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Finally, BBQ Pitmasters Gets It Right
In Vienna, anyway.
The Roboexotica convention is going on in Vienna right now, and there are 30 robot bartenders mixing drinks for the attendees. Robots were invited to the event (can robots really be "invited" to anything at this point?) to "demonstrate their skills in categories such as mixing cocktails, serving drinks and snacks, bar conversation and smoking cigarettes and cigars." I wasn't aware that it took skill to smoke a cigar or what practical purpose it would serve to have a robot be able to do that, but I'm sure it looks cool as hell.
One of the more popular bartenders is Chapok, who looks like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and is trained to make sleazy come on lines to women like "hey you sweet thing, have you ever had a date with a robot?"
The Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria recently hosted the fourth annual Austrian Chocolate Master
competition and this year's theme was Mozart. Teams of chocolate artists were given 88 pounds of Belgian chocolate, a
Grand Marnier cake, and the stipulation that non-chocolate props and artificial ingredients were not allowed. One
18-year-old entrant duplicated, in chocolate of course, all of the notes of the first page of Mozart's
"Così Fan Tutte" before using them to decorate a torte. The piece pictured here took second place and
is entitled "Rock Me Amadeus." The winning entry, which apparently took three weeks to complete, featured a
milk chocolate figurine dressed in orange flower petals above a chocolate violin. 
