The Persistence of Mexican

Usually after a break the quality in cafeteria food is appalling- not so this past week. From Monday onwards, the cafeteria delivered a mountain of crowd-pleasers, including three days of the ever-popular Mexican bar, two days of Asian, and for a finishing touch, the rare yet mouth-watering New England clam chowder. All in all, a great week.

Or was it?

Usually, Houghton serves popular dishes sporadically- for every bountiful harvest of good food (such as Mexican) there's almost two weeks of famine. The fact that so much good food is being served at once is an ominous indicator that it will be a long time before we receive these dishes again.

Is all hope lost?
Not necessarily.

Houghton is subject to an on-and-off flow of prospective students and their families. Sure, they're noisy and tend to overcrowd the already packed cafeteria, but consider this: Houghton's cooking improves dramatically every time prospectives arrive. Also remember that the ISA's Caribbean banquet is coming up (though now that I think about it, unless you bought tickets, you're screwed).

End result? We will be paying for this sudden bounty, however we shouldn't have to tighten the belt buckles just quite yet...