Twenty-four-year-old Toronto actress Erin Wotherspoon has a hit-list, and if you're a man with a hefty wallet and a thing for blonds, you might just want to watch out.

 

The attractive 5-foot-6 blond has a taste for fine dining, and she's on a mission to eat in 48 of Toronto's hottest restaurants, which she refers to as her "hit-list."

 

The hitch¹? She has no money. So instead of eating her way to the bottom of a can of chickpeas, Wotherspoon uses what she does have -- a pretty face and a flair²（资质） for acting³ -- to swindle（诈骗） men into taking her on first dates in exchange for a free meal at one of her chosen restaurants.

 

"We all know that getting what you want in life can be tough. Which is why I've decided⁴ to let someone else finance my dreams. My dream? To eat in pretty restaurants without costing me a penny," she writes on her Tumblr blog, "A Penniless Girl, Bad Dates and Plenty of Oysters," which wittily⁵ chronicles her life as a serial⁶ dater/foodie.

 

"You had me at Elk⁷ Tartare, lost me at chin strap⁸. Follow me to learn who I screw over, bang and love as I navigate⁹ Toronto's diners, drive-ins and dives."

 

Since the blog's launch in August, she claims to have been on seven dates with men she met mostly through online dating. Her posts vary from critiques（评论） of the restaurants she visits to slagging¹⁰ the men that foot the bills.

 

While she admits she has zero romantic interest in the men she uses for dinner, Wotherspoon maintains that her actions are not unethical.

 

"I truly don't think what I'm doing is that awful. I talk to so many people who said that first dates rarely work out anyway. So what if a guy spends an extra $20?" she tells QMI.

 

And it seems there isn't much she won't do to get a tasty meal. She pretended to be Jewish in order to join a Jewish dating site, but eventually got kicked off as the site owners caught wind of her antics.

 

"I'd say my Hebrew is on the rougher side," she writes. Wotherspoon even blogs about a time she was caught by a guy who knew about her shtick and took her out for dinner anyway -- without letting on that he knew. When it was time to pay the bill, he called her bluff¹¹ and made her pay.

 

Her reaction to that experience? Only date "guys who are fresh off the boat & literally¹² have no friend based established in the country yet."

 

But it's not just recent immigrants she insults. Ugly guys are some of the best to date, she maintains, because they will pay for literally anything.

 

"The dates are weird¹³ because there is a sense that the guy knows there is no chance with me so its just bizarre," she writes.

 

And what does the public think of her dating and dining escapades? It appears she has made friends and foes¹⁴ alike, with some taking her behaviour as an act of feminism, while others call her manipulative and hurtful.

 

"Oh please. Men have been duping（欺骗） women into dates just to get laid forever," writes a supportive Toronto Life commentor.

 

"Men will take women on dates just to have sex with them. She's doing it for food. Much less harmless, don't you think?" writes another.

 

And then there are those predictably outraged¹⁵ by her behaviour.

 

"What a sad existence. Why don't you get a job where you might be able to make slightly better than a 'meagre（贫弱的）' pay cheque and go for dinner with people you actually want to be with," writes a Globe and Mail commentor.

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