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Wednesday, May 1,2013
Arts & Culture
Would you transfer schools
for a taco salad?
BreannaCraine
& Brittany Horne
Arts & Culture Editor
and News Editor
buFpay at one of the cashier
stands that collects money for
all of the restaurants. The only
bad thing would be that neither
of us saw a card swiper in the
cafeteria, but most of the vend
ing machines took credit cards
so you could get lunch from one
of them if you only had card.
It’s common knowledge that
CCC has expensive food for col
lege students and little selection
Brittany: Wow, those little
in the Outlaw Cafe. During the
next few weeks, Arts & Culture tables up there have so many wall
Editor Breanna Craine and News plug-ins. That would be really
Editor Brittany Home will be cool for homework or checking
exploring the different commu Facebook during lunch.
Breanna: I wonder why we
nity colleges in the area to check
out if it is worth transferring don’t have that at our school? I
schools in order to get better am always trying to find places
to plug in my laptop and iPad
food on campus.
We parked in the crowd to work on my homework while
ed parking lot of Portland I’m eating.
Brittany: Yeah, I’m glad we
Community College’s Sylvania
campus. The spots are designed at least have the Print-Lab to
for city cars and can barely fit hang out in!
Breanna: I am so stuffed
a Ford Escape. We paid $5 for
a day pass to park, although we after only a few bites. Maybe I
were only there for about an should have gotten something
hour. However, we did see quite smaller like one of the pre-made
sandwiches or a breakfast sand
a few smart cars.
Walking into the main build wich. How is your salad? Is that
ing, which holds the cafeteria, spinach and mixed peppers I
the first thing we saw were rows see?
Brittany: Oh yeah, I got a
of vending machines with differ
ent foods and drinks available variety of romaine lettuce, mixed
to purchase. We looked past the greens, and spinach. There’s also
vending machines and saw a some cucumbers, broccoli, gar
juice bar called “Juice It Up,” banzo beans, mixed bell pep
which is similar to Jamba Juice. pers, croutons, Italian dressing,
They also offer Starbucks coffee oil and vinegar. There was a lot
more to choose from but I just
and drink options.
Then we headed towards the picked what I wanted. They, had
main cafeteria where all the some tomatoes too but they were
delicious magic happens. The the hugest cherry tomatoes I’d
ever seen. I d o n ’t like th em th at
first th in g th a t cau g h t our atten-
n o n w as w h at seem ed to' be much. 1 h e 'sa lad is p re tty good
100 tables for the students and though.
staff. This included a row of
Breanna: My taco salad was
small tables at the top of a ramp, pretty good. They had so many
providing a splendid number of side choices. I had trouble decid
plug-ins where many students ing if I wanted beef or chicken. I
sat working with their laptops, decided to go with the beef and
some Spanish rice and beans.
food accompanying or not.
We walked into the area The tomatoes looked really juicy
where they sell most of the food but I decided not to get any. I
and were immediately over was surprised how little lettuce
whelmed. They had every type they gave me. It had so much
of food you could imagine. They meat and beans that my mouth
had Chinese, Mexican, Italian, was so dry after the first few
BBQ, a long salad bar and even bites. I wish they could have
a refrigerated deli just like you given more lettuce and less of
would see in stores. All had the fattening stuff.
their own company names and
Brittany: That’s kind of
workers.
funny because I feel like the only
The next thing we had to do is thing missing from my salad is
decide what we wanted. We each some meat, like crispy chicken
went for a different kind of salad. or something. Other than that,
it’s delicious!
Breanna: I think I want a
Breanna: I wonder how much
taco salad or maybe even some the students really spend on food
Chinese food! But maybe I want here during the year. It isn’t
a mini pizza, or a cheeseburger. cheap but definitely a reasonable
There is so much to choose from. price for a good, well balanced
What do you think sounds good lunch. My taco salad was only
Brittany?
$5.95 for how much food i got.
Brittany: I think I’m gonna
Brittany: Yeah, I mean the
get a salad. Did you see the prices seem pretty comparable
salad buffet bar? I t ’s huge! That to Clackamas, but much better
sounds pretty good right now. variety and quality. Do you see
Have you decided what you’re the group sitting next to us? It’s
going to get?
a whole family: mom, grandma,
Breanna: There’s just too four or five kids. It must be
much to choose from but I think pretty good food if it’s the family
I’ll just get a taco salad. It looks lunch place of choice.
like they are pretty big and have
Breanna: Well, it is good.
a lot of different toppings to put
on top.
During the next few weeks
Brittany: Awesome. We’re we will be going to different
getting two different kinds of schools around Oregon, compar
salads! I’ll meet you over at ing whether we think the food is
the tables after we get our food. better or riot. PCC definitely has
a good cafeteria and if you like
We select our food at two ven all these types of foods, maybe
dors fairly close to each other, you should go and try it out.
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Above: Students study the menus as they choose from the large selection offered at each individual fo o d stand.
Below: Pre-made sandwiches are stacked high daily in the deli section o f the cafeteria at the PCC Sylvania campus.