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With their frustration at a peak, they scream, “Is this lasagna or a pork chop?” Ask the menu board. The Student Menu Board is a group of students who decide on the acceptability of menu additions and who relay complaints from board- plan members to the food services administrators. “Anything that I’m told by stu dents that makes sense, I write down and bring up at our meetings,” said David Taylor, a Sbisa menu board member. Texas A&M was the first univer sity to initiate the program in 1965. Assistant Director of Food Serv ices Lloyd Smith said, tastes change so quickly that understanding the tastes of today’s college student is very difficult. “By having a group of 16 to 18 people that are the current genera tion ... and are somewhat represen tative, we’re going to get some ideas,” Smith said. “They’re going to tell us what they like and what they don’t like. They’ll see some things I don’t see.” Each dining center has a board that meets once a month. All three menu boards also meet jointly with managers and supervisors from each of the dining centers, and several food services administrators the first Tuesday of the month. During the joint meetings, Taylor said the ooard members taste food items ranging from chopped steak patties to different brands of thou sand island salad dressing. They then vote on their acceptability. A simple majority rules. If the food is already on the menu, members sample several dif ferent brands. Those brands deemed acceptable are placed on the competitive bid list and considered for purchase. Smith said, the Department of Food Services will sometimes intro duce a new recipe or a new food item and have the boards taste it. If the food is voted acceptable, the board members must decide whether to add it to the menu. If the board adds an item to the menu, it must also take something off. “They have a right to put any thing or take anything off the me nu,” Smith said. Commons board member Marty Roos said, “They (the managers) tell us that we have to eat our mistakes.” The foods tasted at the meetings are chosen either as a result of a stu dent complaint, or sometimes through department initiative. The addition of lasagna and baked potatoes as entrees to the night menu is an example of the Taylor said board members choose food that most students enjoy, and not just ones that like. I think the strangest tastes ha come from salad dressings,” hesas' ft that we “We have had some stuff that we thought was bad. Like the soft cheese dressing that had the cons tency of sour cream.” The boards also pick the dates! all cheese and ice cream paid | while the Duncan Hall menu alone chooses the dates of t) Thanksgiving and Christmas di P° Sti Student menu boards are il| inted bv the executive branch tudent Government and appro«| by the Student Senate. 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