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I know my last post wasn’t really relevant to anything that I have posted before but I just wasn’t in the mood to try to impress with my writing skills. So today I’m going to tell you about the food at SF State. I don’t know how it is anywhere else because I didn’t really visit any other campuses but here the food situation isn’t the best.

It started out fantastic. The food was great and everything was just peachy. However the quality took a steady drop. Everybody on my cross country team that had been through the freshman experience told me that it would happen like that, however I didn’t want to believe them. Turns out they were right all along. The fist week the food was great because the parent’s were still lingering around and calling every day to check in. The silly freshman would of course brag about how good the food is and how they can eat whatever they want and how it’s so much better than moms cooking.

This would impress the parent’s and they will think “My son is going to a good school. I’m going to tell everybody I know to send their kids to SF State!” Well maybe they aren’t thinking exactly that but they just wanted to impress the parents. One night we had prime rib and it was extremely delicious. So juicy and rare I could cut it with my fork. Just the way I like it. Also it’s a buffet system where you walk in, they swipe your card, and you go get food. There are the main course servers where people spoon food onto your plate. This usually consists of vegetables, protein, and starch.

There is also a middle island like thing were they always have pizza and pasta and rolls with butter and all the fixings. Also there is a salad bar where you can get pre-made sandwiches that are actually pretty good. I find myself grabbing them every once in a while. Now the pizza is good but only if you get it right when they put it out. This is not the pizza that is better when it’s cold.

The thing that has steadily declined in quality is the food at the main serving center thing where you get your main course. The food is looking less and less appetizing. I find myself getting pizza and French fries 2 meals a day. Breakfast is basically the same every day: eggs, bacon, and French toast/waffles/pancakes. Then in the middle place there is usually oatmeal or cream of wheat. The oatmeal looks a little funky so I have yet to try it but the cream of wheat is delicious! Also there are donuts and pastries every morning. I don’t normally have them but there pretty delicious.

Lunch we sometimes have burritos and those are quite good since you can just load them up with whatever you want. Now and again there is something good and desert is always good. There is a soft serve ice cream machine. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s the machines they have at restaurants or fairs where the ice cream spirals upwards and is soft and good! Sometimes they give out sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles to put on them which are amazingly good. There is always fruit and soup out too which is nice but they seem to have stopped serving chocolate milk which I’m a little disappointed about. I used to get that every day but now I’ve moved on to getting orange juice!

All in all the food isn’t that bad. I almost always get ice cream as I’m leaving as do many people. You have to leave your bags on shelves at the door so stealing whole rolls of bagels is out of the question… until I get my giant jacket out that is. I’ve been told that it’s been done and since me and Armando have a toaster in our room were plotting to steal some bagels. So our cafeteria isn’t bad and it’s all you can eat so my verdict is that it’s a good place to eat but not great.

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