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 $1.00.
A big deal? No. Infuriating? YES.
I like salad but I HATE salads that I’ve bought. I once went to a restaurant and ordered a 9$ Caesar salad. For that kind of money you’d expect home made dressing and croutons.
All I got was a packet of dressing, croutons from a bag and roughly chopped ice burg lettuce.
This was a RESTAURANT. I’ve had salads from fast food places that are better!. The only salad that doesn’t disappoint me is the Cobb salad from chick fil a, but also from now on I’ll just make my own. Magnitudes cheaper too.
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
