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did you mostly hate dorm food?

There were several dorms and even the cheaper mediocre one had pretty good grub.

I recall it being pretty mediocre, and my standards weren't exactly high at that age.

Doe posted...

There were several dorms and even the cheaper mediocre one had pretty good grub.

like what kind of stuff was it though?

The only thing my on-campus meal plan had that I liked was the omelet bar during breakfast. Plus theyd scramble you some eggs right there on the spot instead of you having to take the institutional ones from the tray.

Had my own townhouse throughout all of college. Dorm living sounds miserable.

prob easily most graduating high schoolers don't got this right recently. Go to a school where they would have dorm food....community college more?

SaikyoStyle posted...

The only thing my on-campus meal plan had that I liked was the omelet bar during breakfast. Plus theyd scramble you some eggs right there on the spot instead of you having to take the institutional ones from the tray.

were most of the workers in yours, students too? iirc most were older women

Nope my dorm had a food court with different stations and the cookies were fucking amazing.

I lived on campus my first two years of college. You weren't allowed to move out until your junior year unless you had a metro address before you enrolled.

I thought the food was pretty good. I ate way healthier and consistently when I had meal plan and lived on campus. My diet and eating habits went belly up and basically became a mix of Wendy's, pizza, and beer once I moved off campus.

This was 20 years ago too. It wasn't anything fancy, but I thought it was more than acceptable. You could always at least count on the hamburgers and fries or the fresh sandwich station.

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Edit, the food varied depending on the caf you hit. It was all passable but the one near my dorm was brand new. It had the best food.

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Our cafs had a mix of permanent staff and students working it.

Smallville posted...

were most of the workers in yours, students too? iirc most were older women

No they werent students. I guess you could say they were older women. They were not too different from the kitchen staff in a typical hotel. Some of them probably had hotel experience too since Orlando has so many.

furb posted...

I lived on campus my first two years of college. You weren't allowed to move out until your junior year unless you had a metro address before you enrolled.

I thought the food was pretty good. I ate way healthier and consistently when I had meal plan and lived on campus. My diet and eating habits went belly up and basically became a mix of Wendy's, pizza, and beer once I moved off campus.

This was 20 years ago too. It wasn't anything fancy, but I thought it was more than acceptable. You could always at least count on the hamburgers and fries or the fresh sandwich station.

was this like a huge state university?

Smallville posted...

was this like a huge state university?

It was a state university with around 16,000 students. The food just Sodexo. Nothing fancy.

Like the caf I mainly went to had an "entree" bar. It had a hamburgers/fries/hotdogs sort of station, a fresh made to order sandwich spot, and a salad bar. It had an all you could eat soft serve machine and cereal bar too.

Lunch and dinner just changed like the entrees rest was the same. They had "late night" where the caf was open until around 10pm. They would serve leftovers. Came with your meal plan.

It was fine. Nothing remarkable but far from unacceptable.

Our food was good, but there was no meal service on weekends, so we appreciated it more

it was pretty good. the meal plan food was basically a huge cafeteria that was all buffet style and you could eat as much as you wanted before leaving, but you could only go into the cafeteria three times each day (someone would scan your card when you go in)

there was also a food court with mini versions of actual restaurants (panda express, pizza hut, some burger place, idr what else) and the meal card could get me a meal from one of those places once per week.

I usually went to the cafeteria place and would put tupperware containers in my backpack, fill them with a bunch of stuff, and then go back to my dorm. that was cool cus I could get enough for a few days and kinda just be a shut-in

tankboy posted...

Our food was good, but there was no meal service on weekends, so we appreciated it more

i think mine had it. kinda weird. possibly most huge state university's have it on weekend. They wanted you to eat fast food?

BucketCat posted...

it was pretty good. the meal plan food was basically a huge cafeteria that was all buffet style and you could eat as much as you wanted before leaving, but you could only go into the cafeteria three times each day (someone would scan your card when you go in)

there was also a food court with mini versions of actual restaurants (panda express, pizza hut, some burger place, idr what else) and the meal card could get me a meal from one of those places once per week.

I usually went to the cafeteria place and would put tupperware containers in my backpack, fill them with a bunch of stuff, and then go back to my dorm. that was cool cus I could get enough for a few days and kinda just be a shut-in

did the place actually say panda express on it? iirc like bringing in tupperware was not supposed to be allowed

Smallville posted...

did you mostly hate dorm food?

2am salmon was always a great way to get out of a 830 am class

I never lived in a dorm but my ex-girlfriend lived in one at University of Delaware. I don't actually know if they had a mess hall because every time I went down to visit her we always went out for food to Cluck-U (which I think is gone now) or Grotto Pizza (which is still there) or one of the other food places since her dorm was right behind Main Street. I'd take her to the grocery store a lot too so she could buy ramen and other food for during the week since she wasn't allowed to have a car on campus.

Smallville posted...

did the place actually say panda express on it? iirc like bringing in tupperware was not supposed to be allowed

yeah, they were all located in the student center. there was also a subway and a starbucks, now that i think of it.
and it wasn't, i got caught a few times, so what i started doing was getting one of the plates like normal, then going to a table and filling the tupperware containers there.
i kinda miss the mashed potatoes and pizza tbh, most of the stuff was hit or miss, but the good food was really, really good.

BucketCat posted...

it was pretty good. the meal plan food was basically a huge cafeteria that was all buffet style and you could eat as much as you wanted before leaving, but you could only go into the cafeteria three times each day (someone would scan your card when you go in)

there was also a food court with mini versions of actual restaurants (panda express, pizza hut, some burger place, idr what else) and the meal card could get me a meal from one of those places once per week.

I usually went to the cafeteria place and would put tupperware containers in my backpack, fill them with a bunch of stuff, and then go back to my dorm. that was cool cus I could get enough for a few days and kinda just be a shut-in

sounds familiar

DDP886 posted...

2am salmon was always a great way to get out of a 830 am class.
Edit: Mine was a 10k resident, 13k commuter school

you mean you skipped the class?

LonelyStoner posted...

Had my own townhouse throughout all of college. Dorm living sounds miserable.

Not when you live on a co-ed floor and are getting blowjobs from the girl two rooms down

My college served Pizza Hut in the cafeteria. Lots of mini pizzas, and breadsticks with white sauce.

Smallville posted...

you mean you skipped the class?

As a resident I skipped classes all the time (that I was doing good in), typical resident life

DDP886 posted...

As a resident I skipped classes all the time (that I was doing good in), typical resident life

you mean you were the student advisor in your dorm?

Our student union had Wendys, Sbarro, Qdoba, Joffreys Coffee, a convenience store, a frogurt place, and *takes off hat* Wackadoos.