On Sunday afternoon, freshman Vanessa Esperantes entered Jazzman's cafe for a blueberry muffin. However, she got a little more than she swiped for. On her third bite into the pastry, Esperantes crunched through the exoskeleton of a juicy, one and a half inch, brown cockroach.When asked to comment, Sodexho attributed great taste as the source of the incident.
"We can't help that small insects enjoy our baked goods," said a Sodexho spokesman, "doesn't everybody?"
After biting through the vermin, Esperantes shared the pastry with two friends, who both attested to the foul taste. Esperantes then returned the muffin to Sodexho employees, who offered to provide her with another selection. She refused.
"Do they expect us to check every scone?" said a Sodexho chef while brushing her hair over a boiling cauldron of sloppy-joes.
The cockroach incident has led many to question the inner workings of the Sodexho food service.
After a thorough inspection by PBA's 'Safety Watch and Warn Team,' several issues were brought to light. Forks were mysteriously bypassing the dishwashing cycle and blue cups were being dipped into dirt piles before being returned to their racks.
Despite the fact that matters have been attended to, many students are still skeptical.
"If I was a cockroach, I'd eat the cupcakes," said Stanley Ipskin, a regular at the caf. "I love cupcakes."
11 comments:
i have to ask, did something like this really happen?
on a daily basis
Cockroaches are the least of my worries when it comes to the dining services. It's what I can't see that worries me. I can't tell you the amount of times I have gotten sick after eating on campus. Now I just brown bag it.
i heard that this did actually happen. but i heard the cockroach was into a scone.
I don't know about the cockroach but last year I found two large dead flies in a common ground salad and havent been able to eat one since. I ask you: how on earth does one dead fly end up in a salad, much less two?
You know we ask for healthier food from Sodexho all the time, this is their new program which aims at adding more protein to our diets. I think it was a great idea. Bear Grylls would be proud!
Lame.....
Yes anonymous, you are lame.
I get sharp, jabbing pains in my stomache every time I eat at the Caf. I love being forced to have meal plans I do not even use
This is not an isolated incident, sadly. The Beacon (before it was corrupted into the yes-paper that it is now) ran a story about these types of problems. I personally (along with a number of my theatre friends) became violently ill after eating from the salad bar in the caf. The problem? The dressing buckets were not being EMPTIED and CLEANED at the end of the day! They were simply re-filling them from a bulk jug, while the remains around the edges and bottom of the bucket continued to age, day after day. These are DAIRY-BASED dressings... What happens if you leave a carton of milk or yogurt in the fridge for months on end? It gets chunky, right? Yes... That is what the Ranch Dressing had progressed to: lots and lots of white chunks of badly curdled dairy, and it made us sick.
Sodexho did NOTHING about it. The previous foodservice company (A division of Marriot) never had problems like this, and the food was actually better occasionally. But they charged the administration too much, so they got dropped in favor of Sodexho and the new "Buy-in-bulk and the price-per-meal will be higher" plans. Gotta love it. Less service, higher prices! It's the PBA Way!
ew. i got sick just from reading all this. im glad i live off campus and dont need to pay a ridiculous amount of money to get fat and sick with caf food. disgusting. i've always been suspicous of the salad bar... never eating it again, thats for sure!
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