Food for many at a time
A minor variation in my working schedule today brought back a decade of memories. I went back to high school. Thankfully, not as a student, and none of the group that made my time there what it was were present. No, this was simply a day spent in a building where I know the hallways as well as I do my own backyard.
One good change was in the quality of the cafeteria food. There’s something about institutional cuisine that seems to raise the hair on the back of many necks, but over the years I have had better than average luck. My own high school had a minimalist approach, where the fried potatoes were about all I can remember. That and ice cream cups with wooden spoons. Not exactly a balanced diet.
University food was great. Lots of flavour, lots of variety, stable pricing. I put a lot of time into testing the menu, and there are no bad memories. If I could get milk in five gallon containers, I would, but it might suffer in the rotation (not every week: we currently use sixteen litres as a minimum over a seven day period). I haven’t adapted many of their recipes to my daily routine, but if I even had three hundred to feed, three times a day, I’d try their methods (and get a much larger kitchen stove and sink).
Today, there was a balanced menu for about one hundred and thirty hungry teachers. I had salad and chicken and a box of juice, provided as part of my package. The mention during announcements that the meal ticket had a face value of twelve dollars struck me as inflated, but then again the financial world is in great disorder. Maybe this is how budgets are going to be handled in the future.
