Who the FUCK is coming up with the menu at my college's cafeteria???

[SmileyBoy]

This is the THIRD night in a row that I've been forced to get take-out for dinner, because some ASSHOLE in dining services has decided to put shit like "breaded pork cutlet", "southwestern chicken and rice" and "parsely buttered potatoes" on the fucking menu!!!

Last night it was roast ham and chow mein. Fuck, I don't want that shit!!! These idiots are seriously draining my pocketbook with all the fucking shitty meals they're serving for dinner. Who ever is making the dinner menus at the residence dining halls is a fucking MORON!!!

Oddly enough, lunch is usually pretty good. They must have someone different come up with the lunch menu.

This is REALLY starting to piss me off.

P.S. Don't think that I'm a finicky eater, it's not that. It's that I've eaten every single thing they've put on the menu, and the crap they always seem to put on the menu is the worst stuff I've eaten. There's some really good food on the menu, but they never sem to insert that into the dinner menu.

[Dookus]

1. I guess I'm missing something....

the menu doesn't sound particularly horrible to me. Is it just prepared badly? What's wrong with chicken and rice or parsley-buttered potatoes?

[SmileyBoy]

3. Just like you said. It's prepared badly.

Stuff they have like chicken fried steak, pasta, meat pies, spinach salad and wild rice soup are the absolute best on the menu. It's that the kinds of stuff they're serving for dinner are the worst-tasting and most poorly-prepared.

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.:)

[Dookus]

6. ah

well bad food is a staple of college cafeterias.

Our cafeteria at least always had a sandwich bar and salad bar for those frequent occasions when the main entree was wretched.

[pinniped]

7. Are the people who cook the stuff part of the hotel/restaurant program?

That can't be a good sign unless they plan to cook prison food.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. could not be the menu, but rather

the cooking crew. When I worked food service (while in college), there was one crew who did breakfast/lunch, with another for dinner. If you have a way to complain, do so. Request that some of the lunch cooks teach the dinner cooks how to prepare food.

[ashiebr]

11. chicken fried steak??

WTF is that?

[pinniped]

12. Some slab of beef which is breaded and fried up in Olestra oil.

.

[ashiebr]

16. Olestra Oil? N/T

[pinniped]

20. Just making a joke about Olestra.

Remember a few years ago when Lay's chips started using Olestra?

On the bag there was a warning that it could give you abdominal cramps and diarrhea.

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Taco day...

is my favorite day at school, or when the serve breakfast for dinner thats good too.

I don't go to the dining hall much any more, I have my own kitchen and I take full advantage of that!

[u4ic]

4. Ham and chow mein?!?

:puke:

[illbill]

5. Woah...

Winnipeg!???

Rock on man, I'm in the Peg right now. Where are you?

[SmileyBoy]

13. Fargo.

I'm a huge Jets fan, though. Follow the link in my sig line.;)

[illbill]

15. lol...

I'm good friends with the Chipmans...

No chance bud... unless a huge salary cap is set.

[Endangered Specie]

9. Yeah, I got some good (bad) stories Where I go we have the:

"uncuttable teflon roast beef". I bend the silverware trying to cut it and chewing it takes ages!
"charcoal brick burger" (or on really bad days, I call it the "Neutron star burger"), I mean they cook the shit out of them!
"14.5 times baked potatoes"
"Butter rolls" which are really supposed to be bread, but I suspect there is more butter than bread in them.



First day I went to the cafeteria I saw someone bolting out the doors at about warp 9, only to, well... you know: :puke:

[elcondor]

10. We have "butter rolls" here too

LOL ... I wised up after my first year and got a refrigerator. I now only eat in the cafeteria at lunch (when there's actually a pretty good make-your-own-sandwich thing). Most days, dinner in the cafeteria is half-cooked cold noodles, some sort of creamed meat, and the aforementioned rolls.

ugh ...

[htuttle]

14. One day, after you graduate from college...

...you'll get a job somewhere in a cubicle, and the only thing you'll be able to find for your short lunch is a plastic wrapped, microwaveable woodchip sandwich that comes out of a goddamn vending machine.

You'll look back on that cafeteria food fondly! Some days, I can't tell you how much I miss cafeteria lunches. Mostly those days when there's nothing but plasti-barbeque sandwiches left in the machine.

;)

[NickB79]

30. Oh god, I was just saying that last night at work

I don't work in a cubicle (but it is a smallish QC lab) and was just telling a coworker all about how I missed the campus cafeteria food. It wasn't that great, and it went downhill as the year went on (it's like they just gave up by finals week), but it was all-you-can-eat, had salad, sandwich, pizza and burger bars that were decent if repetitive, and cereal! They had a dozen different kinds of cereal all day long! Coco-Puffs for dinner, what a school :-)

[da_chimperor]

17. Have you complained?

Bitch about it to others in your hall and see if they agree. If they do, get a petition going or something. If the whole hall agrees with you, you should be able to do something about it.

[tjwmason]

18. Once we had a bizarre thing

Suddenly they switched from a balanced menu, changing round different meats &c. to chicken constantly (as in 13 days in 2 weeks). This was shortly after the entire chicken population of Hong Kong had been put down due to avian-flu - I couldn't resist submitted a comment form wondering whether there was any connexion, and central catering services had bought a job-lot.

[Skittles]

19. remember there are millions of starving children in this world

really

[mopinko]

25. as a mom

you took the words right outta my mouth.

[Skittles]

28. I do on occasion complain about food

but it always makes me feel petty

[Nikia]

21. There were always alternatives at my dining hall

They had the more normal stuff on one line. Then they also had a couple more lines with stuff that most college students would like: deli line, grill (hamburgers, hot dogs, ect.) line, pasta and pizza line, Mexican line, or Asian line. They also had a salad bar, soups, bread, fruit, cereal, and peanut butter at every meal. There was also a microwave and herbs and spices which some students got rather creative with.
I didn't understand the students who didn't like being on the meal plan. I always found plenty to eat. I could get a well balanced meal without having to do any work or wait for it.

[TheMightyFavog]

22. The two words that strike fear into the hearts of every UWSP student

Eating at the DeBot center.

Chicken Cabanera

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[SoCalDem]

23. Rubber Jell-o cubes ring any bells??

I lived on the 5th floor of the dorm, and as an "experiment", we dropped some of those babies out the window to the concrete below.. They bounced..nuff said :)

[Left Is Write]

24. I love roast ham. I love chow mein.

I also like parsley potatoes. Southwestern chicken and rice sounds good.

I used to like things like breaded pork cutlets, but I wouldn't eat it now.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. When I was a senior in college, we had some disastrous menu items

The worst was "beef tenderloin tips," which was a floury gravy with pieces of bone and gristle floating in it.

The coffee tasted like bleach smells. I used to work as a waitress at the banquets that the college catered for local organizations, and I used to marvel at people who took seconds on coffee. I'm a coffee lover, but I couldn't even stand the smell of the fumes emanating from the thermos pot.

Sunday night supper was always the same: olive loaf, processed cheese, and Wonder Bread laid out in the cafeteria line.

This was in the days before salad bars were common. We tended to fill up at breakfast, which featured stuff that was hard to ruin, like toast and cold cereal.

[HEyHEY]

27. Satan is a good bet

[RadicalMom]

29. May you NEVER have to spend time in a hospital..You'll long for

college "mystery meat!"

[progressoid]

31. Stop eating cafeteria food entirely for a while

make all your own meals, every day, for a few weeks. The convenience of not having to budget, shop, cook, and clean may override the weirdosity of food service food.