# Eating When Ill **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354 "2018-02-07T12:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/41 "2018-02-09T19:02:30Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > …Dammit. I still want to know how this “mashed eggs” concept works. Do you scoop the whole thing out of the shell, and into a mug? > > If that is the case: Would poached eggs make more sense? You boil eggs. You peel eggs. You put eggs in a mug. You mash them with a fork such that they’re still kinda chunky. Add butter and salt, sometimes pepper, and eat with a spoon, on the couch, under a comforter. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/42 "2018-02-10T00:47:30Z")
No special food cravings when I have a run-of-the-mill cold / bronchitis, though I may use them as an excuse to indulge in “throat medicine” (ice cream) because it does feel good going down a sore throat. If I’m generally feeling under the weather - particularly lousy sleep, or queasy, or whatever, I want tea. Hot tea, that is; it’s a pretty good sign that I’m feeling sick if you see me making hot tea. And I make it with sugar (iced tea, I usually use fake stuff) - because my body seems to crave the energy. Note that I’m usually not consuming much else when this is going on. A recent bout of norovirus had me drinking several mugs of hot tea - I nearly yelled at my husband because he kept bringing me half-full mugs :(. I’ll also go for something like sorbet if we have it. With the noro, once my digestive system stopped thinking it was bullet-train-ride-to-hell, I ate broth and rice noodles. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/43 "2018-02-10T02:36:43Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You boil eggs. You peel eggs. You put eggs in a mug. You mash them with a fork such that they’re still kinda chunky. Add butter and salt, sometimes pepper, and eat with a spoon, on the couch, under a comforter. We had a thread about egg cups here a few months back. I never use ‘em because I need at least two eggs for a proper breakfast. The Ukulele Lady loves them, though. **Leaffan** has the right picture, but I make things a bit easier by making a crack with a spoon around the diameter of the soft-boiled egg, separating the halves with my thumbs — keeping the soft yolk unbroken in one half — then spooning the egg out of the shell into the bowl (over the buttered toast). Then you cut the eggs over the toast with the side of the spoon and let the yolk mingle with the toast. Add salt and pepper. Much quicker and easier than trying to pick the whole damn shell off a delicate soft-boiled egg. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/44 "2018-02-10T03:39:26Z")
If it’s a head or chest cold, there’s a pho restaurant about a half hour away that’s worth going to to clear the nose and chest…pho is powerful medicine when it’s ordered extra spicy… For fever, ginger ale and ice cream floats, lotsa water and saltines… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/45 "2018-02-10T05:35:45Z")
Chicken noodle soup, and lots of hot tea with honey and lemon. (Whiskey is optional, but always welcome) ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354/46 "2018-02-10T16:00:53Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Are the bones from the chicken/turkey, or something else in particular? The chicken/turkey is a hind quarter of each, so there’s them bones, but the rest is salt-cured pork: a couple of bones, a small section of ribs, a cube of fat and a square of skin. They’re crusty with salt that has to be removed by soaking or washing under hot running water. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-when-ill/808354.md?page=2)