17d • General discussion
Why did Brown University ban serving baked potatoes in the cafeteria?
I was telling a friend whom I went to high school with, Jerry, about our images of chaotic food fights. We laughed about some shared memories of our own food fights. Then he told me a story about Brown U. where he went to college.
For some reason (he didn't explain) the school cafeteria was separated into two sections with an 8' portable barrier between. One day at dinner the one side was served baked potatoes and someone got the bright idea of chucking them over the barrier into the other side. It was such a chaotic success that it became a regular practice whenever they were served baked potatoes. SO much so that the school banned serving baked potatoes. Then dinner rolls became the bombs of choice. Finally the school reinstated the baked potato and did what they should have done in the first place - punish the perpetrators with a fine and cafeteria duty (washing dishes).
Bombing baked potatoes and dinner rolls quickly went out of fashion.
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Why did Brown University ban serving baked potatoes in the cafeteria?
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