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 Lunches at conferences are hellish because

1. Many people in one room plus people waiting in line and people moving
2. Food that tastes odd in ways I can't describe. Why do roasted root vegetables always taste like that???
3. Eating without the people you know so you eat at a table with absolute strangers that I'm sure are lovely but I'm so nervous about points 1 and 2 that I can't conversation