Food at home is just so much better than Lower

Common complaint about returning to college: The dining hall food.

Fortunately for us BC students, the dining halls generally have quite the selection, if not some very viable/edible options. Acai bowls, smoothies, Addie’s…we have more choice than the average college kid. But regardless, as Dorothy puts it, “There’s no place like home”.

But let’s put the two in the ring anyway. Keep score.

Round 1: Variety

This is fairly subjective. But when you go home, you eat what’s available or being made. No questions asked. But at BC, you have loads of options. Not only in meal but in location as well. Let’s be real, I bet you don’t have a full salad bar at home.

BC: 1

Home: 0

Round 2: Quality

Home cooking is for some reason always better. Maybe that’s because it’s made with extra love. Mom’s grilled chicken trumps BC’s any day.

BC: 1

Home: 1

Round 3: Price

This one needs little explanation. With the $10 from one sandwich at BC, you could probably make at least five similar ones at home.

BC: 1

Home: 2

Round 4: Quantity

Even though BC’s meal plan is “à la carte” style, you can still purchase as much as you can physically eat. You want to get seconds on Late Night mozz sticks? You can, even fifty times over probably. And the best part is: no one’s going to stop you.

Though if you’ve read about how many calories are in Late Nite food, you’ll probably stop yourself.

BC: 2

Home: 2

Round 5: Ingredients

At home you can always trust that the ingredients are real and good. But at school, you are faced with two options. Either A) the bananas are probably real bananas! Or B) don’t ask questions. Ignorance is bliss!

BC: 2

Home: 3

Round 6: Convenience

Over break you’ve probably done the following: Crawled out of bed at a weird time of day to waddle over to the fridge and grab whatever was in sight. Then you probably ate it on your couch or even brought it back to bed.

Total travel time? Anywhere from 20 seconds to 3 minutes. Did you have to interact with people? Probably not. Were you hit with extreme weather conditions? Even more unlikely.

But at school, it may be in the teens (ºF) and you have to decide if food is really important enough to put on actual clothes and run through snow and wind. Plus, socializing at a time too early in the day. If this doesn’t at least make you think twice about going to the dining hall, then you’re probably a fictional character from a book.

Which is another issue for another time.

BC: 2

Home: 4

Looks like food from home is the winner with four out of six possible points. No real surprise here.