The Weekend Intelligence: Mise en masse

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  The Economist I went on a cruise once as a kid,

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  a short one, a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.

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  I had no idea what I was in for.

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  Going to restaurants was kind of a rare thing for us.

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  Then, suddenly, two meal seatings a day,

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  all cloth napkins and fawning service, plus buffets seemingly all day long.

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  Oh, and at midnight.

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  Truly, it was the most I'd ever eaten, ever tried to eat.

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  And I was amazed.

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  How could there be this much food?

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  Where did they even store it all?

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  Weren't there insane amounts of leftovers?

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  How do they have time to make the food and the Santa watermelon carvings and the elven ice sculptures that would melt before lunch?

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  And could I really maybe just keep eating bacon indefinitely?

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  I'm Jason Palmer, and this is the Weekend Intelligence.

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  These are the kinds of questions that occupied my colleague, Barkley Bram.

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  Well, maybe not the infinite bacon one.

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  The eating is a centerpiece of cruising.

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  Sure,

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  there's the bingo and the promenade deck and karaoke night at lounge singers and who's up for shuffleboard tomorrow.

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