Meatless Thursday

More on the battle with Aramark (taken from the Campus Dish at UML website):

	Are there options for vegans, vegetarians or others on restricted diets?
	Yes, since many of our retail locations offer meals cooked to order, diners may select what is best suited for their dietary needs. All our locations offer daily vegan or vegetarian entrees. Contact us at 978-934-5369 for more details or to review specific dietary needs.

...Actually, the ICC dining hall does NOT offer a daily vegan option aside from cereal with rice milk, and fruit. There is not one vegan salad dressing, the vegetable dishes are often cooked in butter (or are cold and soggy), and the majority of the chefs are not trained to meet specific dietary requirements.

In fact, most of them don't even know what vegan is. I mean, they are chefs for crying out loud, and they cook food for a living. Aramark, how could you leave this one out in their training?

When I met with Greg, and the Executive Chef (his name alludes me, but he told me he loves pork), I handed them a packet of 160 recipe ideas that I pulled from vegadvantage. I also mentioned that April 15th is Meatless Day in a calender I provided them with. Along with the other things I was promised that day, I was assured that this day would be recognized.

Well today (I guess yesterday now!), was that day...Meatless Thursday. I left work early to make it to the dining hall, anticipating all the goodies they cooked up. Would it be something vegan and delicious? A Tofurkey with vegan mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce? Seitan sauteed with fresh vegetables in an orange sauce? Vegan green bean casserole?

Nope.

Want to know what I had for dinner tonight? Penne with Marinara sauce...they same goddamn dish I have every single (goddamn) night....with some beans and tempeh I grabbed from the salad bar.

Their idea of Meatless Thursday was raviolis, cheese lasagna, and penne with marinara sauce.

...or Starch, with Starch, topped with some more Starch.

Seriously, Greg? After I gave him 160 recipes, that frankly ALL sounded delicious to me, he still thinks that vegetarians only eat pasta? Has he been living under a rock? That's how vegetarians/vegans get sick and quit. There is only so much enriched-wheat flour your body can take before it says no more.

Poor Jared (student, slave to Aramark, and allay), had to listen to me complain about it. I asked him to grab Greg for me, but Greg was probably hiding under his desk on the 2nd floor in the fetal position. I called him and left a message instead. He knows that he's in trouble. Not because I plan to go higher than he is, but because he hasn't figured out that all he needed to do to please me as a customer, was go through with the suggestions I made in the first place.

I'd like to make him dinner some night. I've lost patience with his ignorance regarding healthy options and vegan choices.

Now what I want to know is,

Is the 2,000 bucks I spent on my meal plan, refundable?