Gnocchi with last week's sauce

Hi everyone! I am looking forward to an exciting weeks of essens, but sadly the week is beginning where it left off--on a not so strange sort of meal.

Squishy little larva-like gnocchi with a tomato and vegetable sauce that is suspiciously similar to Friday's essen. Let's keep our fingers crossed for better luck tomorrow!

Strangeness: 2/5
Deliciousness: 2/5

Pasta Milano

The week finishes up with a tasty, not strange meal. And I'm ok with that, but I do love days like yesterday :) I can always count on Essen 2 to be unpredictable.

Penne makes its second appearance this week, this time with a few vegetables (squash, cauliflower, peas) and tomato sauce.

Strangeness: 1/5
Deliciousness: 4/5

Mashed Potatoes and Hard Boiled Eggs

Everyday before lunch I check the menu by the door of the mensa. It's always in German, but I look for the V for vegetarian and any cognates or words I recognize. Today the first word was Zwei, so I knew I would be eating two of something. This is what I got:


Yep, those are hard boiled eggs on a bed of mashed potatoes, smothered in mustard flavored gravy.

My family can attest to the fact that mashed potatoes are one of my favorite foods in the whole world. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, I would eat extra helpings of potatoes instead of pumpkin pie. I can't really say the same for hard boiled eggs though. Eggs have a smell that I don't really like, and I eat them in moderation. Luckily, that smell was masked by mustardy gravy.

Strangeness: 5/5
Deliciousness: 2/5

Fried Patty and Pasta with Mushroom Sauce

It's Wednesday, so it's time to switch it up and get Essen 1. I forgot to look at the menu to find out what the name of this meal was, so I'll just describe it the best I can. The fried patty was an amalgamation of vegetables and corn meal and suspiciously rhombohedral. It was kind of tasty. The penne was soggy, cafeteria style pasta with a strange mushroom-based red sauce. As you've seen previously, I'm not a mushroom eater, so I sort of picked and poked this meal for a while. Dessert was chocolate pudding, which is always delicious!


Strangeness: 3/5
Deliciousness: 2/5

Kaiserschmarrn with Vanilla Sauce

Today's lunch roughly translates to Emperor's Mishmash, and it comes from Bavaria. It reminded me of French toast with a few golden raisins baked in, and was served with the increasingly ubiquitous vanilla sauce.

Strangeness: 4/5
Deliciousness: 3/5

Vegetable Soup with Pretzel Bread

On Monday, I had dejavu. There were different vegetables than in Friday's soup, but the taste was nearly the same. But pretzel bread is my favorite thing in the mensa, so this meal gets another deliciousness point.

Strangeness: 1/5
Deliciousness: 4/5

Vegetable Soup and a Roll

Friday's meal was plain and simple. Yummy soup with potatoes and carrots. Plus I got lots of important nutrients--like sodium. And chlorine.

Strangeness: 1/5
Deliciousness: 3/5