Local food?

Outside the student cafeteria today, a group of people were holding a protest, to raise awareness about local foods. They were handing out hot squash and potatoes, bread and some sort of pesto for free.

Of course I partook. What do you think me, a fool? I'll take good free food anytime, local or not.

These people were yelling with signs out in the wind and cold things like "NO DEBOT, FREE LOCAL FOOD!" (Debot being the name of the cafeteria). And not surprisingly, the food was rather good, but then I'm a sucker for food cooked simply, especially potatoes.

Later I found out that the Debot director came out and told them that all their fruits and vegetables are already seasonally local. I don't know if I believe that, I've seen the french fries being taken out frozen from sysco food boxes.

If the food is local, they could at least learn to COOK it better. Nothings worse to eat than good ingredients prepared poorly. At least if you are eating crap ingredients you don't have it on your conscious that the food could be better.