Getting paid to taste food? Um, OK...

Probably about a year ago, I filled out a questionnaire online to get myself registered with AOC Research here in Charlotte. They are a research company that does mostly taste tests. Oh, and you get paid. I have been called a couple of times for taste tests and haven't qualified based on my answers over the phone, most disappointingly for a beer taste test. Well, this time I qualified, and I was psyched. I can't tell you about what I tasted because I had to sign a confidentiality agreement, but I will tell you that it was all delicious. I was there for just a little under and hour, ate enough food for it to be my dinner, and... wait for it... I got paid $40. That's what I'm talking about.