culture May 17, 2014

Rocks for Dinner

By Alison Lui

All freshmen are required to live on campus, and thus, are required to be on the Caltech meal plan. This gives us access to all-you-can-eat open kitchen food Monday to Friday from 7:00am – 11:00am for breakfast, 3:00pm – 5:00pm for mid-day snacktime, and 5:00 – 7:00pm for dinner. On top of all that, we have $450 every term to buy lunch at Chandler or Broad Café on Weekdays, go to CHouse Sunday through Thursday nights, or buy snacks/meals/convenience store items seven days per week from the C-Store.

But sometimes, on those magical nights, Caltech Dining Services (CDS) decides to get FUNKY. This past Thursday, we had a special CDS dinner that really rocked. In fact, no previous dinner could hold a stick (or stone) to this. Thankfully, we had kale, not shale for dinner. It was one for the ages that is definitely made (pre)history. And this meal didn’t just rock, it Bedrocked. You guessed it, this CDS dinner was FLINSTONES THEMED!! As we love to do, a gang of friends and I dressed up for the occasion, covering all of our Flinstones bases with Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Bam-Bam, and even Dino! Check out a few pictures of the gang below.

And for your entertainment, here was the menu, word-for-word:

Sticks, Stones, Spears and Greens: Carrots and Celery Sticks Fruit Spears Brocconcini Beef Jerky Chopped Salad

Fred’s Grub Bam Bam Turkey Legs Grilled Brontosaurus Bones Dino Chicken Nuggets ½ Pound Brontosaurus Burgers Grilled Sweet Potatoes Grilled Corn on the Cob Dino Corn Bread

Wilma’s Wild Wings (Tossed to Order) Pebble’s Sweet Wings Bam Bam’s Wings Firewater Wings Quest for Fire Wings Cave Wings

Barney’s Lophius Americanus Monkfish Medallions Ankimo Sushi

For Herbivores: Vegetable Kabobs Stuffed Zucchini Boats Vegetables and Tofu wrapped in Banana Leaves Grilled Sweet Potatoes Grilled Corn on the Cob Corn Bread

Sweet Treats Cocoa Pebbles Treats Waffle cones with Chunky Dino Ice Cream Dinosaur Cookies