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The claim is that people will be too lazy to make multiple trips for food, thus saving on "food waste"; this actually saves the university money on the food the
by yborg 4y ago
The claim is that people will be too lazy to make multiple trips for food, thus saving on "food waste"; this actually saves the university money on the food the students have already paid for with their meal plan. In reality, college students are hungry and will just make the necessary number of additional trips to get the food they want, while thinking (correctly) that the university administration are a bunch of tools.
The study that "proved" the savings thesis was at one university in the US for one week in 2009 sampling 30 diners per meal per day and found an average "savings" of 35 grams. An apple weighs around 100g; so eliminating trays saves a third of an apple per diner per meal according to this study. This seems like thin soup to base a policy on that inconveniences tens of thousands of students every day.
- vageli 4y ago> An apple weighs around 100g; so eliminating trays saves a third of an apple per diner per meal according to this study "An apple a day saves us a tray."
- mrguyorama 4y agoI went to a college with a well stocked "Many choices" model of dining hall, and it didn't use trays. It was not an issue. You just got up and went to get more food if you were still hungry, in the same manner as you would go refill your glass if you were still thirsty. Getting up and walking fifty feet to go get food is not some herculean task.
- robonerd 4y agoIncidentally, the customary way of eating an apple wastes about a third of the apple. Instead of eating it from the side and throwing away the core, try plucking out the stem then eating the apple from the top. There's no perceptible core if you eat an apple from the top, just a few seeds.
- drewzero1 4y agoI like to eat it from the bottom and use the stem as a handle. Depending on the variety of apple the tough stuff around the seeds may be more or less palatable, but there is certainly flesh between the seeds that often gets wasted.
- smegsicle 4y ago> the customary way of eating an apple wastes about a third of the apple not to mention the immune-system boost of whatever grime is stuck around the stem
- vorpalhex 4y agoApple seeds in sufficient quantities will induce vomiting.
- saagarjha 4y agoThat quantity is definitely lower than what you’d be able to eat in apples.
- robonerd 4y agoMaybe that's why we don't see bags of apple seeds being sold next to sunflower seeds in grocery stores, but there's no way you'd be able to eat enough whole apples to poison yourself with those seeds. The supposed toxicity of apple seeds is greatly exaggerated. Yes, they contain a compound that is metabolized into cyanide. But so do many seeds and nuts, and our bodies are evolved to deal with it. The half-life of cyanide in your body is about an hour, it gets metabolized and doesn't accumulate in you. You'll never feel the effects of the cyanide even if you eat several apples a day.