# Yum! hospital food is good! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544 "2024-10-08T00:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/21 "2024-10-08T13:43:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What, no EGG? [Electrogastrograms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrogastrogram) are a thing. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/22 "2024-10-08T20:59:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > where I get meds, an EEG, EKG, MRI, TURKEY MEATLOAF, and JELL-O. Turns out I had something called a TIA. Don’t you mean a TLA ? ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/23 "2024-10-08T21:44:03Z")
So a translumin-something angioplasty as a treatment maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/24 "2024-10-08T21:52:45Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Don’t you mean a TLA ? TIA does stand for ‘Transient ischemic attack’. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/25 "2024-10-08T21:59:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > JELL-O Jugular Electro-Logarithmic Laser Occlusion device. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/26 "2024-10-08T22:32:02Z")
That might actually help me. Wonder if my insurance covers that therapy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/27 "2024-10-08T22:36:27Z")
I honestly thought that this thread would be about Yum! Foods (Pepsi, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, &c.) now catering hospital food. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/28 "2024-10-08T23:03:35Z")
I didn’t have a fast food job when I was a teenager. I worked in the food service department at a hospital. It actually was pretty decent food, considering. Bonus because as a growing teenager, I could scarf leftovers headed to pot wash all night. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/29 "2024-10-09T12:51:27Z")
Yikes on the whole experience! I wore a Zio for a week earlier this summer. Mildly amusing as my hand would encounter it at random times, surprising me. No chest-shaving was required (though the tech who glued it on did scrub my skin with what felt like Brillo). There’s an app you can use for logging events, if you don’t want to carry booklet with you. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/30 "2024-10-09T13:52:48Z")
Glad to hear you’re feeling better, @Czarcasm. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Yum! Foods (Pepsi, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, &c.) now catering hospital food. So _that’s_ why the local hospital’s cafeteria was replaced with a food court! There’s also a Subway off by itself, which is my go-to when visiting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/31 "2024-10-09T16:58:13Z")
The “Zio Experience” lasted one day. Without consulting me I was sent a device that was glued to my chest, and told that I was to bath very minimally, take it easy and not sweat a lot. I am a full-time freakin’ custodian at a very rough school. I need to bathe a lot, I am going to sweat a lot…and at about 10 pm last night the damn thing just fell off my chest and down my lest pants leg. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/32 "2024-10-09T17:52:36Z")
Ugh! Yeah, not the best option, I guess. I was told to basically reglue it immediately if it fell off, which it never did (then again, I am not any of the things you describe yourself as). ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/33 "2024-10-09T19:25:21Z")
I must tell you in school the custodians held rock star status! I still remember all of us lining up with enthusiasm for the custodian’s yearbook signature at the end of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/34 "2024-10-09T19:39:02Z")
This isn’t that kind of school. They don’t so much “graduate”-they age out of the system, hopefully with enough talent to operate a toaster oven…but more likely they will be taken care of by relatives. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/35 "2024-10-09T19:49:42Z")
Glad you’re o.k.! I have Kaiser, too, and I had to spend overnight in the hospital earlier this year. I had gone to the ER, and after checking me out they wanted to do a colonoscopy, so they just checked me in and gave me the damned prep. But they also gave me a nearly liquid diet, so I didn’t get to sample the actual hospital food. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/36 "2024-10-10T13:15:30Z")
I had an unplanned hospital stay earlier this year. I didn’t have much of an appetite but the food they served was extremely good. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/37 "2024-10-10T14:14:56Z")
Our local St Vincent Hospital offers menu style food. There’s a window of time to call and order. Otherwise they send a default tray. I was surprised with the fruit options for breakfast. Grapes, cantaloupe, orange slices etc. Having a choice is a big improvement. Our other hospitals still have the traditional trays. You get what they send. I was at UAMS in August for surgery. I used Door Dash a couple times when the tray didn’t look appetizing. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/38 "2024-10-10T20:23:41Z")
Yeah, pleased to hear you’re OK. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > The “Zio Experience” lasted one day I had to wear one of those things for a week after a couple of blackouts. Did they give you the date-and-time chart to list symptoms so that they could be matched to cardiac events? As all that happened to me was two blackouts, I had no symptoms - so I used it to record actions that were going to produce a change - like (eg) cycling up a little bastard of a hill as hard as I could (my thinking there being, if anything is going to show up then maybe it’ll be when I’m stressed). The most embarrassing thing? I was having a few beers but, for some reason, I was sitting at the kitchen table rather than my usual armchair. I fell asleep and fell off the chair… which I dutifully recorded on the chart. j ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/39 "2024-10-10T22:20:14Z")
I’m so glad you called and got it checked out. I’m even gladder that it resolved. Yeah, those monitors are a pain. Because my skin hated adhesive, they gave me a new, gentler adhesive to try with my monitor. No go. First, it didn’t adhere, plus I got the contact dermatitis. They wanted me to try again but I showed them all the perfectly round, red, raised spots on my body and they just revised their opinions and wished me luck. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544/40 "2024-10-11T00:16:23Z")
My dad had a heart monitor, and it was setup where he could shower just fine. I wonder why yours couldn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yum-hospital-food-is-good/1008544.md?page=3)