About the only thing my meal plan didn’t cover was the kosher dinner menu. Which admittedly was a bummer because the kosher meals took more prep and thus were healthier and tasted better.
Had a similar deal with where I went to college. Our meal plan was just one lump sum for a semester put on our student IDs. Between all the pizza I had the shit I’d get at the student run Starbucks on campus, and side effects from my anxiety/depression meds, my Freshman Fifteen was definitely closer to a Freshman Forty
Bridgebrain
The meal plan at my college had all you could eat at the Caf (acceptable salad bar, pretty terrible everything else), and the one meal a day student restaurant that had THE BEST green chili burgers. I lived off burger-lunch for a full year before I got sick of it.
I commuted to night school so I never had a meal plan.
TIt turns out the Freshman 15 was just on a tape delay, because I ate way too much take-out, and too many frozen dinners and prepackaged snacks once I got my own place. Learning to cook helped reverse that for a few years, but then 2020 happened and they came back with a vengeance. Fun.
Yeah, the kids now have it good. I never had the meal plan because I didn’t ever live in the dorms and the cafeteria food was mediocre on a good day (I did eat in a few of them with friends a few times). They did have a few separate off-hours pizza places and burger places, but they were the same cafeteria pizza and burgers. Anyway, the meal plan was optional if you didn’t live in a dorm and pretty much a scam if you did since most people didn’t eat cafeteria food any more often than they absolutely had to.
Oh, and I hear they have high speed internet now. We just had dialup, which wasn’t as much of a problem because the web hadn’t been invented yet.
thejeff
Yeah, optional if you didn’t live in a dorm, but pretty much required if you did – since you couldn’t officially cook in the dorm. We complained about the food, but we ate it. Eating out for every meal wasn’t really an option for most of us. Nobody was that rich.
And honestly the food wasn’t that bad most of the time. My first year we had a big cafeteria, ala carte style. Food wasn’t great, but plenty of options, so you could usually find something. After that I lived in a smaller dorm, where it was served more as a sit-down dinner thing. The cooking was better, but you ate what they were serving that day. Breakfast was cooked to order though, which was really quite good.
Plain Marie
And I’m laughing now, because we didn’t even have internet back then! The computer department had some localized network and that was it. My boyfriend (computer science) had a computer I sometimes used for work processing, and playing old adventure games like SunDog. *Stop! You killed our leader!*
thejeff
No Internet here either. In my last couple years I had some friends running dial-up BBSs that I got a Usenet feed from. That was my first Internet experience, before the Web existed.
The fun part was when I actually wanted to call those friends to meet up or whatever and got to try to whistle to the modem.
Wouldn’t be shocked if the meal plan covers chains that are in the student union or one of the dining halls – some big schools have tie-ins like that. (If you recall way back, there’s a Chick-fil-A on campus.) But the Taco Bell we know of is off-campus (not as far out as Blowjob Cat but still firmly in Bloomington proper.)
I know there was some kind of student discount/potential tie in to meal plans local restaurants had up at another big school I know of, but I don’t remember the details (didn’t go there myself) and I’m not sure it’s still active. But there are some pretty elaborate ways to try and attract students.
Needfuldoer
Checking on Google Maps, there’s a real Mexican restaurant right around the corner from one of the Tacos Bell within reasonable distance of the campus.
Come on, Walky, splurge a little.
thejeff
Yeah, that’s pretty common these days. Either on-campus fast food or deals with the local chains. Completely alien to my college memories.
Yeah, and you had to plan to eat when the cafeterias were open. If you slept in too much, you had to go down the street to the Chinese restaurant for lunch. At my uni, they had just started offering alternate options at an on-campus cafe just before I graduated. Now those options appear everywhere! Kids these days. We had to eat what they offered, uphill both ways, and we liked it!
((listen if i used the hyphens in chick-fil-a i’d have to use en dashes on either side of the “and”, and that means i’d have to go find an en dash to copy and paste))
a/snow/mous/e
((grammar is ALL or NOTHING you can’t just half commit
Next up, watching the entire presidential movie library. First is Hercules in New York. But do they know how to use the three clam-shells? Dinner may make some earpy demands.
I was referring to the stuff on the plate, which I assume is hot sauce.
(And it was a Danganronpa reference…said sauce sort of resembles blood, which means in the DRverse where the Ultimate Date necessarily happens, it should be pink. >_>)
One of you cuts with the knife, the other holds with the fork, and you cut for each other and feed each other. Everyone else in the restaurant gags at how lovey-dovey you’re being.
King Daniel
Then, while they’re still gagging, you steal all their food together.
Where will Ruth’s date be happening? Is there a chance it could also be at the Taco Bell? Because I personally would love if the dates intersected as they maybe crashed and burned, maybe soared.
cbwroses
Ruth’s date is at the Pizza Hut.
Walky’s date is at the Taco Bell.
Both dates are at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Nono
I feel like a lesbian date happening at a taco place would be perfect, actually.
Reltzik
Well, Ruth’s bi, so she likes to have options for….
… actually, you know what? I’m stopping that right there. I’m not entirely certain HOW I was going to pull that joke off, but there was at least a 45% chance that it would have been unintentionally offensive.
King Daniel
Are you saying you’re going to taco break from making jokes?
Charles Spencer
Well done. I’m still trying to figure how to work in a Wiener King joke.
Both could end up going down in different types of flames depending on the quality of the “food” from the Bell
Regalli
Seriously, Walky, at least take her to Arby’s. You can watch the mysterious lights floating above the sign, talk about how God is dead and existence is meaningless… way more options.
*Random Story*
My mom worked across the street from an Arby’s. One day a tornado touched down and took the Arby’s sign and then went back up into the sky. That was the only thing the tornado touched. We never heard of anyone finding the sign again.
Reltzik
It ended up in Winkie Country. Unless it was one of the original red-and-yellow signs, in which case it could be Quadling Country.
Clif
Obviously Regalli meant to say, mysterious sign floating above the lights.
“Your tone is quasi-facetous, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. So now, all restaraunts are Taco Bell.”
Well, at least in Walky’s world
Wonky Monkey
I believe it was Pizza Hut in the international release, since Taco Bell hadn’t been inflicted on most of the rest of the world at the time.
It’s just as easy to hold a steak with one hand as it is to hold a taco with one hand. Walky should know this.
Delicious Taffy
Well yeah, but only if you wanna eat the steak with one hand like an animal. So, only if you wanna do it right. Fuck utensils, they’re a tool of classier oppression. Eat your spaghetti with your hands, do it for democracy!
Rabid Rabbit
And who the hell came up with this idea of cooking your meat??? Eat it raw, like a rea man! Actually, the hell with steak, just bring him the cow and let him gnaw it straight from the carcass!!!
I’m pretty sure there was a cranky caveman uncle who said that about young people these days and their cooked mammoths.
Delicious Taffy
Okay, I draw the line at eating the meat raw. We’re not coyotes. With America’s food safety standards, there’s too high a chance of horrible agonising death for me to ever feel safe eating a raw steak of any kind.
I am Nothing
Yea, but hands are objectively gross.
Clif
And yet we hold them.
Reltzik
Sushi, then.
JBento
I don’t THINK we’ve fucked up algae yet, but we’re probably on track, so get it while you can.
Do you want Prions? Because that’s how you get Prions
I am Nothing
I want prions.
JBento
Do you mean a Prius?
I am Nothing
Both, please.
Luris
Eating spaghetti with your hands is apparently the traditional way in Napoli (although on most of the photographs and painting I found showing that, the subject are either children or people during Carnevale, so maybe not ‘the proper way’)
milu
what? i’ve been in Naples a few times and i’ve never heard of anyone who does that XD
milu
ok the Italian Wikipedia article for spaghetti does mention them being eaten by hand well into the 19th century “in Naples and other cities of southern Italy”.
There’s a fun story there, that’s actually very relevant to Taffy’s comment!
So, forks had existed for a long time, but they were 2- or 3-pronged, longer, and very sharp. You used them for stabbing your meat basically, and you wouldn’t be advised to shove them inside your mouth.
Spaghetti was a pretty popular dish in Italy, and with the acclimatation of tomato in Europe, by the 18th century they started being made with tomato sauce— and there was much rejoycing, because spaghetti and tomato sauce objectively slaps.
But that dish is famously messy today— so it would’ve been that much worse in the dark forkless ages. Spaghetti was definitely way too undignified to be served at upper-crush tables, so the gentry simply didn’t eat it, at least not when receiving.
But then, this one king of Sicily, Ferdinand II, was like, “this is unacceptable, I love spaghetti, I want to eat spaghetti anytime I want and I want to eat spaghetti with my hoity-toity friends without everyone getting covered in oily tomato stains!” and he called his chamberlain, a guy named Spadaccini (whose then I believe earned his place in history) and told him to fix it. And that’s how Spadaccini invented the short, 4-pronged, less-pointed fork! which finally allowed the king, and all of humanity thereafter, to eat spaghetti slightly less indecorously =D
…And for whatever reason, Neapolitans stuck to the old way for a few more decades. why? i don’t know. But i guess this is the context you might’ve heard about that. =P
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Ana Chronistic
admittedly how I ate so much Chick-fil-A
specifically nuggets and waffle fries, not even a drink bc I could get cheaper elsewhere and also the meal
plan only covered like $5 per meal for meals not at the cafeteria
also Walky has never tried a STEAKHOUSE SALAD APPARENTLY
(prob bc it a salad)
Doctor_Who
My meal plan in college covered all sorts of nice things. You could get sushi, salads, veggie burgers…during the day.
I worked nights. The only places that were open at night and accepted my meal plan were the pizza and burritos restaurants.
My Freshman Fifteen nearly turned into a Sophomore Shitload before I learned to cook a bit and was able to rein it in.
PB
About the only thing my meal plan didn’t cover was the kosher dinner menu. Which admittedly was a bummer because the kosher meals took more prep and thus were healthier and tasted better.
NotThatDrew
Had a similar deal with where I went to college. Our meal plan was just one lump sum for a semester put on our student IDs. Between all the pizza I had the shit I’d get at the student run Starbucks on campus, and side effects from my anxiety/depression meds, my Freshman Fifteen was definitely closer to a Freshman Forty
Bridgebrain
The meal plan at my college had all you could eat at the Caf (acceptable salad bar, pretty terrible everything else), and the one meal a day student restaurant that had THE BEST green chili burgers. I lived off burger-lunch for a full year before I got sick of it.
Needfuldoer
I commuted to night school so I never had a meal plan.
TIt turns out the Freshman 15 was just on a tape delay, because I ate way too much take-out, and too many frozen dinners and prepackaged snacks once I got my own place. Learning to cook helped reverse that for a few years, but then 2020 happened and they came back with a vengeance. Fun.
thejeff
So weird to me, apparently because I’m old. We had a meal plan in the dorms, but it didn’t pay for meals at local restaurants. Just the cafeteria.
Victor
Yeah, the kids now have it good. I never had the meal plan because I didn’t ever live in the dorms and the cafeteria food was mediocre on a good day (I did eat in a few of them with friends a few times). They did have a few separate off-hours pizza places and burger places, but they were the same cafeteria pizza and burgers. Anyway, the meal plan was optional if you didn’t live in a dorm and pretty much a scam if you did since most people didn’t eat cafeteria food any more often than they absolutely had to.
Oh, and I hear they have high speed internet now. We just had dialup, which wasn’t as much of a problem because the web hadn’t been invented yet.
thejeff
Yeah, optional if you didn’t live in a dorm, but pretty much required if you did – since you couldn’t officially cook in the dorm. We complained about the food, but we ate it. Eating out for every meal wasn’t really an option for most of us. Nobody was that rich.
And honestly the food wasn’t that bad most of the time. My first year we had a big cafeteria, ala carte style. Food wasn’t great, but plenty of options, so you could usually find something. After that I lived in a smaller dorm, where it was served more as a sit-down dinner thing. The cooking was better, but you ate what they were serving that day. Breakfast was cooked to order though, which was really quite good.
Plain Marie
And I’m laughing now, because we didn’t even have internet back then! The computer department had some localized network and that was it. My boyfriend (computer science) had a computer I sometimes used for work processing, and playing old adventure games like SunDog. *Stop! You killed our leader!*
thejeff
No Internet here either. In my last couple years I had some friends running dial-up BBSs that I got a Usenet feed from. That was my first Internet experience, before the Web existed.
The fun part was when I actually wanted to call those friends to meet up or whatever and got to try to whistle to the modem.
Regalli
Wouldn’t be shocked if the meal plan covers chains that are in the student union or one of the dining halls – some big schools have tie-ins like that. (If you recall way back, there’s a Chick-fil-A on campus.) But the Taco Bell we know of is off-campus (not as far out as Blowjob Cat but still firmly in Bloomington proper.)
I know there was some kind of student discount/potential tie in to meal plans local restaurants had up at another big school I know of, but I don’t remember the details (didn’t go there myself) and I’m not sure it’s still active. But there are some pretty elaborate ways to try and attract students.
Needfuldoer
Checking on Google Maps, there’s a real Mexican restaurant right around the corner from one of the Tacos Bell within reasonable distance of the campus.
Come on, Walky, splurge a little.
thejeff
Yeah, that’s pretty common these days. Either on-campus fast food or deals with the local chains. Completely alien to my college memories.
Plain Marie
Yeah, and you had to plan to eat when the cafeterias were open. If you slept in too much, you had to go down the street to the Chinese restaurant for lunch. At my uni, they had just started offering alternate options at an on-campus cafe just before I graduated. Now those options appear everywhere! Kids these days. We had to eat what they offered, uphill both ways, and we liked it!
a/snow/mous/e
i’m at the chick fil a
i’m at the taco bell
i’m at the combination chick fil a and taco bell
a/snow/mous/e
((listen if i used the hyphens in chick-fil-a i’d have to use en dashes on either side of the “and”, and that means i’d have to go find an en dash to copy and paste))
a/snow/mous/e
((grammar is ALL or NOTHING you can’t just half commit
or i mean you can but it might bug you))
Ana Chronistic
wtf is that line break in between “meal plan”
Ana Chronistic
(adding to the mess by saying that was supposed to be a reply to the first comment but no one cares but I want that on the record anyway)
Thag Simmons
Well, you got both the first and the second comment this time.
Johan
Oh, Lucy… 🙁
That some pick me ass shit.
DailyBrad
I mean, she’s not lying, at least. If she likes him and hangs out with him, anyhow, she is legitimately down for it and not just saying so.
Doctor_Who
Pictured: The Ultimate Date.
PB
Is that from Demolition Man?
Demoted Oblivious
Next up, watching the entire presidential movie library. First is Hercules in New York. But do they know how to use the three clam-shells? Dinner may make some earpy demands.
Kamino Neko
That’s no Ultimate…the liquid isn’t hot pink.
Sporky
You fool, that’s Baja Blast!
Kamino Neko
I was referring to the stuff on the plate, which I assume is hot sauce.
(And it was a Danganronpa reference…said sauce sort of resembles blood, which means in the DRverse where the Ultimate Date necessarily happens, it should be pink. >_>)
Clif
How can you use a knife and fork and still hold hands?
Reltzik
One of you cuts with the knife, the other holds with the fork, and you cut for each other and feed each other. Everyone else in the restaurant gags at how lovey-dovey you’re being.
King Daniel
Then, while they’re still gagging, you steal all their food together.
Clif
Sounds like plan.
RassilonTDavros
Can’t wait to see how this goes… wrong? right?
Thag Simmons
There’s gonna be two dates this plotline and at least one of them is going to go down in flames.
Wagstaff
Whichever one that will be, hopefully there will be an appropriate extinguisher nearby.
Yumi
Where will Ruth’s date be happening? Is there a chance it could also be at the Taco Bell? Because I personally would love if the dates intersected as they maybe crashed and burned, maybe soared.
cbwroses
Ruth’s date is at the Pizza Hut.
Walky’s date is at the Taco Bell.
Both dates are at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Nono
I feel like a lesbian date happening at a taco place would be perfect, actually.
Reltzik
Well, Ruth’s bi, so she likes to have options for….
… actually, you know what? I’m stopping that right there. I’m not entirely certain HOW I was going to pull that joke off, but there was at least a 45% chance that it would have been unintentionally offensive.
King Daniel
Are you saying you’re going to taco break from making jokes?
Charles Spencer
Well done. I’m still trying to figure how to work in a Wiener King joke.
Sunny
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Stanistani
I salute your forbearance.
NotThatDrew
Both could end up going down in different types of flames depending on the quality of the “food” from the Bell
Regalli
Seriously, Walky, at least take her to Arby’s. You can watch the mysterious lights floating above the sign, talk about how God is dead and existence is meaningless… way more options.
Rayndel
*Random Story*
My mom worked across the street from an Arby’s. One day a tornado touched down and took the Arby’s sign and then went back up into the sky. That was the only thing the tornado touched. We never heard of anyone finding the sign again.
Reltzik
It ended up in Winkie Country. Unless it was one of the original red-and-yellow signs, in which case it could be Quadling Country.
Clif
Obviously Regalli meant to say, mysterious sign floating above the lights.
Megan Rivera
lolol wtf Rayndel ?
Regalli
That is amazingly odd.
Deanatay
“Your tone is quasi-facetous, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. So now, all restaraunts are Taco Bell.”
Well, at least in Walky’s world
Wonky Monkey
I believe it was Pizza Hut in the international release, since Taco Bell hadn’t been inflicted on most of the rest of the world at the time.
Sirksome
I mean Lucy wasn’t really in my personal ship harbor but anything good for Walky makes me happy!
Loki
Guess Walky is doing better at math?
brionl
I was going to say, he’s not wrong. Any positive integer number of hands held is an infinity percent increase over zero.
Clif
Math, yes. Logistics, no.
It’s just as easy to hold a steak with one hand as it is to hold a taco with one hand. Walky should know this.
Delicious Taffy
Well yeah, but only if you wanna eat the steak with one hand like an animal. So, only if you wanna do it right. Fuck utensils, they’re a tool of classier oppression. Eat your spaghetti with your hands, do it for democracy!
Rabid Rabbit
And who the hell came up with this idea of cooking your meat??? Eat it raw, like a rea man! Actually, the hell with steak, just bring him the cow and let him gnaw it straight from the carcass!!!
I’m pretty sure there was a cranky caveman uncle who said that about young people these days and their cooked mammoths.
Delicious Taffy
Okay, I draw the line at eating the meat raw. We’re not coyotes. With America’s food safety standards, there’s too high a chance of horrible agonising death for me to ever feel safe eating a raw steak of any kind.
I am Nothing
Yea, but hands are objectively gross.
Clif
And yet we hold them.
Reltzik
Sushi, then.
JBento
I don’t THINK we’ve fucked up algae yet, but we’re probably on track, so get it while you can.
Needfuldoer
Cooking meat is good when you do it right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5y2voEWJ6U
Thag Simmons
Do you want Prions? Because that’s how you get Prions
I am Nothing
I want prions.
JBento
Do you mean a Prius?
I am Nothing
Both, please.
Luris
Eating spaghetti with your hands is apparently the traditional way in Napoli (although on most of the photographs and painting I found showing that, the subject are either children or people during Carnevale, so maybe not ‘the proper way’)
milu
what? i’ve been in Naples a few times and i’ve never heard of anyone who does that XD
milu
ok the Italian Wikipedia article for spaghetti does mention them being eaten by hand well into the 19th century “in Naples and other cities of southern Italy”.
There’s a fun story there, that’s actually very relevant to Taffy’s comment!
So, forks had existed for a long time, but they were 2- or 3-pronged, longer, and very sharp. You used them for stabbing your meat basically, and you wouldn’t be advised to shove them inside your mouth.
Spaghetti was a pretty popular dish in Italy, and with the acclimatation of tomato in Europe, by the 18th century they started being made with tomato sauce— and there was much rejoycing, because spaghetti and tomato sauce objectively slaps.
But that dish is famously messy today— so it would’ve been that much worse in the dark forkless ages. Spaghetti was definitely way too undignified to be served at upper-crush tables, so the gentry simply didn’t eat it, at least not when receiving.
But then, this one king of Sicily, Ferdinand II, was like, “this is unacceptable, I love spaghetti, I want to eat spaghetti anytime I want and I want to eat spaghetti with my hoity-toity friends without everyone getting covered in oily tomato stains!” and he called his chamberlain, a guy named Spadaccini (whose then I believe earned his place in history) and told him to fix it. And that’s how Spadaccini invented the short, 4-pronged, less-pointed fork! which finally allowed the king, and all of humanity thereafter, to eat spaghetti slightly less indecorously =D
…And for whatever reason, Neapolitans stuck to the old way for a few more decades. why? i don’t know. But i guess this is the context you might’ve heard about that. =P