Campus Cuisine

[Guest bigdunn20]

Here at Winona State Universiy, we have a cafeteria that contains a salad bar, bad pizza, and usually hamburgers and some variety of chicken. The is always either deep fried, or so high in fat that most people could not touch it in good concience. As for the vegetables, they are so overcooked that I can not see how they could ever have any nutritional value what so ever.

 

In addition to the caf, we have a food court with Blimpie Subs, Pizza Hut, and a grill that makes made to order burgers and chicken sandwiches and the like. Eating at the food court is obviously better from a taste perspective, but it would be impossible to get a balanced meal eating their exclusively.

 

What is campus food like where you go, or went to college?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I was a commuter student so I was never exposed to dorm food. The few times I ate at school weren't too bad, but if I was consuming that stuff for an entire academic career I'd probaby say otherwise...

[sfaJack 0]

It's been about 5 years or since I ate cafeteria food, but it wasn't too bad. The main "Grand Central" cafeteria was quite nice, with their enchiladas and flautas topping the list of all the foods they served.

 

The East cafeteria was a very evil place, however. Dear God, that was some awful food.

[Jingus 0]

It's been a couple of years now, but personally I had no problem with the campus cafeteria food. Of course, I'm a dedicated fatass carnivore who has no problem scarfing down all-you-can-eat servings of incredibly greasy burgers, pizza, and the like, so I might be a bit biased there. I imagine that vegans and other health food types wouldn't find much to like there, and there wasn't much in the way of variety, foreign foods, or anything like that.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I ate more Ramen than anyone should ever eat. I also learned how to make egg "mcmuffins" with only a microwave. The dorm food was by and large, utterly vile. The food court grub was ok, but it got old fast. Henceforth, I just went to a discount store, and grabbed stuff I could cook with ingenious methods. I can also make an air conditioner from a minifridge with duct tape and a piece of hose.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

I went to Penn State, but was only at main campus for the last 2 years. At first, I didn't mind the cafeteria food, but it got old really quickly. I always ate breakfast there, because if nothing else looked good, I could always grab a couple bowls of cereal, and a glass of milk & orange juice. Or, if it was offered, pancakes & bacon & sausage.

 

Gotta look for the specials at the local bars (if you're old enough, of course). $0.10 wings & $2.50 pitchers are TEH AWESOME~! When I was at Penn State, 1 bar had $2.00 cheesesteaks on Saturday's, and not skimpy ones. A good 8 inches, and you could get a few toppings w/out paying extra.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Actually, the breakfast buffet shit at the cafeteria was scrumptious. It's hard to screw up breakfast eats, though.

[Nevermortal 0]

AoO's like the food MacGyver.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Although I've yet to make it to college, I'd just like to say I haven't ate shcool food since Kindergarden.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

AoO's like the food MacGyver.

Brilliant tactic: Take a big peanut butter jar lid, or any other deep plastic lid, mix up an egg in the lid, and whatever else you want suspended in egg, and nuke the fucker til it's the consistency of cooked egg. Slap 'er between a couple pieces of toast. Costs you nearly nothing. The refrigerator gone air conditioner is a trickier proposition, though.

[Gert T 0]

I just graduated, and our school only had one place to eat, and I didn't mind it except on weekends, where there were only two different types of foods they had for each meal, meaning you would see the same thing every two weeks, no wonder nobody ate there Saturdays.

[The Dames 0]

RPI's campus food was SO SHITTY that I ordered out every day and gained 70 pounds in two years there. I had to work my ASS off to lose most of it when I got home.

 

Dames

[bob_barron 0]

I like Ryerson's food. They serve hamburgers, pizza and steak so it's all good.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I used to think the food at my school was bad till I worked at a summer camp.

[DerangedHermit 0]

I ate more Ramen than anyone should ever eat. I also learned how to make egg "mcmuffins" with only a microwave. The dorm food was by and large, utterly vile. The food court grub was ok, but it got old fast. Henceforth, I just went to a discount store, and grabbed stuff I could cook with ingenious methods. I can also make an air conditioner from a minifridge with duct tape and a piece of hose.

What can you do with a straw, paper clip and rubber band?

[Guest Nacho Nixon]

I can also make an air conditioner from a minifridge with duct tape and a piece of hose.

There has to be some way to turn this into history's greatest bong.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

What can you do with a straw, paper clip and rubber band?

and absolutely nothing else?

 

Flip the rubber band at someone, snort a fat rail of exquisite coke with the straw, and jab someone in the eye with the straightened paper clip.

 

There has to be some way to turn this into history's greatest bong.

 

Hmm.

 

If one could conceivably cut a hole in the door that would allow for your head to be placed inside of it, much like the stocks in your stylized town squares of the past, then it might be possible to affix a bowl to the hose which is hooked to the air intake of the fridge. Provided the motor is powerful enough to draw a flame into the bowl, then you could just shove your head in the fridge, seal up the area around your neck to secure the chamber, and just let the fan blow the smoke in around your head. If you wanted to get real fancy, you might be able to rig the light so it's always on.

[starvenger 0]

I'm going a bit back (U of Toronto 91-96) but dorm food was by and large pretty gross. I do remember that a lot of deli sandwiches left the dining hall at lunch for a late night snack later.

 

The caf at the engineering buildings wasn't much better. It was good for 2 things: Fries with gravy and muffins.

 

Fortunately, U of T borders Toronto's (2nd) Chinatown, so you could always get decent food for cheap. And hot dog vendors EVERYWHERE.

[treble 0]

The food at the dining hall at my residence last year was decent. I always heard people complaining about it, but I don't know what the fuck they were expecting. There's a Mr. Sub, Pizza Pizza, and Tim Horton's on campus that accept meal plan dollars, so I blew most of the $300 (the plan my residence was on was that you get 16 meals a week, plus an extra $300 for the year) I was allotted on pizza. I've hardly bought anything on campus this year, though, maybe a slice of pizza and some stuff from vending machines, but I do most of my eating at home now.

 

Speaking of the cafeteria, though, the cooks are on strike now, so the fucking bus drivers won't cross the picket line and take us all the way up to the bus stops on campus, they just drop us off at the entrances. It's a 10 minute walk that's not so bad now, but if they don't get this settled soon, it's going to be a bitch once the temperature drops.

[ISportsFan 0]

I never thought I would long for the days of my high school cafeteria food, but they're here. The food in Champaign at U of I is just horrendous. If I weren't such a cheapskate, I'd go out to Jimmy John's or Subway or this pita place around town, but I am cheap and we're required to buy at least 12 meals and $15 of overpriced snacks a week. So I eat those. Suffice to say that when I go back home I don't want to do anything else but see people I haven't seen in a while and eat good food.

 

Jason

[Guest Nacho Nixon]

I ate more Ramen than anyone should ever eat. I also learned how to make egg "mcmuffins" with only a microwave. The dorm food was by and large, utterly vile. The food court grub was ok, but it got old fast. Henceforth, I just went to a discount store, and grabbed stuff I could cook with ingenious methods. I can also make an air conditioner from a minifridge with duct tape and a piece of hose.

What can you do with a straw, paper clip and rubber band?

If you were that guy in my seventh grade class back in the day, you could make the Self-Blinder 3000 and get a ton of days off school. He may have used a pencil instead of a straw, though.

[Guest Nacho Nixon]

What can you do with a straw, paper clip and rubber band?

and absolutely nothing else?

 

Flip the rubber band at someone, snort a fat rail of exquisite coke with the straw, and jab someone in the eye with the straightened paper clip.

 

There has to be some way to turn this into history's greatest bong.

 

Hmm.

 

If one could conceivably cut a hole in the door that would allow for your head to be placed inside of it, much like the stocks in your stylized town squares of the past, then it might be possible to affix a bowl to the hose which is hooked to the air intake of the fridge. Provided the motor is powerful enough to draw a flame into the bowl, then you could just shove your head in the fridge, seal up the area around your neck to secure the chamber, and just let the fan blow the smoke in around your head. If you wanted to get real fancy, you might be able to rig the light so it's always on.

If nobody makes black-light fridge bulbs yet, someone should. Not only would it be a slick finishing touch, but it'd also be great for seeing just how much piss really is in the fridge at any given time.

[lomasmoney 0]

The food here at U of M is really shitty. Its the same crappy food, and I usually just order out with some buddies or call my parents and have them bring me whatever leftovers my brother and sister dont eat. It owns being just 30-35 minutes away from home