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[tenshikurai9]

Walked into lunch Monday and saw a sign.

 

TO ALL STUDENTS & STAFF

EFFECTIVE 10/26/09

 

The Food Service Department would like to take

this opportunity to inform you of the new ways

we will be serving your meal. The Meals will

consist of 1 protein(example: chicken, beef,

pork, fish, etc...), 1 starch(example: potato, rice,

pasta, bread, etc....), 1 vegetable(example:

broccoli, carrots, mixed vegetables, etc....).

 

You will still have plenty of choices to choose

from but you will be served 1 meal with the

correct portions sizes using Mypyramid.Gov. If

you are still hungry you are more than welcome

to come up for seconds. There will be no more

standing in line asking for everything we have.

 

EXAMPLE: Grinder, Chicken Patty, Hot Dog,

Rice, French Fries, Vegetable and a dozen

Cookies.

 

The Menus will be changing in the next couple

of weeks to enchance Healthy Choice Options.

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Then I looked at the green writing with red circled numbers (the last sentence was in red writing) and this is what it said on the white board by the line that serves deli.

 

Lunch

 

1 Chicken ala King Served Over White Rice, w/Vegetable

2 Corn Dog w/Fries and Vegetable

3 Deli Sandwich served w/French Fries

 

You get one choice

of Entree's

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I thought to myself, but what if I really love corn dogs and want rice, but hate fries and chicken?

 

When I asked for Chicken ala King over Rice, the student thanked me for making my order easy on her. I'm wondering if she got told by staff to serve the meals only in the pre-matched, protein, starch, and vegetable sets and then dealt with students who wanted a different set or if students tried to get her to serve them everything at once.

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Later at supper that night, when I choose mashed potatoes, the student warned me that I couldn't get the mac 'n cheese if I got the potatoes.

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They're now using a system where the two cafeteria lines actually do have two separate offerings (at supper) and each set has just one protein and one starch. There might be two vegetables. (Lunch lines might still have identical offerings.)  This is easier to put in practice than the initial meal set-up. Let's see if everyone stops over-weighing their plate down (myself included) and if the amount of food thrown-away decreases.

Comments

[arkivarie.livejournal.com]

Surely there must be a less creepy, control-freak manner of doing this?!!!

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

No. I am government property now.

(Which the military really wishes I was theirs since my ASVAB-Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery-test had a score of 94 out-of a possible 99 or 100. I've heard claim that most university grads with a bachelor's degree get only scores in the 60s. BTW, it has civilian applications too which is why everyone in Job Corps takes it. It's so tempting to take any mailers I receive from the military and write I'm bi on the post cards to fill-out if I want more information.)

[arkivarie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also had a really high ASVAB score and was getting calls from every branch of the military. Really, really freaked me out!!! This was back in 1982 and the test was administered at my high school and they made a point of playing up the fact that 1. you get free military training and 2. you then could get GI Bill money for college. Unfortunately for them, I was NOT willing to be sent to Central America to kill poor peasants!

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

I've received a Coast Guard and I think another branch's mailing at roughly the same time and then a Navy one later. IIRC.

The Coast Guard one mentioned stopping drug traffickers. My thought was, but I'm the one that believes it's easier to keep an eye on these things if they were legal and above-ground.

Then some months later the R.A. handed me a piece of mail from the South Hadley recruitment office saying I could contact them if I want more info. I've misplaced the pen and one of those rubber, rubber-like bracelets.

Meanwhile one of the A+ students was wearing his bracelet in class and got asked by a student, aren't you against the military? His response was it's a nice bracelet and he's against himself joining.