Your Worst (and Best) Wesley Meal
Given the grim news of the previous post, some light relief (and relief from wall-to-wall rugby) seems a good idea. So what is your worst-ever W.T.C meal experience? (and so we don't upset the cooks, we should also ask for your all-time best meal).
Who remembers the weevils-in-the-porridge debacle in '86? Back then we used to go in to the dining room house by house. The last house in had just sat down with their porridge (with the first two houses already finished and the third house in - Simmonds - halfway through theirs) when someone noticed there was an unusual texture to the slop. Indeed, it was weevil-infested! My squad of eight pulled out over 200 of these little maggoty-things from our bowls. But those poor buggers from the first two houses, and the girls of course, had some extra protein to start the day.
The best meal I recall came a few months later when Denton Hall opened. The Governor General was in attendance and so no expense was spared on the celebratory feast. Obviously the school wanted the GG Sir Paul Reeves to think all those stories about boarding school meals were a crock and so out came the pies - an unlimited quantity of pies. I helped myself to eight meat ones and about as many custard pies, all washed down with cartons of Just Juice. And I was by no means the most gluttonous.
So what are your best and worst Wesley culinary experiences?
Who remembers the weevils-in-the-porridge debacle in '86? Back then we used to go in to the dining room house by house. The last house in had just sat down with their porridge (with the first two houses already finished and the third house in - Simmonds - halfway through theirs) when someone noticed there was an unusual texture to the slop. Indeed, it was weevil-infested! My squad of eight pulled out over 200 of these little maggoty-things from our bowls. But those poor buggers from the first two houses, and the girls of course, had some extra protein to start the day.
The best meal I recall came a few months later when Denton Hall opened. The Governor General was in attendance and so no expense was spared on the celebratory feast. Obviously the school wanted the GG Sir Paul Reeves to think all those stories about boarding school meals were a crock and so out came the pies - an unlimited quantity of pies. I helped myself to eight meat ones and about as many custard pies, all washed down with cartons of Just Juice. And I was by no means the most gluttonous.
So what are your best and worst Wesley culinary experiences?
posted by Commander at 11:33 am
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Once upon a time in '98 (no fairytale - this a true story) we used to have cold meant and salads on the very often occassion. One of the salads was this pasta shell salad for us to partake in. Partake I did and when I sliced through the pasta shell..low and behold what was lying in it...a disgusting...huge...black..thick...paua coloured... big-eyed...shiny...BLOWFLY. I have witnesses to this!
Needless to say I never had cold meat and salads again!
Wonder what would have happened if I didn't cut through the shell with my knife???
Any meal served by Hilda!!lol
Dear old Hilda... she would captain a team of all-time great Wesleyan cooks.
More than anyone else, she was responsible for the new OSH legislation on food safety. Anyone remember the grated cheese served up with her BARE HANDS!
Worst meal I recall would be something that Hilda called Macaroni cheese. Let's say ever since I left Wesley that is one meal I refuse to eat.
Best meal would be a massive feed that took up the whole serving area in Caughey Hall lounge around midnight courtesy of the kitchen that they didn't know about.
Worst person to do toast in the mornings,(no names aye Victor!!)lol
Do the juniors still do that?
Best.Crumbed schnitzel,roast spuds, beans.Apple crumble for pudding...always on Wednesdays.Worst.Bread roll,coldslaw,luncheon...weekdays(not all)lunch time horror.A La 70's.
who is hilda?
Yes,as a retired qualified cheff,"Hilda" gave me inspiration to make the world.A BETTER PLACE.Or at least find out how hard it was to make a decnt meal out of shoe string budget.Yes those were the days seeing Hilda dish up your meal with sores up her arms in the old dinning hall may i add.To this day i just cant stand maccaroni cheese.ummm bad memories
Finding bits of Hildas skin in the rice bubbles she served up one morning!
Fish n chip Friday was the best!! Only cause meals every other day was *%#@!! Hated waiting in line outside and parading as well. "To the left, left turn!!
Here's one to top them all, On toast duty first thing in the morning half a sleep the toaster jams and the beautiful HILDA in all her glory frees up a rather burnt but still alive rat and tells us no worries he didnt eat much carry on boy's.And we ate that shit.
1983, Dinner , Mid winter mince on toast,with the added value and sumptuous raisins.(or so we thought)mmmmm those were the day's
Best Meal's ever were the ones you helped yourself too.Raiding the kitchen and taking the spoils back to the flat.Bacon,eggs(real ones not that powdered shit)fresh bread the work's.Then you get the sproggs to clean it up. Those were the day's
As a prefect in No 2 flat, Upper Harding in the mid 80s, a junior was making toast for the prefects and it smell like BBQ. Apparently a mice was stuck inside the toaster and was giving the toast a different flavour. The junior was flying toward the door for his escape, violently chase by a toaster to connect with his head.
Best meals:
1. Raiding the kitchen as mention by others before. Its a shopping spree and eat all you can eat at the flats.
2. Wesley College Ball where most of the the girls school from Auck were invited. So the school do their best to impress the ladies. Bummer, most of the time we were braindead drunk down the trees at the front or taking the ladies on extended tours through the dorm.. watch out, Crackhead is heading your way!!!!
Equal place in the late 70's goes to finding bits of wire in the burger buns, desicated mice in the meat pies, but the worst and most common was the cigarette butts in the spaghetti at breakfast.
The best has to the litre of icecream I bought with about a month of eggs.
Are boiled eggs still the currency of choice in the dinning room?
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