The Convention Center has the worst food on earth, served in the most humiliating, chair-free, low-dignity manner possible. People looked like dogs, hobbled over, eating high-sodium, byproduct-enriched, grease-lathered guck. Convention Center food in your stomach is like having fifty chest × rays, it’s so toxic. In fact for the rest of the day, the “chest × ray” became our official standard of measurement for something that is probably very bad for you, which shortens your life, but which won’t take its toll until much later on. If we met someone really horrible, we said they were like “ten
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