Talk:Student food

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[edit] Only Snacks?

Does the term "student food" only refer to snacks? I have often found it to simply refer to cheap or inexpensive food that requires little to no preparation: ramen noodles, easy mac, frozen burritos, tacquitos, hot pockets, eggos, and so forth. Kail Ceannai 03:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

While yes, these are foods a student would typically eat, I think the term refers more to the fact that the snack that its sort of a "power" food that is good to keep you going while studying.
In my experience (Australia, Tasmania) the term 'student food' has absolutely no suggestion of any kind of nutritional or brain powering value. Instead it refers to cheap fare that a student first living away from home will (barely) subsist on in order to save time and money for other activities; most notably not studying. The term doesn't refer to fast food or junk food, it has to be something you prepare yourself, even if 'prepration' merely involves 2 minutes in the microwave. Having recently graducated from Uni, I still occasionally eat 'student food', usually rice and sausages prepared in a rice cooker and Foreman grill with a minimum of supervision and time.

This could use a link to "Gorp" and "Scroggin" Jbhood 15:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree with the person above. I am from the UK and 'student food' does not mean what this article suggests at all. I am presuming it is written from a US point of view. Cls14 12:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
The article was apparently origninally translated from German ("Studentenfutter"). In the States we would most likely call it gorp or trail mix. Jbhood 19:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I've managed to buy nut-raisin mixes that were offered as "student food" both in the US and in England, so this (originally German) term is no longer entirely unknown in the English-speaking world. Here is an example of an online ad of a US-based supplier that uses the term (though their particular mix is not quite the traditional one with lots of walnuts). Markus Kuhn 12:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
With the differences between the original intent of the article studetenfutter/trailmix and the actuality of "student food" (in both the UK and the US), should this article even exist? Kail Ceannai 19:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Nope, it should be deleted. Jbhood 22:00, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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