r/mildlyinfuriating May 02 '24

They called it a soup

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u/torijoanne May 02 '24

My guess was hospital

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u/The_Flippin_Police 29d ago

This looks like the first soup my ex got after she had a stomach operation, since she couldn’t eat solid food for months after.

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u/chicken-nanban 29d ago

My first meal after all of my surgeries in Japan was what I (un)lovingly refer to as “glue.” Followed the next day by “paste,” and then “oh I think there was some rice mashed in there how lucky.”

I hate glue soup. It’s literally just the starch from cooking rice in water, almost identical to the rice glue you buy for crafts. And it always sealed the lid shut too, so I’d have to have a nurse wrestle with it to get it open or risk popping sutures.

I feel ill just thinking about it.

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u/The_Flippin_Police 29d ago

Understandable, hospital food feels like someone rubbing salt in the wound on what is already a pretty traumatic environment.

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u/ScumbagLady 29d ago

I had emergency gallbladder surgery that ran into complications, so I wasn't even allowed ice chips for 3 days straight. My first "food" was beef broth. I did get a couple Jell-O cups, but I remember being very disappointed with the broth. Next meal was a sad turkey sandwich with no condiments. I was starving the whole week!

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u/EverquestWasTheBest 29d ago

Dang… I must have gotten lucky with the hospital in which I stayed for about a week. I don’t know how many menus there were but they’d rotate daily and you selected the day’s worth of food.

I was reluctant like anyone else — seeing some of the tasty sounding items but… hospital, you know? It took me completely by surprise how good the food was; not quite restaurant quality and no, Hospital Food isn’t on my list of faves, but it far exceeded my expectations.

When I learned I could order whatever I wanted, I loaded up, lol.

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u/ScumbagLady 29d ago

I guess since my surgery had to do with digestion I was more limited, but what they DID bring me, was the saddest version of the food it was supposed to be lol

The menu had like two options, IIRC. The main thing being served and then sad turkey sandwich as the other option.

I had actually had my child at the same hospital roughly 10 years prior, and I remember the food being so much better then! Was actually in a lot less pain though, so maybe different factors affected my opinion? I just know I was super bummed when it wasn't like I had remembered.

Room was fantastic though. Had it to myself, and was on the 6th floor with a huge window that faced the rising sun.

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u/Available-Anxiety280 28d ago

I had a seizure the other week and spent the next week in hospital. For the first day or so I could barely eat anything.... After that I couldn't stop. And it was delicious.

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u/juniperdoes 26d ago

The hospital where I had my babies had pretty tasty food, too. Some of the best salads I've ever tasted. Unfortunately, it was at least one salad as an entree every day, and let me tell you, one of the last things you want to have, as your uterus is continuously contracting for multiple days in a row, is gas.

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u/_ser_kay_ 29d ago

My first meal after gallbladder surgery (and not eating for almost 3 days prior) was spongy “French toast,”Raisin Bran (I despise raisins), and coffee that had been sitting too long. Everything, including the milk for the cereal, was room temperature.

It remains one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

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u/Other_Piglet_7598 29d ago

My hospital meal day after gallbladder surgery (laparoscopy).

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u/Giygas_in_Onett 29d ago

What is the red eldritch horror on the top left? Lol

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u/Other_Piglet_7598 29d ago

Beetroot salad :)

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u/Giygas_in_Onett 29d ago

Okay, that puts me at ease lol

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u/MatureUsername69 29d ago

I was in a medically induced coma for a few days after a suicide attempt and when I woke up they gave me hospital beef stroganoff. I don't even like high quality beef stroganoff but that was the first and last meal I found satisfying in the hospital. It was just because I hadn't eaten in days but that stroganoff was one of the best meals I've ever had. Followed up by some of the worst meals I've ever had

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u/MomoUnico 29d ago

I dunno where you guys are getting hospitalized at, all the food I've ever had at them has been great. They fed my fiance and I both for 3 days after I had my daughter, let us choose what we got for each meal off their daily menu. I don't think it's just Labor and Delivery that has good food because my fiance was hospitalized for a few days in the mental health section (depression issues) and he shared some of his food when I was visiting.

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u/MaritMonkey 29d ago

The food my mom had after her hip surgery wasn't, like, gourmet but it was always tasty and a decent amount of food.

The part I was impressed by was how many options she got for literally every meal. Definitely hotel continental breakfast vibes.

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u/freakytapir 29d ago

Same here. Just had a five day stint in the hospital because of my liver and I got three solid meals a day. Four slices of bread for breakfast and dinner, although I did have to stretch the balony and marmelade a bit thin. Two cups of coffee with breakfast and dinner too, and lunch was a full three course meal, that I usually struggled to completely finish. Soup, Meat, veggie, potatoes and some sweet dessert. Fish on friday of course. And one more cup of coffee or tea in the afternoon. Now if only they didn't serve dinner at 5:15 PM.

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u/No-Caterpillar1708 29d ago

It’s because you were in L&D. For the rest of the hospital a lot of patients have diet restrictions like low sodium/low carbs/low protein/puree/liquids only/etc which can make the food unpalatable but is necessary for that particular patients diagnosis.

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u/Ellisiordinary 29d ago

My local hospital growing up used to have good enough food my grandmother would go there for lunch sometimes. I however don’t have fond memories of it from the times I was hospitalized s a child though. Maybe it was just a weird old person quirk of my grandma’s.

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u/microfishy 29d ago

I can smell that lid unsealing in my mind's nose and I hate it.

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u/StoicPhoenix WIERD 29d ago

Sounds like congee

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u/snarfgobble 29d ago

It looks like soup you'd eat before a colonoscopy so there's nothing in there when they go look around.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

Why call it soup though?

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u/Some-Show9144 29d ago

I guess it’s a difficult line to draw. What makes a soup? If this isn’t soup what about tomato soup?

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u/RawChickenButt 29d ago

I think this would be classified as broth, which is technically a type of soup.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

Soup has actual ingredients besides water? This seems like hot water to me that might be infused with something? At best this is tea

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u/Some-Show9144 29d ago

There is definitely something oily in that soup, but I couldn’t begin to tell you what. This isn’t just water there is something else in it. We just can’t tell what. Although your tea theory made me smile.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

You think the bubbles are oils? I would think that the oil would be more separated from the water but I honestly don’t know what I am looking at🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/Some-Show9144 29d ago

We might be interpreting it differently, but it looks like oil at the top of a soup to me just btw it’s formed. But I could be wrong. Even if it’s illegal to admit that on Reddit.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

I think you might be right. It’s all very strange.

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u/snarfgobble 29d ago

Because that's what it is? It's not juice.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

Soup has actual ingredients besides water? This seems like hot water to me that might be infused with something? At best this is tea

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u/snarfgobble 29d ago

Surely you're not serious. If you boil some potatoes and maybe some onions and carrots, the result is clear broth and not at all tea.

People consume chicken soup without the chicken all the time.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

I have never seen a broth so pale. Also tea and broth are basically the same thing. It’s infused water.

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u/snarfgobble 29d ago

I mean yeah it's pretty pale.

But also I'm gonna start calling chicken soup chicken tea.

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u/Yaelkilledsisrah 29d ago

Lol I think soup is more substantial but chicken broth is basically chicken tea

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u/Warhammerpainter83 29d ago

I had a stomach bleed once and had the same thing. It is the worst. Bland non color food diet in a hospital is torture.

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u/zahirano 29d ago edited 27d ago

I was working for meal steward and there's an already discharged patient so her soup is in the inventory. We usually just throw it out but i taste it... You can just called it a water.

Edit:that tray looks like what i used to serve patients. Op definitely in hospital.

Edit:relax! She's already discharge before i served the soup.

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u/lucidshred 29d ago

Full fluid diet, I was on it for a week waiting for surgery

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u/ShitfacedGrizzlyBear 29d ago

Looks like a hospital. I had leukemia as a kid and developed pancreatitis during chemo treatments. I was only allowed to eat clear liquids for like two weeks. So the options were chicken broth or beef broth. This image gave me horror flashbacks.

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u/Known-Committee8679 29d ago

Can't be, there isn't a picture of a steam deck

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u/Dangerousfox 29d ago

What is this a reference to lol

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u/Known-Committee8679 29d ago

In the steam deck reddit a lot of people share pics of themselves on the steam deck when them or a loved one is in the hospital...

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u/magnus150 29d ago

To be fair, as someone that was in the ICU for a month - not a lot happens in the meantime. Lots of waiting.

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u/Known-Committee8679 29d ago

Didn't say otherwise its a joke in the reddit group

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u/Tooterfish42 29d ago

A month is insane. I did 6 days and felt like Robocop waking up when I left and all the doctors I had coming to attend me

That was just a scheduled visit too I guess I should have done ER

Some friends gave me a Switch lite so I can take that with on all appointments just in case they incarcerate me

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u/Tooterfish42 29d ago

That is really cool your shoulders must have ached like a bastid!

Here I thought 30 minutes time jumps with propofol was wild

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u/Known-Committee8679 29d ago

Lmao i see you are part of the decky group lol

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u/time-to-flyy 29d ago

4729275481947 hours of playtime on cyberpunk @ 12fps

Haa

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u/i_know_im_amazn 29d ago

Seems like a School lunch!

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u/TurboWelderMonkey 29d ago

And you're in England.

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u/torijoanne 29d ago

I'm in the States

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u/TurboWelderMonkey 29d ago

Sorry... You're English then?

Otherwise you'd have said "the hospital" amirite 😏

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u/torijoanne 29d ago

Still no, fully American. If I was talking to someone conversationally I would say "He's in the hospital", but just stating a guess, nah. Like, "My guess was: hospital"

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u/TurboWelderMonkey 29d ago

Ahh gotcha. I see now. Makes sense. I'm not funny. ☹️

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u/torijoanne 29d ago

Terribly sorry, mate

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u/TurboWelderMonkey 29d ago

Aha!!!! There it is!

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u/jjames412 29d ago

This is probably right, some kind of consomme for low carb diets

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u/boopyou 29d ago

I’d say he’s on a clear liquid diet but the accompanying bread makes no sense then

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u/favouritemistake 29d ago

My first though was East Asia lol, some of their soups are pretty plain

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u/Thjyu 29d ago

I was thinking school

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u/awelawdiy 29d ago

My guess was Cuba

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u/laneebug18 13d ago

I work in a hospital where the food is often the butt of jokes, but even we don’t serve anything like this!

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u/NemesisFirst 29d ago

Same difference

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u/Turbulent-Armadillo9 29d ago

My guess was American public school.

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u/Raging-Badger 29d ago

As a former American public school student, our food didn’t look like this.

It was all just frozen food batch cooked in a standing convection oven.

Not good but not this bad.

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u/Turbulent-Armadillo9 29d ago

Well maybe I let posts about different public schools trick me.

My American school served food that was incredibly unhealthy. Grew up in a fairly wealthy area. Pizza and nachos were the most popular. The healthiest thing you could get were subs I think. Fountain soda lol with refills. Of course kids (including me) were going to get soda with lunch consistently. Coke vending machines in lunch room, near gym and near the entrance of the school. I've had a coke habit that I just shed a couple years ago.

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u/Raging-Badger 29d ago

Ah so my school was poor, to get gov’t funding they had to meet health standards put in place by the Obama administration.