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Default Heating some deli roast beef

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:18:01 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Mon 14 Jan 2019 10:00:42a, jmcquown told us...
>
>> On 1/14/2019 11:15 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2019-01-14 9:42 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 1/14/2019 12:35 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Admittedly, though, this is a "high end" hospital.Â* I lucked
>>>>> out being sent to this one.
>>>>>
>>>> I worked with a guy in Memphis who said his parents would go to
>>>> a hospital cafeteria once a week for dinner.Â* They claimed the
>>>> food was better than any restaurant.
>>>
>>> When I was in the hospital after heart surgery the food was not
>>> all horrible.Â* My first solid food was a shingle of beef. The
>>> other meals were better.Â* On my last stay they kept me on clear
>>> fluids and on the last morning I rebelled. The nurse found me
>>> some real food. It may have tasted extra good because it was the
>>> first solid food I had had in a week. My lunch that day was not
>>> bad.Â* I can't say it was better than any restaurant. It was
>>> perhaps as good as some chains.
>>>

>> Well hey, I don't know what his parents considered good. All I
>> know is he said they went to a hospital cafeteria once a week for
>> dinner. I'm not sure if it was food quality or price. Hey, it's
>> a cafeteria. I'm not a fan of cafeterias, in general.
>>
>> The only good cafeteria I've ever been to and actually recommended
>> to others was Picadilly in Germantown, TN. I'd go there for lunch
>> with co-workers about once a month.
>>
>> They had a wonderful selection of freshly prepared foods. I
>> usually got a cup of the soup of the day, baked fish (never
>> overcooked!) with a side of steamed vegetables. But they often
>> had roast beef; there was a carving station on the line and
>> someone would slice off some beef. To go with the beef was gravy,
>> mashed potatoes. A lot of other selections.
>> The cooks were right there talking to us as we moved along the
>> line.
>> Picadilly had (has?) *really* good food. For a cafeteria.
>>
>> Jill
>>

>
>There was a winderful cafeteria in Memphis, long gone and I can't
>remember the name of it.


Innocent typo of course, but for a moment I was wondering what
winderful meant. It deserves to exist as a word.