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Article #777Re: Lamb Festival - A Bust
From: Mimi & JB Hiller
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 00:00
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Anne Bourget writes: >And state fairs too. The only reasons I have to attend the California > I saw people demonstrating products that I thought only existed >in television land. To actually see a Craftmatic bed, Ginzu knife, and >all those Popeil Products was amazing. But why are they there? What is >the purpose of a state fair anyway? I'm with you about this, but unfortunately, the cost of doing anything these days is high and gate receipts don't cover it. These "demonstrator salespeople" pay big bucks (I mean really big) to rent a space at these events, and their fees cover a good bit of the expenses of running the fair. Mimi Hiller hiller@smartlink.net http://www.smartlink.net/~hiller/food/ Hundreds of food-related links and my personal collection of recipes
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f824f,25401f01fb6d96fd X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107014,25401f01fb6d96fd X-Google-Attributes: gid107014,public X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,25401f01fb6d96fd X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8e7,public X-Google-Thread: 10a89e,25401f01fb6d96fd X-Google-Attributes: gid10a89e,public From: hiller@smartlink.net (Mimi & JB Hiller) Subject: Re: Lamb Festival - A Bust Date: 1995/08/08 Message-ID: <hiller.821.00AB6DB7@smartlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 107732906 references: <hattieDCvCnA.F31@netcom.com> <4046qh$9ug@giga.bga.com> <hattieDCxL7r.D12@netcom.com> <rbrumanDCy316.B02@netcom.com> <bourgetDD05zp.2D7@netcom.com> organization: SmartLink.net Premier ISP 805-294-1273 newsgroups: sac.general,ba.food,ba.general,rec.food.cooking