Here is part 2 (part 1) of my 1983 West Point cafeteria story, It part of our back to school series. If you recall I said the food in the cafeteria was horrid. However I checked with a cadet at the time to see what he thought, perhaps my experience had been an exception to the rule and or outliers meal. So I asked West Point alum (1985) Rob Hoynes about his experience. He said, “the food was actually very good. In fact most of us gained weight our freshmen year because it was so good; all you could eat. And it included desserts like Boston cream pie.” He added, “Thursday was steak night and that was really good . . . . They also had an informal pizza night too.” When fall ball started we ate together as a team “the same food as other cadets just more of it.”
