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

[Daniel Myers]

The food in my freshman year was horrible, with serious problems in
selection and quality.  To the University's credit, it had just taken
things over from a subcontractor and was having to learn how to do
everything.  I lost 5 pounds during that year.  Things improved rapidly
over the following years and by the time I graduated the food was
reasonably good.

Now the University where I did grad school has all of its food provided
by Marriott, which in turn had subcontracted much out to fast food
franchises.  This meant that many students there ate nothing but
burgers and pizza for lunch and dinner, seven days a week - mind you,
the quality of fast food is usually higher than the Marriott food I've
had (no offense meant to any Marriott employees on this list, I assume
it's a management caused thing).

I guess it really just depends on what you like to eat, where the
school is, and who's running it.


On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Generys ferch Ednuyed wrote:

> 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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