I'm hungry....

Apparently I’m something of a picky eater. When I say picky, I don’t mean snobby, as I’m quite happy with a hamburger and fries any day. By picky, I mean I won’t eat just any place I come across.

Apparently that’s why I can’t find anything to eat at UO. Well, can’t find anything to eat that isn’t hippie crap or overpriced crap (Subway comes to mind—how much DO vegetables and bread cost to mass produce, anyway?). Even the vending machines with their $1.10 snack size bags of chips are there to partake in the masses of spoiled kids with too much disposable income.

I found myself hungry enough to venture into the EMU for lunch the other day, which was a bad idea not only for the food, but because waiting in line with a bunch of obnoxious, jostling idiots for upwards of 20 mins for ANYTHING is bound to make you dislike it. Since everything had ridiculously long lines and I didn't feel like breaking my hand on someone's face, I decided to try out the Holy Cow Café for a salad, figuring that you can’t possibly fuck up vegetables and dressing.

I guess you can. Chunks of what I thought to be chicken (should have known better on that one) turned out to be fried tofu with the consistency of plastic and a flavor like grilled Playdoh. The vegetables were old and wilted (but organic, hurray! *sarcasm*), the dressing was some terrible healthy version of good old ranch, and to top it off, I paid $4 for the thing.

Contrasting this, I had breakfast today at the bus station, a distasteful prospect to many of my peers. It was cheap, it was horrible for me, it was delicious. And it was served with a smile and courtesy by an older gentleman who was just eccentric enough to be cool and not annoying or scary. The collection of bumper stickers and signs behind the counter and around the register varying from silly sayings to profound statements of advice just added to the charm of the place.

You don’t find that around the school. Any of it. Holy Cow Café with its collection of self-righteous vegetarian and pro-earth comics and articles gives me nothing but a feeling of “I don’t belong here”.

Although that’s probably what they wanted in the first place.