food frustrated
i've been a vegetarian for a little more than a year, with barely a sprinkling of meat-lapses. my most recent was an accidental ingestion of buffalo meat. in my defense it looked like oatmeal because it was all ground up and dried.
here at school it is increasingly difficult to find delicious vegetarian foods. those items offered by the school cafeteria usually miss the mark by a wide margin. even more, the non-veggie options are often poorly cooked, sparingly seasoned, and apparently hastily compiled and displayed as a "meal". how hard is it really to cook pasta? is it more difficult to cook it for large amounts of people? my personal experience tells me that it is not. i worked as a chef for four months, and the meals we made were delicious and nutritious. we even had less space than the kitchen staff on campus and still we managed to bang out kick ass meals everyday. my school is relatively small, and allegedly has the resources of a massive institution, yet how with all that do they manage to consistently produce food that neither satisfies nor strengthens? it goes even further...there is only one meal plan option for students who live on campus. this limitation seems unnecessary to me. does it cost a significant amount to offer options? i rarely eat breakfast at the dining hall and on some days, today being one of them, i will only eat one meal on campus. i understand that schools need money to survive, but my understanding is that the dining hall is there to serve the students, not the other way around.
thank god i'm moving off campus next semester!
posted by Ωsmosis Red at
1:42 PM
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