Anna N

You are absolutely correct. It is an indication to me that I am in the wrong hospital! I need a hospital that serves Hellmann’s. I wonder how you find one. Do you type into Google “hospitals serving Hellman’s”? Hmmmmm.

😀 I actually checked myself (AMA) out of the emergency room here at one time. I told them I was cold, hungry and tired and home was a better place for me. In retrospect it was an unwise move on my part. This time in emergency something must’ve clicked with them because I was given three heated blankets. Heaven! My room temperature and humidity are constantly monitored so I can tell you right now we are at 22.5°C and 41% relative humidity. I do find it cold if I’m not moving at all but otherwise it’s quite comfortable.

No one can find the Special Visitor Menu which suggests that perhaps it’s not very popular item. But here you go on the room service one. Now how exciting is that? What I get for no cost I can have delivered within 45 minutes if I pay for the phone call to get it. Apart from the very few items which I have never seen on my tray, it is pretty much just duplication. But I have been largely untethered now. They think I’m safe to release into the general population so tomorrow @Kerry Beal and I are planning an expedition to the food court.

Looks as though Tuesday is red letter day for breakfast at least. Still looking fairly promising. Cold toast is perhaps a bit of a turn off but one I can handle. Let’s just dress up the omelette with a little sriracha and one slice of toast with a little ketchup and see where we go from there. (Bear in mind that my daughter is almost on her way to bring me a sausage and egg McMuffin.) So we take a bite of the omelette. It does not taste horrible. In fact it has no flavour whatsoever. But with the hot sauce I could choke it down if I didn’t know there was something better coming. Or could I? Scratch that idea. I think it’s alien. We are not eating eggs from the planet Vulcan. I prefer the ones that come out of the backend of a chicken. Toast with ketchup is one of my weird ideas dating back to my days in the R.C.A.F. Toast with Robertson’s thick cut marmalade was a very good idea. So I ate the toast and then had to miss out on my sausage and egg McMuffin so as not to be too full for a procedure that I was about to go through. Damn. Damn. Damn. At least I was able to cancel it in time. So there you go. There is toast in Oakville and apparently there are eggs on Vulcan.

A few blips in the system. Hang Tight. There is exciting news in your future. Eggs and toast have been discovered in Oakville!

And that’s exactly where it should have stayed!

Here. I am learning more and more about the hospital I am in as I try to answer your questions. As I surfed to try and discover where the food comes from, I found this. I suspect it is not up-to-date. Click And ironically this! No evidence that it actually came to pass if we are importing even our water from another province. I think this answers the question about kitchen facilities sounds more like assembly lines: Here

I do not believe there is anything more than minimal kitchen facilities but I don’t know that for sure. I think everything comes in and is simply assembled. These carrots were remarkable in that they did not have that same texture that most frozen carrots do which is why I said I could eat them.

And I so apologize for not pointing it out. It is the perfect bowl for pho.

So on to the last meal for today. If I spotted this entrée on a menu in a small cafe or diner that I had never been to before it would definitely be up there as one of my choices. Might not be my first choice but it would definitely be in the lineup. I am not looking to be served fillet mignon, trout meunière or Lobster Thermidor. And I quite enjoy egg noodles. So what do you think? Will it pass the taste test? First issue is that it was cold. Cold egg noodles have very little to recommend them. Cold egg noodles that are glued together have even less to recommend them. Finally, cold egg noodles that have neither been salted nor buttered should be composted as quickly as possible. I could’ve eaten the carrots and the green beans with a little butter and a little salt, even cold. The yucky wax beans not so much. But on to the main event. I suppose I should’ve clued in with the with that “ribette” moniker that we were not dealing anything that came from the rib of a cow. But I’m slow sometimes. I did go in for a taste but the sauce by itself was quite off-putting. Of course without any salt you cannot bring out the flavour very much. As I said, I’m pretty naïve but when I cut into the ”ribs” my knife sent out vibes to my hands that said, “Hello there minced beef.” And so it was. Should there be something in a hospital’s code of conduct that says “And we commit to never deceiving you”? Orange juice seems such an odd choice to be serving with such a meal. I don’t like orange juice so it’s not an issue. I could not find a “best before” date on the chocolate chip cookies so I’m going to assume that they are like Twinkies and live forever. They are Peak Freans.

So I asked my daughter to pick up a small salad from Food Court in the hospital. She sent me these two options: My response to this one was — please keep looking. Never trust a salad bar that uses kale in a Caesar Salad. This one looked much more promising. But I jumped to the conclusion that it was a build your own salad. But it was not quite like that. You have to order it and someone on the other side puts it together. Not quite what I had in mind but still it was fresh vegetables. Whoever thought that carrot ribbons served in a salad like this was a good idea? And my expectation of a hard-boiled egg was a spoonful or two of chopped egg. It was however fresh and tasty and the coffee was quite drinkable. The salad cost $4.70. The coffee was $1.70. While she was down there I asked my daughter to take a few shots for your edification. This is the sushi bar I mentioned earlier. Staff in another department of the hospital that I have been dealing with lately highly recommended the sushi from here. I tend to avoid these places because they use a lot of artificial crab and I am deathly allergic to crab (and they use something from real crab, or did). Anyway better safe than sorry. Next to the coffee dispenser my daughter noticed this. We are putting this one on our list for the next time remembering that they are only open between 11 and four daily and that’s from Monday to Friday I do believe. I am laughing to myself as I look more closely at the sign because my daughter told me they had ox tail soup. Yeah, I don’t think so. Damn. Still we might give it a try. And just a couple of overviews for you.

I don’t know if I could do that to my best friend. Mind you she’s done some pretty mean things to me over time😂

Thank you. I will be now walking around saying that out loud or thinking it for hours. And I’ll be riffing off it. Crust to crust or it’s a bust.

Well I looked it up and it apparently is a Word but I haven’t really studied it etymology or proper usage yet.

Woohoo. I have been unisolated! I know it’s not a word but I like it.

You are only saying that because we don’t have Smell o Vision! That would be the discouragement you need.

On the plus side and there is always a plus side – – I must be improving healthwise. I managed to get the lid off the marmalade using nothing but brute strength and ignorance. Who needs Lee Valley.

I really do have to steal that description. It’s perfect.

We had a discussion elsewhere on the board sometime ago about the whole concept of buttering toast and bread to the very edges. I wish I could recall where it was because it was quite interesting. I believe the phrase was wall-to-wall!

I am waiting here for a procedure and I’m thinking the perhaps we could arrange for the next board meeting of the hospital to have a tray given to each member of the board! Wonder what that might accomplish.

My real food mid morning snack: Well apparently this week we are celebrating the South West or Solid Waste. I actually tasted the soup and I can assure you not one chicken was harmed in the making of it but an awful lot of rice was sacrificed. With a little work and a bit more cooking we might be able to make a decent congee out of it. Sorry gang there is only so much I’m willing to take for the team. I didn’t taste this so I’m going to conclude that it is Solid Waste. Kudos for the banana. I hate bananas. A little later my daughter is going to bring a salad from the food court downstairs and a cup of coffee. I will hold out for those.

I don’t know I should have to see if I can get one. I will know just too much about this darn hospital before I get out of here.

Thanks for your comment and I would and answer you except that I really was trying to avoid this going off into healthcare costs and all the politics etc. therein. I was hoping we could keep it to food. Hope you don’t mind if we don’t drag it in that direction. Anna

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Done! You pricked my conscience. But while I was looking for some contact information I came across this: I knew about the room service. You would all be more than happy to pay $10 for one of these delicious and nutritious meals wouldn’t you?