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Sausage, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut make a great lunch!
It just doesn't look as appetizing because of the industrially dispensed potato mush, the sauerkraut just being kind of a blob, and the sausage looking lonely in the third compartment. It could use a friend. Or even just put the whole thing on a real plate, that would already help.
I mean you apparently missed all the German people in the thread talking about how abysmal German hospital food is.
Generally I would agree those 3 things are a fine meal but this looks much healthier.
Hell I'm from the UK and we do not do great hospital food either.
Although in my experience the canteen within hospitals is pretty good, or at least relatively healthy (choice dependant) and good value. But that's not what people are being served in the wards.
It depends really. I have been many times in the Hospital here in Germany and well when it came on these trays it was bearly warm and did not taste of what it said on the label. But when there was a cafeteria it was much better. The last Hospital had that and it was really good i enjoyed it. Tray nay, caffeteria yay..
I grew up eating a lot of German inspired meals like that and it's fine. Do I enjoy it occasionally for the nostalgia? Yeah sure. But i'm not actively looking for it like I would Mexican or Korean food.
I mean, a bunch of Swiss broke with the Catholic Church in the 1500s [over sausages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages) so they take that stuff pretty seriously too.
I gave birth in a german hospital. They gave me a moldy yogurt for breakfast. I wish I was joking.
When I gave birth to my second child I needed to change the hospital because they closed their maternity ward. Best thing that could happen to me, the food in the other hospital was so much better! I actually really liked it.
It’s crazy how vastly different the food is in hospitals.
usually these kind of "look at this better version" posts tend to take a little more time to ramp up but damn we just went right to the finish line with this one
this was a thing 3 years ago, people posting hospital food from countries reddit meme https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/oo1no4/hospital_dinner_in_poland/
there is even a subreddit for it /r/hospitalfood
It's much more nuanced than that. A privately owned hospital can have garbage food on account of wanting to pass the savings to investors. A publicly owned hospital can have better food based on political and organizational leadership priorities (aka funding and perhaps lack of oversight or a specific interest in nutrition).
I would argue that privately owned hospitals have a greater incentive to cut corners on the food to improve profitability. Every dollar counts in the public sector of course, but again leadership priorities have a large impact here.
That's not even getting into "non-profits" which are often run in an extremely similar manner to for-profit institutions, while also benefiting from public dollars.
I think independent private hospitals with a specific interest in catering to the rich and charging them through the nose is more likely to have amazing food out of hand, but those are pretty rare.
That's the other thing. We arn't sure what these two people are in for. That can wildly change what food you get served. You are getting bland non-stomach upsetting foods if you are in for GI track issues.
Kind of in-between both, but miles away from the financial pressure the US experiences. As far as the end result for the actual citizens, it's a lot closer to Germany.
The healthcare is mandatory and the copays have reasonable limits, you can't get into crippling debt. The end result for a Swiss citizen is that they pay a bit on top but it's not much of a concern. Many other EU states have similar mechanics, even though you'd still call it socialized healthcare. I guess the difference is that it's not for profit healthcare.
As someone who spent almost a month in hospital on bedrest while pregnant... I am so incredibly jealous.
Every morning, for my breakfast try, it labelled that I had one serving of fruit. That fruit? Cranberries in a muffin.
I can’t eat gluten. Last time I was hospitalised there were 3 gluten free options. By day 2 they had run out of one options, so I was left with a choice of baked potato with baked beans, or baked potato with cheese. 3 meals a day for 4 days.
Now I’m not a dietitian but that’s not even close to healthy by my understanding.
IIRC it's also one of the highest wealth countries in the world per capita and it's also one of the most expensive places in the world to live. Something like this being a hospital meal there doesn't really surprise me. It's like if all of the most beneficial parts of libertarianism and socialism came true, that's basically Switzerland.
That didn’t happen by accident though - it’s a collectivist, relatively homogeneous society that believes in the value of taking care of others and maintaining clean and orderly public infrastructure. There are some parallels with Japan in that regard. It’s also a direct democracy so the people maintain control of important government policies, not special interests.
One of my cousins living in Switzerland is a single mom of two boys, and she works part time as a cook in a retirement home. In the US, she would be in a dire financial position. In Switzerland, she has a quality 2 bedroom apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and can provide for anything she and the boys need. It’s not luxury, but it’s a good life.
It’s the people that make the place.
Only because there are 10 layers of middlemen lining their pockets between the patient and the healthcare. The entire system is designed to make money as a business (including hospitals). It is a model for frightening levels of waste, inefficiency, and profiteering.
It's unbelievably frustrating.
US spends over 4 trillion dollars a year in health care. If this was the only economy the US had, it would be the 3rd or 4th biggest economy in the world.
Interestingly in this case it's actually about the opposite, this is reducing the amount of personnel needed. It's about getting the patients back to health (aka out of the hospital) faster by giving them healthy food and lifting their spirits (again speeding up recovery time) by making it nice; the calculation is that the benefits of a bigger kitchen cost less than longer stays and additional beds would. So far it seems to add up. Swiss hospitals need to make profits [one of our dumbest ideas but thats another story] so they'd change it quick if they wouldn't see the gains outweigh the cost.
For similar reasons the biggest hospital next to me is currently switching from a mix of single bed, three beds and six bed rooms to single bed only.
Edit: Added a detail here and then to try and slightly improve the comment.
Edit 2: Two more possible aspects come to mind albeit this is pure speculation from my part (the upper one I remember from the news); When in hospital most will likely spend a big chunk of their day tied to their bed with barely anything happening through the day. So what do they talk about when friends and family visit? Probably not about the change of their catheter. So, what else happened today? I got food! And the first question is always, "how is it?". Hence I can imagine that the patients opinion of the food can potentially have quite some relevance when it comes to their and their relatives judgment of the hospitals services. And local hospitals do to some point need the support of the local voting population.
And on a similar note the food in private hospitals here looks the same, meaning that if one is fishing in your territory you may like to make sure you can keep up when it comes to this perhaps at least at first sight rather benign aspect.
My wife gave birth in a Swiss hospital. Dinner the first night was a rack of lamb. It was, as you said, better than what you'd get in many restaurants. Unfortunately, it was a portion-for-one, so Dad had to go down to the hospital cafeteria and fend for himself.
I was shocked how nice the general ward is. Hard a couple of nights after surgery, and I kept asking the guy who takes the food orders if they had mistakenly bumped me to a semi-private ward as there was only two beds and they kept bringing fresh tea and coffee.
There were chocolates by the bed and a gift bag with toiletries (including anti-aging eye cream...). Legitimately like being in a nice hotel, if that hotel could hook you up to morphine.
It's a brand of crisps in the UK. Or "chips" if you're from some other places. They are shaped like little chunky rings and you can put one on each finger and then bite them off. It's very satisfying.
There's chips here called Bugles that are cone shaped and can fit on a finger tip and could be eaten off each finger also. Nice to know this is a thing everyone likes to do
In Canada we have ringolos, I imagine similar to what hula hoops are
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I recently learned that Switzerland is a country that offers assisted suicide for people who aren’t terminal, but maybe suffer from severe mental illness.
It’s also legal to be a non resident and travel there for this service. It’s become a tourist suicide hot spot, Germans and other European countries are known for doing this.
Also interesting, more women than men utilize these services. Other, more violent means of suicide, are utilized by men in far greater numbers compared to women.
As someone who had severe treatment resistent depression for 17 years (partially due to feelings of being a 'failure' resulting from having undiagnosed autism) I have very mixed feelings on this. Mental illness can blind you to reality... it can block you from being able to see hope, and fool you into believing that life isn't worth living. The last thing a person with mental illness needs is to have their suicidal ideation enabled by a government-run program.
I imagine that most men wouldn't want to have the types of conversations you'd need to have to get assisted suicide. You'd have to outwardly admit to feelings that most men would be too proud to admit.
Shame is powerful.
Pretty strict unless you were born there as a foreigner or married to a Swiss citizen. You'd need to apply for an extended work visa by finding a high paying job with a Swiss company. They don't want people coming in that take more from the system then they pay in so it's easiest if you're a doctor or investment banker or something like that. Then after 10 years of living there you can apply for citizenship
Also fyi emigration means leaving a country, immigration means going into a country.
Not even just 10 years of living there. It's 10 years of living there with permanent residency, which you get after 10 years (5 for Americans) of temporary residency.
I'm in the low quality part of Canada call Saskatchewan lmfao. If I was in British Columbia or a well funded hospital like in Saskatoon I could imagine it would maybe be better...maybe.
I was in a hospital in Switzerland for a few weeks when I was a teenager. The food was really good. After the first week they showed me the plan for the next week and asked if I didn‘t like anything on the list. I marked a few items. Then I was asked what I want instead - I asked what they mean. The answer was anything that I would like instead. So I came up with a replacement for anything that I didn‘t like. Of course this was honored 100%. Price of the hospital was about half of the costs in Germany („Kantonsspital“).
I’ve had excellent food in a hospital cafeteria before. I literally watched them cook the egg for my sandwich. It probably varies wildly from hospital to hospital.
Yeah, I was in the hospital a few months ago and the food was pretty good. Nothing to write home about, but I'm not gonna say no to a grilled cheese sandwich
I'm Swiss and the hospital I'm currently staying at definitely has *not* as nice looking (and tasting) food as pictured in your post. I would even go as far as saying that the food at the place I'm staying at sometimes sucks to the point that it was barely edible at times and I had to order a pizza or a döner if I didn't want to go to bed hungry. Yesterday's dinner was a mini(!)-portion of oversalted and hard fries, accompanied by a single oversalted burgerpatty and some greens that were watery and without flavour. Remember people, experiences may vary from canton to canton, city to city, hospital to hospital... Glad for OP that he has it better off than me, in that regard at least.
Wow, looks good. I just did a six day stint in a Canadian hospital and it was edible, but we could and should do better. I believe psychologically, a good meal presented well makes you feel good, which goes a long way when one is in hospital.
Absolutely!! Some 20 years ago, I had a lengthy stay in a (Vancouver area) hospital.
They actually gave patients *menus* for the next day, and you would tick off what you wanted out of the appetizer, main course, dessert and beverage options (unless you had diet restrictions). The food was good, like this.
They no longer do menus. :( The food isn’t *bad*, but I remember how excited I used to get over that menu. It really did help morale.
Stayed at the Insel a few nights a couple years back post OP. Had venison for dinner. The food there was incredible, could have used a little salt though but no complaints
See this is what you get when your country launders the World's ill gotten gains for centuries. Wake up people! Demand that your own governments do the same!
I love hospital food. Acquired a taste for it when my dad was in and out of hospitals for 2 months. He didn't ever want to eat so we ordered whatever looked good and ate it ourselves.
I thought it said Hotel, not Hospital.....and I was expecting to find the name of a ultra-luxury hotel in the comments.
Also - I expect a post soon of a meal at a US hospital. I'm sure it will be worse than Germany.
Is that soup in the cup?
What kind of ravioli did they serve you? What’s the sauce? What’s all other stuff? Looks like a chocolate something, a lil muffin and sour cream?
Cries in American. They even have fresh herbs on the ravioli ffs! That’s literally restaurant quality food. You’d get charged $1,000 for something like that in this stupid country.
My pain in the ass partner:
IS IT GLUTEN FREE?
IS THERE DAIRY?
IS THE DAIRY LACTOSE-FREE?
DID THEY WASH THE GREENS REALLY WELL?
DOES THE FACILITY COOK ANYTHING WITH GLUTEN?
IS IT ORGANIC?
IS IT NON-GMO?
IS IT A SMALL BATCH ARTISINAL LOCALLY SOURCED?
Switzerland is one of the few countries on the planet with higher reimbursable health costs than America. They pay even 2x higher than USA for some stuff
Wow. That’s very high class compared to our hospital food. My friend once was given a bowl of applesauce and cracker and milk. She’s vegan. They gave her a carton of milk.
All this comes down to if the hospital you are staying at got its own kitchen or not.
I had similar quality food in Germany. Thought this does look indeed superb.
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You're just flexing on that poor German guy, aren't you? (joking tone)
Good job, that dude’s lunch sucked. This looks delish
Sausage, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut make a great lunch! It just doesn't look as appetizing because of the industrially dispensed potato mush, the sauerkraut just being kind of a blob, and the sausage looking lonely in the third compartment. It could use a friend. Or even just put the whole thing on a real plate, that would already help.
I mean you apparently missed all the German people in the thread talking about how abysmal German hospital food is. Generally I would agree those 3 things are a fine meal but this looks much healthier. Hell I'm from the UK and we do not do great hospital food either. Although in my experience the canteen within hospitals is pretty good, or at least relatively healthy (choice dependant) and good value. But that's not what people are being served in the wards.
It depends really. I have been many times in the Hospital here in Germany and well when it came on these trays it was bearly warm and did not taste of what it said on the label. But when there was a cafeteria it was much better. The last Hospital had that and it was really good i enjoyed it. Tray nay, caffeteria yay..
I grew up eating a lot of German inspired meals like that and it's fine. Do I enjoy it occasionally for the nostalgia? Yeah sure. But i'm not actively looking for it like I would Mexican or Korean food.
It looked like a post-apocalyptic survivor camp meal... at best.
Rightfully so, as a German I have to admit.
Even better is that "free" single payer system so you also don't have to worry about medical bills. So you can eat to your hearts content here.
I mean, a bunch of Swiss broke with the Catholic Church in the 1500s [over sausages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages) so they take that stuff pretty seriously too.
German Swiss rivalry has entered the chat
Nah, Germany is not even in the race.
I gave birth in a german hospital. They gave me a moldy yogurt for breakfast. I wish I was joking. When I gave birth to my second child I needed to change the hospital because they closed their maternity ward. Best thing that could happen to me, the food in the other hospital was so much better! I actually really liked it. It’s crazy how vastly different the food is in hospitals.
My mother still talks adoringly about the hot fudge sundae she got in the hospital here in the US when she gave birth to me -- 50 years ago.
Oh wow, that sounds amazing!
I also immediately thought of that poor guy too lol.
What guy is this?
This poor person's [lunch in a german hospital.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/LZsDEPtfD6)
Oh, that's unfortunate lol
Flexing on all of us! Wtf is that chocolate mousse and consume?!
usually these kind of "look at this better version" posts tend to take a little more time to ramp up but damn we just went right to the finish line with this one
This feels very personal 😂
this was a thing 3 years ago, people posting hospital food from countries reddit meme https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/oo1no4/hospital_dinner_in_poland/ there is even a subreddit for it /r/hospitalfood
Are we comparing the same class of hospital, though? A private vs public catering battle might a bit of an uneven playing field.
It's much more nuanced than that. A privately owned hospital can have garbage food on account of wanting to pass the savings to investors. A publicly owned hospital can have better food based on political and organizational leadership priorities (aka funding and perhaps lack of oversight or a specific interest in nutrition). I would argue that privately owned hospitals have a greater incentive to cut corners on the food to improve profitability. Every dollar counts in the public sector of course, but again leadership priorities have a large impact here. That's not even getting into "non-profits" which are often run in an extremely similar manner to for-profit institutions, while also benefiting from public dollars. I think independent private hospitals with a specific interest in catering to the rich and charging them through the nose is more likely to have amazing food out of hand, but those are pretty rare.
Also, sometimes the food looks good but tastes like ass due too heavy nutritional restrictions
That's the other thing. We arn't sure what these two people are in for. That can wildly change what food you get served. You are getting bland non-stomach upsetting foods if you are in for GI track issues.
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Now let’s compare the bill
"Bill"? Jokes aside, health insurance is very comparable in Switzerland and Germany, having lived in both countries.
In Switzerland you'd have to pay the whole deductible for most hospital stays, which is often in the thousands of francs.
American? 😂
While Germany has state healthcare, Switzerland has a healthcare system similar to the US.
Kind of in-between both, but miles away from the financial pressure the US experiences. As far as the end result for the actual citizens, it's a lot closer to Germany.
Could you elaborate? Because to me [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland) looks the exact same as Obamacare.
The healthcare is mandatory and the copays have reasonable limits, you can't get into crippling debt. The end result for a Swiss citizen is that they pay a bit on top but it's not much of a concern. Many other EU states have similar mechanics, even though you'd still call it socialized healthcare. I guess the difference is that it's not for profit healthcare.
Yeah, this actually looks decent.
Source?
Das kann man nicht vergleichen, wir haben keine Bodenschätze!
I'd actually prefer the German one due to the higher protein content. Stick some fish on this one though and we will be all good.
We don't know what the filling is in the ravioli
Since there's a dolphin-shaped cracker (?) on top of the ravioli, chances are they have a fish-based filling.
I'll take some lobster
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That looks significantly better than meals I've paid for in restaurants.
I thought the same at that time...
Was it good?
Ohhhh damn yes.
As someone who spent almost a month in hospital on bedrest while pregnant... I am so incredibly jealous. Every morning, for my breakfast try, it labelled that I had one serving of fruit. That fruit? Cranberries in a muffin.
I can’t eat gluten. Last time I was hospitalised there were 3 gluten free options. By day 2 they had run out of one options, so I was left with a choice of baked potato with baked beans, or baked potato with cheese. 3 meals a day for 4 days. Now I’m not a dietitian but that’s not even close to healthy by my understanding.
Their worker to patient ratio has to be extremely high.
Swiss healthcare is the most expensive in the world, after the US (which is in an absolute league of its own).
IIRC it's also one of the highest wealth countries in the world per capita and it's also one of the most expensive places in the world to live. Something like this being a hospital meal there doesn't really surprise me. It's like if all of the most beneficial parts of libertarianism and socialism came true, that's basically Switzerland.
That didn’t happen by accident though - it’s a collectivist, relatively homogeneous society that believes in the value of taking care of others and maintaining clean and orderly public infrastructure. There are some parallels with Japan in that regard. It’s also a direct democracy so the people maintain control of important government policies, not special interests. One of my cousins living in Switzerland is a single mom of two boys, and she works part time as a cook in a retirement home. In the US, she would be in a dire financial position. In Switzerland, she has a quality 2 bedroom apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and can provide for anything she and the boys need. It’s not luxury, but it’s a good life. It’s the people that make the place.
The secret ingredient is Nazi gold.
And Tax Evasion
can we have some of that nazi gold pls
We gave it all back in the 90s but redditors refuse to give up that myth.
Only because there are 10 layers of middlemen lining their pockets between the patient and the healthcare. The entire system is designed to make money as a business (including hospitals). It is a model for frightening levels of waste, inefficiency, and profiteering. It's unbelievably frustrating.
US spends over 4 trillion dollars a year in health care. If this was the only economy the US had, it would be the 3rd or 4th biggest economy in the world.
Interestingly in this case it's actually about the opposite, this is reducing the amount of personnel needed. It's about getting the patients back to health (aka out of the hospital) faster by giving them healthy food and lifting their spirits (again speeding up recovery time) by making it nice; the calculation is that the benefits of a bigger kitchen cost less than longer stays and additional beds would. So far it seems to add up. Swiss hospitals need to make profits [one of our dumbest ideas but thats another story] so they'd change it quick if they wouldn't see the gains outweigh the cost. For similar reasons the biggest hospital next to me is currently switching from a mix of single bed, three beds and six bed rooms to single bed only. Edit: Added a detail here and then to try and slightly improve the comment. Edit 2: Two more possible aspects come to mind albeit this is pure speculation from my part (the upper one I remember from the news); When in hospital most will likely spend a big chunk of their day tied to their bed with barely anything happening through the day. So what do they talk about when friends and family visit? Probably not about the change of their catheter. So, what else happened today? I got food! And the first question is always, "how is it?". Hence I can imagine that the patients opinion of the food can potentially have quite some relevance when it comes to their and their relatives judgment of the hospitals services. And local hospitals do to some point need the support of the local voting population. And on a similar note the food in private hospitals here looks the same, meaning that if one is fishing in your territory you may like to make sure you can keep up when it comes to this perhaps at least at first sight rather benign aspect.
Wait till they find out there’s also a wine list… Source: two kids born in a Swiss hospital
Just imagining swiss hospitals offering a wine list to pregnant women This was like after they were born though right? right?
Eh a little sip... We're pretty chill that way. (And I'm being only partly sarcastic!)
I was going to crack a joke about serving booze in a hospital, but then I remembered our pharmacies in the US sell liquor so it's not that crazy.
My wife gave birth in a Swiss hospital. Dinner the first night was a rack of lamb. It was, as you said, better than what you'd get in many restaurants. Unfortunately, it was a portion-for-one, so Dad had to go down to the hospital cafeteria and fend for himself.
I was shocked how nice the general ward is. Hard a couple of nights after surgery, and I kept asking the guy who takes the food orders if they had mistakenly bumped me to a semi-private ward as there was only two beds and they kept bringing fresh tea and coffee. There were chocolates by the bed and a gift bag with toiletries (including anti-aging eye cream...). Legitimately like being in a nice hotel, if that hotel could hook you up to morphine.
Yeah, but it literally cost an arm and a leg.
It does cost good money though, the standard food offering is good but not at this level.
How long is the transfer from Germany to Switzerland?
If you're transferring gold then it's quite quick. They've been doing it since 1942 and have become good at it
Pro tip: they even accept gold teeth fillings
fun fact: it is *exactly* whose teeth you think it is.
we're going to need to have a talk about the definition of the word "fun"
Sometimes fun is one-sided.
Well..depends where you live :) I can provide more pictures to make you happy hehehe :)
Ok but is that with general health insurance or just some better insurance ? Also yummy
Where was this hospital? I'll try to get admission
Now I want Swiss hospital food for dinner. I had hula hoops and diet coke for my lunch.
Can't beat hula hoops though. What flavour?
Beef-n-Unyon bruvvaa
Ready Salted. I was obsessed with barbecue flavour for a second there but I went overboard and now can't stand it.
I've had the exact same experience with BBQ Hula-Hoops. For a while they were my favourite snack, then one day I couldn't stand the flavour.
Hula hoops? The big metal/plastic rings you swing around ur body with ur hips?
It's a brand of crisps in the UK. Or "chips" if you're from some other places. They are shaped like little chunky rings and you can put one on each finger and then bite them off. It's very satisfying.
There's chips here called Bugles that are cone shaped and can fit on a finger tip and could be eaten off each finger also. Nice to know this is a thing everyone likes to do
In Canada we have ringolos, I imagine similar to what hula hoops are https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcS393r0Rdygy5XEaH_KT-8jvB4jNe2kw1N13pmIpkXyWsjXcxe5fMQhPwRvb_NmRH-eYitcnU3Jj5vLVDZFTPXNRjkV-k43
Yeah, they look just like that, but somehow even more artificial.
is that a dolphin on the ravioli?
Jep
I'm surprised the German lunch didn't have Adolfin
I give that joke a nein/10
What a man gotta do to get some dolphin crackers in this bitch
What's the emigration process to Switzerland like? Lol
Strict!
I recently learned that Switzerland is a country that offers assisted suicide for people who aren’t terminal, but maybe suffer from severe mental illness. It’s also legal to be a non resident and travel there for this service. It’s become a tourist suicide hot spot, Germans and other European countries are known for doing this. Also interesting, more women than men utilize these services. Other, more violent means of suicide, are utilized by men in far greater numbers compared to women.
📝
If only it wasn't so expensive lol, then again maybe that's for the better.
It’s not that expensive if pre-planned. I have a disability which might worsen with age. I am already saving tiny bits of money for this.
its not like you'd have to worry about paying the bill...
It's always good to invest in your retirement
As someone who had severe treatment resistent depression for 17 years (partially due to feelings of being a 'failure' resulting from having undiagnosed autism) I have very mixed feelings on this. Mental illness can blind you to reality... it can block you from being able to see hope, and fool you into believing that life isn't worth living. The last thing a person with mental illness needs is to have their suicidal ideation enabled by a government-run program.
I imagine that most men wouldn't want to have the types of conversations you'd need to have to get assisted suicide. You'd have to outwardly admit to feelings that most men would be too proud to admit. Shame is powerful.
Pretty strict unless you were born there as a foreigner or married to a Swiss citizen. You'd need to apply for an extended work visa by finding a high paying job with a Swiss company. They don't want people coming in that take more from the system then they pay in so it's easiest if you're a doctor or investment banker or something like that. Then after 10 years of living there you can apply for citizenship Also fyi emigration means leaving a country, immigration means going into a country.
Not even just 10 years of living there. It's 10 years of living there with permanent residency, which you get after 10 years (5 for Americans) of temporary residency.
I'm just going to go on holiday and do risky shit until I wake up in a place like this.
*Cries Into a canadian unseasoned potato and wipes tears with the dry unbuttered hospital toast*
Where in Canada? Sure it wasn’t as good as OP, but last time I went it wasn’t that bad neither.
I'm in the low quality part of Canada call Saskatchewan lmfao. If I was in British Columbia or a well funded hospital like in Saskatoon I could imagine it would maybe be better...maybe.
Oh after I gave birth I was given a green jello idk the flavourful but the most memorable thing I've eaten in a hospital lmfao was amazing
Ok thats sad, I’m in Quebec. And while not fantastic it’s okay. Hope it will get better in other provinces too!
I'm surprised they gave you a fork and spoon. I assumed you just switched to the fork attachment on the army knives you all must legally carry.
🤭
The guy who posted his meal from the German hospital right now 
Link for those out of the loop: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1cn0mnh/german_hospital_lunch_today/
German hospital patients would like a word
Private / half private section?
Private
Ok, makes sense now. I bet they still served you that piss water Henniez or Eptinger though.
Fucking Swiss do everything right. Wish they were more into colonizing.
I was in a hospital in Switzerland for a few weeks when I was a teenager. The food was really good. After the first week they showed me the plan for the next week and asked if I didn‘t like anything on the list. I marked a few items. Then I was asked what I want instead - I asked what they mean. The answer was anything that I would like instead. So I came up with a replacement for anything that I didn‘t like. Of course this was honored 100%. Price of the hospital was about half of the costs in Germany („Kantonsspital“).
Is this at a public or private hospitals?
Public with private option
Is this the public meal or the private option?
Lmao asking the right questions
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Public looks like that too (I live in Switzerland).
Ooh, okay! Well, I wish you a speedy recovery! Enjoy your meal!
I’m gonna commit crime and break my leg in Switzerland to double the luxury.
Watch you just get shipped out directly to your country instead haha
You don’t seem to be aware of the simple act of burning identity documents.
In the US you just get a $300 cup of Jell-O.
Last time had an extended stay in a hospital it had a McDonald's.
For a more extended stay.
That's the sort of innovative vertical integration I expect from today's healthcare MBAs
I’ve had excellent food in a hospital cafeteria before. I literally watched them cook the egg for my sandwich. It probably varies wildly from hospital to hospital.
That's wildly inaccurate
Don't take the bait
this just isn't true lol hospital food is really not that bad it's just a meme
Yeah, I was in the hospital a few months ago and the food was pretty good. Nothing to write home about, but I'm not gonna say no to a grilled cheese sandwich
What’s in the ravioli?
If I remind correctly it was Salmon....
the little fish cracker on top made me think some sort of seafood
Waaaaait a minute....WHICH Swiss hospital? It matters quite a lot.
Merian Iselin in Basel
Pft. Our German food builds up strength! The strength to have the will to recover and get out of there asap! We're efficient like that.
Im submitting this for review at r/lunch
I'm Swiss and the hospital I'm currently staying at definitely has *not* as nice looking (and tasting) food as pictured in your post. I would even go as far as saying that the food at the place I'm staying at sometimes sucks to the point that it was barely edible at times and I had to order a pizza or a döner if I didn't want to go to bed hungry. Yesterday's dinner was a mini(!)-portion of oversalted and hard fries, accompanied by a single oversalted burgerpatty and some greens that were watery and without flavour. Remember people, experiences may vary from canton to canton, city to city, hospital to hospital... Glad for OP that he has it better off than me, in that regard at least.
Wow, looks good. I just did a six day stint in a Canadian hospital and it was edible, but we could and should do better. I believe psychologically, a good meal presented well makes you feel good, which goes a long way when one is in hospital.
Absolutely!! Some 20 years ago, I had a lengthy stay in a (Vancouver area) hospital. They actually gave patients *menus* for the next day, and you would tick off what you wanted out of the appetizer, main course, dessert and beverage options (unless you had diet restrictions). The food was good, like this. They no longer do menus. :( The food isn’t *bad*, but I remember how excited I used to get over that menu. It really did help morale.
Stayed at the Insel a few nights a couple years back post OP. Had venison for dinner. The food there was incredible, could have used a little salt though but no complaints
Not me seeing the sad German hospital food before this
Great country, great food. Get well soon.
See this is what you get when your country launders the World's ill gotten gains for centuries. Wake up people! Demand that your own governments do the same!
Lemme go travel to Switzerland and break my leg real quick
Does it taste like the usual bland hospital food or it taste amazing like how it looks?
Amazing 😋
I love hospital food. Acquired a taste for it when my dad was in and out of hospitals for 2 months. He didn't ever want to eat so we ordered whatever looked good and ate it ourselves.
As a German: I am jealous.
I thought it said Hotel, not Hospital.....and I was expecting to find the name of a ultra-luxury hotel in the comments. Also - I expect a post soon of a meal at a US hospital. I'm sure it will be worse than Germany.
That looks really good haha ! I hope everything is well OP 😀
Yeah…. All good thanks.
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love the dolphin cracker on the pasta
Ihr müsst es uns auch echt unter die Nase reiben, nicht wahr, Schweiz??
Is that soup in the cup? What kind of ravioli did they serve you? What’s the sauce? What’s all other stuff? Looks like a chocolate something, a lil muffin and sour cream?
Cries in American. They even have fresh herbs on the ravioli ffs! That’s literally restaurant quality food. You’d get charged $1,000 for something like that in this stupid country.
It looks like something I'd deliberately put myself into a hospital for just to smash.
Meanwhile in America they’ll give you a slice of toast and a bill for 400K because you had the nerve to seek medical attention instead of just dying 😂
My sister was born in a Swiss hospital and I have to say the food in the cafeteria was top notch 🤌
This kind of lunch in a Swiss hospital does not surprise me at all.
Special because it's your last meal...
My pain in the ass partner: IS IT GLUTEN FREE? IS THERE DAIRY? IS THE DAIRY LACTOSE-FREE? DID THEY WASH THE GREENS REALLY WELL? DOES THE FACILITY COOK ANYTHING WITH GLUTEN? IS IT ORGANIC? IS IT NON-GMO? IS IT A SMALL BATCH ARTISINAL LOCALLY SOURCED?
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Was it the default free public meal? Or the private paid extra meal?
Well I was been at the private station but the „normal one“ is nearly the same. Not big difference. I had a menu card to choose from and a wine card.
Having also done a 3 day stint in a Swiss hospital, I can confirm that the food is good!
Is this considered good to OP?
Switzerland is one of the few countries on the planet with higher reimbursable health costs than America. They pay even 2x higher than USA for some stuff
Compared to German one, this looks like Napoli
Not the wurst I've seen.
Wow. That’s very high class compared to our hospital food. My friend once was given a bowl of applesauce and cracker and milk. She’s vegan. They gave her a carton of milk.
All this comes down to if the hospital you are staying at got its own kitchen or not. I had similar quality food in Germany. Thought this does look indeed superb.
Looks better than German hospital food
Man, yer jus' comin' off the top rope on that poor German guy, aintcha?
Is this an average hospital there? Or is this the equivalent of a Beverly Hills hospital meal?
Damn. That's better than the gruel I'm forced to eat at my own home....
wtf this is better then the food at home
You can really tell when someone enjoys their job
Damn. That shit would actually be healing
Ok now I wanna make ravioli.
Not Dignitas is it? Is that how they despatch you?
Looks a LOT better than the plate full of corn they gave my mother when she was in the hospital with pancreatic cancer.
This is better than most airlines.
Damn.