The food chain (or convery belt)

Yesterday my host brother took us to a Hot Pot resturant. For those of you unfarmiliar with the concept (although there are many styles) each person has their own boiling vat of water in front of them. THey can then choose what to put in ie pork, chicken, shrimp, noodles ect. The food is than cooked and you take it out of the water and eat it. This particular place was even more intersting than that because through out the entire resturant ran a conveyer belt that you took plates off of. Each plate would have 2 or 3 bites of shrimp, or some greens ect and you would take that what ever you wanted and place it in your pot. The down side to this was we were sitting at the very end of the conveyer belt. So between where the food was placed on and us were 50 other hungry people who had "first dibs" on the food they wanted. At first we didnt realize why we were only gettting the dishes that no one else wanted, not to mention how rare it was to see a plate of noodles go by. It than dawned on me that I was on a metophorical low end of the food chain, and everyone else was in a sense choosing what I could eat. I thought it was pretty funny to be in this situation. Needless to say all we had to do was ask for noodles and they would be brought to us, but if we had to rely on the convery belt itself we would have had much water and little noodles, I know the extremly tough life I lead.