<p>Uhh.. according to wiki, I don't think so.</p>
<p>DianeR,</p>
<p>What I mean is, if there's a current student with a powerful legacy family (i.e., Vanderbilts), and the kid complains about the food, the family might twist some arms to make sure the food is better, since they're donating so much to the school anyway.</p>
<p>uga has the number one food.</p>
<p>ucapplicant,</p>
<p>If you are not Japanese, do us all a favor: SHUT UP.</p>
<p>Little smatterings of Japanese do not make you cool. They make you a total nerd. Why are people so f'in obsessed with Japan? Crap. Yes, I like it here. Yes, I'm interested in Japan. But no, I do not love everything about it (probably because living here shows you the dark underbelly that nobody else sees.) And I find it irritating when people break into Japanese just to show how "cool" they are. God. </p>
<p>Okay, anger session over.</p>
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Bentou would be soooo satisfying.
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<p>Ugh, I've had some pretty awful bentou (boxed lunches) in my day. There's only so many times you can look at the same piece of crap box lunch and go, "Oh boy!"</p>
<p>Besides, nobody says "nihon ryouri." It's "washoku." Plus, the terminal "da" after daisuki is a bit gratuitious if you're just speaking informally. </p>
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So therefore, I wouldn't mind having it everyday if it was authentic/delicious/not cheap ripoff.
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<p>There is some pretty awful "authentic" Japanese food. And you know what's considered authentic here? Rice and miso soup. That's the national breakfast. You know how plain and boring that is?</p>
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But the everyday is a conversation table thing is no good. I need an intensive refresher and maybe a little more new instruction to pass this foreign language placement exam!
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<p>Try a new language. Something that doesn't require you to destroy your soul in order to become capable. Like maybe Spanish or French. Japanese is not worth it.</p>
<p>OK, I didn't mean this thread to be a debate about the pros and cons of Japanese food. Anyone else have any schools with good food to recommend?</p>
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OK, I didn't mean this thread to be a debate about the pros and cons of Japanese food.
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<p>You're no fun.</p>
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Anyone else have any schools with good food to recommend?
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<p>I've heard that Yale's food has improved lately.</p>
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What I mean is, if there's a current student with a powerful legacy family (i.e., Vanderbilts), and the kid complains about the food, the family might twist some arms to make sure the food is better, since they're donating so much to the school anyway.
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<p>This could conceivably happen; I just haven't heard about it. Perhaps the parents remember the truly horrid fare they had to eat. (I certainly do; I had one assigned dining hall which would have one mystery meat entree kept warm for who knows how long with overcooked and oversalted vegies -- we lived on delivered pizza and junk food.) Or the really rich kids can just eat off campus ...</p>
<p>I have heard of a targeted donation, but this was to improve the dorms at Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>From what I've been told, UCLA's dorm food went from military style slop to really good only as recently as the 90s.</p>
<p>University of Georgia</p>
<p>Yeah, there's been a couple who said Georgia. Anyone know anything about Emory? I heard there's a Mellow Mushroom on campus... maybe I'm wrong.</p>
<p>i think somebody already said this, but st. olaf always has an amazing menu</p>
<p>Whatever you do, DON'T go to Colorado School of Mines. I live about 20 minutes from there..... THE FOOD IS TERRIBLE. I went to a camp there this summer and was only there for like 3 days and couldn't take it. Bleh.</p>
<p>La Roche isn't horrible, but the food seems like you'd get tired of it if you eat it every day. Some of their stuff is pretty good.</p>
<p>I'll typically eat at the cafeteria once a week or so for lunch, going home the other days. I never eat breakfast or dinner at the cafeteria.</p>
<p>LRC also has a fast food Chinese place, but Chinese food makes me sick so I haven't tried it (my friends who like Chinese say it's good but you get tired of it if you do it all the time).</p>
<p>I'm a pretty picky eater (for example, I'll only eat Thousand Island/Russian dressing, must have ketchup on fish or chicken sandwiches instead of tartar or mayo, and I don't like any form of chocolate ice cream) yet I've found LRC accomadates me really nicely...they have enough I can find something.</p>
<p>At my old school, Mount Union, they said the food was really good. This is true of the veal parmasean and roast beef, but forget a lot of other things. All they had for sides were mashed potatoes (most days), and the pork was cold and pink in the middle!</p>
<p>Chinese food makes you sick?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, so does Japanese, it seems.</p>
<p>Racist. :p</p>
<p>Yeah, if you go to the link in arcadia's post (#45), you will see that the Colorado School of Mines is #2 in the "Is it food?" category. Also perennially bad (although not in the top 5 right now) is Carnegie Mellon. My son went there for a six week summer program. He is a vegetarian and found his only option was a mediocre penne with marinara sauce. After six weeks of having that twice a day he wasn't that interested in the school any more. The meateaters also complained mightily about the food.</p>
<p>"Chinese food makes me sick..."</p>
<p>That's a line from an old LFO song.</p>
<p>Indeed it is! It's from "Summer Girls"</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Um, the only other college I've eaten at is William & Mary, and from what I remember (this was several years ago...) the food was decent. I was kinda a picky eater at that point, but I liked what I had.</p>
<p>How's dem Berkeley food? Also how's the Indian/Thai/Italian food like in UCLA and UCB?</p>