The vagaries of dorm food and other thoughts
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- February
- 26
My son was home from college last weekend, a surprise visit in order to do his laundry.
We’re one of those families that sits down to dinner as a group to eat (television off!), so I was watching as he took second helpings of stew.
Apparently his college has two cafeterias, one that serves the same thing every day and the other that serves—fried foods, from what I can gather. So his choice is either something fried, a hamburger, breakfast cereal or deli sandwiches for dinner.
Unlike most college freshmen, he hasn’t put on the ubiquitous 15 pounds. He tells me there’s nothing to eat that he isn’t tired of or just isn’t appetizing.
It made me wonder, not for the first time, why it is that colleges and other large-scale institutional feeding places have such limited food choices when cruise ships, which feed so many people so much great food, don’t have the same problem.
Considering how much money my husband and I are forking over for room and board, I can only wonder why my son can’t find something that’s not fried, dry cereal or a deli sandwich to fill his stomach.
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on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm by Randi Weiner.
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