Here's Why Food Is So Insanely Expensive at College

[cobrat]

I attended a famous U. in Scotland where the food was horrendous (local doctor told me hemorrhoids were epidemic there due to lack of fruits & veggies), and toward the end of the terms, undergrads begged administration to leave dorm heat on overnight. And this place has no trouble getting students. Made even the most spartan American colleges seem plush.

@moooop

When my father attended the #2 university in the ROC(Taiwan) during the early '50s on a complete full-ride, the cafeteria food was so horrendous and monotonous that when he put in his 2 years of military service as a conscripted junior officer after graduating, the food in the military mess halls and US supplied C-rations from WWII/Korean War eras was like being sent to something akin to culinary heaven.