Thread 21418591

BEST psych ward/hospital/jail/rehab/institution food you have had, and what was served that was so good?

>>21418591 (OP)
it was the shittiest chicken broth imaginable
>BEST
yes, best. I've only ever had an extended hospital stay after some GI surgery. I couldn't eat solids for like a month. shitty chicken stock was the BEST food they'd allow me to eat
>jello
I can't stand jello.

>>21418611
unhelpful

Blue Bell cookies and cream sandwich while my brother was getting his tonsils removed. It seems like they're complementary with any hospital stay because the nurses just let me take them from their freezer whenever I wanted

>>21418591 (OP)
My family went to visit my grandma after she had a stroke. The hospital had an in-house café, so I ordered a white mocha that tasted a little like peaches for some reason.
Of the very few interactions with hospital food I had, that was definitely the best. The only other ones were a bland sandwich and a gluten-free oatmeal cookie that fell apart the moment I unwrapped it.

chocolate pudding at the hospital

Snickers ice cream bar. Every day we got one ice cream snack, most of us picked the snickers

>>21418591 (OP)
In hospice one of the local pizza places would donate leftover pizza for the visitors to eat

I mean like food made on site...

>>21418815
Was it in a colostomy bag?

When I got arrested, they had pretty good FEMA yellow drink. I gave the rest of the food away in exchange for more of that shit.
>yo anon is trading his meat patties for yo drink nigga
>word?
>GIMMIE THAT YELLOW DRANK
I liked it. Thankfully I wasn't there too long, but it was pretty alright. I didn't have any problems, but I'm a pretty easy going guy.

>>21419035
pretty based

>>21418591 (OP)
I once was allowed to smoke and American Spirit Black in a police station drunk tank while I waited for my ride. I wasn't even drunk, just on research chemicals.

>>21419035
>>21419259
Cheap advertising to a captive audience.

in one of the in-patient rehab places they would let us get little styrofoam tubs of vanilla ice cream (the kind with a wooden spoon taped to it) and they also had those small peanut butter to-go packets (pic related). I mixed them up and sat on the patio every day smoking a pack of newports listening to Sam and Cheryl bicker about a dress being black or blue or gold or some shit. good times.

>>21418591 (OP)
They bought in some pre-packaged salads that were actually really good. Don't remember every detail but it had some delicious blue cheese.

>>21420001
they had like crackers and those peanut butter things at a rehab I went to and my unit was the young adult unit, and we had a few people who should have been over on the eating disorder unit, and I think a few of the girls would get into the crackers and peanut butter, binge on them, and then throw it all up, and you could hear them throwing it up

>>21419617
Also good food not going to waste.
>>21420001
sounds like a good combo

>>21418591 (OP)
Is that the Scientology building?

>>21418591 (OP)
At cleveland clinic the girl was getting my breakfast order, and turned me on to blintz.
I never heard of them or had them since
They were good, mostly everything else was trash

>>21420717
no

>>21418591 (OP)
I was in hospital the other week and I was served fishcakes with white sauce and steamed veges (picrel looks much better than what I had put in front of me)
I normally hate fish and I just started eating because I didn't want to seem ungrateful but I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed it. It didn't even taste fishy at all and I felt physically better afterward
I was surprised because that particular hospital was public and had a really shitty reputation but those fishcakes were pretty damn good. I even slept well after I was discharged (although that could have been the valium they gave me on the way out)
Good work, Logan Hospital

>>21421198
do you feel better?

>>21421208
Kind of? I got prescribed beta blockers that weren't appropriate and they made me crazy for a week or two because of no sleep.
I stopped but the withdrawals from that shit can mess you up for a month or two. Still got mild chest pains and high blood pressure but it's all improving and I'm sleeping a lot better now.
...Thanks for asking, it means a lot, honestly.

>>21421214
do you have high blood pressure still?
try atenolol, I take it, lowers your blood pressure, but it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier so it doesn't change how you feel at all

>>21421217
The blood pressure seems to be working its way down on its own - I believe the reason why I had problems with the beta blockers is because my vagus nerve is compressed from a herniated disc in my neck and the combination of having a messed up fight/flight response from that along with the beta blockers lighting up the adrenal receptors in my brain made it so I was basically going ape shit
When I sleep the wrong way the vagus nerve will play up and mess up my blood pressure for a few months then it goes back down again as the nerve 'settles'
I'm getting to the end of that window now and sure enough, my blood pressure is slowly starting to drop off on its own so I'm thinking it's best to just wait a while before I take the ace inhibitors that my GP prescribed

>>21421270
you should monitor your blood pressure, if its consistently high you should take something
ace inhibitors didn't really work on my blood pressure well and they caused icky side fx

Yo dawg, that'll be $26.99! Cash or card my man?

>>21418591 (OP)
When I was arrested by the FBI I got out without bail, but still spent most of the day in the courthouse lockup. Apparently the feds liked me cause they got me a $5 biggie bag from Wendy's. Poor guy in the other cell just got a crappy-looking tuna sandwich and a green apple.

>>21421270
Is it something that would be helped by a stellate ganglion block?

>>21421279
*walks out*

I've neva beeen

>>21418591 (OP)
I was in an eating disorder treatment place and the food was either decent or just bad.

Anything was better than the "supplement" they make you take if you didn't finish your meal tho

>>21418591 (OP)
Used to work as a server admin for a hospital IT department, had many indulgent meals in the cafeteria.

Best thing I ever had from them was probably the breakfast sandwiches. You had to go when Paul was working the omelet station, he knew how to do eggs right. You also had to specifically request real eggs instead of the weird premade mixture.

>>21421979
Runner-up would probably be the cheesesteak. Not the greatest meat, of course, but you could load it up with all the toppings you wanted.

>>21418591 (OP)
Worked in a hospital when I was younger and the kitchens smelt so bad that I would walk halfway around the outside of the hospital instead of walk past the doors of the kitchen. Rancid.

>>21418591 (OP)
Centerpointe hospital in St. Louis used to have great food when the were still owned by the doctor that founded it. Everything was at least decent, and all the cereal you could want. I was fond of the meatloaf.

I heard that the whole place went to shit when it was sold to private equity. Damn shame, that place got me sober

>>21418591 (OP)

Misericordia. Tasty buffet and desserts. Awesome residents who are very friendly and love to help you. The dining crowd are mostly old farts though.

>>21421992
fries look decent anyway

>>21418591 (OP)
A cute nurse in hospital made me a sandwich and got me a bowl of fresh strawberries. I was high from the painkillers they gave me, but that was still an impressive sandwich. The strawberries were also a suprising extra; the amount they gave me would cost probably around 15 euros in the grocery store.

quesadilla from st mary's hospital in waterbury, connecticut. not bad desu

>>21421979
Damn, Paul does some good work

>>21419616
>research chemicals
Please elaborate

>>21423762
NTA but that generally refers to bespoke psychedelic analogues

>>21418591 (OP)
for the three days I was in a psych ward, the food was not bad. it was generally inoffensive, 3 meals a day, snacks a few times too.

>>21422289
https://www.misericordia.com/about/
this one?

>>21418591 (OP)
One of my friends is the head chef at a hospital. Once I tried some salisbury steak he brought home, wasn't half bad.

>>21425517
neat

Last time I went to the hospital, everything was precisely made so they could tell the doctor exactly what the patient ingested. The menu had exact amounts on it like 200g flour, 10g butter, etc. This was like 20 years ago idk if they still do this. The food itself was ok.

>>21418591 (OP)
We were allowed outside once and I got a cookie and a juicebox

>>21421968
I was in a shitty one and you had to bring your own supplement powder
This poor girl brought in vanilla flavored one and we had to mix it in her mashed potatoes, shit was nasty

>>21425554
i was in a rehab where if you behaved well you got off-campus privileges after a few weeks and I started smuggling in five hour energies in my slippers and selling them to the other patients

>>21418591 (OP)
Trillium psych ward in KY had some really good fried chicken desu. Everything there was pretty great. They also had graham crackers, peanut butter, juice and little sandwiches they left out for us as snacks, which I haven't seen anywhere else inpatient.

>>21425737
Do you live in Kentucky now?

>>21425743
No, east TN. I lived at the KY/VA/TN border when I went there inpatient twice in like three months time.

>>21425744
kinda the same thing
do you hike?

>>21425750
Fairly often, mostly at Frozen Head.

>>21418591 (OP)
Does military food count?
We ate like kings at the KBR run, Camp Liberty chow hall during the Iraq war.
It had anything you wanted, literally.
Lobster and steak 3 times a day…no problem.
Just literally anything.
No Las Vegas buffet could ever compare.

>>21425752
Oh cool. I looked into Frozen Head, it looked like the hike was fucking hard and the view wasn't that great. I was trying to get to Savage Gulf last time and ran out of time. Maybe I should go back.
Do you hike anywhere else? Always looking for suggestions.

>>21425753
you get that the food is nice cuz ur a slave fighting a war for old men who hate you and just want money

>>21425806
I usually just do Lookout Mountain and Old Mac at FHSP but I do like to do Lone Mountain once in awhile since it's literally outside my house. Ozone and Fall Creek Falls area can be fun, I avoid the Smokies because of, well, everything and I already live in the mountains so seems silly to drive to other mountains lol.

>>21418591 (OP)
The hungry jacks I got after complications from surgery that meant I wasn't able to eat anything more than a cheese sandwich after 6pm for three days.
Stuffed myself like a fucking pig.

Also learned that fasting makes me extremely angry because I threatened to belt the shit out of the guy next to me with my IV pole when he wouldn't stop being a cunt.

>>21418591 (OP)
Do hospitals even do this any more? The last time I went to the hospital was when my dad passed out on his day of retirement while driving and crashed into a church parking lot. There was like a regular mini-diner in the hospital. Like sysco is who supplies food to hospitals, same stuff basic restaurants get. I remember getting a chicken sandwich and having to specifically request it not be loaded up with roasted peppers and garlic because this is just the default in NJ.

>>21418591 (OP)
You'd get better responses on /r9k/
/ck/ is filled with normies with normie lives

>>21425835
>Lookout Mountain
I guess that's like the tourist trap mountain outside chatt, I did snooper's rock when I was there, very pretty, somewhat hellish road to get to it.
Frozen head just didn't seem worth the intense hike and there's lots of littler trails I forget what the long distance trail is called but basically there's a continuous trail along the cumberland front and I just have to figure out where there's overlooks that are worth it and easy enough to access but i guess that's south of you

>but I do like to do Lone Mountain
seems like the view is not that great and pretty overgrown as well
maybe ok if you have a mtn bike, but for walking it's pretty far/hard for not that much reward

>Ozone and Fall Creek Falls
both stunning, but I did them both last year

>I avoid the Smokies
cherohala skyway was very pretty, I didn't do any actual hiking there maybe there's some trails with a nice view
I avoid the smokies too generally, due to it being a giant tourist trap, but, it is the highest mountains so if you want to escape the heat its kinda the only game in town and that's WHY its so built up

>and I already live in the mountains so seems silly to drive to other mountains lol.
that's the fun of it you can drive hours north and south along the cumberland front and its still pretty mountains

>>21425852
/r9k/ is failed normalfags that think living with their mom makes them special instead of just more boring.

>>21425855
Honestly Lookout isn't very touristy, unless you consider folks that live maybe half an hour away to be tourists. Lone Mountain isn't a great view, you're right, but like I said I literally live at the base so it's an easy weekday hike for me.

Then again, I don't concentrate really on the view I'm going to get when I hike, I've seen most of the views multiple times in the area and drive through scenic areas every single day and have my entire life. Just a cheap fun way to get out in nature, and if I go with someone they usually like the view and that's good enough for me. I like to avoid the crowds and bird watch, look for little critters and just enjoy a nice picnic lunch, bonus points if there's a swimming hole or nice creek.

I do most of my walking just in the woods behind my house, and visit the horses, cattle and donkeys I know and give out treats (with owner permission).

Have you been to Cummins Falls or Rock Island? Or Point Park or Sunset Rock?

>>21425867
Lots of posters on there talk about their times in the psych ward, how much they hate their psych doctors, etc
That was the whole point of this thread but apparently people can't read

>>21425879
>That was the whole point of this thread but apparently people can't read
Then the thread should be deleted and you should be permanently banned, no? This is a board about food.

>>21425882
I'm not the OP you fucking illiterate dipshit
Holy shit you are fucking stupid
Fucking retard JFC
Take your fucking retard DNA out of the gene pool

>>21425871
I like good views - though I am definitely open to swimming holes and nice creeks. I have limited mobility so I have to parcel out my strength wisely.

>Cummins Falls
no
>Rock Island
yes but the trail was closed so I only saw it from like the top of the falls, but still very pretty, was kinda flooded and you couldn't take the trail from like the first parking lot cuz it was fenced closed cuz they were releasing water from the dam
>Or Point Park/sunset rock
this appears to be a 3 mi hike from lookout mountain
I will definitely add that to my list but I'm more excited about savage gulf

Also Laurel Snow looks like it has a nice overlook but the overlook is absurdly hard to get to because you have to access it all the way from where I highlighted in orange and climb the cumberland front from the bottom and they have really strict access hours, the overlook is marked in red and it seems like if you parked at yellow it would be an easy hike but it involves parking on private property next to someone's house so probably not doable
If you know anything about that...
or other suggestions for nice views in that area
It's a far drive for me so I have to optimize my time

I also want to go back to Sequatchie Valley, that was very pretty

>>21425887
Why shouldn't you be banned if you're not here to talk about food? Answer the question.

>>21425889
Not sure about those places but I did have a good time at Forbidden Caverns, easily walkable and if you go at night chances are you will get a private tour, I headed out toward Signal Mountain area after that and there are a lot of nice views out that way.

>>21425898
I guess I do like a good tourist cave and I don't mind noisy groups on cave tours, I'm so used to that. Plus if its hot or thundering that's a good place. I guess I'm stuck in the smokies anyways if its 90 degrees, I ain't gonna be down at the cumberland front if its super hot. I dunno.

>>21425907
It stays like 65 year round, if you go near night like I said, it'll just be you and some tour guides and you get to do whatever you want. They turned on the big chandelier thing and everything for us. It's a fun little thing to do on your way to Signal Mountain, was able to get an airbnb there for like 80 bucks with a jacuzzi. Even just driving up Signal you get some great views. There's some good hiking and camping not too far from the area also, if you just look where the white water rafting tours are and look for smaller campgrounds near that you'll find some decent hiking in my experience

>>21425897
It's not my thread you stupid asshole
Holy shit
Please go trip on a beer bottle in your house and have your neck land on a rusty knife and make the world a better place

In basic training we got to grab these chocolate special k protein bars after dinner and take them back to the barracks for an after dinner snack. People would steal a handful of them and cups of peanut butter. We stashed them in this access panel in the bathroom. Eating that peanut butter using one of those fuckin bars as a spoon at 2am while staring at the metal door was so fucking good.

we got small turkey plates on thanksgiving
i tried pumpkin pie for the first time
it's good desu

>>21426105
zogbot

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>>21418591 (OP)
the hospital cafe/ cafeteria in my town is open to the public and everything ive eaten there has been great.

>>21427576
specifically?

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