Recall for us if you will, your bad experiences with DORM FOOD

[yvr girl]

My memory is forever scared by ...


















SPAM LASAGNA


and no I'm not making that up. It's worse than you can even imagine.
Let's just say it was a toast day.

[flamingyouth]

1. I'm scarred by sorority food

People always talk about the "freshman 10," but I think I became nearly anorexic by eating nothing but salad and drinking coffee for four years.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Not me.

I went to U. of Denver for a while and lived in the Hotel/Restaurant School Dorm, where those learning to cook worked out. In the serving line, I actually heard someone whine "Oh no! Trout Almondine again!".

[GOPisEvil]

3. The mystery meat that was breaded and fried and served as...

...chicken fried steak. The white gravy was like Elmer's Glue.

:puke:

[fluffernutter]

4. we had a cook that had a thing for cheese.

lots of cheese.

everyday it was some sort of cheese surprise.

pot roast covered with cheese.

spaghetti with lots and lots of grated stringy cheese.

hamburger surprise topped oh so lovingly with cheese.

chicken pot pie ...yay! there was no cheese on top. but wait, oozing out when you cut it. yep. cheese.

you get the picture. let's just say that it has taken me a long time to begin to like cheese again.

[WMliberal]

5. I had enough within my first month at W&M

I ended up just having Bagels, salads, and cereal being the only things I'd touch at the Caf. Basically, they found a way to fuck up chicken. I don't know how you can fuck it up, but they did.

I made my own food for the other three years.

[Left Is Write]

15. I relied a lot on the snack bar in my dorm building.

I lived in the only dorm building with its own snack bar. They had hamburgers, fries, pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, that sort of thing.

[Maddy McCall]

6. At the campus commons--a fucking buckshot pellet in sausage!

A guy friend was sitting across from me...eating red beans and rice with a big link of sausage. He bit into the sausage, chomped onto something hard, and then removed pellet shot from the sausage.

Since I know that hogs are not killed with buckshot at meat packers, I can only guess that the meat came from god knows where--probably Farmer Joe donated some deer sausage to the college.

Anyway, it was gross.

[GOPisEvil]

7. Oh yeah...boxes of chicken marked "Grade D - Edible"

:puke:

[NoPasaran]

8. Alleged clam chowder

I swear it was milky dishwater with potato-like things in it.
:puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. I was lucky - my college had a pretty darn good cafeteria

Better than any other college cafeteria I had ever eaten at before.

The only really bad thing they served was the powdered scrambled eggs. Nasty.

[Zenlitened]

10. Cooking it, serving it, cleaning up after it.

Working in the cafeteria and waiting on your wealthy classmates -- boy if that doesn't make you aware of social and economic class distinctions, nothing will!

[yvr girl]

11. Oh, I forgot to mention the grilled cheese

We would press a spoon into it and fill it up with oil a couple of times. :puke:

[salin]

12. started a slide to hypoglycemia (sp) in my freshman dorm

had "dessert table" three nights a week - mostly a really sickening sweet array - epitomized by a gross angel food cake with a pink icing that was pure sugar. I lost all taste for anything sweets - and ate almost no sugar for eons in reaction. At that point I also didn't eat many natural sugars in vegetables and sweets - had low blood sugar (and reactions) for several years til I got a "clue" about increasing my intake of natural sugars (veggies and fruit) - and haven't had a problem in years... I attribute it all to that awful dessert table array and the pink angel food cake.

[FuzzySlippers]

13. We had all these things called "beef" something.....

"beef" burgundy, "beef" orientale, "beef" etc., which would more accurately have been called "fat" something, but you couldn't tell what was fat and what was the the odd bit of beef because it was in all this gloop. So you got this piece of fat in your mouth and you didn't want to chew and swallow it, but you didn't want to take it out either, and it was a horrible dilemma. You learned to avoid those dishes very early on.

[Left Is Write]

14. My bad memories aren't from the food...

They're from working in the cafeteria three nights a week doing clean-up duty. What college kids can do to their food and utensils is somewhat disturbing at times.

[fortyfeetunder]

16. Colleges around the eastern US

I did a bit of traveling to colleges for reasons other than looking for a place to study...like student conferences and marching band performances.

Drexel U by far had the worst food imaginable. I visited Drexel on three separate occasions and gagged every time. Unfortunately one of the visits I had to buy a meal card, but I supplemented the meal with a nearby fast food joint

The best were the HBCU's in the southern US, such as North Carolina A&T and South Carolina State College. Those places served the closest thing to home cooking...my own school didn't even come close.

[American Tragedy]

17. What do you mean by 'dorm food'?

We usually just went to the grocery, or to a deli or cafe or someplace else nearby. There were vending machines downstairs, but nothing that you could survive on.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. HA, my college cafeteria food poisoned about 350 people

with a constant stream of cars running to the hospital all night long.
I did not fall ill, but it was something else again. The average # of persons who ate the evening meal was around 650, so this was about 50% of the student body.

We made the Paul Harvey report ! This was in 1968, I think. There were some seriously sick people.

And if it wasn't food poisoning, the other alternatives were:

a rack of silverware that had been sneezed on by someone who had a contagious gastrointestinal virus

a batch of silverware or dishes that missed the sterilizing rinse in the dishwasher

a really virulent virus that selectively chose to strike its victims within an 8 hour period after the dinner meal that night.

The other dorm food adventures included:
grilled cheese on an iron
Jiffypop popcorn on an iron (NOT recommended)
soup in a popcorn popper

One thing my college cafeteria excelled at was breakfast and homemade soup. Spectacular.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. "Beef" tenderloin tips

My first year in college, the food was really good. They served things like saltimbocca and apple dumplings, to name my two favorites.

Then the food service director left and was replaced by Bottom Line Man. His first innovations was to replace Sunday night supper with Wonder Bread and a revolving selection of cold cuts: baloney one week, olive loaf the next, liver sausage the next.

He then introduced a new menu item: beef tenderloin tips. Served over mashed potatoes, they actually had beef in them at first. Gradually, however, they evolved into gristle tips. No one could find edible meat in them.

This deterioration in the quality of the beef tenderloin tips was paralleled by the development of the meatless barbecued ribs. They actually clinked as they fell onto the plate.

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. Les restaurus de France

Restauru being a contraction of 'restaurant universitaire,' a number fine dining establishments (not) scattered around Grenoble. The two dishes that that made a deep impression were the tripe stew and the fish served WITH head AND tail. ("Flotch!" is the sound it makes hitting the plate.) It was a fromage blanc et baguette kind of year.

Hungarian student cafs serve up big bowls of fözelék, which is Hungarian for "organized assault on innocent vegetables." Imagine mushy peas or stringy celery in wallpaper-paste sauce.

[bobthedrummer]

21. "chipped beef openface sandwiches with cream sauce and peas"

served weekly as shit on a shingle

[hfojvt]

22. what about a good experience

we had these things called "rice fries" and everyone loved them. We also had unlimited 2nds and I think the dorm ate about a week's worth in one day. So they stopped serving them.
I just cannot figure why a restaurant is not selling them somewhere. They were very popular.