That's what Saionji jokingly calls Utena's favorite breakfast.

From Duelists of the Rose:

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"Um... a sausage biscuit. And a couple of those English
muffin-Canadian bacon things, I forget what they're called. A ham
omelet. Hash browns. A large Coke."
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The name is first used in A Question of Faith.

Eric J. Heckathorn
ericjh@stargate.net

The original Mini-DAKA, in the Wedge, was actually a pretty decent little grill.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Of course it was. Plain economics.

Daka is a big ol' institutional food company. This means that it can run the gamut from feeding prisoners to running restaurants in ritzy hotels. They also own the Fuddrucker's chain of hamburger restaurants (not a fast food joint; you go there for really good hamburgers).

At WPI, freshmen are required to stay in dorms (unless they are in commuting range from home-home), and all dorm residents are required to be on the meal plan. As such, Daka had a captive audience.

When called upon to do something special, like at Homecoming, they could always be counted on to do so. Their skill was not lacking. However, for day in and day out food, it became clear to us that WPI paid for incarceration-grade food.

This is not just a standard college rant about the food. Worcester has ten different colleges. WPI was rated worst college food in Worcester. The quote from the magazine article was "If you like Froot Loops and peppercorns, this is the place." My father-in-law, a retired US naval officer, was disgusted with the food--sailors are fed better.

All this being said, if you actually had to pay for your food, they made it good--they had to compete with a half dozen pizza parlors, greek and mexican ethnic food, and our friend Buster Crab right down the hill. In my time at WPI (1989-93), the two paid Daka places were Mini-Daka (a hole-in-the-wall in the Wedge), and Gompei's Place (a pub and pizzaria).

BTW, Ben, does Gompei's place exist? Did they ever recover the Goat's Head? The head survived a hundred years, so it could well handle a fission bomb and an overloaded point defense shield.

--rR

I believe Azalynn covers this here:

     "There's a function room in the basement of Riley Hall, where
I live," Azalynn told them.  "It used to be a pub, back when the
Institute was a college.  Sometimes the Student Social Committee books
bands in there - you guys should come down and play a pub show
sometime."  She nudged Kaitlyn with an elbow.  "Kate's on the Student
Council.  She could get you in."

At least, my fading memory of WPIography indicated that Gompei's was in the basement of Riley....

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)

The pub room is still used for what it was used for back in the day; the little deli thing they built on behind it doesn't seem to be there in the UF version, or at least we haven't seen it if it is.

Sadly, the real Gompei's is gone. The opening of the Campus Center made it superfluous, just as it has destroyed Mini-DAKA and the Wedge (which, admittedly, were mockeries of their true selves by then anyway).

As for the goat head, I really don't know. It's an interesting question.

--G.
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