Hospital food, airline food, that sort of thing

[SS-18 ICBM]

So yes, a thread about complementary meal service. This includes free school lunches, complementary breakfasts at hotels, and other examples I may not have named. What's your overall impression of them? What was your best experience? Your worst experience? Feel free to discuss other related things about these meals.

As for my experience with hospital food, I remember only having one, during one of my eye operations as a child. Squid fried in its own ink. Needless to say, my parents opted for take-out.

With airline food, I can only remember getting served a light meal of crackers and sweets on a connecting flight to Hong Kong. The meal on the longer trans-Pacific leg to Alaska was completely forgettable. All I could remember was that it didn't have rice.

 

[Leoreth]

Haven't had a night's stay at a hospital yet, fortunately.

On airline food, I've only used cheap airlines such as Ryan Air to date, and the food was bad but bearable, not that I wouldn't expect anything else at these prices.

 

[Cutlass]

The only hospital food I've had in recent years was at a nursing home where my family had Thanksgiving dinner. So a holiday dinner in what was supposed to be one of the better nursing homes. It was acceptable. But I wouldn't want to eat there often.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Well, since I was in the hospital for a week over the summer, I can say that hospital food is much better than airline food which -if you're not a first class passenger- is mostly crackers, soft drinks and other snacks.

 

[NetGear]

Never been hospitalized but id assume they would be low in sodium especially in hospital and therefore bland and boring.

Most complimentary meals are pretty much not too good but not too bad to complain about imo.

 

[Dachs]

I've had decent food on Lufthansa and United.

The only hospital food I've had in recent memory was a sort of cracker, but I'd just gotten my back cut open - hadn't had any solid food since the night before, and was heavily medicated to boot, and pretty much immediately threw it back up again.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Airplane food is terrible. On a flight I was on once, they served fish, although it had food poisoning and killed the pilot, forcing us to make an emergency landing.

 

[madviking]

I just have an inclination not to fly in general. (nor be in hospitals)

 

[Dachs]

Airplane food is terrible. On a flight I was on once, they served fish, although it had food poisoning and killed the pilot, forcing us to make an emergency landing.

Surely you can't be serious.

 

[sophie]

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

 

[Save_Ferris]

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

The hospital? What is it?

 

[Dachs]

The hospital? What is it?

It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

 

[Thedrin]

I've been in economy class for a number of intercontintental flights in the last couple of years with various airlines - Air Asia, Air New Zealand, Emirates, Etihad, Quantas - and I've been happy with the food served. Some of it was very nice. I wouldn't advise avoiding any of these airlines because of their food.

 

[ZeletDude]

When I flew to Hawaii they gave us some gross sandwich, it was totally nasty. :barf:

When I got my back surgery the food tasted great, they had so much variety and excellent food .

And my school lunch is okay, not too bad not too great..

 

[Synobun]

I've spent a lot of time in the hospital the past two years and a half, and I've gotta say... the food they serve there is vastly more delicious than what I eat on a daily basis. No complaints on my end!

Don't remember airliner food though.

 

[woody60707]

lol You guys got. I giggled at the Airplane joke. But only because I didn't see it coming. I shell be ready next time.

 

[Ajidica]

Never had hospital food, but I have no complaints with airline food. It is very hard to go wrong with some pop and a small bag of stale pretzels.

 

[woody60707]

When I was in the Marines I got hurt kinda bad lol. I ended up in the Hospital for a few months. And I must say say, at the Navy Hospital the food was kinda good. I got to choice from a list of options, and all in all the only down side was the Doctor yelling at me to eat and drink more Ensure. (till this day I still have a caving for strawberry Ensure)

Airplane food is the worst. It's the same as the meals you get out of vending machine. But god do i love their peanuts. I LOVE AIRPLANE PEANUTS

Never had hospital food, but I have no complaints with airline food. It is very hard to go wrong with some pop and a small bag of stale pretzels.

Yea, you kinds today don't know what real airline food was. ... and you should be thankful for that. Be very thankful!@

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What you talking about? I LOVE airline food!

Of course, it's probably a result of me loving to fly.

I haven't flown in 6 years.

 

[amadeus]

I had a pretty decent meal on ANA flying over to Japan. Hospitals? I've had overnight stays, but they were always for operations that required you not to eat.

Hotel breakfasts? Once again, the credit goes to Japan to the hotel I stayed at in Tokyo. Travel websites say there's a surcharge for the breakfast, but I don't recall paying for it. I brought this up to the desk clerk, but he assured me that breakfast was included in my room and that no surcharge would be applied.

The breakfast was a full buffet of both Western and Japanese-style breakfast foods.