Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I am at a conference

You may have been to a conference before. Big exhibit hall, all the vendors showing their best bells and whistles. Lots of suits plying their trade with jokes and candy and PowerPoints and video. This conference is like that.

You need a strong stomach to handle it.

Take the exhibit hall. Row after row of vendors. Most have candy. One has brought in a tabletop oven and is baking chocolate chip cookies. The people paying their own way flock to the sweets. (Not me. I am on an expense account, and there is coconut mousse in the restaurant upstairs.)

Next up: Something dark and tired lying on a plate. A quick second look confirms it.

Eeek!

It is raw steak.

Not the nice, fresh thick steak you might find at a foodie convention. This meeting is for veterinarians.

Would you like to see our laser scalpel in action?

Eeek!

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