On May 28, students gathered at the Green during lunch for The End of the Year Food Fair. The event featured 20 diverse food items, ranging from Filipino Banana Sundaes to Rose Tteobokki, and three drinks, and all the CLOGs sold out.
CLOG Food Sale is a melting pot of different cultures, junior Audrey Pham said. She isn’t usually exposed to that in her Vietnamese family, she added.
Junior Audrey Pham said she likes homemade items, but the sale didn’t have as many as she hoped. She noticed many packaged items, such as donuts and Buldak (a Korean barbecue chicken dish) , she added.
“I would want to see more clubs sign up and more homemade dishes. More affordability!” Pham said.
Junior Sophia Nguyen said she visited the sale since her friends were already going. She didn’t have any specific expectations, Nguyen added.
“I want the VSA food; it’s a Vietnamese drink,” Nguyen said. “It’s mad overpriced.”
The CLOG food sales during the first semester was exclusively led by the two CLOG commissioners, seniors Owen Song and Mary Kanoon, Owen said.For this semester’s food sale, however, second period leadership was more involved, he added.
“They do a lot of the publicity,” Song said. “They create the menu, and they actually do the banners and choose speakers themselves. But even in the second semester, we still deal with a lot of the CLOG sign ups. We pick the dates as well, and we also give the general event proposal.”
For this CLOG food sale, there were significantly more CLOGs than usual participating, and accommodating them after AP exam season was challenging, Song said. This has been an ongoing issue, as many CLOGS often do things at the last minute, such as getting advisor signatures and approvals, he added.
“One solution we have is we just have to make our dates sooner,” Song said. “Even though we do have CLOGS that, in the end, are still going to do things last minute.”
Mary and Owen also have to be cautious with the nutritional guidelines, Kanoon said.
“We make sure that there is a variety of different types of foods, so that people with dietary restrictions can go to a different CLOG,” Kanoon said. “So we try to have as much variety as we can, but that’s not always the case.”
Junior Amuktha Perugupalli, a member of (Students Against Period Poverty) SAPP, said they chose to sell pizza at the sale because everyone loves it. It was still challenging to organize, she added.
“The logistics were complicated, like picking up the pizza, getting in your own time, like the setup and everything,” Perugupalli said.
In general, people like to go to places for their food, Song said. So, in a literal sense, it brings people towards a certain area and where they intermingle and talk to each other, Song added.
“In a way, CLOG food sale is a reason to actually participate in the campus,” Song said. “Because, for one, they’re able to sell their own food on campus, because Ms. Q had a new policy in which CLOGS can only sell during school time, during these CLOG food sales. And so CLOGs try to use as much of this time we offer as possible to actually be on campus and show themselves to the student body.”
Senior Minhthi Bui is part of (California Scholarship Federation) CSF and sold ice cream sandwiches, which they chose because they’ve sold out before, she said. The club plans to buy more Neapolitan ice cream next time, she added.
“I think it (CLOG food sale) brings us closer together,” Bui said. “And it just makes everything more chaotic and fun.”