School Food (was Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP request: Jellied salad???) still OOP

[Nick Sasso]

----- Original Message -----  <<from niccolo>>
> On a related note, I have found in my many school/college/other
> experiences that no matter the quality or nutritional value of
> 'institutional food', it will be railed and lambasted as evil and
the
> c<<<SNIP>>>  There are most definitely horror stories,
> to be sure, but they cannot be the norm, or else they would not be
so
> fun to tell.

From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
> > Not true, not true. The people who were the food services director
and the
> > dining hall manager when I started college were both replaced by
the end
> > of my second year--the cook caught the dh mgr taking a flat of eggs
from
> > the cooler on Hallowe'en night without having paid for them first,
and
> > since the cook loathed and <<SNIP>>
> > Margaret

From: "Laura L" <laura at croatan.net>
> That sounds about like my experience! Well, we went from a *super*
local
> catering company at school to some hotel catering company that
imported most
> of its folks from "up north" somewhere. <<SNIP>>
> --Irmgart

Interesting the emotional impact discussions like this have. It is
similar when talking of feasts hosted by groups and specific cooks; I
find that the legends become the "truth" as more people trell them . . .
regardless of the veracity. There are some who will never attend their
event/feasts again from legends of years gone by.

The second message I cropped above (from Margaret) starts off telling
me that my experience is not true, then goes on to tell a personal
experience that evidently is more true?  I missed the direction that was
headed.  The second one starts off telling us that there was a "super"
foodservice that was followed by a bad one.  That situation suggests
that institutional food is not universally bad after all . . . they may
even get a bad wrap to start the race just because they are
institutional food service.

pacem et bonum,
niccolo difrancesco
(the 'freshman 20' would not exist in legend and lore if college
foodservice were so universally and unarguably inedible, methinks . . .
. many bad examples to be sure . . . there are many millions of students
yet to be heard from pro or con<g>)