Northern Manitoba town flocks to local hospital — for the food

[SLM]

I eat at the General Hosp in Regina with the Mrs for lunch quite often. The use Sysco foods which are actually really damn good and the menu options are almost limitless. You'd be surprised how many restaurants use Sysco for their entire menus.

Another reason for not having shipped from Wal*Mart is you need a credit card.

A third reason...people are simply really ****ing lazy.

4th...How many people know how to cook?

Ok bear with me here. I'm operating under the assumption that as the article states the number of people going to the hospital cafeteria to eat is out of the ordinary and it's primarily because food costs are inordinately high, $12.00 for a bag of potatoes, much higher than normal. So that would suggest to me that it's a community problem and not simply an individual problem. So wouldn't that make the argument for a community solution then? A co-operative of some kind would have the buying power that some individuals wouldn't have on their own. You would just need a drive to kick it off. I still think some kind of government intervention might be warranted, not necessarily federal we could easily be talking municipal here. At least to get the ball rolling. I'd hate the idea of having to get up and showered and dressed just to trudge to the hospital for my morning coffee.

Woe to the polar bears that would cross me on my way too.

 

[bill barilko]

I eat at the General Hosp in Regina with the Mrs for lunch quite often. The use Sysco foods which are actually really damn good and the menu options are almost limitless. You'd be surprised how many restaurants use Sysco for their entire menus.

In fact Sysco is the worst crap imaginable-basically junk meant to be reheated in the microwave which is how many people live eating junk food- that's why they put up nonsensical posts praising the slop.

If I see a Sysco truck behind a restaurant I know it's a place to avoid-ditto seeing Snowcap behind a bakery.

Another reason for not having shipped from Wal*Mart is you need a credit card.

And who in this country doesn't have a Credit Card FFS-they give them away hand over fist where I live.

A third reason...people are simply really ****ing lazy.

That much is true.

4th...How many people know how to cook?

I certainly do, everyone in my building does as do most in my hood-many don't cook every night no real need to given the cornucopia we live in.

 

[JamesBondo]

Wouldn't it be fair to say that even an affordable cafeteria should be more expensive than groceries?

 

[JLM]

I know when my Dad was on his death bed (in Victoria) we ate quite a few meals in the hosp. cafeteria. It was reasonably good grub and priced at about half of what we'd pay in a restaurant.

 

[bill barilko]

How gawdawful must food in Thompson be if people flock to a hospital cafeteria to eat?

Poor hillbilly basturds.

 

[petros]

Ok bear with me here. I'm operating under the assumption that as the article states the number of people going to the hospital cafeteria to eat is out of the ordinary and it's primarily because food costs are inordinately high, $12.00 for a bag of potatoes, much higher than normal. So that would suggest to me that it's a community problem and not simply an individual problem. So wouldn't that make the argument for a community solution then? A co-operative of some kind would have the buying power that some individuals wouldn't have on their own. You would just need a drive to kick it off. I still think some kind of government intervention might be warranted, not necessarily federal we could easily be talking municipal here. At least to get the ball rolling. I'd hate the idea of having to get up and showered and dressed just to trudge to the hospital for my morning coffee.

Woe to the polar bears that would cross me on my way too.

The restaurants up there suck raw moose ****.

How gawdawful must food in Thompson be if people flock to a hospital cafeteria to eat?

Poor hillbilly basturds.

A third reason...people are simply really ****ing lazy.

4th...How many people know how to cook?

Once again Billy.