About a week and a half ago, I decided it was time to really buckle down on school. Since I'm posting here, I obviously haven't done a great job of that, but one thing that stuck is that I haven't cooked anything in a while. Preparing edible food and cleaning up afterward requires at least an hour and a half, and once I start cooking something, I have no choice but to finish. If I get fast food or unfreeze something, I can eat and be done with it.
The problem with this has been that there aren't many convenient fast food places between my apartment and the Engineering Building. The best two are Subway and Woody's Oasis (a Lansing-area Mediterranean chain), and I've eaten enough of them to largely exhaust my taste. Yesterday night, after working on something at the EB until about 6:30 or so, I realized that I would need to grab something from the food court across the street. My options were Subway (overdone), Woody's (overdone), Villa Pizza (consistently awful), and Panda Express.
I hadn't eaten at Panda Express in a while. When I first started going to Michigan State, I didn't have much of a reference point on Chinese food. My parents usually ordered from one place that I never particularly liked, so during my first few years, Panda Express seemed like a convenient and acceptable option. After moving off-campus, though, I started going to better places that were outside walking distance (mostly Golden Wok). Lately, most of the Chinese food that I've have had has been stuff that I've attempted to cook at home. I don't think it's ever turned out particularly well, but it's been palatable at least, and it has the advantage of being cheap to make in quantities that would give me leftovers.
So, yesterday night, as I leaving the Engineering Building, I said to myself, "I'll have Panda Express. It can't be that bad."
Oh, yes, it can.
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