I have come across bouncing jelly. No word of a lie, the darn stuff bounced at least twice when you threw it on the floor - it was uncuttable. Asparagus for breakfast (Ewwww).
One poor chp in ICU, due for D/C to ward that day little appetite but what did the kitchen in it's infinite send him? On a white plate was a white piece of fish in white sauce and neatly arranged at the side was a..... wait for it ...... serve of spagetti bolognaise!!! There are some smells in this universe that God never meant to combine - fish and Spag Bol are two of them!!!!
The winner though happened during my training. Little old lady on a 20 grm Protien diet. Renal failure - badly fitting dentures and the kitchen sent her a, well the only term appropriate is "leathered", steak. Black and so tough it fought back.
The RN muttered under her breath - offered it to the patient so we could say that we had done so - then taped that sucker to the plate. When the dietitian came up later in the day she held up the plate vertically with this black piece of hard leather curling around the tape. To this day I do not know it that bit of steak had curled through drying or it was trying to escape. It had the desired effect - the meals got better.
Specializes in 4 years of L&D and 6 years of Med-Surg.
Let's see, I remember serving my patient something gross and smelled gross as well!
Pureed meatloff and spinach!!! What did my patient say about this? "You aint serving this *&$(# to me" You better call the doctor! Of course he was there and no way was his diet was changed? Did he eat it????
Yup! He had no other choice, either he eats his last meal and wait till the next day after lunch, because he was going to be NPO after MN. Oh! well......bottoms up:rotfl:
Do you ever wonder how the kitchen staff can make this stuff and put in on plates?!? Yuck!! I just heard that my grandfather was served a pureed bologna sandwich!!! nasty!!
Actually the bad food award has to go to hospital coffee. The stuff the state goverment buys in is a cross between insipid mud and carbon remover with a scrape off your teeth aftertaste.
Specializes in Geriatrics/Oncology/Psych/College Health.
Oh my - you all brought some wild memories flooding back lol. I remember when I was first working as an aide in the nursing home - my Dad also happened to be a cook there - and they rotated a six week menu schedule. They had fall menus (more hot food, heavier stuff) and spring menus (more sandwiches, salads, etc.) The fall menus had one Friday when the resident were served corned beef and cabbage at lunch and some other noxious cruciferous veggie at dinner. The aides HATED working that Friday night shift. On the bright side, all our little folks who had a touch of constipation got cleaned out that night .
Edited to add: my Dad tried hard to change that particular menu, but it stayed year after year because it met some nutritional requirement from the state.
Going back to the hamburger pattie story - one of the RNs I work with used to work in mental health. One of the patients had a box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates in the fridge, which one of the other patients kept taking. When she realised that they were being pinched, she took the box out of the fridge. A new one appeared the following afternoon. The RN mentioned the "new" box, to which the patient replied "oh yes, new chocolates" and snickered. The next day, some of the chocolates were missing and the patient that had been taking them was feeling quite ill. Wanna know why.....? The patient who owned the box of chocolates got the shits (haha) with the patient who was taking the chocolates, so she rolled her poo into little Ferrero Rocher-like balls and put the box back in the fridge.
Oh - or the patient with hypoxic brain damage from an OD, who, if you don't get to in time after she's had supps, will sit in her bed eating her poo and saying "yummmm" when you ask her what she's doing.
Not to mention her turds look like they've come out of an elephant they're so big.
You better call the doctor! Of course he was there and no way was his diet was changed? Did he eat it????
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CseMgr1, ASN, RN
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