But as the participants walked down the hallway, there were refreshments available with a choice of a decadent chocolate cake, or a cup of fresh fruit.
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In a lot of wells I saw that the zone was taking drilling mud, soaking it up and leaving a layer of mud cake across a permeable interval of the wellbore.
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Mr. Ecko, founder of his namesake billion-dollar fashion company, posted a request for a cake resembling a can of Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer for his now seven-year-old son's birthday.
Since the early 1990s the industry has resembled a cake made of horizontal layers of technology, with each layer dominated by a few companies.
For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.
Instead of a container of gelatin or a glop of cake -- which have inspired photo blogs dedicated to the wonders of hospital food -- patients get an in-season peach or bowl of strawberries plucked from a nearby farm.
Second - as if you needed telling - retailing will for some time remain all about trying to win a bigger slice of a cake that cannot grow in any meaningful way.
But then there are the streets of Ragusa Ibla, a mad wedding cake of impenetrable, ancient alleyways.
Just a bit of runway crosswind, a piece of cake for the Cirrus.
To British centrist voters who may think some of those on offer are a few raisins short of a fruit cake, that counts as reassurance.
Saint Basil's Cake is a round, flat cake of Greek origin, having the texture of shortbread.
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And owners of capital are grabbing a bigger slice of the cake relative to workers as a whole.
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She is expanding her business with a gift basket of cake and flowers within New York City, and beyond the city with a mail-order catalog offering dozens of rich desserts.
The man makes French toast and waffles and ham and eggs and pancakes and cereal and Pop-Tarts and brownies and hot dogs and hamburgers and baked Alaska and a birthday cake in the shape of a castle and pours glasses of milk and orange juice and coffee and Tang and Kool-Aid and water and puts ice in all of the glasses.
His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.
Cheng orders a chocolate croissant and a slice of cake for us to share.
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They would bring me a piece of cake and solemnly watch me eat it.
Handling three percent fewer flights with better equipment should be a piece of cake.
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Even so, flying the little Eclipse at nearly 400mph was a piece of cake.
You give people a lot of cake and ice cream, they're going to eat it.
Citizenship would be a piece of cake, since he would marry Gia, which was the point of the exercise.
For children in the nineteen-seventies, it would have been a piece of cake.
At first, writing personal essays for Chinese kids who wanted to study abroad sounded like a piece of cake.
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Personally, I think that Ford should be a piece of cake to fix.
One reason is that even though comprehensive archiving is now much easier, it's still not exactly a piece of cake.
Hitting, standing, doubling-down, splitting and buying insurance all enter into it, but the learning curve is a piece of cake.
Dr Carter and his graduate students have been experimenting with a dummy mine in a cake tin full of sand.
Once they accepted me, everything else has been a piece of cake.
Still, an audit and a trip to Tax Court is a lot to go through for something that should be a piece of cake.
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