Deputy Price Comparison Correspondent Anish Bramhandkar found this note on Ferris Booth’s comments board:
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Deputy Price Comparison Correspondent Anish Bramhandkar found this note on Ferris Booth’s comments board:
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@ur not ur fave band/food the burrito station is disgusting because it’s full of gross crunchy rice, they take 4 hours to assemble. the burger i got was run through the (incredibly slow) conveyor pizza oven so it was not even *warm* just underneath the outermost layer. it’s disgusting and the prices are horrible. chipotle is great, the best mission style burrito you can get around here. As for the bullshit argument of ‘real mexican’ vs. ‘tex-mex’ or ‘southwestern’ or whatever. Fuck authentic, if it’s good it’s good.
@Riven Little Italy does not really make pizza like it is done in italy. There are better places in the city for that
@kfc/subway/McDonalds basically my meal plan, probably going to die 10 years before all of you.
@Just make sure you have Chipotlaway http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/251865/
It was only a matter of time.
@Sure Taqueria has gigantic burritos for a pretty reasonable price, but it’s totally different from Chipotle. I don’t quite know how to describe a Taqueria burrito, but Chipotle burritos are modeled after Mission burritos in San Francisco – albeit, a sterilized assembly-line version of a Mission burrito with all the soul squeezed out of it, but a Mission burrito nonetheless. And if I have a hankering for a taste of home, I’m not going to go to Taqueria when the closest thing to an El Farolito burrito is over at Chipotle.
And arguing which burrito place is more authentically Mexican is sort of like arguing which instant ramen company is more authentically Chinese.
@... “Thx!”
“we’re screwing you over! kthxbai!”
@... you know you could all just buy a few groceries and cook or prep your own food once in awhile…dun dun dun
@pizza man I hope you are a freshman if you think that John’s is the best NYC pizza has to offer. Please do yourself a favor and do some research.
@speak! tell us pizza man!
Do not lord it over the rest of us! Where is the best pizza “NYC has to offer”? Where? Why must we toil to achieve the knowledge only you possess?
@my 2 cents all nyc pizza sucks, end of story.
make it yourself.
@wow YOU’RE cool
@ha! And how often do you actually leave campus to have made that assumption?
Koronets =/= NYC pizza. Go to Brooklyn, or Little Italy, or the Bronx.
@but but but but but... I don’t go to brooklyn or wash heights to get mexican food when I go to FBC for the same reason I don’t go to John’s Pizzeria when I get pizza from Koronet’s or Stroko’s. Sure, they have better food but that’s not the point. Ferris burritos are good for what they compete with in my “I have 30 minutes to eat lunch and nothing in my fridge” criteria.
@you guys clearly have never tasted real mexican food if you like the taqueria and your ignorance saddens me.
The taqueria sucks…Their burritos fall apart the cheese globs together
It sucks your argument for the taqueria “varun” is wrong please give it a rest
@Anonymous As a real mexican living here in the states, I can say that I truly appreciate the fact that taqueria uses queso oaxaca in their food. That’s why it seems to “clump.”
Don’t know what queso oaxaca is, #20? Go back to your suburbs.
Burritos aren’t really mexican to begin with, so why freak out? Oh, and tortillas aren’t supposed to be that big to begin with. Don’t use that “real mexican food” argument. It’s bullshit.
@Anonymous Yummmm, Taqueria….
@It's the unions.
@columbia has unions??? That explains everything. no wonder having any service performed here is like the auto industry and the UAW
@no, seriously columbia dining operates at a loss – the exorbitant prices are an effort to (even slightly) recoup that loss
why does columbia operate its dining hall at a loss when the average meal comes out to be ~$13? bet your ass it’s the unions.
@alumnus Here is the ultimate conundrum for whiny college students.
Do we pay our staff a “living wage” or do we want to have “affordable food”
It’s funny – for all the bitching about Saigon Grill’s business practices last year, nobody complained about the costs…
@saigon is actually pretty pricey.
so your argument doesn’t hold.
@Can you please graduate?
While it is reassuring to know that the quarter million dollar education got you far enough to identify the color allowing you to post on bwog, and even though it is oh so fun to constantly reassert your superiority over undergrads now that you get no respect in the real world, could you please- for the sake of Frank the scared little freshman making his first bwog post- lay off the endless stream of “real world wisdom” for us whiny college students.
Grow up. Stop reading Bwog. Graduate.
@Yet... …you still read Bwog?
I’m sorry, but for $50,000 a year, I should not have to pay that much for a salad. Stop pretending that you’re one of us whiny college students and go off and live in the real world, please.
@umm YUM YUM FOR THE PASTA!!!
@-#7 hey…fuck you.
@but but but... The burrito station is pretty awesome. 8 bucks for an enormous burrito, chips, and a drink! Not quite Chipotle tasty (which in turn isn’t quite “real burrito” tasty), but it’s pretty reasonable. Dear Dining Services, this may be why the line at the burrito is always longer (read: there is a line).
@but but but... Taqueria is way better than both, and for 8 bucks the burrito is the size of your head, and they have all those tasty salsas. If you eat at Chipotle, there is something wrong with you and you are getting ripped off.
@yeah for Taqueria,now thats a good deal in the neighborhood. Chipotle is just a rip off.
The Pasta at Ferris is nice, but too many other things are simply overpriced.
@Don't make recommendations you can’t uphold – Taqueria is closed for renovation.
@but but but but If you take your ass to Brooklyn or even Washington Heights, you’ll swear off Taqueria and all other “Mexican” food in Morningside forever.
@that's probably true, but i don’t have the money to pay 4.50 to ride the subway there every time i want some mexican, besides the real problem here is that FB thinks they are on par with the area, which they are not
@clg “reasonable” my ass. pretty much every place in the neighborhood sells what FBC sells for less. AND it’s better quality. lol at dining services’ utter cluelessness. they could use a good restructuring.
@Charlotte but the food at Ferris really is better than other places…
@that is simply false.
the one reason why i almost never ate on campus after freshmen year was the cost.
@Hmm, I can also buy a rather smallish muffin from 212 for $1.99 or get somewhat 50% more muffin for $1.33 from Westside.
Columbia Dining options are mostly really overpriced. It should be cheaper to eat on campus than off campus, but the current pricing scheme is pushing students to other locations to get food.
@I don't understand why people are complaining. As long as you ration your dining dollars to buy one granola bar and a slice of pizza for every two days, you should be able to afford a meal from Ferris Booth by the end of the month. And maybe even a cup of yogurt.
@compared to your mom