Offical Team Food?

[Mike Heinowski]

I dont think that most teams have an offical food (besides pizza) but we do. Its a fruit, the Kumquat, its a small orange like fruit that is extremely sour and good. If any other teams have a strange "offical" thing, it doesn't have to be a food, I want to hear about it.

[Koko Ed]

Since we X-Cats are such an internationaly diverse group I'd have to say our trademark food would be potluck(we have one every year).

[mtaman02]

Well Us 522 members past and present have grown a custom to having Albanian pizza which tastes awesom A&S Pizzeria just a 5 minute walk from the school. You can imagine what build seasons like. Only 1 person leaves the building to bring back food and drinks while everyone else works there tale feathers off.

[The Lucas]

I am going to have to say doughnuts with green icing. We ate them at competitions last year. We used to give away MOEmints (chocolate mints), but those didnt hold up well in the Florida heat.

[Mike Heinowski]

Originally Posted by Mike522

Well Us 522 members past and present have grown a custom to having Albanian pizza which tastes awesom A&S Pizzeria just a 5 minute walk from the school. You can imagine what build seasons like. Only 1 person leaves the building to bring back food and drinks while everyone else works there tale feathers off.

We have one "Mothers Pizza" that is about a two minute walk from where we biuld the robot and if you want a large in there you cant say that, (there not on the menu) you would say I want a "big Mother."

[Melissa Nute]

chicken wings
Its that one food that makes us all happy...well most of us anyway

[Jeff Waegelin]

Wendy's... there's a Wendy's across the street from our school, and we practically live off it during the last few days of build season.

We also have one team member who makes really good chocolate chip cookies... those are sorta an official food, too.

[KenWittlief]

Hey Ed, what about the bagels in the morning on saturdays? I always looked forward to that + the fact that the XCATS have their own soda fountain at their site

the florida team - Can you get chicken wings in florida? I thought chickens only grew wings in buffalo NY?

for our team, one engineer use to bring in a box of Twizzlers every day - and we had a raw carrot thing going on for a while

but now we mostly hit the vending machines

PS - only two saturdays down so far and I've already developed an adversion to pizza!

[Aaron Lussier]

Old Pizza with Ranch Dressing was pretty standard last year for us. Also there was a time toward the end of the build season two years ago, where in the cabinet and the fridge we had:

-Taco Shells
-Sugar cubes
-Peanut Butter
-Jelly

Yea... so we put the PB&J in the taco shell and covered it with sugar... Not to good, but it was food.

-Aaron

[Jon K.]

Yeah RAGE is pretty much addicted to Dew. We cleaned out the Fiesta super market(of two liters cause they were on sale cheap) next to our hotel last year in Houston.

[Mike Heinowski]

Originally Posted by Aaron Lussier

Old Pizza with Ranch Dressing was pretty standard last year for us. Also there was a time toward the end of the build season two years ago, where in the cabinet and the fridge we had:

-Taco Shells
-Sugar cubes
-Peanut Butter
-Jelly

Yea... so we put the PB&J in the taco shell and covered it with sugar... Not to good, but it was food.

-Aaron

Last year, during build, we opend a drawer in visteon and its contents amazed us. It had ketchup musterd and relish packets from 1987. The only ones that still retained its original color was the ketchup. (however it was three shades darker)

[Yan Wang]

Our team eats DP Dough - calzones, but better. There's a store downtown and we usually get it every night... As a team, we probably spend (lemme do some estimates)... around $1800 during the season on that... Hence why we want their sponsorships. There's quite a few DP Dough stores. Google them to see if they have one near you.

One of our team member's mother is the desert chef at the biggest vegetarian restaurant here, Moosewood. So she brings us lots of goodies frequently

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

Hey Ed, what about the bagels in the morning on saturdays? I always looked forward to that + the fact that the XCATS have their own soda fountain at their site

the florida team - Can you get chicken wings in florida? I thought chickens only grew wings in buffalo NY?

for our team, one engineer use to bring in a box of Twizzlers every day - and we had a raw carrot thing going on for a while

but now we mostly hit the vending machines

PS - only two saturdays down so far and I've already developed an adversion to pizza!

Now that Gene has retired it's now my job to get the bagels every Saturday.
Fun!Fun!Fun!

[Jay H 237]

Our team really doesn't have an official food. We have a calander made up for the six weeks and people volunteer for the different nights and it depends on what they want to cook. We've had chicken, pizza, turkey, tacos, soups, ziti, cold cuts, well, you get the idea. We even wrote letters to local supermarkets and resteraunts and they have donated food for some nights(what also helps is the fact that our team is a 501-c3 nonprofit organization so what ever they donate they can use as a write off).

Just remember, a FED team is a HAPPY team!

[Pierson]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Just remember, a FED team is a HAPPY team!

How True that Is: An Army Travels on its Stomach and a Team Builds on its Stomach.