Hi cutie
My friend who goes to Mc Gill was telling me about The People’s Potato, a student-run free vegan food type place.
If McGill is giving out free food and U of T isn’t, I’m switching schools. I’m too poor even for ramen today.
Is there anyone on/near campus dishing it out for no cost? Tell me there is.
ooh, hello there. you’re not so bad yourself, hunky askareader. well, i’ll take what i can get anyways.
the people’s potato is an awesome awesome service, unfortunately, you have to live in montreal to eat like a queen, or should i say, reine? basically hungry hungry students are served delicious vegan meals every day by a staff of volunteers and they pay by “donation”. ha!, donations. more like a piece of linty pocket gum in exchange for delicious grub.
at our fine downtown campus however, there’s really no comparisons. the helena gardiner playhouse does free tea and cookies every day from 1:30 to 3pm, so there’s a chance you might be able to score some free arrowroots or peak freams. and radical roots does a nice vegan lunch/dinner, for prices so good they might as well be free – too bad they aren’t. the JCR also does a free pancake breakfast sometimes, but you pretty much have to be lucky to obtain it.
so here’s aska’s tips for scoring free food: be diligent. look for signs, befriend people in student unions, read the newspaper for events, lectures and openings. even if it’s boring, you still might be able to eat dinner!
cheers, askastudent
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Adam Kerr
If you study late, go to the Reznikoffe Cafe before they close.
Starting 2007 they began taking hot trays from the Howard Ferguson Cafeteria (Fung) and serving what Fung couldn’t sell
Normally, Fung employees decide how much is considered one serving. The Reznikoffe guys do the same, but around closing time 10:30ish pm, they need to get rid of whatever they can, so grab as much as you can and they’ll only count it as one serving. (Even if it’s six, or in my case the entire tray of rice)
The catch? The pricing was pretty high to begin with so now it’s like buying the said food product from a grocery store but having it cooked and possibly garnished for free. (not too bad of a deal)
Plus, now you have food for that all-niter you were gonna pull anyway.