I sell steaks and hamburgers.

The Glendale store also sells steaks, chicken, and ground beef.

"Since companies can't sell the sizzle to them, they had better start selling good steaks."

The digital version of Merrill Lynch wants to sell not just stocks and bonds, but steaks and bonbons, too.

Larry the meatman used to set up shop and sell steaks at the bar until he forgot to tip Ernie once too often.

"My mother knew that taking care of people in a warm, comfortable way was going to sell steaks," her son, Randy Fertel, told me.

Bryant & Cooper Steak House in Roslyn, for example, began sales through a Web site three years ago and now sells steaks all over the country.

He said customers shipped his steaks to clients and friends because his is one of the few restaurants in the country that sell dry-aged prime steaks.

After his short-lived record deals, he took many jobs in Nashville, including moving furniture, installing cable TV systems, and selling steaks door to door.

Directly across the aisle, private vendors were selling thick, lean steaks for 450,000 rubles.