Fake Plastic Trees

In Chicago a couple of weeks ago I took a picture of this display in the window of an Asian restaurant in Evanston.

When I was a kid, I remember a piece of cheesecake in McLean, Virginia. It was spinning slowly on a pedestal, unchanged, in a hyperbaric chamber near the checkout register. Every time we visited that restaurant I checked for signs of decay. I finally decided that somebody must have the job of creating ultra realistic rubber food.