University dorm food
University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000ish. The food there usually was pretty decent, but after about a term and a half I started thinking "man, that again?" at pretty much every meal.

I never ate one myself, but they had this thing called the "18 Wheeler Chicken Basket." Like chicken nuggets but shaped like two-inch wide disks with a little hole in the middle of each one, and yes, there were eighteen in there. No idea how many calories there were in it.

Star prize, however, goes to this lima bean casserole that a vegetarian friend of mine got. Wisconsin isn't a terribly easy place to be vegetarian, meat being a huge part of the local diet, but the food service people offered at least one veggie option at every meal. Sometimes this was ok--the noodles and mushrooms in red wine sauce were all right, for example--but other times, you got things like this lima bean casserole.

My friend sat down, looked at her plate, and for some reason, decided to hold it above her tray and turn the plate over, until it was completely upside-down.

The casserole didn't move at all.

For a good thirty seconds.

Conversation stopped dead, and everyone just stared at it until it started to slowly come unstuck from the plate, when my friend put it back down and went back through the line to get something that didn't remind her quite so much of building materials.

Length? Uni lasts four years in the States, and I lived in the dorms for all of 'em.
(tellum0 is spelled with an 'o', Sat 19 May 2007, 10:41, Reply)