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I'm sure everyone remembers the hardly edible cafeteria food in incredibly small portions. I think the most disgusting of it all was the corn nuggets. They look like regular chicken nuggets until you bite into one. Its filled with heavily buttered corn. Its NOT edible and it smells and tastes horrible.

Has anyone else experienced this epitome of horrible cafeteria food?

You haven't experuianced Horrible Space Camp Cafeteria food till you eat it for 3 months straight. The same food every week with few exceptions. Corn Nuggets, cardboard pizza, hamburgers that have no beef in them. undercooked hot dogs, and roast beast. Atleast on staff you can go out and get something if you dont have a team or arent working that shift at the time of the meal.

[darn]! I missed the corn nuggets! hahha

When I was there for Adult ASA this fall, I didn't think that the food was all that bad. Not great, but for cafeteria food, it wasn't horrible. Of course, being in the adult program, they did have some slightly different food for us most of the time (mostly an option to have a not-fried version of what was being served to everyone else that day). And I was able to get some salsa for my eggs on EDM day...took a little bit of convincing and then, apparently, some rummaging around in the kitchen, but I got some.

/true the adults especially the teacher camps seemed to get better food in general. But then i went to adult academy this summer for the alumni camp and it was the same lousy stuff. A week of it is of even a couple of weeks its when you hit the month + mark you really get sick of it.

Our Adult Alumni Reunion in June was the first time I had to eat the "normal" cafeteria food. In the past, when I went to Adult Academy we had a different menu than the regular campers.

After eating in the cafeteria for a couple of days we had a catered dinner when Hoot Gibson came to Huntsville. Everyone was getting back in line for thirds and fourths. I think some people were hoarding food in their pockets for later.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Since I'm a state employee in Georgia I can understand why the food in the cafeteria is lousy.

Two words "Lowest Bidder".

And yet i still want to go back there in January. I think i will be investing in microwavable TV dinners. Some things werent too bad. The ice cream, salas when the lettuce wasnt brown, and the crawdads we had one night but that was unusual. The Chicken tenders when fully cooked was probably the best regular item oh and breakfast wasnt bad if you went after 9 when they fewd the people up stairs but you had to have the right schedule to manage that one.

If you have access to a microwave and a minifridge and want some help with simple, real food recipes, let me know. I've done way too much business travel and have some ideas that might help you with improvising real food on a budget, with limited time, space and equipment.

Also, just out of curiosity, does anyone know what catering company Space Camp gets their food from?

The corn from a corn nugget becomes a lethal projectile when fired out of a straw. Just one of the many properties of cafeteria food that my team dicsovered when we had an hour to eat lunch one day.

never had them at camp but i've had them at cafe's and drive in's around here and they rock...man i love em

Boomerang wrote:You haven't experuianced Horrible Space Camp Cafeteria food till you eat it for 3 months straight. The same food every week with few exceptions. Corn Nuggets, cardboard pizza, hamburgers that have no beef in them. undercooked hot dogs, and roast beast. Atleast on staff you can go out and get something if you dont have a team or arent working that shift at the time of the meal.

AMEN!!! There should have been hazard pay for eating some of that stuff!

I guess u guys have alot of corn nuggets down south. I'm from NJ and we don't have corn nuggets up here. To me, they taste nasty

Andromeda462 wrote:I guess u guys have alot of corn nuggets down south. I'm from NJ and we don't have corn nuggets up here. To me, they taste nasty

haha, I'm from NJ too but I just think the ones at camp must be gross. I've had real southern corn nuggets and they're pretty darn good!

iheartspacecamp wrote:

Andromeda462 wrote:I guess u guys have alot of corn nuggets down south. I'm from NJ and we don't have corn nuggets up here. To me, they taste nasty

haha, I'm from NJ too but I just think the ones at camp must be gross. I've had real southern corn nuggets and they're pretty darn good!

Yeah, they were very nasty. lol

Excuse my ignorance, but what are corn nuggets?

SpaceCanada wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but what are corn nuggets?

corn nuggets are corn battered in batter and deep fried or baked. they use here in Jacksonville Florida cream corn not just corn. It makes them a little more sweet

I like the corn nuggets! (up north you might be more familiar with the term 'corn fritters') I also adore Mexican Wednesday, but then I just take a small bowl of the meat and make a taco salad with the stuff on the salad bar.

One imoportant thing to remember here Almost anything at camp is edible for a week maybe even 2 or 3 after 3 months it starts to seem like toxic waste. So anyone who complains about eating it for a week should try eating it all summer. And It rarely changes what is served though we did get a few decent meals this summer where they did something diffrent. The day we had mexican wednesday with nice strips of beef and chicken instead of gfround beef was really good. We even had craw dads one night this summer.

There was an inside joke going around my team during my week that during lunch there was always something being served on a bun. It was funny because almost every day there was except when we had nachos and tacos.

Try being a vegetarian at camp. I did not ask what the ingredients were in some things (like tater tots) because I did not want to find out.