I just got back from the university cafeteria, and all I can think about is downing a bottle of Pepto, so please excuse my very OT post…look what you started Erin!!! LOL! Anyway, have at it…what’s the worst thing you have been forced to ingest in a college setting??? I think mine would be the lovely “Is it Chicken? Is it Beef? How 'Bout Fish?” plate my college seems so fond of cooking up for us every Sunday…oh, and by the way, the food is ordered on Monday…so in second place would probably be last week’s menu…
Monday- Grilled Chicken Breasts
Tuesday- Teriyaki Chicken
Wednesday- Stir0Fry (with chicken)
Thursday- Salad (with cut up chicken on top)
Friday- Buffalo Wings (made from chicken)
Saturday- Fried Chicken…parts…
Sunday- “Is it Chicken? Is it beef? What the h— is THAT???”
This is what my parents pay $30,000 a year for…terrific 
I just got back from the university cafeteria, and all I can think about is downing a bottle of Pepto, so please excuse my very OT post…look what you started Erin!!! LOL! Anyway, have at it…what’s the worst thing you have been forced to ingest in a college setting??? I think mine would be the lovely “Is it Chicken? Is it Beef? How 'Bout Fish?” plate my college seems so fond of cooking up for us every Sunday…oh, and by the way, the food is ordered on Monday…so in second place would probably be last week’s menu…
Monday- Grilled Chicken Breasts
Tuesday- Teriyaki Chicken
Wednesday- Stir0Fry (with chicken)
Thursday- Salad (with cut up chicken on top)
Friday- Buffalo Wings (made from chicken)
Saturday- Fried Chicken…parts…
Sunday- “Is it Chicken? Is it beef? What the h— is THAT???”
This is what my parents pay $30,000 a year for…terrific
The gluey, inedible mashed potatoes that would function better as wallpaper paste.
I’m a big fan of EZ Mac! And soup. The food here actually isn’t bad, for the most part, but a lot of it is greasy. I think I’m getting rez ass.
Not soft boiled. Not even warm. Kinda gooey on the inside, sort of the consistency of half-hardened mucus.
Mmmmm-mmmmmmm-GOOD!
“The simple truth is never simple and rarely true.”
-Oscar Wilde
Many Many Years Ago
I went to Japan with my father. A couple of times we stayed in Japanese Inns, where they served Japanese breakfast.
One place served something (the consistency of tofu) that managed to be sweet and fishy at the same time.
The meal plan at the outrageously expensive university I attended was so bad that I chose to survive on tuna, ramen and peanut butter rather than get it for the second semester (we couldn’t have hot pads or microwaves in the rooms, yum, cold food!)
Let’s see, the salad bar resembled the things I pick out of my horses water bucket. The pasta was so overcooked it turned to mush, I wouldn’t go near the mystery meat. I think the classic example was seeing the guy load the ice cream machine… with powder.
The sad thing is the meal system was run by one of the largest hotel chains in the country, you’d think they would know how to mass-produce decent food. To this day I will not eat at one of those hotels.
No-one ate it- it was put there as a practical joke by the medical students (of which I was one, but I wasn’t in on it) managed to close down the whole salad bar for a day. It was Stony Brook University on Long Island…and we thought it was pretty hilarious at the time.
Or the pasta that melts in your mouth cuz It’s SO OVERCOOKED???
Or the Saturday soup with all the leftover pasta and veggies from throughout the week all smooshed together in a lovely soup!! YUM!
Barb 
The food at my school isn’t too bad - the dining halls have quite a few choices, and if you don’t like that you can use your meal plan at various food courts around campus!
Is everyone jealous now 
Buffalo Steak…gross can you say someone give me a ride to the McDonald’s please???
When they served liver I got as close as the dining room door, one whiff, I’m out of here. I do not eat the insides of anything!!!
Then there is the lovely SOS, you know Sh*t on a Shingle. Or “Barf Gravy on Toast” as we called in in High School.
The good ol’ days…yah right.
“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”
One month our Food Service Provider must’ve been hurting for money.
Each day the menu for the month had a different vegetable listed. “Corn.” “Peas.” “Green Beans.” “Broccoli.” “Carrots.”
Except, each day that month we were served mushy orange disks. We assumed they were carrots, but truthfully I don’t think anyone ever sent one to the lab to find out. After a while, it got to be a running joke. “Pass the peas, please.” "Would you please pass the green beans? 
Not my experience, but my husband’s. He ate the veal. Went to work, experienced GI distress, made a disgrace of himself in every bathroom and trashcan between there and the campus infirmary. Arrived at the infirmary, said it looked like Bangledesh, the sick, the beyond sick, the narsty. Every student who ate The Veal had, you guessed it, food poisoning.
…but gross nonetheless.
First off, my school cafeteria ladies are quite creative. I pack my lunch. Here are some of the more original entrees:
Taco Pizza
Taco Soup
Nacho Salad
Nacho Pizza
Meatball Pizza
Meatballs and Noodles in Chicken Broth
Fried Clam “Fritters” in a Hot Dog Bun
This summer, I spent a significant time in Spain. While there, I ate the following disgusting things, totally unaware of what they were:
Blood Sausage (self-explanatory)
Pork EAR (And I am not joking. “Oreja”. Awful.)
A Fish Eyeball (which my exchange student thought would be funny to slip into a chunk of my hake one night at dinner. Spaniards like them.)
Sausage Wrapped in Bacon (I had one and felt like I would puke.)
White Asparagus (a phenomenon in itself.)
EMMA
Yuck!
Well, I never had any Bangladesh experiences, but due to horrid looking entrees, I was forced to survive on the $%^#@ salad bar for weeks on end…ugh.
On the college food note, I saw a woman at Costco yesterday who bought 30 CASES of Top Ramen…that’s well over 1,000 pacages of Ramen. She also had 10 cases or so of Easy Mac. Wonder that’s going on there…at first we thought maye she worked at a school, but that just doesn’t seem healthy…any great ideas?
p.s.–I’m not knocking Top Ramen, that stuff pulled me through many penniless college days…
Pale chicken in some kind of goo with red things and green things (peppers? Maybe bacon?) Cold, lumpy mashed potatoes with even colder gravy - now, with skin! Corn with little chunkies on the ends, and matching green and red chunks.
To top it off - the one thing I was looking forward to all day (I’m cutting back on the caffiene…) My Dr Pepper is actually Diet Pepsi syrup with flat, watered down Dr Pepper at the bottom.
I’m going to go eat some chips - at least my corn muffin didn’t have a fly baked in like my roommate’s 
Oh Goodness…I just about LIVED on Ramen Noodles…and pop tarts…and popcorn!!
Barb
Geez, this is not my day for food…tonight we had a lovely rendition of “A million bucks to the person who can properly identify this food item.” Terrific. I declared it dog food…and I’m now a millionaire. I guess that will pay for my stomach surgery because 4 years of eating this crap is going to probably kill me…thank God Mom comes tomorrow…here’s to hotels, nice restaurants, and shopping!
I go to the University of MD, and I really can’t complain about the food here. However, A tornado cam through lst month and we were kicked out of our dorms. One guy had thought to bring a case of ramen noodles with him, and we had no way to cook them, so we just sat out in the rain and ate dry ramen noodles
Rebekah
