Monday 9 November 2009

Oh dear...


Cream of vegetable soup... I'm not kidding! There appears to be no cream and no vegetables. Bit of a miracle really


Sausage hotpot and potato wedges... they're chips, aren't they?


A high-fat, emulsified, offal tube... otherwise known as cylinder-shaped, sausage-flavoured bread


Last night I lamented the missing teaspoon for desserts. Look what's happened! A teaspoon has appeared. I no longer have to eat my dessert with a spoon that tastes of soup. Now that's the power of the internet.

27 comments:

  1. I had to look away from the close-up of the sausage thing. I'm sure I'll have nightmares about it and wake up screaming!
    aaarrrggghhhh....

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  2. I've eaten a hotpot sausage before but this one tasted like pure white sliced bread with a sausage flavour. Of course, although I test the food, I rarely eat or finish my meals. Today's lunch wasn't too bad.

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  3. One thing sticks out to me, they are consistent in their choice of strange green NHS sausages, once in while they pop up on your dinner plate. Or they would, but this time only one of them has made it to the plate ... I wonder why is that? Because you're out of traction - but that would not really qualify as a reason, would it? to deprive you of one of them. Are these sausages meatfree, like the yoghurt you showed us a few days back that was dairyfree?
    Best wishes nonetheless, X-TM, keep looking forward and hoping for the best! Barbara

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  4. Somebody on high is reading your blog?

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  5. I'm not sure I call the 'kitchen' as being 'on high'!

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  6. Are those 'sausages' in recycled baked bean juice, or does it just look like it?

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  7. Talking of recycled, I saw your soup earlier today. I picked it up off the cold leafy ground whilst taking my dog for a walk. She inadvertantly ate some Oatibix yesterday and they really haven't agreed with her at all and that was the result! Sorry!

    As for the sausages, the gluten free ones my daughter has to have look better than that and they are grim!

    Any idea how much longer you are to be tortured? Is there an end date in sight? I sincerely hope so.

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  8. Hmmm shredded cardboard in a condom but not as appealing. That just about sums up NHS sausages. Yerkkk. They really do look disgusting - and where's the pot bit! They do call it 'hot pot' ... so, cardboard, in a weird gravy (hot pot), fractured potatoes inadvertently fried in sump oil, and nothing else. Oh, and synthetic mush known as ice cream and loaded with additives and chemicals.

    I think I'll stick to my cheese sandwich.

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  9. Thanks, Sooz! I'm feeling better already. Counting the days. Perhaps we should have a sweepstake for how many days I have left in here.

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  10. I think your sausage hotpot has reached a new low for a main course. This looks dreadful and I don't know how anyone could call it a hotpot! Glad you got a spoon though I'm sure you'd cope with reusing cutlery if you were given more edible food! Hope your escape is imminent though I'll miss you when you get out and about.

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  11. Don't think you're going to get rid of me that easily. You're going to have stick around until I walk properly. In the meantime I'd like to continue writing about food, health and libertarian issues. I'd love it if everyone would come along.

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  12. We will stick around for as long as you keep up your entertaining blog. You must have a long list of issues you want to tackle - forgive the deliberate pun.

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  13. Whenever I feel a little ill I pop along here to cheer myself up... for you dear sir are a victim of circumstances beyond anyones control...what you have to watch for though is the high toxicity of the objects and the effects it or they may or may not have on your judgment.... there are many ways to brainwash people these days.

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  14. Tne power of the internet? And that sausage hotpot? Dream on! It's one thing to come up with a teaspoon, clearly quite another to produce a meal that looks and tastes good. These last few meals you have shown us recently are as bad or even worse than they ever were.

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  15. oh, I just have to tell you: to post that last comment I had to type in the mystery word and it was (albeit misspelt) 'bellsen'

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  16. and the next one was 'cologic'!

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  17. your sausage hotpoint brings to mind the book my 11 year old son managed to find in the school library today - it is called living with willy and apparently after reading it out loud on the school bus on the way home, there are about 50 boys who have put their name down on the waiting list for the said book. I have never seen a kid so keen to read a school book before - even taken it to bed to read it - oh noooooo. any way - your sausage hotpoint looks unhealthy, unappetising, unfilling and un nutritious. Bet you are counting down to the weekend for mrs xtm and some goodies! Hope you are enjoying being vertical, must feel strange

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  18. Is there some sinister warlock in the kitchens TM...... I don`t know what it is but I am starting to see faces in the food ...?????

    Ness..

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  19. In what way does sausages in orange gravy become sausage 'hotpot'?

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  20. Matilde from Sydney10 November 2009 at 03:32

    Of course we're sticking with you ex TM. I've been having a horrible depressing day which just improved immeasurably by reading your last few days blogs. Its either TM or antidepressants!

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  21. Hi MathildeowNow can anyone have bad days in a place as beautiful as Sydney? I guess sometimes even paradise needs Prosac. Well keep Reading and we'll all try to keep each other happy.

    XTM

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  22. Ex TM - Would you get a better menu if you claimed to be gluten intolerant?

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  23. After looking at these photos, I think I would be food intolerant lol

    Regards,

    Kat from Perth.

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  24. Gluten-free? I shudder to think.

    Kat: you should have tasted it. Incomparable.

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  25. Those sausages... how do they always manage to produce straight sausages??? I have cooked endless numbers of them, of all makes/sizes over the years, and they always curl, apart from cocktail sausages. Those chefs are to congratulated for solving that little problem!!! Were they as grim and ghastly as they looked??? Is custard compulsory on all puddings?? Now that you have a teaspoon, you might be able to tunnel your way out......

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  26. I was thinking of tunnelling out but I'm on the second floor!

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