tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post8449651504520811261..comments2024-03-27T07:01:15.849+00:00Comments on Notes from a hospital bed: Tonight's dinner bingoTraction Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-5885128988906092972009-09-25T21:09:29.349+01:002009-09-25T21:09:29.349+01:00Ohhh dear!! You can never know what this food it&#...Ohhh dear!! You can never know what this food it's made of! It's almost imposible, not even tasting it lol! It's a fun bingo game tho! = )Bingohttp://www.bingo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-41734354793771766942009-09-25T09:45:41.673+01:002009-09-25T09:45:41.673+01:00My God, I am getting really angry. How is anyone s...My God, I am getting really angry. How is anyone supposed to get well on this inedible soup from a prison in the dark ages! And the lasagne needs a flame-thrower treatment.Veggienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-76149868402788762222009-09-25T04:59:54.930+01:002009-09-25T04:59:54.930+01:00Traction Man, pray that the caterer never, ever di...Traction Man, pray that the caterer never, ever discovers okra. Now in gumbos (or other tomatoe based stews) or fried or pickled it is palatable. But okra has a rather unique charateristic when prepared any other way. It slimes. I kid you not. Think snail trails, head cold mucus, great big honking snot balls. And it is very cheap to grow and it is very prolific. In fact it is no mere coincidence that it resembles those pods in Invasion of The Body Snatchers.<br /><br />So beam a grateful smile at your server when you see some limp, pallid broccolli on your plate. Cause next time it might be boiled okra. <br /><br />PaulaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-6807563103097893112009-09-25T04:30:34.003+01:002009-09-25T04:30:34.003+01:00well someone has to say it ...
The soap, err soup...well someone has to say it ...<br /><br />The soap, err soup, is possibly chicken and snot, but it's the foreskin on a plate with broccoli that bothers me the most.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13468481168414119225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-6743325856656480052009-09-25T01:26:13.182+01:002009-09-25T01:26:13.182+01:00It's great that they're making an effort -...It's great that they're making an effort - or at least someone is. Let's hope they're on every day until November with no days off.<br /><br />A thought - which I don't suppose you can comment on if you're in your room keeping your osteomyelitis to yourself - but I wonder if the other patients are getting the same effort made on their plates. Perhaps one of the staff can dish the dirt .. I'm hoping it's a yes but my cynicism is whacked up to 10 at the moment.<br /><br />Shame about the broccoli. Someone's taken a perfectly good vegetable and destroyed it.Soozhttp://www.svbosworth.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-50662503777234672032009-09-25T00:40:21.292+01:002009-09-25T00:40:21.292+01:00'E's a ruddy star, 'e is, a ruddy STAR...'E's a ruddy star, 'e is, a ruddy STAR, that Traction Man. Joviality in the face of all that hideous grub and prolonged imprisonment takes a special kind of nature. Most impressed I am.Gloria Smuddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037782767371934289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-64184616913103629252009-09-25T00:12:32.051+01:002009-09-25T00:12:32.051+01:00if i were you , i would ask wife to bring some pow...if i were you , i would ask wife to bring some power bars and trail mix. i am amazed you are still strong enough to blog with the fare you are getting there <br /><br /><br />rhonda.usaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-65963394959718850922009-09-25T00:02:40.329+01:002009-09-25T00:02:40.329+01:00Ha-hah! Traction Man @ 23.24hrs! You should know b...Ha-hah! Traction Man @ 23.24hrs! You should know better than to couple the concept of fingers and bowls in the same sentence as enemas! A man in your position? Dost thou not fear thy reference may hasten the horrid onslaught of a grey suppository bullet due to your roughage-free diet??? Prone and liable to constipation and dependent on the good Angels of the Ward to bring a bedpan before all your tiny bed-ridden world turns an involuntary brown? Anyway, 'tis too late now and you have mentioned both in one post.. I shall think of you as only one who has "been there" can and I pray that should you press that red button that the Angels come a running....Gloria Smuddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037782767371934289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-38196970776396532012009-09-24T23:49:27.765+01:002009-09-24T23:49:27.765+01:00I suppose you still have to choose what you would ...I suppose you still have to choose what you would like ?? I can imagine it - Hmmm mushroom soup followed by Lasagne with steamed broccoli will do me today - lovely <br />How disappointing It's like hoping for a new bike for Christmas and getting a pair of second hand skates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-81784339669531701732009-09-24T23:39:48.153+01:002009-09-24T23:39:48.153+01:00The soup looks like mushroom soup, probably one o...The soup looks like mushroom soup, probably one of these large catering packs of soups full of artificial enhancers, colourings etc.<br /><br />The other meal has frozen brocolli, you can always tell it is frozen as it is tooooo green, colour enhancers again.<br /><br />As for the congieled stuff next to the brocolli, Carbonara sauce ( packet stuff again, e numbers and all that )and some sinister bits thrown in.<br /><br />I am no expert on foodie stuff, but I know what is healthy and what is not. If the food don`t kill you then your gut`s will my friend.<br /><br />Ness,,xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-49799541219464416942009-09-24T23:31:11.042+01:002009-09-24T23:31:11.042+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-41981928806073510672009-09-24T23:24:07.427+01:002009-09-24T23:24:07.427+01:00Hospital food is served with an enema in the same ...Hospital food is served with an enema in the same way that fancy restaurants place finger bowls on the table when serving seafood.Traction Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-33947023236536657572009-09-24T23:19:03.079+01:002009-09-24T23:19:03.079+01:00Eeew! I was just going to suggest that tonight'...Eeew! I was just going to suggest that tonight's 'amuse-bouche' was Pus soup, but then I read about you having to have gallons of the same siphoned from your leg; I thought it better not to labour a point so my best guess about what you got given in that placcy bowl is "conjunctivitis crust floated lovingly in a symphony of watery phlegm".<br /><br />I am not as cruel as I sound - believe me, I have been where you are for months and it was weeks before I got a kiddy-beaker for my liquids - I bear the scars of a burned collar-bone to this day! I have dropped more hospital slop from a plastic SPORK into an already-grubby hospital blanket than I care to remember so trust me, my thoughts are truly with you. When's your next enema due?Gloria Smuddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037782767371934289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-61527107748784065052009-09-24T22:46:54.992+01:002009-09-24T22:46:54.992+01:00Puss lady here. I admit it, that was a bit of a c...Puss lady here. I admit it, that was a bit of a cheap laugh over one spelling mistake, but I just had visions of my cat 'Spud' (no, seriously - that is his name!), being vacuumed from your femur. Thanks for calling me a smart arse by the way, I am seriously proud of that! Your blog is truly the funniest thing I have read in ages and I heartily enjoy reading each episode of 'Traction Man's NHS culinary 'cat'astrophes'. Keep smiling! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-87423772563853948742009-09-24T22:44:41.875+01:002009-09-24T22:44:41.875+01:00The soup looks like Campbells cream of snot.The soup looks like Campbells cream of snot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-79240233038371352232009-09-24T22:20:57.129+01:002009-09-24T22:20:57.129+01:00You try typing in traction, smart arse! Good spot ...You try typing in traction, smart arse! Good spot though :-)Traction Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-23682889090235196602009-09-24T22:20:44.408+01:002009-09-24T22:20:44.408+01:00Hello TM, here I am, trying my luck at the dinner ...Hello TM, here I am, trying my luck at the dinner bingo. I think it might have been some mushroom soup made with artificially flavoured soup powder? I detect lumps in it. For the other dish I wager on a vegetable strudel, but it looks wet. I reckon it is because you just cannot reheat a strudel properly in a vapour compartment nor in a microwave, it looses its crunchyness. And the broccoli look nice, but you say they were overcooked, too ... more's the pity! It is truly a shame, seeing food composed out of seemingly perfectly good ingredients going to waste only because it is prepared in such a ghoulish way ... Would you have the option to choose things like bread and butter or cream cheese, cucumber slices, tomato wedges, a hard boiled egg for a meal, maybe with some biscuits and cup of tea? Best wishes!! BarbaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-1345550329342929842009-09-24T22:08:29.897+01:002009-09-24T22:08:29.897+01:00Is that puss as in 'feline'? If so, did h...Is that puss as in 'feline'? If so, did he meow a lot as he was extracted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-90109499342843181872009-09-24T21:54:22.176+01:002009-09-24T21:54:22.176+01:00My diseased femur had five litres of puss drained ...My diseased femur had five litres of puss drained from it. I always wondered what happened to it.Traction Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-46753504046378842762009-09-24T21:49:32.462+01:002009-09-24T21:49:32.462+01:00the soup looks exactly like pus drained from a rot...the soup looks exactly like pus drained from a rotting cavity. As for the main course - do you think they had a special offer on broccoli? Must have added green food dye. Melt in the mouth broccoli, yum, yumbonnienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-25413434001347827042009-09-24T21:33:12.317+01:002009-09-24T21:33:12.317+01:00Radio Two's Sarah Kennedy always advises putti...Radio Two's Sarah Kennedy always advises putting the Christmas sprouts on in April and keeping them topped up. Same goes for veg here, I think.Traction Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-42921820099245863312009-09-24T21:24:34.700+01:002009-09-24T21:24:34.700+01:00TM - I've been thinking about your broccoli an...TM - I've been thinking about your broccoli and the length of time it must have been cooking - when do you think they start boiling the brussel sprouts for Christmas dins? <br /><br />Referring to one of your earlier posts the DWP say you'll be out by. was it 9th?, November - so at least you won't have to worry about eating the Christmas sprouts.<br /><br />wishing you better<br />SusanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-52768285215795735202009-09-24T21:08:08.948+01:002009-09-24T21:08:08.948+01:00Some things are beyond fixing. How do you retextur...Some things are beyond fixing. How do you retexture food?Traction Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130413914192627361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-88818131787739114412009-09-24T21:07:10.593+01:002009-09-24T21:07:10.593+01:00Oo, something green! How exciting!
Could your wi...Oo, something green! How exciting!<br /><br />Could your wife perhaps smuggle in some curry paste, taco seasoning or Jamaican jerk powder? Hot sauce packets? Some dried parmesan cheese from the green can? Maybe you could fix (har!) your meals when they arrive...elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835152205968344114.post-40408405738335903772009-09-24T20:45:14.542+01:002009-09-24T20:45:14.542+01:00Is it mushroom soup? My mate had it for lunch at s...Is it mushroom soup? My mate had it for lunch at school today... He ended up sharing 8 baby potatoes together....<br /><br />And what is the lump of glue/paste next to those broccoli? I guess this is how you reused things in your bedpan, trying to be green...<br /><br />Again, wish you out of hell soon^_^Alexnoreply@blogger.com