<p>Ok, so my friend was telling me how she went to a McDonald's to get a coffee and there was this person who complained of having a giant wad of hair in her sandwich. I think I would have puked. Does this kind of stuff happen in college dining halls? Anyone have any stories?</p>
<p>One time I was ordering some egg rolls and I saw in the stack of bowls that they were going to hand out to people had an ant crawling around in it…</p>
<p>Normally, the food’s pretty good and generally sanitary. The worst I’ve seen was a cup that I had wasn’t cleaned properly, so when I filled it with milk, it looked like chocolate milk… :|</p>
<p>But I haven’t had problems with the food. It’s actually not bad.</p>
<p>I spotted a rat in Hill and Houston (the former is a dining hall, the latter is…also kind of dining hall-y but you pay with dining dollars). Also Houston smells bad near the sushi area, and sometimes the plates are unclean.</p>
<p>Tim Hortons. There were giant flies literally eating the baked goods and there were still people who bought it. I thought it was disgusting that the staff just “didn’t care”</p>
<p>The food here at UC Davis is generally really good. A lot of the food is locally grown, and the DC in the Cuarto residence area only serves sustainable food (no processed stuff gets served there). </p>
<p>The only food I don’t touch are the fruits (taken from the student farm on campus), because they don’t bother removing the ones with mold on them and have a sign saying “don’t judge me for my imperfections”, with “me” referring to the fruits. 
I mean, you seriously can’t expect students to want to eat moldy fruit.</p>
<p>I haven’t experienced any of that yet, the only problem I have is that the food at lunchtime tends to be pretty repetitive. I feel like I eat pizza and cheese burgers everyday. But the food is alright so let me just be grateful…</p>
<p>At FSU, the food is overall “good” but a tad pricey ($10 for dinner), its what you would expect at a buffet style place. A tad greasy, repetitive, somewhat often left sitting out for a while. I personally always avoid chicken, mashed potatoes, and bacon. Stuff is so easily perishable.</p>
<p>My college’s dining hall food is actually pretty good, none of that disgusting mystery meat stuff I hear at some colleges, though sometimes you really have to watch what you are eating because they ALWAYS serve fatty/junk food like cake, pizzas, hamburgers. The only other things I can complain about is that sometimes for stuff like desserts, they get lazy/forgetful and tend to just… leave it out there for a few days. I remember taking a brownie to eat once and wondering did they have brownies on the dessert bar for 3 consecutive days, only to find out that it was literally rock hard.</p>
<p>My dining hall is pretty good about this stuff. It also helps that I work in the pantry so I know what to avoid. For instance, I don’t eat tomatoes or lettuce in the dining hall unless I worked the day before and know the batch for that day is good, since we’ve had a problem with those going bad in the past few months.</p>
<p>That anecdote kind of makes my college’s dining hall sound gross, but it’s just an example. Most everything else is pretty great since the menu rotates. It’s just certain items where leftovers get put out that you want to be careful of. Salad bar in general is kind of a problem on that front because they don’t have time to do fifty crocks in the morning and they have to be done the night before for feasibility.</p>
<p>I feel like the food here is pretty good quality. It gets a little repetitive, but I’ve never had any gross stories before. The only issue is that I’m allergic to nuts and the walnuts at the salad bar are right next to the lettuce. As a result, people knock them into the lettuce all of the time. My freshman year I got sick three times, and I’m 99% sure it was from this (happened after I found walnuts in my salad). Also, sometimes the student workers forget to put up the signs that something “contains nuts.” Last year, a student worker didn’t put up a warning that a certain meal was made with almond flour, and I was sick for two days - even had to miss a varsity game. I talked to the chefs about it and they’re definitely super careful, but I still have to be cautious.</p>
<p>Generally, I find that it isn’t the chefs, but the student workers who make these mistakes.</p>
<p>Well, no student on campus thinks they clean the cups or dishes properly. Which is why whenever someone gets a cup they rinse it out with hot water.</p>