Re:For a German Chef, Hospital Food Is the Ultimate Challenge
by scythe on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:54AM
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Making nutritious food that tastes good on a budget just requires compromise. Fatty meats are cheap and tasty, but they're not great for you. Legumes are cheap and healthy, but most people don't find them very exciting. If you use both, you get something better.
America seems to have gone all in on the the "lean meat" route, which results in many meals which are barely cheap and not good. Of course, my culinary opinion is based on my personal taste preferences. But I mean, like, burritos.
Re:For a German Chef, Hospital Food Is the Ultimate Challenge
by thaumasiotes on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:04AM
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> America seems to have gone all in on the the "lean meat" route
I'm constantly complaining to my family that meat here (in the US... more precisely, the Bay Area) isn't tough enough. They tell me I'm weird, and meat in the US is soft because that's how Americans like it.
(Lest the phrasing confuse people, all of us are Americans.)
The college cafeteria has to deal with, at least, the intention or pretense of making something nutritious, but also that people will actually eat. K-12 school lunch programs face this problem too: Kids won't eat healthy food.
But yes, even when I was in college 30 years ago, some students figured out that paying cash at the cafeteria was cheaper than the meal plan, and they raised a stink about it.