Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
To Americans, "free food" is such a multi-tiered combo of hope, joy, satisfaction and bliss that it's no wonder you can get thousands to camp out for it.
Indeed, and when supplied at one's place of employment, free food seems to take on inscrutable and magical powers, even more so if the wages provided are sufficient to keep employees quite well-fed, and Engel's law applies firm-wide.