Some Cheese With that Whine?

Everyday this week, I've been or will be going to some kind of event. In addition to learning about interesting or at least useful information, a nice side benefit was getting free lunch. Although most of us were happy to be fed a variety of non-pizza lunches like wraps and empanadas, there are always the whiners. Very vocal ones.

Example 1
Girl: Did you hear that they're serving f*cking empanadas at the HPV panel? Why would they do that? I could understand serving empanadas if we were talking about...like Nicaragua, but just give us some pizza. [My friend just wanted to know when HPV became just a US issue or why you can only serve empanadas at events relating to South America.]

Example 2
Bunch of students complaining about the salad, fruit, and matza spread that my criminal law professor nicely arranged for student celebrating Passover. [Some girl turned around and politely noted that they should be fortunate that they're the only group of people that the cafeteria makes special accomodations for.]

You know, catered lunches aren't always the best but they're still a courtesy. Despite our high tuition, we did pay it as tuition, not a meal plan. The school doesn't really have an obligation to feed, let alone feed us exactly what we want. From my experience event planning, I say that the school does a pretty good job offering decent crowd-friendly food with some options and always a vegetarian option. They should satisfy the "reasonable" person.

Moreover, there's never a consensus on what people want. Get pizza, people complain that we always have pizza and that it's unhealthy. Serve really good empanadas, people want pizza. Order Thai food, smells too much. Put out a burrito bar, people say that the beans look funny. Offer subway sandwiches, people say that we have that too much too.

Don't like something? Don't eat it then. You want to guarantee that you get a lunch you want? Pack one or buy something from the cafeteria. But alas, people just complain. I don't know if people feel more entitled to gourmet meals because they pay a lot for law school (working fundraisers with rich people, I've noticed the more people have the more they complain), or if it's just inherent in the personality of law students.