You are what you eat?
      by James


Wednesday,  September 3, 2003 - 6:57 PM

    Sustenance.  That which is vital to all.  This one of the inescapable truths of human existence, you must eat to live.  Unfortunately, if you eat at the Caddo then this life preserving activity has become something slightly less than the forced mechanisms needed to survive.  I have been eating at the Caddo going on three years now and I have to say that this year I have had my already lowered expectations of the place shot to hell.  My first year at Henderson was my introduction to that which is Caddo.  While there, I was trained to deal with a poor selection of food and a low quality of service. It was often said that the only things that could survive a nuclear attack would be cockroaches and the food from Caddo.  The trays were often missing as was the silver where, and the milk was usually left until it could be called cheese.  Things in Caddo had degenerated so far that the Caddo sucks web site was founded to give voice to those that were tired of having to buy a meal plan and then be subjugated to such low standards.  Then my sophomore year things improved.  The service was upgraded slightly and we were given a broader selection of foods to choose from. Don’t get me wrong, the place still sucked as those who remember the three weeks of nothing but fish to eat can tell you but, while the quality still left something to be desired it was at the least a step in the right direction.  This year however the Caddo has taken a flying leap off the pedestal it was climbing up on and has done a face plant into oncoming traffic.  Setting a new record for time the Caddo has already managed to run out of trays, sliver where, and cups in just the first few days of school.  The menu every day is simply the left overs from the meal before it and the desserts are usually so dry that I personally think that they could be better used as packing foam. The really good part is the new look of Caddo.  This year it seams that some budget allowance has been made to remodel the cafeteria.  New chairs and booths have been added as well as new T.V. screens.  The great part about this is that there is now less room for people to sit down and the we also have music televison that we can all watch with the mute on.  I don’t know about the rest of you but watching music t.v. without the music just leaves me with the feeling that I’m missing something.  To the managers of Caddo I leave you with this final statement: you can serve crap on a silver platter, but in the end it is still just crap.
 

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