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Default Heating some deli roast beef

Bruce wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:18:01 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon 14 Jan 2019 10:00:42a, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> On 1/14/2019 11:15 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> On 2019-01-14 9:42 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>>> On 1/14/2019 12:35 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Admittedly, though, this is a "high end" hospital. I lucked
>>>>>> out being sent to this one.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I worked with a guy in Memphis who said his parents would go to
>>>>> a hospital cafeteria once a week for dinner. They claimed the
>>>>> food was better than any restaurant.
>>>>
>>>> When I was in the hospital after heart surgery the food was not
>>>> all horrible. My first solid food was a shingle of beef. The
>>>> other meals were better. On my last stay they kept me on clear
>>>> fluids and on the last morning I rebelled. The nurse found me
>>>> some real food. It may have tasted extra good because it was the
>>>> first solid food I had had in a week. My lunch that day was not
>>>> bad. I can't say it was better than any restaurant. It was
>>>> perhaps as good as some chains.
>>>>
>>> Well hey, I don't know what his parents considered good. All I
>>> know is he said they went to a hospital cafeteria once a week for
>>> dinner. I'm not sure if it was food quality or price. Hey, it's
>>> a cafeteria. I'm not a fan of cafeterias, in general.
>>>
>>> The only good cafeteria I've ever been to and actually recommended
>>> to others was Picadilly in Germantown, TN. I'd go there for lunch
>>> with co-workers about once a month.
>>>
>>> They had a wonderful selection of freshly prepared foods. I
>>> usually got a cup of the soup of the day, baked fish (never
>>> overcooked!) with a side of steamed vegetables. But they often
>>> had roast beef; there was a carving station on the line and
>>> someone would slice off some beef. To go with the beef was gravy,
>>> mashed potatoes. A lot of other selections.
>>> The cooks were right there talking to us as we moved along the
>>> line.
>>> Picadilly had (has?) *really* good food. For a cafeteria.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>

>>
>> There was a winderful cafeteria in Memphis, long gone and I can't
>> remember the name of it.

>
> Innocent typo of course, but for a moment I was wondering what
> winderful meant. It deserves to exist as a word.
>


Winderful is when yoose eat too many beans.