Is there some sort of International Convention that says hospital food must be awful, for patients and staff?
I know it’s hard to cater for all different tastes and dietary requirements, and cooking on a massive scale is rarely elegant, but is this the best they can do?
Actually, this vegetarian dish looks bad, but was in fact one of the more tasty meals I’ve had out of our hospital staff cafeteria. That was a few weeks ago.
This evening when I got there at 5:30, there were two dishes left: some sort of pasta, and some sort of rice dish. I asked the server “what’s this dish?” And she said “pasta” “yes, but what’s in the pasta?” she looked at me like I was a fool “pasta”. Ah, OK I thought. “And I suppose the rice dish contains rice?” Her blank look showed me plainly what she thought of my irony. In the end I went for mystery pasta, which turned out to contain chorizo and shrimps, unfortunately not as tasty as it sounds but rather gluggy and tasteless. The boiled to transparency vegetable accompaniment was no better.
The junior doctors I work with get their meals for free, but I had to pay $9.50 for mine, to add insult to injury.
I may turn to Uber eats in desperation.