Cafeteria Food

As I ate today's dinner, I began to wonder...Who comes up with these meal ideas? Today we had the option of either some strange (and apparently pickled) vegetables, or some delicious looking turkey-goo with broccoli in it.  The goo tasted much too strongly of bird meat, I'm guessing that was turkey, like the sign said, but I'm not sure I believe it.  And there was some dry rice to go along with it. Not that I am complaining about the food, because I have had some delicious meals there. I especially love anything with black beans in it. But the meal tonight made me wonder.  It made me think about the recipes Laura Shapiro describes in her book.  Things that you would never normally think to put together somehow get all mashed together, and while the result is edible, it is not always particularly tasty. I really do wonder who thinks up the meals for the cafeteria and I also wonder if some of them have been pulled from the Can Opener Cookbook.