Unlike Viola Di Grado, Mike Cantor and Alan Beamish were unimpressed by the food they were served during recent stays in hospital
Re Viola Di Grado’s article on delicious hospital food (In Italy, we live to eat. But tasty NHS meals put our bland hospital food to shame, 21 May), I would like to know which London hospital she was in so I can ask to go there should I need future hospital treatment. I was recently an inpatient for three days at a major London teaching hospital, waiting to be transferred to another hospital to have a pacemaker inserted. On the first day, I was shown a crumpled piece of paper with about six choices for an evening meal typed on it. I chose chicken tikka masala. What I got was something resembling a grey cowpat. I had no idea what it was, and when I asked as my plate was collected, I was told it was chicken pie.
On the second day, I again chose the chicken tikka masala and got an all-day breakfast. On the third day, having made the same choice, I got fish pie. None of these meals were at all memorable.
Mike Cantor
London
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/26/good-hospital-food-thats-just-pie-in-the-sky
Author : Guardian Staff
Publish date : 2024-05-26 16:03:57
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