PEANUT BUTTER!

Oh yes, that delectable spread is highly important.

When we reminisced about a past Kitchen Comments entry that included someone’s passionate pursuit of peanut butter in Cate ala Cart, using capital letters with each refrence, we couldn’t help but smile.

Kitchen Comments, a newsletter produced by Dave Annis, Director of OU Housing and Food Services, is awesome. (See page 1 for details.)

In fact, Annis is awesome.

It’s too bad he was not elected to his position because Kitchen Comments is representative of how a democracy should work.

Annis could be a complete tyrant in his potition. He could allow burned toast, lumpy milk and salmonella-infested chicken and could laugh at students’ inability to do anything about it.

But he doesn’t.

He responds to his should-be constituents’ cares and needs with comforting words and promises that, yes, Johnny, there will be turducken on the menu tomorrow.

Annis doesn’t just throw out empty promises like politicians do.

When he says your service at Crossroads will be friendlier, he means it. When he hears that you waited too long at O’Henry’s, he sympathizes with you — and then goes right to the source of the problem and fixes it.

He’s like the perfect politician, who doesn’t exist. Or Santa Claus.

If George W. Bush were as attentive to his constituents as Annis is to his eaters, maybe we would be spending less money on a war and more money on education.

If Oklahoma lawmakers responded as quickly to problems as Annis does, we wouldn’t have bridges on the verge of collapsing or roads chock full of potholes.

Annis has helped make Housing and Food Services a laudably transparent department within the OU world.

Students respect the fact that even their smallest complaints are carefully considered.

The fact that Kitchen Comments is a humorous read is a bonus.

We hope other departments follow Annis’ and Housing and Food Services’ example, and we wish more politicians would be as willing to change for the betterment of society as Annis is.

Especially when that betterment involves what we stuff our faces with.

Students should continue to take advantage of Annis’ willingness to listen to them.

We know we will.

Just for the record, we would like to see crepes and Nutella added to the breakfast bar in Cate ala Cart.