As the end of the semester approaches, many college students are strapped for cash (if they have not been for weeks already). If there is one thing people know about college students, it is that they are permanently hungry, and with the quality of dining hall food, who can blame them? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I asked my fellow college students some of the most pitiful things they have resorted to eating, and this is what they said.
1. Your standard ramen noodle and pop tart diet.
Stereotypical? Sure. But I bet you’ve never eaten your ramen from a plastic cup using an unfolded paperclip or pens for chopsticks. We love our carbs.
2. Ketchup and mustard sandwich.
Yep. Just like it sounds. Ketchup and mustard between two slices of bread.
3. Ketchup taco
Starting to see a theme? Condiments don’t go bad right?
4. Tubes of cookie dough
When you can’t bake your own cookies around the holidays, those rolls of premade dough start to look pretty appealing.
5. Hot Dog Straw
I knew someone who once cut out the core of a hot dog and used it as a straw to drink ginger ale.
6. Ice cream for breakfast
Melted vanilla ice cream makes a good substitute for milk with your fruit loops in a pinch.
7. Cheese from the beginning of the semester
American cheese isn't real anyway. So what if the edges are a little crusty?
8. Leftovers too old to remember
When was the last time I brought grilled chicken home from the dining hall? I just scratched my head for a minute and then shrugged. I ate it cold. I didn’t die.
8. Off brand ravioli and cranberry sauce from the can
How are you supposed to open cans anyway? I stabbed mine with a knife.
9. Peanut butter from the jar
What else do you do when you run out of bread?
10. Jelly on leftover rice
Again, if there was bread, there would have been a sandwich.
11. Six daily cups of coffee (sweet tea, energy drinks…)
No one is hungry when they are jittery beyond belief.
12. Candy
When a balanced meal can’t be had, a few handfuls of snack size chocolate bars or a pack of fruit mentos will do.
