College Food

I do not know if it is just me or if I am simply getting bored with eating the same food over and over again, but it seems as though the food in the dining halls are getting progressively worse. I understand that after a few weeks of doing the same job again and again, you are going to eventually start slacking. However, there is a huge difference between lazily cleaning a bathroom and cooking crappy food; after all we do have to eat the stuff. In fact, about the two weeks ago I was in the dining hall at Watterson. I was waiting for some vegetables in the main course line and the main course for the day was fried shrimp. As the server went to empty the last spoonful of the pan onto the kid in front of me’s plate, something tremendously disgusting was discovered- a fried up frog. Apparently a small frog had jumped into the boiler while the batch was cooking and decided to become part of the main course. Just imagine how many people ate that fried shrimp before without knowing a frog was a part of that batch! Nevertheless, the server merely took the pan and the spoon- complete with the frog- into the back and came out with a new batch; but it was safe to say that fried shrimp was no longer what everybody in the line so desired. Now I know instances like these are not very preventable and that a frog jumping into the boiler is extremely rare, but the vegetables I got that day were also not very good. They were a bit cold and felt like they had been sitting under that heat lamp for over an hour. So while, a frog may never again jump into a batch of fried shrimp, one thing is certain- the food at the dining halls is steadily decreasing and something needs to be done quickly to change it.