I promised that I would tell you why the Tahoma Bakery should bring back the homemade sandwiches...an explanation I now feel is over due. The first semester at PLU I ate there almost every day for lunch. I would get the same thing - ham, turkey, and provolone on organic cracked wheat bread with lettuce, tomato, and pesto - the perfect sandwich. I never tired of it. Soup, chips, soft-serve ice cream, Naked, or one of the many fresh baked treats would add the variety I wanted for the meal. As it got colder I started to turn to the Panini sandwiches. They were so good. My favorite was the chicken panini. Provolone, chicken, and stun dried tomatoes was amazingly hot and filling.
This story was actually sparked because I just ate at the bakery for dinner. I love that you can eat dinner at the bakery for free if you haven't used your dinner swipe at the UC! Excited, I grabbed an order slip and filled it out...exactly like had two years beforehand, the perfect sandwich. I was surprised at the addition of more options, pleasantly of course. I mean, heated sandwiches with bacon?!? I plan on making a BLT with ranch one day, also a double order of bacon and lettuce!!! It also looks like they separated sauces from the veggies too. Before I had to get pesto as one of my three topping choices. It looks like I can now add cucumbers! They did stop offering the sun dried tomatos though. The sandwich was just as I remembered - fresh and delicious. I was also sad to discover that they had go rid of the panini sandwiches. The ones they offered at the bakery were always better than the ones at Old Main Market...by a long shot. My ex-roommate use to get them all the time...he also developed an obsession for collecting Lipton tea in the glass bottles and piling them on his desk...
For my two sides I choose chips and a cookie. The cookie was nice - but cold. I love the Hawaiian chips, but I had to settle for the BBQ instead of the sweet maui onion, which I have a slight obsession with. I was disappointed because they had removed soup from the options. Soup and sandwiches are sooo good together! My first year you could get a half sandwich and soup for the same price of a whole sandwich.
I did notice that the side options aren't really fairly offered either. You can get one half pint of milk, valued at 50 cents, or a pop valued at $1.50. Does that make sense? I mean, way to make health options readily available dining services. You should at least be able to get two things of milk The only healthy thing besides the milk was the whole fruit option...I guess offering veggies for the sandwich automatically equals a balanced meal.
As for if I dashed or dined...I wasn't really running from something so I would say I dined...of sorts.
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