Cafeteria Food

The quality of the cafeteria food at work has really been going downhill lately. Before, I could go there and find at least one item that was fairly enjoyable. Sure, the cheese was usually on the greasy side and the meat was always a little fattier than I usually like it, but it was fairly good.

Not anymore.

Today I chomped on nachos. The cheese was cold and the chips were chewy. In honor of Lent I had eschewed the ground chuck that normally comes with the dish and that's probably a good thing. If they can fuck up melted cheese and tortilla chips that badly I'd hate to see what they could do with meat.

Earlier this week I resorted to pointing and saying, "Oh, I'd like some of...uh...that. What is that?"

The lunchlady glowered at me. "It's chicken."

"For real? Oh, well, it looks good," I said hastily, noting her expression. It's not my fault. They do put out a menu each day, but the dishes available seem to be related to the printed choices only rarely. Once before there were some kind of mystery sandwiches available. Nobody knew what was in the Hot Pocket-like creations until I bought one and bit off a corner. Turns out it was chicken, cheese, and taco spices. That didn't fit with anything on the menu.

I've been thinking lately about bringing a lunch, but between our fridge that only keeps things room-temperature and our microwave from the Carter administration a homemade lunch doesn't hold much more appeal than a cafeteria lunch. I do have an insulated lunchbag and a couple of frozen cold packs so I suppose I'll have to make use of those.

Man.

I really yearn for the days of fatty burgers topped with greasy cheese.