Jello

Hola my readers, esp my russian viewers.  We had a thanksgiving dinner, the food was fantastic and now its back to work.  My dish washer did get plugged and I have been working on it.  My kids have gone their way and are safely back home.  We didnt make turkey, we had, tacos, chile rellenos, chile con queso, enpanadas, sopa de aroz; thats tacos, (stuffed tortillas with beef, cheese, tomatoes, chili), chile rellenos, are (long green chile, stuffed with cheese and other goodies, covered with an egg foam, fried) chile con queso ( this is cheese with onions, tomatoes, spices and long chilies), enpanadas are (turnovers, a pastry, stuffed with pumkin, baked ) xcellent desert, sopa de aroz ( is a rice based stew, babies love it).  The chili is staple here, so is the rice, tomatoes, onions, turnovers are very popular, they usu contain fruit but we do on occassion stuff them with meat.   Rice has a shelf life of 35 years, white rice, so it is very inexpensive.  

Now for the jello, this is a very popular desert, it is usu made in a bowl, then refrigerated until it solidifies, then served.  It giggles, it comes in many colors and flavors, and it is served cold.  Kids love it, you can add fruit, or ice cream, liquor.  young adults drink the jello shots, kids the jello, and older people in the water drink it for hydration in the hospital. 

When I first started nursing the jello was billed to the patient, so if you gave them one it had to be charged.  Obviously since it was worth some money they would keep it lock up.  The little tubs of jello were kept under lock and key, they cost about 60 cents.  Here is the problem if a patient told you he wanted some, you would call security and he would meet you at the jello refrigerator, that meant you had to take the elevator, three flights, sign it out, take the elevator up, take the label off the jello, added to the patients charges. 

Judging from the process one would think that the staff was eating the patients jello, and leaving the refrigerator empty constantly.  Nothing is further from the truth, Im sure that on occassion, employees did guzzle down some jello, but so what.   The point is that the jello, was handled by nursing staff, making $25 dollars and hour, so half hour getting the jello, is $12.50.  Security made about $5.00 dollars an hour, so thats, $2.50, the records and charges had to be documented, that another 10 minutes.  So as you can see the cost of the jello was, .60 cent +2.50, +$12.50+ $4.00 thats almost twenty dollars for a cup of jello that cost the hospital $.10 cents.  

It took me years of complaining before I was able to get them to give the jello away because it would be cheaper, than billing.  Imagine the accounting department, the kitchen department, the ordering department.  The patients dont pay for the jello, the taxpayers do.  

This is why America is under the financial scandal of its life.  Imagine we paid the CEOs to go to Harvard and Yale, lots of money, then they dont even have the sense to do right by Jello. 

Oh and medical students hooked up the EEG machine to a bowl shape jello and the waves given by either one were identical.   The EEG is the graph of brain activity.  So they charge patients/taxpayers big bucks and apparently people cant read them. 

So now you know why Americans are mad as hell with their super committee, because they are a bunch of do nothing idiots.  So my Russian friends I'll trade you our super committee for one of your committee.