<p>To all current students - </p>
<p>What was on your dinner menu last night? :)</p>
<p>Grilled Marinated Cornish Hen
Shrimp Scampi over Capellini
Vegan Cassoulet</p>
<p>Roasted Potatoes with Garlic & Thyme
Broccoli with Olive Oil & Garlic
Olney’s Squash Gratin</p>
<p>Apple Crumble & Sweet Potato Pies
Flourless Chocolate Cake</p>
<p>Assorted Holiday Breads & Rolls
Sparkling Cider & Eggnog</p>
<p>...wow.</p>
<p>I went to the Berkeley cafeteria when I was visiting Yale, and they had this amazing angel hair pasta and a lot of food was organic and there were good vegetarian choices... it was pretty great.</p>
<p>Shall we compare food at the Ivys or would that be hijacking the thread? </p>
<p>My D (who eats like a horse) visited Yale and Dartmouth on consecutive weekends this fall and said there is no comparison: Yale quality and cost (single card swipe at Y versus a la carte at D) beat Dartmouth by a mile. We love other things about D, but the food is NOT one of them.</p>
<p>Anyone able to compare Yale's food with Cornell's? I never ate on campus when visiting Yale, but I did an overnight at Cornell and was very impressed with their dining.</p>
<p>And that was just the menu for one of the college's Holiday Dinner. Check out this YDN article (Yale</a> Daily News - University goes all out for decadent holiday dinners) that describes the annual Freshman Holiday Dinner: </p>
<p>"the dinners traditional Procession of Comestibles costs $1,000 and generally has eight key displays including international breads, cakes, seafood, a gingerbread village, a Yule log, a ham and a turkey display. The last display varies annually, and this year will feature a pumpkin carved into the shape of Cinderellas coach"</p>
<p>...wow... i love food.... yale food...</p>
<p>haha amazinggg.</p>
<p>freshman 15, here i come.</p>
<p>the ginderbread village genocide made me kinda sad.</p>
<p>but it sure was tasty!</p>
<p>Yale has the best food in the Ivies.</p>
<p>oh my gosh. i want that ****.</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal apparently agrees with the Yale students above who thought that their state-school counterparts wouldn't believe a description of their dinner.</p>
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<p>College</a> Cafeteria Food Hits New Heights With Etouffee - WSJ.com</p>
<p>Yale: Boutique organic veggies - FOUR STARS
The winner, with wide leather chairs, custom china and big soup spoons. Coming next year: an all-organic menu designed with Alice Waters. </p>
<p>"After punching our meal ticket across the country, we found our winner in a baronial hall in New Haven, Conn. At Berkeley College, one of Yale's 12 residential colleges, we settled into huge red-leather chairs beneath chandeliers for some gourmet offerings. No food-service specials like mashed potato flakes here -- the spuds were fancy fingerlings, three times the price of ordinary russets. Likewise, the roasted portobello and tofu salad was subtly spiced, and crusty French loaves were accompanied by a roasted garlic spread, plus olive oil for dipping. "If I were a kid, I wouldn't ever leave this place," said our expert, Glenn Harris from New York's Jane restaurant.</p>
<p>The school says things will only get better: Next year, Berkeley plans a 100% organic "sustainable-foods initiative" that, with the help of celebrity chef Alice Waters, will bring in local produce and antibiotic-free meat. "I don't think anything on this scale has ever been attempted in the annals of institutional food service," says Berkeley co-master John Rogers. Uh, what time's dinner?"</p>
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<p>Harvard: Chicken or Cardboard
Tough bird may have been a good thing: Last year, 16 students were hospitalized with gastroenteritis; school says it wasn't the food.</p>
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<p>UTexas: Turkey in pool of liquid
The food here was easily the worst we encountered on our college tour. We found discolored slices of smoked turkey floating in a 3-inch pool of liquid, the candied yams were a shade past putrescence and the lettuce on the salad bar looked thirsty from over-refrigeration. That green stuff? Zucchini mush.</p>
<p>I visited Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Princeton and found that the Princeton food was FAR AND AWAY the best (and not because I'm biased). I'm a total food snob (I go out to eat way too much, I'm sure) and I would actually pay (oh wait, you do pay...) for the Princeton food (I ate at 3 different dining halls and all were really really good). The Yale food I would pay NOT to eat (though to be honest I only had two meals there -- breakfast and dinner). Harvard was edible, but I think that was because it was parents' weekend. Yale it WAS parents' weekend and it was STILL gross. Dartmouth I was there pretty late at night so I had to get "fast food" in the caf, not the normal hot meal, so I can't really judge.</p>
<p>If you're a total food snob.... why wouldn't we take what you say with a grain of salt? Sort of inapprops given the cheerfulness of the previous posts, dontcha think?</p>
<p>Man, ceebee, you've stumbled into sparta. Don't insult "our" food (which we've tasted, max, once) and we won't kick "your" @$$. ;)</p>
<p>Thisssss Issssss Sppaaarrrtttaaaaaa</p>
<p>The free IMs shirts my college (Trumbull) gave out for fall read "Madness??" reverse: "This is Trumbull!" or something equivalent, very snazzy!</p>
<p>I mean, obviously I was being a little facetious about being a food snob... I eat easy mac for lunch just like everyone else...</p>