Today I went for
lunch with an ex-colleague at the University of Birmingham, where I used to
work. There’s a place there called ‘Staff House’ intended for use by the Faculty
and postgraduate students. I ate there many times while I was both student and Faculty
member; generally the food was adequate and reasonably cheap.
Today, I had the most appalling dish: it was
supposed to be a cheese, cauliflower and macaroni bake (i.e. macaroni &
cheese, really). It was vile! The sauce had curdled and split, the macaroni was
cooked to a mush, the cheese had been so over-heated that it was oil and curds
and there was no discernible cauliflower. I left 90% of it My companion had carvery pork that
was so tough that she couldn’t cut it, let alone eat it.
Still the purpose of the meeting was to
catch-up and eating was secondary. However, it would take me a lot to go back
there.
Staff House, hang you heads in shame!
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