The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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morning glory said:
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Anyway - it does sound better than UK hospitals. :) What I used to hate was the meal times - especially the evening meal served at 6pm. I mean - what do you do for the rest of the evening! I used to order sandwiches so that I could stash them and eat them at 10 pm.
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I have always eaten evening meal at 6pm. I was brought up that way (by my grandparents). By 10pm in usually in bed asleep!

With my husband getting home late from work now we live further afield, our evening meal trends to be 6:30-7:00pm which neither of us like.
My husband came from the same type of family whereby your meal was served at 6pm. If you are not there, then for was put on a plate for you and left to go cold if you were to be very late home or kept warm if you were due home before everyone else had finished.
My parents just didn't cook, you cooked your own meal at whatever time you wanted, if you wanted.
I always tried to keep to a constant time when I brought my brother and sister up. It just felt better to me. And we would sit together (the 3 of us) and eat together.
 
morning glory said:
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Anyway - it does sound better than UK hospitals. :) What I used to hate was the meal times - especially the evening meal served at 6pm. I mean - what do you do for the rest of the evening! I used to order sandwiches so that I could stash them and eat them at 10 pm.
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In our local hospitals, the evening meal is sandwiches because it is served after the kitchen staff have finished for the day. The main meal is at lunch time and is generally quite good. The catering is contracted out, and I think the same people prepare and cook the patients' food as for the public in the restaurants on the premises. There is no separate eating place for staff, so they eat in the public restaurants, but even with staff discounts, the food is expensive. All except one of the restaurants in the town were too far away to get to during your half hour lunch break, although there was a Pizza Hut across the road, if you were desperate.
 
Here's the hospital vegan menu for tomorrow. The only issue is that the margarine is only 100% lactose free, not dairy free, so I don't even bother ordering it now.

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Sadly I don't get fruit (!), don't have an option for lemonade (which the others get), there is no light menu (sandwiches though I could manufacture my own if I stock piled bread from each meal) and there's no soup option because all the soup had dairy in it in one form or another. But I do get vegan jelly, vegan custard bit it leaves a lot to be desired, like sugar and I do get things like stewed prunes which are rather sweet but quite nice (4 prunes).

Lunch never varies the mains are always the same but the sides do vary.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I have always eaten evening meal at 6pm. I was brought up that way (by my grandparents). By 10pm in usually in bed asleep!

With my husband getting home late from work now we live further afield, our evening meal trends to be 6:30-7:00pm which neither of us like.
My husband came from the same type of family whereby your meal was served at 6pm. If you are not there, then for was put on a plate for you and left to go cold if you were to be very late home or kept warm if you were due home before everyone else had finished.
My parents just didn't cook, you cooked your own meal at whatever time you wanted, if you wanted.
I always tried to keep to a constant time when I brought my brother and sister up. It just felt better to me. And we would sit together (the 3 of us) and eat together.
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We generally eat for around 6pm.
 
I used to eat "dinner" at around 18:00 until just recently. As I was in the habit of going to bed around 20:00 I didn't think that I was giving the food time to digest and woke up with like a "lead belly" in the morning. I now eat around 15:00 - 16:00 and actually go to bed later (particularly on race weekends).

I still wake with "lead belly" though.
 
Yorky said:
I used to eat "dinner" at around 18:00 until just recently. As I was in the habit of going to bed around 20:00 I didn't think that I was giving the food time to digest and woke up with like a "lead belly" in the morning. I now eat around 15:00 - 16:00 and actually go to bed later (particularly on race weekends).



I still wake with "lead belly" though.
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We generally go to bed around 9.30-10.00pm and neither of us like to be digesting as it keeps us awake plus after being at work all day we are ready to eat by 6pm.
 
When I used to work for a living "on site", we started at 06:00 and finished around 19:00. Breakfast in the canteen was 09:00 and dinner was around 15:00. 19:00 was beer time.

[But I was so much younger then]
 
sidevalve said:
The days of fish n chip and beer suppers are now just memories :cry:
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I cannot remember a pub that didn't have a chippy within staggering distance.

I guess that there were a lot more pubs and a lot more chippies back then.
 
Lullabelle said:
This morning I cleaned the kitchen and lounge, gave all my plants a good watering then settled down to a couple of chapters of Stephen King Firestarter, love his work.
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A good start of Sunday.
I did not have to water the plants because here there was a universal flood ... in return I had to clean again all the windows of the house! ouch! However, we also had lunch with my parents ( baked lasagna today!) and I just finished to preparing the suitcase for the departure
 
MypinchofItaly said:
@sidevalve I don't think you are so old!
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Sadly my insides do.
Yorky said:
I cannot remember a pub that didn't have a chippy within staggering distance.

I guess that there were a lot more pubs and a lot more chippies back then.
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Within walking distance in sunny Leeds [the walks between pubs helped the beer down] we had eight pubs and three chippies, and that was without bothering to go into town. Which was easy enough back then as there were things called buses every 15 mins - now unless you live in London [where they spend 15 billion :eek: on a new underground link] I'm afraid public transport is a bit of a lottery.
 
sidevalve said:
Sadly my insides do.

Within walking distance in sunny Leeds [the walks between pubs helped the beer down] we had eight pubs and three chippies, and that was without bothering to go into town. Which was easy enough back then as there were things called buses every 15 mins - now unless you live in London [where they spend 15 billion :eek: on a new underground link] I'm afraid public transport is a bit of a lottery.
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Finding a chippy in Leeds, let alone a decent one, is nigh on impossible.

Best of luck trying to make it down one street in the city centre, without passing more than one pub.
 
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