Today was Thanksgiving Feast day at my work's cafeteria. Being a sucker for all things seasonal, I was pretty excited about this. Being a vegetarian I should've realized my Thanksgiving Feast was not going to be worth the $7. It wasn't. While others in line filled their plates with turkey and all the fixin's, I stuck to pumpkin pie, a roll, and the slim vegetable options. Even so, I was really looking forward to sitting down at my desk and digging into my $7 modified Thanksgiving meal. Given my previous experiences with the lackluster (and often overpriced) food options at our cafeteria, I'm not sure why I thought this would actually be good - and worth $7.

It wasn't.

First, the only vegetables offered were mashed potatoes, candied carrots, and green bean casserole. I do love mashed potatoes (and they were the driving force behind the ill-conceived idea to visit the cafeteria), but why we insist upon ruining vegetables with sugar and cream of mushroom soup is completely beyond me. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of eating vegetables? Plus, I HATE candied vegetables. I don't want a sugar-coated carrot. It has unnecessary calories, tastes awful, and completely degrades the integrity of the carrot.

It's the bastardization of vegetables. That may not make sense, but it sounds brilliant, right?

Pumpkin pie, on the other hand, is delicious, whether pumpkins are vegetables or not (I have no idea).