What does your favourite campus lunch spot say about you?

Between the 10.30 and 3.30 lunch “hour,” campus becomes alive with people flocking to their favourite eatery. In spite of the enormous range we have, we all have our favourite and rarely consider eating anywhere else. So whether you are curly fry munching, veggie juice sipping, long line waiting or shoving something down en route to a lecture, you’ll most likely be dining near to those pretty similar to yourself…

Comida

You most likely you are the standard Exeter student who tried it once in Freshers and are too much of a creature of habit to try anything different. You have also taken all your visiting friends here after raving about it for weeks on the phone. You are probably planning on getting a quick bite to eat and then rushing off to a lecture or the gym.

However, in reality, the only thing you are really helping is your perseverance due to the never- ending line, and of course your independence when you realise that you are capable of queuing by yourself when your friends refuse to wait with you. You’ve also probably perfected the art of hiding your inner annoyance as the person in front of your takes a good five minutes to choose their wrap’s filling. We all know how painful that is after a thirty minute wait.

They were twelve when they joined this queue

The Ram

As the novelty of eating curly fries without being reminded of their health value has not worn off, you are most likely to be a fresher. You’ve also probably been there for about four hours, a combination of waiting for a table to turn up, waiting for food, least importantly eating the food and finally recovering from the food coma to become productive and write a 2000 word essay.

However, in spite  of the astonishing calorific in take, don’t feel too bad. You have almost certainly perfected the act of patience or more likely making people feel uncomfortable as you stand by their table, giving evils as you wait for them too give it up.

Worth the wait?

The Grove Diner

You most likely never intended to go here and only went after giving up on the Ram’s enormous waiting time. You are a person with an incredible sense of initiative and ability to take risks since you are adaptable enough to realise that a lack of curly fries will not ruin your week. However, you are of course very pleased with this discovery and proudly show it your friends, promising them they can be in and out having had an equally delicious lunch in the time it would take to find a table in the Ram.

Are curly fries really much better?

Caravan

Next to Comida, there are largely two types of people who ring the bell here. The gym goers we all envy who delicately sip on their Green Revivers and on the other end of the spectrum, those simply too lazy to wait for the line of Comida.

Lectures on the top, gym on the bottom

Pieminister

A flight of stairs above Comida, we have groups of highly sociable students who attend Pieminister together hoping for a leisurely and enjoyable lunch. You are a more relaxed person who won’t frown upon and may even allow queue jumping. You still hold onto the ideals of university, sitting on one of the highly comfortable sofas with a hot pie, a niche fizzy drink and enjoying both intellectual discussion and gossip with your equally friendly and organised friends.

Productive lunch all round

La Touche

You may not have actually realised this place existed unless you do business. Unlike most places on campus, most people who venture here will probably actually do some work at lunchtime. This unique aspect makes La Touche an exclusive community for productive people who enjoy the finer things in life; the good and variable food paired with a bright, spacious and city-like atmosphere being among them.

Does anyone actually know where this is?

The Market Place

In theory you are money savvy and cautious, the cheap market place sandwiches will probably give you a cheaper lunch than most places. The problem is that you will most likely get carried away and make full use of the Happy Shopper biscuits also on offer.

The lesser spotted Market Place goer

The Terrace

So all else has failed, all the queues are too long and so you climb up yet another flight of stairs, sit on one of the many empty tables and end up having a decent hot lunch for a reasonable price. Clever person.

You will actually make your lecture

Costa

This doesn’t really say a lot about you. You are probably reading this holding a Costa cup.

It’s called Co$ta for a reason