I went to a hospital recently to visit a friend and needed to buy lunch while I was there. I purchased a premade chicken Caesar salad in a package for $7.50.
I walk back to where I’m staying and realize the salad has everything except the dressing. It’s literally lettuce, chicken, croutons, and a bit of cheese.
I say fuck this because it’s hardly even a Caesar salad at this point, and I go back to buy something else. That’s when I realize, they do have dressing, but it’s sold separately and it’s a fucking $1.00.
A big deal? No. Infuriating? YES.
That’s pretty normal for something you’d get at a hospital. The food there is designed to be just good enough that you’ll actually eat it but not so good that you’d choose to go there is you had another choice. I got a premade salad from the grocery store last week and it had plenty of meat and cheese on it and came with a big packet of salad dressing that was honestly more than I needed.
There’s a reason people have been making fun of hospital food for decades now lol