One Man's Meat
Nov. 22nd, 2003 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueA mystery in which several men are at a dinner table:
One is eating steak; the rest are eating broccoli. The mystery is who has the steak. A detective is brought in to solve the case. He refuses to simply look at the table, where the answer is clearly shown, as this would rob him of the chance to showcase his prodigious deductive skills. He instead conducts a series of interviews to determine the character of each of the men and whether such a man is likely to eat steak - and to have someone serve it to him. Who brought the steak? We realize the mystery is greater than we imagined. The detective arrives at the conclusion that there is only one man at the table, and this man has never tasted beef or broccoli. Moreover, this table is in Sierra Leone.
One is eating steak; the rest are eating broccoli. The mystery is who has the steak. A detective is brought in to solve the case. He refuses to simply look at the table, where the answer is clearly shown, as this would rob him of the chance to showcase his prodigious deductive skills. He instead conducts a series of interviews to determine the character of each of the men and whether such a man is likely to eat steak - and to have someone serve it to him. Who brought the steak? We realize the mystery is greater than we imagined. The detective arrives at the conclusion that there is only one man at the table, and this man has never tasted beef or broccoli. Moreover, this table is in Sierra Leone.
