California college professor walks out of class when students don't supply snacks.

George Parrot is a professor, and he has priorities. Teaching is his second priority. Snacktime is his first.

George is a psych professor at Cal State, Sacremento--the northern California doppelganger of Fitchburg State. As part of his requirements, students take turns supplying snacks to the entire lecture hall. No snacks = no George. He walks out and refuses to teach--which is what he did to a class recently when no snacks were supplied.

Not just any snacks, too. George wants fruit and veggie platters or homemade baked goods. Nabisco products and pre-packaged products might warrant him leaving class, according to his syllabus.

On the plus side, George says he does this because...
1.) It creates team building. (Meaning everyone hates the kid who brought the baby carrot snack platter.)
2.) It stops students from being sleepy in class. (Sugar rush!!!! Wooooo!!!!)
3.) He doesn't require a $200 textbook.

No $200 textbook sounds appealing...until you spend $300 on a veggie plate from Whole Foods. I bet you need hummus or some french onion dip, too. Maybe a nice cheese spread. Probably some drinks, napkins, plates, too.

Sounds like George has Harvard tastes on a Cal Sate budget.