Has hospital food gotten any better through the years? any bad or good hospital food experience stories?

Answer 1

Hospital mystery meat is the worst. During an extended hospitalization I avoided ordering meat for any of my meals....instead I ordered tortila shells and lettuce, cheese and tomatoes to make salad burritos. The cafeteria eventually assumed I was a vegetarian and sent me a veggie burger. I tried it.(stupid) It was disgusting.
The best hospital food I had was when I was in an epilepsy unit for a 72 hour video eeg. That's where they tape electrodes all over your head to monitor your brain waves. The wires are plugged into a box at your waist and that is plugged into a long black cord(long so you can move around the room) and plugged into the wall.
When the nurse came in to take my untouched tray...I told him he would be assimilated if I didn't get some real food (think Borg- from Star Trek) He was a major Trekkie himself it turned out and went to the staff cafeteria for me. Now THAT was some good hospital food!

Answer 2

I once worked in a hospital that was a major cardiology referral center... and it had a Burger King in the hospital cafeteria! The local alternative paper put it best, "after you visit Uncle Roger after he's had his bypass surgery, you can head down to the cafeteria and start working on yours!"

Answer 3

Uck, hospital food... I worked at the chidren's hospital and it was always so gross... some days the entire bottom floor smelt like hotdogs. Long term child pateients like to pass around the joke "Why is hospital food soft? So it doesn't hurt anyone when you throw it out the window..."

Answer 4

It's horrible. When I was pregnant with my last baby, I had pre-eclampsia, for which I was hospitalized at 30 weeks. At my Catholic hospital, they only served fish on Fridays. Because I was on a special diet due to the pre-eclampsia, I was served baked fish. Eating that baked fish will forever haunt me. I was praying to the porcelain throne all night and into the next day. It was absolutely horrible. I'll never be able to eat baked fish again!