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I'm sorry but why does it look like there's a fried paper towel or something on that bun? The left side is perfectly straight, with a corner, and looks perforated.
I think that's the American cheese... which must be really low quality to keep that straight edge and not melt whatsoever, given that it looks like it came out of a 500 degree broiler
Edit, I've definitely seen crappy process cheese with that perforated edge, usually those individually wrapped slices
It melted on the meat, but the griddle was too hot and the burger stayed on for too long... the cheese that contacted the griddle burned to a crisp before it could melt and lose its shape.
I want to but if it does exist I don't think it was ever in my area in my lifetime. I even worked at a name brand grocery store for 3 years and never saw this
I agree, looks like it melted and they left it too long and started to burn.
But to keep that perfect ridge that comes from the plastic wrap is beyond me.
All “American cheese” is ultra processed. It’s usually cheddar cheese with additives/emulsifiers/preservatives.
Edit: I’m pretty sure they left the plastic wrap on that cheese
I believe you’re correct. Not sure how they’re allowed to call that crap cheese. My concern is that I’m just a lowly tradeswoman and even I know carcinogens are bad for you. You’d think hospitals would serve healthy foods but then they wouldn’t keep getting return customers.
California fast food prices are stupid! I was just there for 9 days starting in San Diego and working all the way North to San Francisco. $5.19 ($2.89 here) for a large fry at McD's, $3.89 ($1.69 here) for a Hot N Spicy McChicken. I guess that's what you get for paying fast food workers $20 an hour in California. At least In N Out still has low prices, I think their burgers went up like 20 cents.
I guess you don't read the news and it shows through your blatant ignorance. McDonald's, Chipotle, and other fast food chains said with the wage increase there would be a price increase. You can literally find these articles from any of the news sites in California or nationally like CNN. Then after the increase, said chains posted the percentages of their price increase they warned everyone was coming.
No I don't live in California and proud to say so, we moved away in the 1980s before things turned into what they are there now. I'm also sorry I insulted your profession.
Prices were already jacked up before 2024.
Your bias is so clearly showing lmao. I'm sorry you and your family couldn't cut it here even in the 80s when burgers were $.29.
Man I wish the hospital my mom was at recently had any of that. Best option was a beef combination plate, it was edible and the least grossly overpriced.
Whole thing kinda frustrates me. It’s a fucking hospital, folks are stuck there in shitty situations and still need to eat. Ridiculous they’re able to overcharge a captive audience so much in a place that’s meant to provide a service to the public.
Nah I get you too. But idk, I think there’s always going to be someone filling that role so long as there’s a good profit to be made, and maybe the hospital itself of all places should have to provide something at least a bit closer to at-cost (it’s not like they’re using expensive ingredients lol)
Ofc that’s more a lack of funding thing, don’t mean to blame them directly, but yeah. It’s not like it’s a mall or some tourist trap folks are willingly going into to have a good time, and it sucks that there ain’t really any options out there that aren’t heavily trying to profit off people’s basic needs in that kinda environment.
My local cafeteria has cheap steam burgers which I honestly kind of like once in a while, but what makes it really special is they are $1.80 and a half order of fries is 1.25. It's crazy cheap and it's all decent - not amazing, but beats the hell out of fast food.
So while that is sad if you are hard up or can't drive home for lunch at work hospitals are often a REALLY cheap choice to check out.
On the other hand, these fuckers charge $40 for an Advil, so by their perverse standards, it’s a deal. They’re taking a beating on that burger, ask them.
You're in a place of fixing health and healing and you go to the cafeteria expecting healthy clean good quality food and they got a damn 7 dollar staff party cheeseburger.
Precooked the ground beef and stored them for when they were needed. That’s why it’s so dry. Then they left the thing on a flat top to melt the cheese and warm it up, which is why it looks so burn… maybe even worse, microwaved with the cheese precooked. They might have them mass produced back there, waiting to be nuked.
This has “baked” instead of “cooked” vibes.
That weird ass square is a craft single that wasn’t melted until it sat in an oven or under a heat lamp for way, way too long.
I used to travel around to different hospitals in my area for work so I’ve been to quite a few. We used to joke that you eat the food there and you might not leave. Pretty ironic to have some of the worst nutrition served at a hospital. And it was all of them.
It's good to see they're making good use of placenta they otherwise would send to biomedical waste. Did it taste iron-y? Nevermind, don't answer that. Enjoy...
They're probably trying to make you sick with that strange food, so you'll to be hospitalized before you can exit the damn building. What an awful thing.
One thing I will NEVER miss, is hospital food. I've been to the hospital for an extended period of time once and let me tell you... If you want to lose the will to live, stick to the hospital food. Not even the restaurants had good food. I would have jumped out of the 12th floor window if my mother didn't bring food regularly.
Just saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/s/kz4dJJy0Mx
I'd definitely choose this $7 cheeseburger over the $28 sub. You've hit the jackpot man.
This makes sense, don't be scared whatever happens after eating this you are in the right building. It is just a customer retention snack. So sit back or lay down, relax, and eat that sick-looking burger.
That cheeseburger looks better than the actual cheeseburger I was served during my week long hospital stay. Was salty as heck too. Didn’t order it again.
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I'm sorry but why does it look like there's a fried paper towel or something on that bun? The left side is perfectly straight, with a corner, and looks perforated.
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You beautiful genius. Should we like, pre shred it though?
I thought it was seaweed 💀
I think that's the American cheese... which must be really low quality to keep that straight edge and not melt whatsoever, given that it looks like it came out of a 500 degree broiler Edit, I've definitely seen crappy process cheese with that perforated edge, usually those individually wrapped slices
As someone who used to eat Kraft American singles, they actually melt. Idk what that cardboard is.
The only positive part is that they melt! I'd be very afraid of any american-cheese-like-product that can't even meet those standards.
Excuse me! It's called *cheese-flavored product*. Get it right! XD
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Imitation cheese food product is some eerie shit.
When I was growing up, we’d call that “government cheese” if you know, you know lol.
Government cheese came in a block
Government cheese and the 5lb tub of peanut butter...good eating in the 70's lol
Velveeta
Nah, luckily never got down to that point but I heard of it from friends..
This very much varies on state. In NY the government cheese is higher quality than Boar's Head deli cheese. But I've heard in some states it's awful.
It melted on the meat, but the griddle was too hot and the burger stayed on for too long... the cheese that contacted the griddle burned to a crisp before it could melt and lose its shape.
The American cheese slices my high school used to put on cheeseburgers stayed rigid like that.
Some no name brand , it should at least change shape for crying out loud
Looks like they didn’t take the plastic off
What cheese has perforated edges like that? Not doubting you just personally I've never seen that, and I only buy cheap cheese lol
Trust me it's out there,,, stay vigilant
I want to but if it does exist I don't think it was ever in my area in my lifetime. I even worked at a name brand grocery store for 3 years and never saw this
I agree, looks like it melted and they left it too long and started to burn. But to keep that perfect ridge that comes from the plastic wrap is beyond me.
Looks like that corner of cheese touched some hot metal and started to crisp and burn from the start.
All “American cheese” is ultra processed. It’s usually cheddar cheese with additives/emulsifiers/preservatives. Edit: I’m pretty sure they left the plastic wrap on that cheese
I believe you’re correct. Not sure how they’re allowed to call that crap cheese. My concern is that I’m just a lowly tradeswoman and even I know carcinogens are bad for you. You’d think hospitals would serve healthy foods but then they wouldn’t keep getting return customers.
looks like it spent too much time on the griddle, and the overflow cheese burnt into that square shape after being slapped on the patty
I think it's actually a roast beef sandwich, not a cheese burger.
It looks like it’s 10 years old
Dicklipscious
Must’ve forgot a rag on the operating table
This made me crack up so hard omg it does
I'd guess the cheese slices had paper separating them and this is that? Only thing I can think of
Why’s it got a fin bro
*Crunchy edition!”
Nemo….
I’d eat that and secretly love it. I know gross.
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the biggest tragedy is that its 7$. mcdouble is like 2.89. just put Mcdonalds in hospitals.
Lol McDouble in my area average around $4.
For a mcdouble? Where the hell is your area lol. Even in the cities around me they aren't that much.
Norcal cities. .McDonald's is freaking dead to me.
California fast food prices are stupid! I was just there for 9 days starting in San Diego and working all the way North to San Francisco. $5.19 ($2.89 here) for a large fry at McD's, $3.89 ($1.69 here) for a Hot N Spicy McChicken. I guess that's what you get for paying fast food workers $20 an hour in California. At least In N Out still has low prices, I think their burgers went up like 20 cents.
Lmao, these prices have been like this before the wage increase. But you're not from here so I'd guess that's where your ignorance comes from.
I guess you don't read the news and it shows through your blatant ignorance. McDonald's, Chipotle, and other fast food chains said with the wage increase there would be a price increase. You can literally find these articles from any of the news sites in California or nationally like CNN. Then after the increase, said chains posted the percentages of their price increase they warned everyone was coming. No I don't live in California and proud to say so, we moved away in the 1980s before things turned into what they are there now. I'm also sorry I insulted your profession.
Prices were already jacked up before 2024. Your bias is so clearly showing lmao. I'm sorry you and your family couldn't cut it here even in the 80s when burgers were $.29.
Yeah honestly there's a soft spot in my heart for shitty cafeteria cheeseburgers. Sometimes they just hit the spot. Probably a nostalgia thing.
I swear for some reason that looks fire af
Do you somehow not see whatever that burnt paper towel looking bit is on the left side?
Yumm!
I wouldn't even be secretive about it.
I used to enjoy hamburger day in my school cafeteria 👀
me too. reminds me of a nice crispy smash burger
Good thing you're already at the hospital.
Did they fry a bat wing?
Chicken of the cave
I like how hospitals try to keep you there with their food
Some are delicious. Philly cheesesteaks, pastrami, beef dips, street tacos, Chile rellenos.... All for less than this burger too lol
Man I wish the hospital my mom was at recently had any of that. Best option was a beef combination plate, it was edible and the least grossly overpriced. Whole thing kinda frustrates me. It’s a fucking hospital, folks are stuck there in shitty situations and still need to eat. Ridiculous they’re able to overcharge a captive audience so much in a place that’s meant to provide a service to the public.
Eh be happy they're there to provide that service for visitors. They aren't required to. But I do get where you're coming from.
Nah I get you too. But idk, I think there’s always going to be someone filling that role so long as there’s a good profit to be made, and maybe the hospital itself of all places should have to provide something at least a bit closer to at-cost (it’s not like they’re using expensive ingredients lol) Ofc that’s more a lack of funding thing, don’t mean to blame them directly, but yeah. It’s not like it’s a mall or some tourist trap folks are willingly going into to have a good time, and it sucks that there ain’t really any options out there that aren’t heavily trying to profit off people’s basic needs in that kinda environment.
It's only $1 with co-pay.
mcdonalds is trash lol
Worst burger I've ever seen.
It's like there was only malice in the cook's heart when they prepared it.
More like Cardboarger
Looks hard enough to be a doorstop
So they want to keep you there.
My local cafeteria has cheap steam burgers which I honestly kind of like once in a while, but what makes it really special is they are $1.80 and a half order of fries is 1.25. It's crazy cheap and it's all decent - not amazing, but beats the hell out of fast food. So while that is sad if you are hard up or can't drive home for lunch at work hospitals are often a REALLY cheap choice to check out.
Well at least you won’t need an ambulance
I sometimes don’t believe there are any actual dietitians involved with these menus. More like they employ ex army kitchen staff.
I’m assuming some kind of cheese product is going on in the left side. But I’m not loving any of the brown I see.
Looks incredibly dry
I’m scared for your wellbeing OP. Wtf is this 😢
It’s all part of the plan to keep folks at the hospital. Either you’ll choke on it or get deathly ill.
What the fuck…
i'd fuck this up with additional condiments. questionable white action included.
On the other hand, these fuckers charge $40 for an Advil, so by their perverse standards, it’s a deal. They’re taking a beating on that burger, ask them.
Well, at least you don't have to worry about it, be undercooked.
You're in a place of fixing health and healing and you go to the cafeteria expecting healthy clean good quality food and they got a damn 7 dollar staff party cheeseburger.
What happens to the impoverished mother staying with her child in the hospital but can't afford the $7 cheeseburger?
Is that beef jerky 😂
Did the cooks and the cremators get their shifts confused?
Daily dose of carcinogenics!
overpriced but still looks decent
They paid you $7 right?
That "patty" looks like I could use it as charcoal to start a BBQ for another burger.
$7.00 is the new $2.50.
well the bun looks nice at least
What is that hard black square thing poking out of it?
No
Any good?
Yo what
it's that a brick
They cook that cheese w the wrapper still on?
That’s fucking treacherous son
Looks like they scraped the grill and put it on a bun
This is trifling
Bro that's a fish burger, so pretty good deal
"cheeseburger"
Precooked the ground beef and stored them for when they were needed. That’s why it’s so dry. Then they left the thing on a flat top to melt the cheese and warm it up, which is why it looks so burn… maybe even worse, microwaved with the cheese precooked. They might have them mass produced back there, waiting to be nuked.
Bro got a jerky burger
Retired nurse here. I always took my own lunch to work. Tasted better and much healthier
The hospital wants you to stay
I don’t Trust this food.
That’s going to put YOU in the hospital. Then it’ll be a lot more than $7 when they have to pump your stomach when your body is in a state of chaos.
7$?! What a rip off!!
That patty looks like r/Poopfromabutt
i’d pay $1. i like my burgers dry and crispy.
My school burgers look better than this I’m so sorry
Minimum wage is $7.25 minus all taxes and fees. Mf had to hard-core raw labor for at least 3 hours for this whatever the fuck.
What’s the left bit for? To cut your throat when you realise how bad it is 😂
Were they trying to get you admitted? It looks like a fried rag.
That looks like ass… prices going up quality going down.
I dunno looks pretty good to me
The left side of that burger looks like well-aged beef jerky the hospital recently found in their 1950s fallout shelter.
Eat it to stay there
They’re tryna create more patients smh
Was it made in 1942?
Lawsuit
This has “baked” instead of “cooked” vibes. That weird ass square is a craft single that wasn’t melted until it sat in an oven or under a heat lamp for way, way too long.
Well, at least you don't have to worry about E.coli, because that thing is cooked to heck and back.
I used to travel around to different hospitals in my area for work so I’ve been to quite a few. We used to joke that you eat the food there and you might not leave. Pretty ironic to have some of the worst nutrition served at a hospital. And it was all of them.
You'd have to pay me to eat that.
That’ll send you right back into your room there
Bet it’s still healthier than a McDonald’s one
Only $7 consider yourself lucky playboy them is double digits in my city 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Still cheaper than McDonalds
It's good to see they're making good use of placenta they otherwise would send to biomedical waste. Did it taste iron-y? Nevermind, don't answer that. Enjoy...
I mean I bet it tastes delicious
No
Old burger! Ugh
What is that rectangular shaped black tar in there?
That thing has the most solid crust ive ever seen
Still better than McDonald’s
They're probably trying to make you sick with that strange food, so you'll to be hospitalized before you can exit the damn building. What an awful thing.
One thing I will NEVER miss, is hospital food. I've been to the hospital for an extended period of time once and let me tell you... If you want to lose the will to live, stick to the hospital food. Not even the restaurants had good food. I would have jumped out of the 12th floor window if my mother didn't bring food regularly.
I think they forgot to take the wrapper off the cheese
Nice bun at least lol
Is that a piece of fried, dried seaweed???
Just saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/s/kz4dJJy0Mx I'd definitely choose this $7 cheeseburger over the $28 sub. You've hit the jackpot man.
Soylent green don’t come cheap
soy burger.
looks better than my hospital's cafeteria burger tbh. Ours just boil the patty...
Is that seaweed at the bottom left poking out?
I'd be so pissed
Is that the parchment paper which separates frozen patties now fused into the cooked burger?
At a hospital? You're lucky that's not $500.
Looks like the tail of a crow sandwich. It's a bit crunchy. Had some when I was out with the boys.
I’d pay zero for that. More if I was dying from starvation.
Hospital food is free lol....
This makes sense, don't be scared whatever happens after eating this you are in the right building. It is just a customer retention snack. So sit back or lay down, relax, and eat that sick-looking burger.
That is LITERALLY not fit for human consumption. Why would you even accept that? I would IMMEDIATELY be grabbing someone.
I'm not sure that "patty" even qualifies as meat.
That’ll fucking put you *in* the hospital.
would, sorry
I’ll smash this under the influence
Meh, if I’m eating a burger from a hospital cafeteria I probably didn’t have a lot of great options to begin with lol
They really serve cheeseburgers in American hospitals lol. That alone is crazy!
Also salad bars, soups, fish/curry with rice, etc. it's for the staff and families not for the patients
If it was a smash burger then that would be acceptable
You can actually smash anything with that burger.
That cheeseburger looks better than the actual cheeseburger I was served during my week long hospital stay. Was salty as heck too. Didn’t order it again.