I've spent the last two days sitting with a friend in the hospital. It didn't take more than my first trip to their cafe to find out that hospital food still isn't good.It was about 11:00 am when my stomach informed me that it needed to be fed. I was the second to make the voyage to the basement where the cafe was located. I refer to it as cafe because that's what they called it at the hospital. I would have thought at 11:00, there would have been a good selection of food available. After all, I had just looked at a card that told that they had opened at 8 am.
I was wrong. The only thing available were cold sandwiches and cups of fruit. I should have chosen the fruit, but picked up a cold ham and cheese on wheat instead. It had no taste. I also got a cup of coffee, which was terrible, too.
The next day, I waited until lunch time and found three choices of food: pizza, chicken or fish, and hot sandwiches. Guess which line was the longest? Yep, the pizza line. I was in a hurry and decided to get a white meat chicken patty. Well, what I thought was chicken turned out to be fish and what I thought was fish was chicken. The chicken was tender enough, but had no flavor what so ever. With the chicken, I had new potatoes and corn, both of which were good. Before taking my lunch back to the room to eat with my friend, I looked for some salt. LOL, yeah right. There was no salt anywhere to be found.
After my visits to the hospital, I have decided that eating healthy my be good for you, but the flavor has much to be desired.
Carol
4 comments:
They don't want you to enjoy your stay too much. heh! You know, for a couple of bucks, you can get a tray in your friend's room. If, that is, this Nameless Hospital you're talking about is HCH. Pretty good, sometimes, too.
Marian Allen
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Actually, her lunch was a steakburger and fries and looked pretty good. But, they wouldn't give her salt for her fries. No, it wasn't HCH.
Sometimes I miss Indiana when I hear about the fun writing things you do there but I have to say hospital food is amazing in Washington. My son actually asks to go to the hospital for lunch. They have great dishes that have lots of flavor - like pesto chicken.
A couple years ago when I was actually in the hospital, a different hospital than the one I wrote about, the food was fantastic. Too bad my friend wasn't in that hospital.
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