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[Mr. Z]

So this is happening here in town this coming weekend, http://www.fieryfoodsshow.com/.
I'm planning to go throw down and make a few fire related mistakes. Anyone else planning to attend?
Any vendors you reccomend I check out? Any can't miss products?

[P.K.]

I’ll be attending, think I’ve only missed one show since 2000. Products and vendors to see that will be geared towards your tastes, as for me, I always stop by Cajohn’s, the chile pepper institute (they’ll have Bhut and T.S. Scorp plants for sale this year), Defcon (love those guys, they get all decked out for the show, but didn’t see them on the exhibitors list ), there’s just too many to list from memory. I suggest doing a little research before going because it gets mad in there, barely enough room for you to move your beer to your mouth. Check out these links for ideas; http://www.thehotpep...ners-announced/ & http://www.scovieawards.com/scovie/.

[DEFCON Creator]

We don't do the show anymore. It costs us WAY too much ($6k+ with frieght, airfare, car rental, decent lodging, etc.), they never gave us any type of incentive (after 5 years doing the show), and the sales got substantially worse the last couple of years we were there.

[P.K.]

Sorry to hear that, I’ll miss see you there . You’re not the first exhibitors I know of that aren’t returning, Dave won’t even give the nonprofits organizations a break, or so I’ve been told.

[DEFCON Creator]

Thanks man. We really enjoyed doing the show, it just became cost prohibitive, with no 'give' on their end.