The clean, stylized illustrations offer a good juxtaposition to the squeamish topic: a mischievous boy who’s bored the businessman’s dinner party his father has insisted he attend decides to add one of his fishing worms to each of the salads, just so he can watch everyone’s reactions. Of course, after the fun of watching everyone else, his father scolds him for taking so long to eat his own salad, so he too is forced to face his own medicine.