On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:50:57 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-11-05 12:05 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 6:34:48 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>
> >> That's funny but I always liked the school lunches. Much better
> >> that a PBJ sandwich in a paper bag.
> >
> > Who knew that prison food could be better than peanut butter and
> > jelly sandwiches in a paper bag?
> My younger brother worked for a while in a provincial jail. He used to
> eat in the cafeteria and got the same food as the inmates, and he
> thought the food was really good.
>
>
> Hospital food has a bad reputation. When I spent a week in the hospital
> 10 years ago I was pleasantly surprised at how good the food was. When
> I spend a week in a different hospital two months ago I could not
> believe how bad the food was. On my last day there I could not have
> breakfast because of a procedure I was going to have done. I really
> didn't mind. Over the previous 6 days I had missed so many meals for one
> reason or another that I was used to being hungry, and the food was so
> bad I was not going to miss it.

I was also in the hospital about 10 years ago, and I liked the food too.
I also liked the food at the hospital cafeteria. Tell you the cafeteria that
had great food was the cafeteria at St. Louis University back when my
wife went there in the late 1980s. It was operated by Marriot. I'd meet
her for lunch. I've always liked cafeterias, but I'm obviously in the
minority. I even put one in my book.

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The employees at the school cafeteria had so easily succumbed to her
charms. Even the grumpiest of them, a woman about Ian's age, softened
when she saw Winter. The second day they'd eaten in the cafeteria,
Winter's phone rang, and she just let it ring in her purse. She had been
deciding between two side dishes, and had inquired what was in one of
them when it rang. The woman had brusquely asked her, "Aren't you
going to answer that?"
Winter had said, "No, I'm already talking to somebody. Whoever it is,
they can wait." Without even realizing how meaningful her words might
be, Winter had told this person that she was "Somebody."
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--Bryan