Masterton surg trip

Masterton hospital surgery trip

7.50am start after end of run, a bus driver who enjoyed driving over the Rimutaka’s a way too much and an incredibly annoying 5th year whose voice is like one of those bugs off the mummy that get under your skin and go mental all added up to a hangover that could take down an elephant. I was relying on two things to get me through this day-free food and coffee.

We arrived at Masterton hospital to a provided morning tea which was cheese scones, juice and coffee. Not much variety here, a few savouries would have been a nice inclusion mainly because that’s all I felt like. Coffee was standard, after three I was getting over it slash starting to seizure. The juice was fantastic and helped clear away my toxin flooded blood. Hopefully lunch offers more.

Lunch

I was so hungry by lunch I had began to hallucinate. Needles became dried noodles, syringes were little sausages, and the training mannequin became a pig on the spit. I’m glad they didn’t put me on suturing first or else I would have eaten the pork belly. Lunch saved me, it was glorious. Chicken drumsticks, club sandwiches, assorted wraps, fresh fruit, slices and mini spring rolls and samosas with sweet chilli. I ate copious amounts at a speed that didn’t allow chewing. They had all the bases pretty well covered with respect to a free lunch. Probably needed more samosas and spring rolls as they disappeared faster than those eels on eel soup. My friend commented that the chicken was too greasy and on any other day this would have bothered me. Today I would have happily bathed in the greasy goodness.
The sandwiches were some sort of egg salad and tasted amazing. Being the foundation of any lunch it is important that the sandwiches are decent, and luckily for the hospital they were. The wraps were of a good size as it took two bites to eat them.

After the typical first course of sammies, wraps and chicken I moved on to the sweet side of things and tried a slice. It was clearly brought, but had a good icing to rest of the slice ratio. The fruit gets kudos because it was cut up and included mango, you know a good fruit assortment when it has mango in it.

Overall this was your bog standard free lunch that definitely satisfied me. It didn’t really push the boundaries in terms of creativity and presentation but hey it’s Masterton. There was leftover food that was handed out at the end of the day so they deserve a shit load of credit for that. Let’s see how they rated.

Taste- 4.5/6 stars
Appearance- 2/4 stars
Originality-1.5/4 stars

Overall- 8/14 stars

Larry