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Galenahokie Galenahokie OP
Jan 23, 2025 at 09:08 AM ET
Any of you late '60's Lizards remember a dining hall horror call Plantation
Turkey? It was a cube of cornbread with chunks of reprocessed turkey imbedded in it and covered with a white gravy-substance with the look, consistency and taste of wall paper paste. Damn kids are spoiled these days.

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freemason
Squeeze Burgers
something like velveta cheese melted and injected into something that resembled a beef patty.
UEMcGill UEMcGill
From the early '80s, the veggie sticks were a personal favorite. All of the
weeks left over vegetables smashed into a stick about the size of your finger, breaded and deep fried. 🤮
Beerman Beerman
Lessons here: The good old days are not always...
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HokieNoVA
"Plantation Turkey" sounds like code for mystery meat
So that probably wasn't turkey.
ColoVT82 ColoVT82
Not clear. I DO remember turkey tetrazinni
Hokie Chris Hokie Chris
Turkey Tetrachloride is what we called it
Tafkam Hokie Tafkam Hokie
Turkey Pterodactyl was the term during my undergrad years.
Tafkam Hokie Tafkam Hokie
Along with it's cousin, Chicken Chernobyl
dolph dolph
Scrod. Eggrolls on Monday were Taquitos on Tuesday. Nothing went to waste
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Happy Dog
Wait, wait now.....it was "New England Style" scrod
Much fancier than you are giving credit for.
Vienna_Hokie Vienna_Hokie
Always reminded me of the big tilapia craze in the 90s
it became the best protein, sold everywhere, especially Costco. Then dirty jobs did a show about fish farms and you found out the reason it was so plentiful and cheap is that it was the fish they put in the last tank at the bottom of the hill below all the good fish in order to clean the water before it was discharged back into the river systems. And we all know what runs downhill. Wife began to refer to it as poo fish and it disappeared from our table pretty much overnight.
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Happy Dog
Coworker who lived in the Philippines and Hawaii calls tilapia "ditch fish"
Both places they were the bottom-of-the-barrel fish that were often found in ditches in both places
vthhhi vthhhi
Anybody remember chuckwagon steak? I was a breaded patty of ...
beef or pork or a combo--I actually thought it was ground horse meat. Sometimes the whole patty would be a breaded piece of gristle.
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Happy Dog
What about "steak" night before exams.....it was kangaroo steak
JoesterVT JoesterVT
In '90, Dietrick had awesome omelets...
The eggs weren't real eggs, and the cheese certainly wasn't cheese...but somehow, it work pretty well....
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Happy Dog
There was fat and butter involved, what's not to like?
Brown Water Brown Water
I remember the Roast Beef Au Geez. Had some green tint to it.
MrBayAreaHokie MrBayAreaHokie
what was that tint? i never understood that. was the meat made of oil?
AZHokie59 AZHokie59
in the late fifties too
scoop76cs scoop76cs
All the colors of the rainbow 🌈. Just like baboons at the circus.
MAHokie69 MAHokie69
Yep, like a metallic green
I also remember a guy from my floor getting broccoli with cheese sauce at Dietrich and finding a cockroach curled up in a floret of broccoli. That was probably 87 or 88
`lag `lag
I remember steak with big veins in it
`lag `lag
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** Edited by `lag at 1/23/2025, 11:08:42 AM
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EDGEMAN
That wasn't veins...
...it was marks from where the jockey was hitting it. - RD
`lag `lag
oh great, not even just horse meat, it was "the losing horse" meat.
** Edited by `lag at 1/23/2025, 4:04:00 PM
Tank Tank
I never had an issue with food in Shultz in the early 80s.
Stork Stork
Eventually morphed into ‘70’s Turkey tetrazzini?
Coach McGuirk Coach McGuirk
I used to shovel down that turkey tet. Mmmm, Mmm
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Va AandM
I thought it was turkey tetrachloride. That’s what ChemE majors told me
MAHokie69 MAHokie69
80's too
astrohokie astrohokie
@ VT it was all about just how many glasses of chocolate milk can you drink
`lag `lag
lol, I was in heaven, my parents would never buy stuff like that...
I think I learned pretty quickly though if you want to pack on pounds, that's the way to do it. Even to this day I think that's the point I crossed over from being a reedy thin kid to someone who needed to watch what he eats.
astrohokie astrohokie
Aww, it does a body good !
`lag `lag
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** Edited by `lag at 1/23/2025, 10:19:58 AM