[HPFGU-OTChatter] Food!,especially University stuff

[Simon]

Trina: "My freshman year at the University of Illinois I actually lost
about 18 pounds instead of gaining the dreaded "freshman 10" because I
*loathed* the food served in the dining hall.  Plus, my dorm was a mile
from the south end of the quad, so my activity went up drastically. But the
one thing that my cafeteria did well was a creation called Tollhouse pie.
Essentially, if you made a huge chocolate chip cookie about an inch thick
and put it in a pie crust, you'd have the tollhouse pie.  Warm in in the
microwave for a minute and get some ice cream from the soft serve machine
and Presto! Heaven on a plate!  They always had the desserts on a table to
get them after you came through the main line, but on Tollhouse Pie night,
you made darn sure you grabbed pie before going into the main line.  And,
if you were smart, you grabbed two!  I was always amazed that they could
make a divine dessert like this, but managed to screw up good ol' macaroni
and cheese!"


I was one of the people who put on weight. Nearly two stones in my first
year. This is not as bad as it may seem as I started from underweight and
finally got my weight up to something normal and then shot nearly shot out
the other side. I had to make an effort after that to eat more sensibly and
exercise more (I am managing the first and failing terribly on the second)
so that I would not need a complete new set of clothes to wear!


Michelle: "Ok. get this. At my Uni there was something even more evil -
lectures between seven and nine in the evening. In my first year I lived in
a Hall of Residence down a dark narrow lane called Pullens Lane. It was so
dangerous that the hall had a phone system whereby you could call from
campus to get a guy to walk you back. And a special bus for women only run
by the SU."

One of my tutors kept offering to give 8 m tutorials and each time we
turned the offer down. I know of several people who have had 8:30 am
classes on Saturday here and one who had tutorials at 7 pm on a Sunday.
None of these people were pleased with the arrangements!


Jeralyn: "Don't know how you do it, guys.  If I don't eat breakfast, I pass
out.  It helps that I *adore* breakfast foods.  It's my favorite meal of
the day!"

I have been skipping breakfast for a long time and it is now something I am
used to. I do not recommend it to anyone, but have found it works for me.
Lots of people comment on it and ask me how I cope without eating. I think
one of the worst examples is getting up at 7 am, after 6 hours sleep, being
on my feet all day cooking food and getting to 3 pm and suddenly realising
that I had had nothing to eat all day and only water and a cup of tea to
drink. I then found time to sit down and eat lunch, which was needed by
then, and generally relax. Not a schedule I want to repeat.


Emily: "been reading all your messages for the past few days - feeling less
scared now so thought i'd introduce myself. my name's emily, i'm 20, a
student at university in canterbury. read the harry potter books an age ago
but recently got into the fanfic and found myself an addict. ummmm...this
sounds like an intro for Blind Date so i think i'd better be off now.
hoping to get to know who the hell you all are and why you seem so obsessed
with crappy chocolate biscuits (not cookies)."

Fanfic, the way to spend your life in front of a computer screen. I seem to
have been on here all night! Last time I said hi to someone who went to a
university one of my school friends had been at it turned out they had
shared a house.

Food is such an easy topic to discuss, but chocolate niscuits would be
better replaced by Ben's Cookies. Looks around and hears Ben agree with me
and probably everyone else say what. Oh well, I am sure they are not only
based here, but apart form Bath I do not know where else they have
premises. By the way I am talking about freshly made cookies, straight from
the makers. Plains choccie chip for preference, but not beaten by after
eight mint ice cream.



Simon (and the obligatory fanfic plug for his character)
--
"... operatives of the Magical Law Enforcement Service continue their hunt
for missing fashion designer Simon Branford, who disappeared from his
Oxford home several weeks ago. Rumours of Branford's possible involvement
in the so called Dracaena Affair have yet to be confirmed or denied.
Meanwhile, crowds of fans and well wishers continue to besiege his home,
and teenage witches up and down the land are said to be distraught." - The
Time of Trial Chapter 2: Don't Look Back In Anger by Al
(http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=story-read&storyid=207267)
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