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Mystery Meat

John Darmstadt, a University of Virginia food service official, was so upset over a campus newspaper review of the food served in his facility that he hid 4,000 of the 6,000 copies of the paper that were printed. “This culinary comedy of errors will serve as the butt of many jokes between you and your cohorts for years to come,” the review said, under the headline “Beware of Inedible Horrors Lurking in University’s Dining Halls”. Darmstadt, who insists his food is “very, very good,” apologized and returned the papers. (AP) ...Of course he did. He was caught.


Publication Date: 10 September 1995

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