Wednesday, August 27, 2008

College Cafeteria Food







Yeah! you have graduated high school and the next step is college!

You have already recieved acceptance letters from several of the top schools in the country, such as, Duke Univeristy, University of Tennesse, and UCLA. You are having a hard decision about which one you would like to go to. You have to determine which one has the best offers in food, housing, academics, etc.
Some colleges tend to have open houses and serve "good" food when they have visitors. You have to watch out though cause looks can be deceiving. What you should do is: ask around and get different responses about how the food "really" tastes like during the school year. The best ones to go to are the ones that have been there for a while like the juniors and seniors. Some students have been tricked into going to a school and they are stuck with the worst food ever. It may start off ok but as the semester goes on the budget goes down and by the end of the semester you feel like you are eating like a prisoner. The food is rationed, undercooked, overdone, spoiled, and left over from a couple of days ago.
All students suffer from this "College food syndrome" but some are better off than others. At big Universities you are able to get a meal plan and use your card for subway, chick-fil-a, etc. While the smaller schools have just a cafeteria. So most students are sent to the famous McDonald's for the dollar menu. It may be unhealthy but it tastes better than the schools food. The athletes suffer the most though because when they practice they loose nutrients and they have to replenish them through food but they can't get the nutrients they need by the food that is being served to them at school. The school food doesn't stay in there system long enough, causes stomach pains, etc.
Students pay over $4,000 for school food and they deserve to be given the "good stuff" rather than the prision rations that should be thrown to the dogs but even the dogs won't even eat it. They take one smell of it and run away.

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