I’ve only been to one festival like this. It was the Heat Wave festival in 1980. Punk rock and new wave acts. I don’t recall the food to be honest but I guess it was passable. The show itself was excellent from my perspective. Happy memories. Ticket was $20 canuck bucks. Still have the stub.
Van Halen, U2, David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Scorpions, and so many others over three days. We had to go back to the parking lots at night and get re-admitted for the next day.
I never got so dirty and smelly in my life. Many people were urinating in place and we had to slog through that.
Never again, though the music was quite good. This was sponsored by Apple so they had a lot tents with computers in them. Way before most people had computers at home.