Cafeteria Meals

9-25-13

Remember those college dorm days when the hot topic was how terrible the meals are?

Well, you might want to sample the cafeteria food here at Cuttington University.

For breakfast, you get a biscuit or slice of bread, sans spread.

For lunch/dinner, the main meal, you always get rice sometimes with a side bowl of what is called pepper soup, or you get what seems to be pepper soup you put on rice without the bowl. In the pepper "soup" you get beans, or fish, or, chicken bits, or a combination of two or three, or a meatless hot dog solitary or in combination with any of the other items is a hot pepper sauce over rice. Never meat or veggies.

For the late evening meal, served from 7-8 pm, you may get a bowl of oatmeal, or roll, or bread. For special meals, you get oatmeal and a roll.

Water is the only thing to drink.

I spoke with the manager of the cafeteria who happens to know a lot about cooking and is from Sierra Leone which he claims has a wide and varied diet. Our conversation did nothing to quell the hot sauce biting my lips.

Below you might enjoy savoring the flavor of Liberian university food and be thankful for the dorm food you once maligned. 

Really hot sauce with chicken bits over rice

 Rice with finely chopped potato tops next to pepper soup with piece of fish and noodles.

Same pepper soup over rice

My home-cooked meal of beans over rice with potato greens on the side.