Hospital Food Bingo

After spending more than five months in the hospital so far this year, it's not surprising that a British man has become sick of the sometimes sickeningly unappetizing food.

He's so sick of the food-like substances that he's resorted to photographing his mystery meals and posting the pictures on a blog for friends – and now, hundreds of followers – to guess what they are. (For the record, more than half of the meals can't be correctly identified.)

Traction Man – the pseudonym for the 47-year-old freelance journalist with a rare bone infection  – calls his game Hospital Food Bingo. After the British press got wind of his blog, he removed most of the photos – which you can see here – but the hilarious running commentary on the food remains.

He writes on his blog: "There's almost a general theme of wallpaper paste made with milk – that's what most of the food seems to taste like. There is a little bit of variety, because you never know what you're going to get. Today was vegetable moussaka. I posted a picture, but so far it's stumped everyone."

Vegetables, he writes, "need to go into a spin dryer before you get to eat them – they are that wet."

Of the sauteed potatoes that came with his chicken one day: "It is beyond even my fertile imagination to identify what the potatoes had been sauteed in, but my best guess would be a bedpan."

Nor are the desserts a treat. "The jam roly poly [a hot sponge cake with jam] takes the cake," Traction Man says. "It certainly tastes like it's been rolled – right across the kitchen floor." 

He may be in traction "for the forseeable future," but at least his sense of humor is intact.

Photo courtesy of -snugg-via Flickr.