"Food"

Major McMuffin

The basis of this thread is quite simple, the canteen "food"

Here we can discuss theories related to said "food".
Consider just what was masquerading as chicken today

To begin, does anyone find it odd that "chunky wedges" are served 2 days after "baked potatoes"

Crash

that chicken doesnt always look the best but damn its tasty - pity i missed it actually.

Chowburger

Mmm, I finally started getting my coeliac (have no idea if I'm spelling my own medical condition right) meals today, and they're DAMN TASTY. God bless allergies...

LiamD

Not another fscking food thread.It's bad.We know.Deal with it.

halenger

*shrugs* It's nice enough during the year. And on the far side of the kitchen it's pretty damn nice in the 1838 club. One of the best burgers I've ever had. Nyom.

Joycey

Naeny

Ahh its betta than last yr but it still makes me feel sick! dunno y, cus sumtimes it can be......wait for it..........................................................
:eek: arite

PurpleFistMixer

The soup is... *furrows brow suggestively*.
There's green stuff that would quite possibly glow in the dark that I am quite frankly afraid of. I subsist on bread rolls.

Other than that breakfast and dinner are tolerable. I don't want to see how much weight I've lost though...

jono087

Naeny wrote:

Ahh its betta than last yr but it still makes me feel sick! dunno y, cus sumtimes it can be......wait for it..........................................................
:eek: arite

it's always better than last year...... and yet we never do like it.....

Dalamar

The food is actually an experiment, those who claim that it's ok are taken away to form of new type ctyier who can eat even worse, even cheaper food.

Or it's the fact they have to cook a lot of food for a lot of people in a very short time.

Live with it.

Plunky

it's more fun to bitch n moan, and more to the point, it's tradITion! And you don't break tradition, or tradition will break you!

halenger

Maybe the food they serve during the year is better. *shrugs* I can't say I remember at this stage.

Crash

it is better, but in fairness now, i've survived on it twice as long as any of the students have and find no problem with it.

Piste

the food isn't *that* bad...I like the wedges....the veggie lasagne is quite nice.

simply_dee

Burgers were seriously dodgy today though. I spent about 3 minutes scraping miscellaneous gooey crap off mine. Not a nice experience. Thank God for veggie cards, thats all Im saying...

Fifi Trixabelle

yeah, omfg the burgers were rank today!
mine was pink so i just had three helpings of fruit salad instead!!
it's all good in the 'hood! but then i missed my RA meeting, oh well!

Flashling

The food was damn good! yet after four desserts a day, snuck out under the nose of the dessert bertie, by my anorexic minions who didn´t want theirs, I still lost weight...suspicious....

Crash

those burgers are lovely! apparently myself and kevin (psych TA) are the only people at all who actually like em...weird.

AndyC

Flashling wrote:

The food was damn good! yet after four desserts a day, snuck out under the nose of the dessert bertie, by my anorexic minions who didn´t want theirs, I still lost weight...suspicious....

3 Donuts! tut-tut-tut!

claire h

Burgers = evil. Salad = yay! Sandwiches = yay! Fruit = yay! Rolls-that-are-edible = yay!

... I seem to have been avoiding the cooked food somewhat. Hmm.

Adesina

crash_000 wrote:

those burgers are lovely! apparently myself and kevin (psych TA) are the only people at all who actually like em...weird.

I liked those burgers too.

PurpleFistMixer

Haven't tried the burgers. The spaghetti today almost looked and smelled delicious, until I ate it. Argh. Ugh. Grah. Insert cavewoman noises here.

Otherwise I find no difference from the food last year. Only the addition of the soup, really. I reckon the food isn't actually as bad as everyone makes it out. It could be so much worse. Think aeroplanes. My god.

Piste

YOU! Get on messenger, or irc...or both.

Fifi Trixabelle

yeah, i get what you're sayinmg.
i had a perfectly decent plate of spagetthi and pesto for dindins today.
yay for not wanting to touch the meat in the canteen!!!

Shiney

The worst has to be the meatballs. they're pink on the inside. i wouldn't touch the 'pork' either

Flashling

its turkey. they told me.

It wasn't me!

The burgers are quite good, about the best thing going. The meatballs and pork are vicious, and the pork is actually violent.. The wedges aren't half bad, but the soup is just bollocks.

doonothing

ah jaysus.. the food's been pretty good this year! burgers and lasagne were gorgeous, and the spagetti wasnt half bad!
there's been nothing absolutely inedible yet, and if something is nasty lookin, there's always pasta somewhere about the place!
hail to the kitchen folk! who're actually really nice this year..

Major McMuffin

As a general rule, i avoid the soup and the potatoes, a lot of the food sickens me by sight, esp the meatballs. the burgers are good, enough food to survive on is edible though

gigglingrat

The food is astonishingly good this year. The burgers are great, the salads are pretty snazzy, and the veg meals are......all right. Cept I dunno what all that black gunk was on mine. Mmm, carbon (presumably).

And the staff are lovely. Cept yer one who goes around to the tables checking if you have extra desert and tries to take it back. If you've made it that far it's yours, that's what I say.

Starbabe

The lunches sucked. I managed to float cutlery on mine. And the rolls were alright if you managed to get one that wasn't out of date. I still ate them every day anyway!! Gah- lack of money for Spunch.

Mmmm.... Spunch...

LiamD

The lunches are sh!t as are the breakfasts, but when they put them together it's pure magic.The brunches are amazing, the nicest food they do.Some of the dinners are grand and I liked the burgers too.

Shiney

I have yet to eat any potatoes that are properly cooked and not hard, including the potatoe salad. dunno what i'd do without spar

T.J.

I can't understand how anyone can put up with the bowl full of grease they call soup and you hear people say "it wasn't that bad today" ITS THE SAME EVERY DAY!!

PurpleFistMixer

Well today the minestrone was most definitely last night's vegetarian lasagne. But some days it is actually tolerable. I'm sure. Maybe... Perhaps once.

Well you can't go wrong with bread. *waits to see what horror the bread has befallen tomorrow*

halenger

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Well you can't go wrong with bread. *waits to see what horror the bread has befallen tomorrow*

Wouldn't worry about that. That's been said for the last <<x>> number of years. If anything was gonna happen to the bread it'd already have happened.

StupidLikeAFox

Maybe it already did...

*conspiracies*

jono087

shhhhhh, you'll scare the children

*shares conspiratorial nod*

Spraypaint

T.J. wrote:

I can't understand how anyone can put up with the bowl full of grease they call soup and you hear people say "it wasn't that bad today" ITS THE SAME EVERY DAY!!

It wasn't the same every day. The "vegetable" soup changed colour every day and they still managed to make it crap most days.

Un-Big

As a person who has an odd phobia of soup I can quite happily say that lunch was always revolting. I ate in the canteen food a total of 3 times this year, 2 of those being gigantamungous mistakes. Pasta + low fat 'butter' = [insert various puking noises here]. All I can say is thank godman for Spar. If it hadn't been for my daily whole breaded chicken breast I surely would have vanished into thin (and short) air. Even so I managed to lose 3 pounds which is really not good at all considering I only weigh just under 6 stone anyway.....

scorpy

y'know, I'd never seen breaded lasagne before ctyi. and I have never seen it since.

Raphael

THe lunches rocked, I just walked in, grabbed 2 sandwiches and left. Every day.

doonothing

the lunches were grand, cept maybe on the last day when the options for soup were mushroom or cream of mushroom....

LiamD

On Wednesday the soup looked like pure vomit.

Me:'What's today's choices?'
Lunch Lady:'Orange or Green'.

freakydeadgirl

last year their stir-fry wasn't half bad and th echicken was fairly edible
.......but that could just be because i had my curry spice and put it on everything

**crappy school food sidenote**
i'm at the johns-hopkins pre-college program and the food is utter crap
worse then the canteen in most areas and dripping with grease where their shouldn't be grease

LordCran

Ah, the DCU canteen. Home of utterly tasteless green apples, salty soup, hazelnut and rhubarb yoghurts, lasagne that looked like...God knows what, and more. And that's just Mondays! Bob Geldof really wouldn't like them if he lived in DCU. But remember: all canteen food comes from Margaret Thatcher's underground labs.

Piste

In the bathroom beside cg115 on the underside of the lid of one of the toilets there was a sticker that said 'this way to the canteen' and an arrow pointing into the toilet They had loads of bananas this year! Would've been perfect for the mass suicide....

Love

It sucked, but was *slightly* better than last year. And because I ate junk in Spar every day, I actually put on quarter a stone!

Last year in Marine Bio. we dissected fish. That day we had fish for lunch.

This year we dissected rat. That day we had..... meatballs for lunch.

Does anyone else besides me find that disturbing?

staaap

next year write down your a veggie cos the stuff is absolutely f***ing gorgeous.it almost tastes like real food!!!

[Core]

Burgers were nice I thought ... if slightly completely undercooked.
"Lost your dog? Try the canteen on steak day"

Chris IS Cool

*rages against the canteen*