<p>Which college according to you has the best food??</p>
<p>What kind of food you like?</p>
<p>Most students get bored with dorm food within a year or two and live off campus. Then it is as good as you prepare.</p>
<p>I love the smell of Indian food. I crave for good rasam prepared fresh spices + coriander …</p>
<p>Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>aniruddh, what is the basis for your claim? From an Indian perspective, my bet would have been on some school located in Boston area.</p>
<p>Bowdoin. </p>
<p>They were 1st for Best College Food Rankings</p>
<p>Here is another list for those who are hungry for rankings:
[Campus</a> Food - Galleries - The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/804/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-07/the-best-college-food/]Campus”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/804/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-07/the-best-college-food/)</p>
<p>This place is an Indian vegetarian’s nightmare.</p>
<p>^ So, UNC goes off my list.
I need to find a place where they serve good rava masala dosa, iddli vada sambar, coffee day coffee … I know I am just dreaming …</p>
<p>I don’t think you’d count as an “Indian vegetarian”, Tippu. In India there’s this religious thing about contamination. The same thing (the clamp thing that’s used to pick up stuff, I don’t know what its called) is used to pick up chicken, AND something like beans. And according to Hinduism once that thing touches some non-veg thing, its contaminated (by something, I don’t really know). They’d have a hard time explaining this to the food guy.
Other than that, at Subway too the contamination thing is there.</p>
<p>There are vegan food things out here though. Like a whole buffet thing filled with fruits and weird salads et al.
I’m non veg, so the only thing I go there for is the strawberry yoghurt.</p>
<p>blu_box, I know exactly what you mean. Our family has learned to ignore that “contamination”.</p>
<p>Vegetarians amaze me. Seriously. </p>
<p>I can’t live without meat. My grandparents, however, still believe in that “contamination.”
It’s funny. My grandma refuses to even touch the plate I ate chicken on unless I have washed it properly.</p>
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<p>I totally understand how your grandma feels.</p>
<p>Nice thread :). Which schools have food choices that would be fairly well-suited for Indian vegetarians? I know that grad students quite often live off-campus and cook their own food. But, undergrads…? It seems like staying off-campus is not a good option for undergrads at quite a few schools – at some places, dorm-stay is compusory and at some others, off-campus housing is not convenient. Can one cook in dorms?</p>
<p>Unless you cook your own food, you will not be able to find Indian vegetarian food standards anywhere. Even when you order something vegetarian in a restaurant, you’ll never know if its got that contamination thing, because the Indian idea of religious vegetarianism does not exist here.</p>
<p>hmmm… Indian vegetarian food will indeed not be available as it is available in india, and as for that contamination thing its all ********e, i for one wouldnt mind non indian non vegetarian food, though currently i’m pure vegetarian. And all those people who cry over religion most of the cakes and pastries contain egg, if you have ever had butter naan at a restaurant you’re goner it too contains egg, and all this apart how do you rate the colleges in preparation of american food??? I think princeton might be good for food with all that eating club thing.</p>
<p>Hey VictoryCoorg! (nice name, I love visiting Coorg)</p>
<p>You will be lucky to find any Indian vegetarian option at most university cafeterias.</p>
<p>As a vegetarian your options are </p>
<ul>
<li>Pasta, Pizza</li>
<li>Burritos</li>
<li>Veggie burgers (“contamination” could be an issue)</li>
<li>Soups</li>
<li>Salads</li>
<li>Fruits</li>
<li>Dairy products</li>
<li>French Fries</li>
<li>Baked potato</li>
<li>Bagles</li>
<li>Waffles</li>
<li>Pancakes</li>
<li>French toast</li>
</ul>
<p>If you don’t mind eating unfertilized eggs then you have a few more options.</p>
<p>blue_box is right. Non Indians are vegetarians more for ethical reasons than religion.</p>
<p>Bigger cities have a few Chinese vegetarian restaurants and there is no contamination of any sort take place there. Food is generally very tasty. What I find interesting is that these Chinese vegetarian places are liked by Jewish people.</p>
<p>You can also find uncontaminated veg food in Jewish restaurants. (When I visited Jerusalem not too long ago, I was told that it is “safe” to eat anything containing dairy product at an authentic Jewish restaurants. Apparently, Kosher laws don’t permit mixing of dairy and meat.)</p>
<p>Anyway, if you are open to the idea of eating non-Indian vegetarian food then you don’t have to worry too much.</p>
<p>My sister’s mother-in-law has stayed in Singapore and Hong Kong all her life. She doesn’t eat in restaurants that serve non-veg. HAHA</p>
<p>n0mad: Quality of food should not be a consideration at all. Its only 4 years. You can eat what you want, wherever you want, after that.</p>
<p>quality of food is an issue, i know ofcourse someone will not reject a college solely on the basis of food, but suppose the excellent college you get into also has excellent food it would be an added advantage. Trust me i’ve lived almost two years away from my home and its easy to say ya its just four years we’ll survive etc. But when a cricket actually jumps out of the rice you get in your mess tiffin it becomes difficult.</p>