs Duffy said. Fellow guest Kathy Sawyer said the event was "a first class night in every way".
After guests were greeted with champagne, an eight-course meal including freshly shucked oysters, bacon and barley soup, poached salmon, asparagus salad and Waldorf Pudding was served, in keeping with the menu on board the RMS Titanic.
"The menu was a challenge people ate a lot in Edwardian times," Creative Catering function manager Jay Walls said
"There were 11 courses on the original menu."
At the end of the evening, the orchestra donned lifejackets to play Nearer My God To Thee, which was the hymn played by the ship's orchestra as the infamous "unsinkable" boat went below the waves.
"This time, all souls were accounted for at the end of the evening," Mr Walls said