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

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

Perhaps it's the difference between elementary / high school food and
university food - the food at UNC-Chapel Hill wasn't great, but it wasn't
bad either, and some was fairly tasty, even if repetitive...

Generys

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Sasso" <NJSasso at msplaw.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: School Food (was Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP request:Jelliedsalad???)
still OOP


| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
| > Not so, Niccolo- the case generally is- the dorm food is awful, let's
| order
| > pizza!/go to McDonald's/have chips and pop in our room/throw some
| Hot
| > Pockets-popcorn-LeanCuisine in the microwave mom got us...
| >
| > Not to mention the gallons of MtDew/Pepsi/lattes/frappuchino etc.
| they put
| > away during paper and exam season.
| >
| > Annie OTOH is living on rice and lentils and produce, because it's
| all she
| > can afford. She's not likely to pick up the Freshman Fifteen.
| > 'Lainie
|
| I keep thread alive because the dynamics are so similar to what goes on
| in people's minds regarding SCA food . . . medieval food is all bad, as
| in the not too distant past letter by the Trimaran Royalty that caused a
| Brouhaha.  SO MANY up in arms when it's his/her own "ox in the ditch",
| but miss the isomorphic analogy (keen similarity) to this food service
| argument.  There are some babies out there displaced from their bath
| water, methinks.  Would these same people make the same over sweeping
| generalizations about medieval food?
|
| I need, then, from someone an alternative explanation for why the food
| at the schools I attended ranged from acceptable to good, was
| economical, and had a waiting line for nearly 45 minutes if a student
| did not come in the first or last 35 minutes of the service times for a
| meal.  If I am "wrong" in my generalization that not all school food is
| universally bad, then there needs to be a hypothesis to explain these
| apparent anomalies in 4 schools I attended, plus 4 others I visited that
| presented satisfactory to excellent food service programs.  Sure, it's
| small sample, but my 8 out of 10 schools seems to challenge your
| assertions that "dorm food" is generally "awful" . . . then there is the
| fact that the schools aren't going bankrupt on food service.
|
| I also need someone to explain why, if college food service is
| universally and unarguably awful, the Universities of Georgia and
| Georgia Technical Institute have had their food service student and
| staff satisfaction survey results published in professional publications
| for University professionals in the later 80's and early 90's.  Locally,
| in Atlanta, many students publicly laude the food at Agnes Scott
| University . . .
|
| The argument continuing to appear is that I cannot possibly be correct
| in saying that "all food service food is NOT universally horrendous".  I
| accept that there are lots of personal experiences of not liking food at
| universities/colleges, or having actual atrocities or health hazards.
| Sweeping generalizations either way seem misplaced except that if there
| were an epidemic of health and safety issues of the proportions of some
| of the anecdote here, I suspect that CNN or some other news organization
| would have grabbed it and sensationalized it beyond all recognition
| (note Heraldo Rivera and his buds).  I am not hearing anything, from the
| people telling me I am flat wrong, that tells us anything to suggest
| that food dissatisfaction is related to anything more that adolescent
| peccadillo, authority disengagement and cultural indoctrination that is
| prevalent in 18 to 20 year olds in so many other venues and
| circumstances in the world.  To ignore that simple explanation and claim
| nationwide catastrophic epidemic of food atrocities seems a bit
| histrionic/melodramatic.  Ohkam's Razor seems to suggest a simpler
| reason.
|
| niccolo difrancesco
|
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