The 4 College Food Groups

Ramen
Pizza
Cafeteria slop
Beer

I actually can't be too hard on the kids, at least in my neck of the woods. The cafeteria on my campus serves cheap pizza, Taco Mayo, Chik-fil-a and hamburgers, but you pay out the nose for the veggie cups, healthy sandwiches and wraps, and salads. There are virtually no healthy options at the on-campus mini mart. It's all microwave-ready burritos and soups with your daily recommended dosage of salt in one cup. Oh, and chips. More chips, jerky, and candy than you could handle. If the kids want a decent meal, they have to leave campus. And the freshmen dorms are not DIY friendly if they want to cook for themselves. There are on campus apartments that cost a ridiculous amount to live in, but the dorms, which are cheaper, have nothing.

This has to be Fark, because it ain't news they do this.

ArkAngel: The 4 College Food Groups

Ramen
Pizza
Cafeteria slop
Beer



Lived on this stuff in undergrad. Well, that and the ridiculous cafeteria. Ridiculous, you wonder? Well, how about this: One day they managed to somehow score a huge crate of artichokes. The kitchen staff had apparently never seen them before, so they just cut them in half, raw, and put them out near the fruit.

My school actually won awards for its vegetarian and vegan options in the cafeteria, but it was still a relatively small portion of the available food. Also, I think they did a lot to flavor it that upped the caloric content. You could avoid it, but... well, why bother?

Besides, you're going to give back your will power when you go get dessert and there's nothing you can do about it. FRESH COOKIES, CAKE, AND ICE CREAM ERRADAY.

By the way, in honor of my older brother, I have to add Easy Mac and Hot Pockets to the college food groups. He graduated in 2008 and he still can't cook as far as I know.

I once sat up all night talking with a Sikh years ago. Myself and several middle eastern students. He joked that pizza had to be brain food because ever college student ate it.

susansto-helit: I actually can't be too hard on the kids, at least in my neck of the woods. The cafeteria on my campus serves cheap pizza, Taco Mayo, Chik-fil-a and hamburgers, but you pay out the nose for the veggie cups, healthy sandwiches and wraps, and salads. There are virtually no healthy options at the on-campus mini mart. It's all microwave-ready burritos and soups with your daily recommended dosage of salt in one cup. Oh, and chips. More chips, jerky, and candy than you could handle. If the kids want a decent meal, they have to leave campus. And the freshmen dorms are not DIY friendly if they want to cook for themselves. There are on campus apartments that cost a ridiculous amount to live in, but the dorms, which are cheaper, have nothing.

This is exactly how it was at my college, the dining service for the majority of the dorms had 5 stations, pizza, burgers, chinese, subs and salad bar. The pizza was terrible and strictly cheese or pepperoni or sausage; the burgers were the only station that was open all hours; the subs were ok, but strictly meat and cheese and no veggies besideslettuce and tomato, and had limited hours; the chinese station was open it seemed 2 days a week at lunch; and the salad bar... well, for a "meal transfer" you could get a slice and a breadstick, or a burger and fries, or a plate of chinese food w/ rice, or a sub and a bag of chips, or, IIRC 4oz of salad, including whatever fixins, dressing etc and they were nazis about it. And the salad bar wasnt restocked on the weekends even.

Um I'm 25 and often don't eat any vegetables.

Whatever, man. That's just, like, your opinion that you need vegetables to survive.

My college cafeterias were great because there were like 7 of them and they posted their menus for the week online.

Two of them had different things every day for lunch and dinner.
One had build your own pizza every day for dinner and was open until midnight.
One had a build your own omlette station on the weekends where they'd cook up a 3 egg omlette over fried potatoes right in front of you.
One had chicken strips every day for lunch.
One was a deli all day and switched to a full service, reservation only, sit-down place for dinner. Steaks weren't bad, just a little overdone.
And on top of that we had a food court with about a dozen different restaurants.

State school and a 12 meal/week plan, FTW

Well, duh. Healthy food is expensive, and cuts into my weed/beer money.