Oh god, not the gas station sandwiches! 😱 (They are actually the reason, I now keep what my mates refer to as "The Diabetes Box" on the rig during all my shifts. Some snacks, some pieces of fruit, a home made sandwich, etc. - enough to get you through the day if need be, if not all that healthy or appealing. I had a few to many fire standbys or back-to-back long haul transfers to risk not having my nom *on the rig* and within reaching distance from the passenger seat.)
as someone who has eaten many of those sandwiches, i am offended... they are delicous... kinda... if theyre heated up and you have mustard and maybe some mayonnaise ... and you have a couple minutes to wait around for this to become reality....
I absolutely love this one. So true it hurts. I constantly get asked by partners “I thought you were a vegetarian? Why are you eating meat?” Because yes.. that’s why. Now please let me eat because there’s a 500 pound man that knows we have food and is feeling frisky enough to fall in between the toilet and his bathroom sink.
My management wouldn't give me a piece of pizza if I was starving to death in front of them. Other jobs get Christmas bonuses, we get reminded that overtime is mandatory even on Christmas.
"A bag of chips and a candy bar is the only thing stopping you from living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo-boo bus really is." - this broke me. Thank you for the quality content.
@@ratsumatra3003 One of my old agencies I used to work for recently actually bought there new ambulance with a mini fridge installed in the side compartment. Maybe they're on to something.
Was working (EMT) on my birthday, had plans to go to the local ice cream shop and we get a call for an unresponsive, not breathing pt. Head out and halfway there, (about 8 miles into the trip), we got cancelled due to ... (well, figure it out) and my medic partner was like "Yay! Ice cream!" I looked at her, and she was like, "oh.." and then we went and got ice cream.
My high school has had 15 false fire alarms in the last 2 months. Fire department responded every time, and treated it as if it were real each and every time, at least from what I can tell by listening to fire dept. comms on my scanner. I think a sketch showing the first-responder POV on "The 4th alarm call to the same place today?" would be hillarious.
see, in my school, people lit bathroom trashcans on fire instead of just pulling the alarm. not just mine, but others in my region, too. ig kids are just extra here???
“I even watched a guy nebulize a soda one time” Sometimes, you learn something so cursed it makes Dark Souls boss theme start playing in your head. This is one of those times.
@@xCorvus7x No problem. A nebulizer is a machine for folks with respiratory issues (asthma is probably the most common) that turns some form of liquid medicine into a breathable mist. Beyond what a clearly-terrible idea it is to breathe soda, a lesser (but still noteworthy) concern is what it does to the machine. Nebulizer's don't boil the liquid to turn it into vapor, so anything that starts growing due to leftover soda is going to get express-delivery to the next user's lungs.
In the 1970's and 80's my father was the firehouse cook. After long, cold calls in the winter he would heat soup as the guys were cleaning up afterwards. He said cooking for firemen was basically taking any recipe and multiplying the meat by 2 to 3 times. At one time the captain called him into the office and asked him to cook more healthy options because he was making the guys too fat.
I made the mistake early in my career of trying to make a meal without meat. My officer noticed there was no meat and said to the DC, "we're going to the store as the rookie forgot the meat for the pasta dish🙄"... The DC agreed. The DC was simple man to please for food: meat, starch and a veg. Don't forget the ice cream.
Hey, we nurses have a pretty similar diet. You can only replace the point "meat, MORE meat" with "anything that can be prepared and gobbled up in less than 10 minutes" 😁
@@navfree1729 hospital a controlled environment? Um... not in my country, really. That's why many nurses leave the hospitals. I can remember many shifts where I didn't even have time to drink; which is good, because I wouldn't have had time to go to the toilet either. I have seen colleagues who collapsed during the shift because they urgently needed something to eat or drink but just didn't have time for it. A 30-minute break is actually mandatory for us, but often not possible. It is normal that the first opportunity to eat and drink is when the shift is handed over to the next shift.
Woo! Diet plan here I come! Never had one that requires funeral planning as part of the steps, but there's a first time for everything right?! Eat your heart out, Fen-Phen! Oh, wait...
When my father retired from the Fire Dept. he lost so much weight. He went to try on his class A's for a memorial service 5 years later and he looked like a little kid playing dress up lol. He actually went to the firehouse to mess with the Chief and asked for an application on how he can join and got a good laugh out of it. They bought him a new set lol.
Yep when I came on the Dept they said the average life expectancy after retirement was 5 years. My best friend made it 3 years. So far I have blown WAY past the stats I am already past 25 years after retirement.
My Brother in Law is in EMS and there's a hospital close to where I live so I get to see him from time to time if he takes a transfer there. Theres a couple of restaurants nearby so I like to go get him and his partner some food when they're close so I can take it to them while they refuel for the trip back. Nice chance to catch up for a few min and like being able to get them something tastier than whatever's at the gas station.
We heed more people like you! My husband is a Critical Care Technician in a Level 2 ER and he never gets lunch (even though he packs his lunch, he is still unable to eat it) What you do does help tremendously wjen EMS is on the streets! Thank you ☺
Two words….BED DELAY. Our main hospital we transport to is in the down town area. A lot of the restaurants will deliver there for us. Always a welcome delay. And personally, I hate bed delay most the time.
This reminds me of how I was a total health nut…before I became a volunteer firefighter. It’s amazing how quickly after finishing Firefighter I that you realize you’re inhaling a cheeseburger off the rehab unit for BREAKFAST at a fire scene and that the idea doesn’t bother you one bit! And the ibuprofen-you need to pop that stuff ASAP after a working fire or major medic call or you’re gonna be moving like Igor with a hangover for days afterwards!
@@SarafinaSummers Considering that ibuprofen works best when taken with a meal/snack chaser, that goes without saying! But I do thank you for your concern regardless. Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Ranger Pudding works better: (Military Version) Ingredients are 1 hot cocoa packet, then dump some Folger's coffee chunks ( oops I mean crystals my bad ) to taste or until personal tolerance is reached and Then add a ton of sugar with a lil bit of the good ole "hotish" (something approximating hot water) H20 so you can stir the slurry. By all means , add a second packet of hot cocoa if your mix looks off or it is indeed "too watery" to get that nice firm perfect "brown town" look / feel with it. Use the spoon that you used in stirring process to shovel the slurry into your face hole since it's usually located in the appropriate face hole at the time, not that one! The one with all the teeth (hopefully). And my personal touch? I add Jolly Ranchers which I always keep in my medic bag so they soften up in the "water". Congratulations, you've just made your very first gut destroying Ranger Pudding, which will keep you up for hours (one way or the other) plus now you'll be able to never fall asleep again. So Have fun with it, paint a room while the kids are sleeping (no problem) or maybe you can even beat that boss level that the kids kept you from doing the other day! Maybe prank the wife as she wakes up! Cause who needs sleep right?
@@thehappydragon9491 (Two Thumbs Up) Good choice Sir or Madam, I hereby wish you luck with the "coffee farts". A little tip though? If your farts do not knock a maggot off a gut wagon (when, or more likely, If you can do so), then your mix is off and needs to be corrected. Let me know how your "experiment" goes in a civilized setting because I'm looking forward to the data since I already have the data for all the uncivilized ones. Should be interesting. And Yes it IS Normal to Hallucinate on the Third or Fourth Consecutive Day without sleep, so by all means have fun with that too. It's your brains way of going "are you even listening to me?!!!"
@@warsprite1888 Lol. I'll let you know Monday night how it went. I think my roommate even has some of that horrible powdered espresso I can add to it. Cheers!
Watching this as I'm scarfing down a "fully loaded croissanwich" from BK, after getting off shift and hitting the gym. I literally looked down at my food and went, "Hm. He's right. Cool." Nomnomnom.
In the near future with how bad municipalities are messing with the budgets, I fully expect ambulances and fire trucks to have sponsored livery akin to NASCAR. *Radio Screech* "NESTLÉ EMS 24, Pfizer EMS 18, Goodwrench Engine 62, please respond..."
@@slumbynature4557 LMAO!!! I want mine sponsored by the local mortuary! Miller Memorial Medic 666 respond to priority 1 traffic address…. Cardiac arrest. No CPR in progress, unk down time, poss 1144, stage…scene is not code 4.
0:21 Bold of you to assume they actually had health in mind when making the food pyramid, and didn't literally decide order of importance by which food group's lobbies paid the most.
There was an episode of Emergency, where Chet Kelly, played by Tim Donnelly, RIP, tried to get the guys at the station to eat healthy. He was trying to get them to eat Wheat Germ and Alfalfa. Finally Gage and DeSoto had to get Dr. Morton to come to the station and tell Chet that firefighters need to eat a lot of protein to do their jobs.
And then at the end of the episode, Chet made barbecue steaks; using his leftover health supplements to make the sauce. The guys backed him into a corner and forced that crap down his throat.
Burritos, chips, Gatorade, coffee(for the old men), energy drinks... Snickers... You don't want fiber... Can't leave the station pinching off a fence post... Ibuprofen killed my stomach and liver.
I've been out since July due to an OTJ injury and figured I'd spend this time to figure out how to eat healthier when I get back. Than I watch this video. I was then reaching for a bottle of ibuprofen literally as Jason mentioned it. All hope is gone.
Now stop making all the firefighters jealous because I noticed your evil grin when you told them, that's just mean, cause not everybody has an instant caffeine IV hookup in their rig. Bad Buck! And how did you get the city comptroller of all your money to let you sport a mini mini fridge? Did it involve blackmail? We want to know!
I'm laughing because we got called to a safeway for a guy destroying it and assaulting staff. Once he was tackled and cuffed we look up and there was the fire department with ice cream they were buying in their hands.
Damn. This is so true. I've spent plenty of time at the firehall with my dad and therefore I've shared plenty of meals with him and the others. We've eaten some pretty weird stuff and they've mixed so much stuff to create one thing. So half the time I didn't know what I was eating. All I knew was it all looked good, smelled good, and I was hungry so I ate it without questioning it. 3 quarters of the time it was good. The other quarter not so much. I was too hungry to care though and ate it along with my dad and everyone. else.
"diabetes causing yum yums" "And Ibuprofen is the cherry on top of this pyramid of inevitable cardiac arrest" CRACKS ME LIKE NO OTHER X"D HAHAAHHAAH OMGGGG
When I broke my ankle pretty much all I was eating was high protein so eggs ,tuna ,chicken ,sausages etc surgeon said 6 months to a year to heal I was up and walking and out of my cast in 3 months flat also lost like 30lbs by cutting our carbohydrates and sugar . I’m conflicted because I normally just eat grains fruit and vegetables legumes etc it had been years since I touched animal protein at all but I can’t argue with the results .
@@Feroce nah I can’t be that restrictive with it because of the very real threat of losing my gallbladder it’s genetic my grandfather father and older sister already lost theirs :( so I’ve gone back to eating my usual fruits and vegetables and stuffs
Or the non meatheads who are developing tremors from all the caffeine and simple carbs but don’t have any time for anything meat based and desperately need some protein to help stave off a total metabolic melt down.
So... after this video I sure as hell gonna carry a pack of honey peanuts and a snicker bar or two with me. It's not for me, if something happens and first responder comes, it's for him. I won't know if I live, but I'mma gonna get that best treatment with 'em snacks
@@AB_Evans I won't have offence while having seizure... but I'll be defending with pockets full of snack and getting diabetic treatment for cardial arrest XD XD XD
When I had an elderly friend living with me, I had EMTs visit on a regular basis for one medical emergency after another. I always had sack lunches made up with sandwiches, fruit and home made cookies and to go drinks for the EMTs ready to go as I figured they were probably getting hungry by 3 am. I figured they should get something tasty for their trouble.
Hahaha ending part had me crying with hysterical cynical laughter... Someone at my dept made a flowchart to show how long our guys lived after they retired....on average 6months...to just shy of 3ish years....glad to see the FD is the same as the PD
I knew a guy who would down Instant Glucose for the energy spike so he could study for his Pharmacology section in medic school. (20 years later he is now a diabetic... who could have seen that coming.)
This man speaks the truth, my father did 30 years as an engineer and this was more or less the routine. You also eat about 2.6 times faster than everyone else because inevitably a call will come in.
At my old department it was pie and ice cream at the top of the cart. One FF once very carefully cut the bottom out of A shifts ice cream carton, ate half of it. Then carefully refilled it with cold water until it froze, then put the bottom back on it. Thus appearing to still be full of Ice cream.
is it a weird thing to say I'm jealous of people who can stay up late or be woken up while they are sleeping? I have epilepsy and my seizures are triggered from not sleeping enough or being woken up in a surprising way.
As a food service/deli worker, that looks just like my own food pyramid. Lol Some parts of the explanation also feels very familiar 🤣 Not as extreme though, of course
ROFL! Don't leave us night shift nurses out of that glorious food pyramid! I just found your channel and I had to sub! I'm medically retired now--but oh how true to life your stuff is! And I totally get your humour! I only get to talk about the "good ol days" with hubby now (also a retired nurse). So much joy and laughter from watching your stuff tonight! Please please keep it up!
I wish I was friends with a few first responders, so when I was bored I'd just cook a big ass meal and give it to them. Like Goulash, or Shepard's pie. Think they'd appreciate free hearty food
@@layna-heyhey ~ Nah. Just tell 'em you wanted to do something nice for them. It'll be appreciated. If you're really not sure call first (non-emergency of course lol), and tell 'em what you'd like to do and ask if that's okay. They'll most likely say you don't have too, but if you want to that's fine and appreciated.
My daughter/partner and I always claimed that we could not go to nice restaurants after the first few months in EMS. We ate so fast we could make sparks fly from plastic silverware and tended to discuss decapitations over dinner.
Don't forget that if you do cook, you're starting with ingredients that are all the temperature of the grocery store produce cooler because of that call you got just as you reached the checkout.
The Food pyramid of myself and my fellow staff at our small zoo. The base: Water. You better have a strong bladder because it's this or stomach acid fighting you for the next few hours and there's no way you've got time for a bathroom break. Tier 2: Snacks. Much like firefighters, we have a tendency to hoarde little snacks in places, especially HQ, so that if we have a spare second we can sit down and cram some oreos or gummies down our throats. Tier 3: Leftovers. What's for lunch? Well if you have the time to shove it down your gullet then whatever you cooked for dinner last night unless you managed to find the willpower to make a sandwich. The Top: To the tune of hallelujah: IIIII-BU-PROFEN. IIII-BU-PROFEN. IBUPROFEN. IBUPROFEN. I-BUUU-PRO-FEN~ and the occasional muffin that the founder will bring in for us What're your food pyramids folks?
@@mrbigsmile3902 Pain killer for us. Probably for them too. I mean really if you were hauling around 300+ pound patients and god knows whatelse your back would be f-u-c-k-e-d FUCKED.
Veterinary medicine, especially overnight emergency vet med: The base: Water, coffee, energy drinks; anything to keep you awake and going. But not too much as you may not be able to use the bathroom for a bit. Tier 2: Candy or whatever fits in your pockets or tool pouch. There's no food on the floor and you may not have quick access to the breakroom, so no place to hide snacks. Tier 3: Lunch? On a good night you get to clock out and eat. But make it simple and quick in case you get called back on the floor. Most nights you eat whatever you can shovel in your mouth on a ten minute break. Usually something leftover from the previous shift that you hope won't give you food poisoning. The Top: Pain medication. Keeps you going when you can't feel your feet at the end of a shift and your back is seizing up to the point that you aren't sure you'll be able to get back up once you sit down.
Going from call back to post up west broadway, I decided I wanted lunch. so I pulled out my bag, poured the BBQ sauce on the sandwich and ate it. along with the salad. My partner from the passenger seat: "uh bro you want i can drive you know"
My grandfather was a fireman for almost thirty years after coming home from WWII. He got a decent pension and retired at 52. Lived another 43 years. Whatever that career did to him, it didn't involve an early heart attack, and even kept him healthy through a serious bout of alcoholism that he finally fought his way out of.
@@TheAlison1456 Possibly. If you think about the original study on survivor bias from planes shot down in WWII, the lesson learned there was not to ask the question, "Why do we keep getting shot in these areas" but instead, "Why do these planes survive?" That's the question I'm asking with my (admittedly) small sample here.
after my last paycheck went bust, I didn’t sleep for a good 132 hours and I can tell you from what very little I ate, this sums it up almost shockingly. But then I remembered oh wait, no he has a point,
@@firestorm165 no clue, started last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and it kept going till early yesterday. Sure I got sleep but back to it today. I also drank a half gallon of jungle juice from the halloween party and I also didn't get drink or die, though my liver and heart must hate me
@@QemeH You have warming cabinets?? We couldn’t even dream of such things in my day, even for their intended purpose. Nothing like hitting a critically ill patient with a bag of half-frozen fluid on a cold winter’s day.
Thank you EMS for helping ER nurses get through our shift. If it wasn't for your ems snack/break room, there'd be many of us that wouldn't survive. We love our EMS!
B.REASON 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 MY EMTs. ... They've saved me many times.. While we laughed together in the ambulance trying to get me to open heart surgery !!! We were all so giddy because of lack of sleep.. !!! We had a great time of sarcasm and laughter that even the surgeon couldn't believe I was the patient.. Not the right age.... Not obese... And laughing as we made it through the emergency doors... What a night 😂😂😂 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 MY EMTs !!!!!
Thank you guys for what you do I used to do bailers in memory care and thats only 16 hours in a shift so you guys are monsters though I did used to enjoy the drunk feeling you got after the weekend was over kinda like your brain was picking up static lol would pick up breakfast at the bakery next door to my apartment and serenade my cats with songs of how I loved them while they napped peacefully in my lap and we drifted off together eventually waking up enough to drag myself to bed
It's the nights that do it! I was fine while taking only day shifts for about 6 months, even lost some weight!! but the moment I started doing nights again, it's the 3 am candybar, the 5 am caffeine reload number 10, and every other shift it's the birthday cake for someone!! I swear I wasn't a diabetic before coming to the er, I sure as hell would be one now.
This is why I always thank firefighters, paramedics, police officers, nurses, and doctors, for their service, whenever I encounter them. That, and the fact that I would not have lived to see puberty, if it weren't for them.
MY GOD YOU ARE SO FUNNY WHEN YOU’RE FULL OF CAFFEINE AAAAGGGGHHH 😵💫 no but seriously dude, you’re hilarious! Here’s to keeping your knees going ☕️🍻🥩🍗🥓🍔🍖💊🍦
As a person who works for a newspaper, that ice cream rule is also true is also for me. That or cake. Cake is the easiest. Also, our sports editor said the "sports reporter dinner" was a can of Coke and a pack of Pop Tarts. Easy to carry, easy to eat, always in the vending machines in the breakroom.
Not a firefighter but the local station comes to my store to get food frequently. They always seem to eat healthy. They're always getting fresh meat, vegetables, milk and eggs. I'll see some frozen stuff come through too.
Jason, you need to borrow from the British Army and adapt a boiling vessel to an ambulance for the on-the-go-meal-sharing-as-you're-en-route-to-a-destination. (120mm main gun optional.)
First, I would like to say that I love your stuff. Now that that's out of the way, I can confirm the veracity of this video because my mom works for the EMA in my town (She's a secretary) and I have had the pleasure of eating with the crew once or twice (was there waiting on mom to take me to an appointment or take me home after work (I worked within walking distance)). (My mom occasionally pays up for lunch with the crew and she was nice enough to pay for me too).
Damn, I really wanna give him a hug right now... It makes me sad to think of how overworked these guys are but they're somehow still so nice at the same time...
This diet explains why so many EMS look like they're about to have a diabetic induced heart attack. He forgot Adderall or Meth. I swear, he seems like he's on that all the time. Urinalysis?
Rule number one about eating while on shift. If you're hungry, put everything else aside and go get food. Rule number two about eating while on shift. Pray to the EMS, Fire, or PD gods you'll be able to eat it while it's still hot. Rule number three about eating while on shift. If you do get to eat it hot, be prepared. The First Responder gods are fickle and cruel. You'll pay for it later. Rule number four about eating while on shift. Rinse, lather, and repeat when it comes time to use the restroom after the meal.
Going to the bathroom after is always a balancing act. Quick so you dont get called while still passing a massive shit but not to quick because stains from patients are already plentiful no need to ad to that.
God dang.....honestly...hospital truck drivers have been the most awesome charactered people I met....their charisma and character felt like I met a famous person...no lie. Idk maybe it was just the one that I was taken in when the covid vaccine wrecked my body terribly.
Went to visit my niece in KY a few years ago. She lives on the edge of downtown, where there's a fire department right down the street from her house. I decided to take a little stroll one evening to check out the town. As i was approaching the fire department, i saw a small herd of firemen walking in the general direction i was headed in. I was taking my time, checking things out in a touristy kind of way, so the firemen out-distanced me pretty quickly. I had just made it into town when I noticed the firemen again, headed back to the fire station, all with ice cream cones and cups they'd just gotten at the little creamery on the corner.
“Will it fill me up? or Will it keep me up?”
So accurate it hurts almost as much as those gas station sandwiches.
Oh god, not the gas station sandwiches! 😱
(They are actually the reason, I now keep what my mates refer to as "The Diabetes Box" on the rig during all my shifts. Some snacks, some pieces of fruit, a home made sandwich, etc. - enough to get you through the day if need be, if not all that healthy or appealing. I had a few to many fire standbys or back-to-back long haul transfers to risk not having my nom *on the rig* and within reaching distance from the passenger seat.)
I felt this, in my soul
as someone who has eaten many of those sandwiches, i am offended... they are delicous... kinda... if theyre heated up and you have mustard and maybe some mayonnaise ... and you have a couple minutes to wait around for this to become reality....
what about the gas-station sushi?
@@Layarion That's if you want to meet god
I absolutely love this one. So true it hurts. I constantly get asked by partners “I thought you were a vegetarian? Why are you eating meat?” Because yes.. that’s why. Now please let me eat because there’s a 500 pound man that knows we have food and is feeling frisky enough to fall in between the toilet and his bathroom sink.
Literally got a call exactly like that once and it happened to be during dinner time that the call came thru
I'm laughing so freaking hard.
@@calijones6159 then you get back and the food is cold
I gave up on eating at this point. I only eat when I get off work. You will though 200% see me running around with coffee or monster energy 🤣😂
I'm laughing so hard that I can barely breathe. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
laughing because its funny, but crying because its true.
Tears = salt on top of the ice cream... that's some higher level cuisine type stuff right there.
#truthdart
Yeah. Yeah.... lol
My general orders has a section that specifically states: “CAFFEINE IS A SUPPLEMENT, NOT NUTRITION”
Lmao
@@kevina4998 I disagree with that general order. Lol
My grandpa was a firefighter and he still eats this way, it's been over 20 years. He is now 78, bless him and his caffeine addiction 😂
Much like Fentanyl.... after a point you either have caffeine or you don't function.
**snorts two energy drinks for breakfast**
I feel personally attacked. And you can’t forget the “good job pizza” from management
Could be worse..... the local pizza place near our station brings their leftovers to us at closing. EVERY. NIGHT.
@@michaels2153 I mean, but free.
@@michaels2153 Worse, or BETTER? :)
That is my a management go to.
My management wouldn't give me a piece of pizza if I was starving to death in front of them. Other jobs get Christmas bonuses, we get reminded that overtime is mandatory even on Christmas.
"A bag of chips and a candy bar is the only thing stopping you from living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo-boo bus really is." - this broke me. Thank you for the quality content.
We literally had this discussion today in dispatch, “Ice Cream makes those annoying calls better.”
Mint chocolate chip has saved more than one life.
@@ratsumatra3003 One of my old agencies I used to work for recently actually bought there new ambulance with a mini fridge installed in the side compartment. Maybe they're on to something.
@@ratsumatra3003 our conversation was triggered by one of my coworkers drinking a Mint Chocolate Chip shake.
Well of course. Ice cream makes everything better.
Was working (EMT) on my birthday, had plans to go to the local ice cream shop and we get a call for an unresponsive, not breathing pt. Head out and halfway there, (about 8 miles into the trip), we got cancelled due to ... (well, figure it out) and my medic partner was like "Yay! Ice cream!" I looked at her, and she was like, "oh.." and then we went and got ice cream.
"Yum Yum Snacks", "Boo Boo Bus" , "Boiled Chicken and Broccoli fart generating meal" Your Vernacular gets me every time.
"Which none of us will live long enough to enjoy." I feel like he was talking to/about *_ALL_* of us. 😂😭🥴😔
There won't be pension by the time we turn old.
Yeah if your 50 and under, your going to work until the day you die.
Forgot to add the antidepressants in that pyramid.
That’s one of those awkward laugh situations where you get four chuckles in before letting out an awkward cough and a long pause.
Oof that got depressing real fast
My high school has had 15 false fire alarms in the last 2 months. Fire department responded every time, and treated it as if it were real each and every time, at least from what I can tell by listening to fire dept. comms on my scanner.
I think a sketch showing the first-responder POV on "The 4th alarm call to the same place today?" would be hillarious.
That would only frighten you. We’re really good at hiding our emotions, not to mention intentions 😈
@@visamedic True dat!
@@visamedic I'm good with fear!
see, in my school, people lit bathroom trashcans on fire instead of just pulling the alarm. not just mine, but others in my region, too. ig kids are just extra here???
@@averagetomfoolery Nope. Kids did that at my high school too. They also loved to set off stink bombs and throw fire crackers in the toilet.
You know, it's amazing how much of this translates to the average Infantryman
Being in the military and ems matches my lifestyle perfectly
yes
"Hey, guys, look at me I'm so cool cause I'm infantry and we're, like, really hardcore and, like do hard stuff"
Many of us crossed over to Fire/Rescue after the military.
@@chadedwards7072 I thought about it, but I liked keeping what little was left of my knees and back.
“I even watched a guy nebulize a soda one time”
Sometimes, you learn something so cursed it makes Dark Souls boss theme start playing in your head.
This is one of those times.
"Yo you comming, we gotta go!"
"Just a sec, almost done snorting my Soda!"
apparently this conversation is now a possibility.
I'm thinking just nebulize my Monster! Then no need to pick up that can, just breath....
Pardon, what exactly is nebulizing?
I take it, it lets you inhale the drink?
@@xCorvus7x No problem. A nebulizer is a machine for folks with respiratory issues (asthma is probably the most common) that turns some form of liquid medicine into a breathable mist.
Beyond what a clearly-terrible idea it is to breathe soda, a lesser (but still noteworthy) concern is what it does to the machine. Nebulizer's don't boil the liquid to turn it into vapor, so anything that starts growing due to leftover soda is going to get express-delivery to the next user's lungs.
@@electricbayonet2 Aha, thank you.
That sounds awful indeed.
This diet is suspiciously similar to a army and railroader diet.
Railroader here, can confirm.
@@GrievousClacker Although to be a true railroader one needs to gain 20 pounds and go through a divorce or two. 😆
And a college student
@@justinfowler2857 That sounds suspiciously like becoming a true first responder. Our jobs must be long forgotten cousins.
@@GrievousClacker army, specifically infantry, here. Can also confirm.
In the 1970's and 80's my father was the firehouse cook. After long, cold calls in the winter he would heat soup as the guys were cleaning up afterwards. He said cooking for firemen was basically taking any recipe and multiplying the meat by 2 to 3 times. At one time the captain called him into the office and asked him to cook more healthy options because he was making the guys too fat.
😅he must be very great cook!
If you manage to fat up people working that hard, you are definitely cooking with 120% lard.
@@57thorns I read this as "cooking with 120% hard" like, effort. I thought it was fitting.🤣
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120% lard. when you put lard in your lard
@@sosig6445 Wrap that lard in a pound of lard, call that shit Paula Dean.
I made the mistake early in my career of trying to make a meal without meat. My officer noticed there was no meat and said to the DC, "we're going to the store as the rookie forgot the meat for the pasta dish🙄"... The DC agreed. The DC was simple man to please for food: meat, starch and a veg. Don't forget the ice cream.
Ohhh man that is right up there with the Q word....lol.
Imagine being a vegetarian Fire/EMS.
@@anmlrsqnj what's the q word
@@hed-empti2336 you never say the word quiet as it magically becomes busy or really busy
@@MsBluebot ahh, thank you
Hey, we nurses have a pretty similar diet. You can only replace the point "meat, MORE meat" with "anything that can be prepared and gobbled up in less than 10 minutes" 😁
Because guaranteed, we're not getting an uninterrupted 30 minute break
@@chibilaichi you realize that F/R sleeps at least 8 hours a day no matter what
I'm surprised you don't have to replace the caffeine with amphetamines.
At least you get a break. You're in a controlled environment with plenty of resources. EMS is not he same.
@@navfree1729 hospital a controlled environment?
Um... not in my country, really. That's why many nurses leave the hospitals.
I can remember many shifts where I didn't even have time to drink; which is good, because I wouldn't have had time to go to the toilet either.
I have seen colleagues who collapsed during the shift because they urgently needed something to eat or drink but just didn't have time for it.
A 30-minute break is actually mandatory for us, but often not possible.
It is normal that the first opportunity to eat and drink is when the shift is handed over to the next shift.
When you quit your job on EMS, you can always start as a diet coach. You are a great example for many!
Woo! Diet plan here I come! Never had one that requires funeral planning as part of the steps, but there's a first time for everything right?! Eat your heart out, Fen-Phen! Oh, wait...
When my father retired from the Fire Dept. he lost so much weight. He went to try on his class A's for a memorial service 5 years later and he looked like a little kid playing dress up lol. He actually went to the firehouse to mess with the Chief and asked for an application on how he can join and got a good laugh out of it. They bought him a new set lol.
Of what not to eat!
@@slumbynature4557 unlike fat, the muscle can just shed off if you don't need it
emphasis on "when" lol
Yep when I came on the Dept they said the average life expectancy after retirement was 5 years. My best friend made it 3 years. So far I have blown WAY past the stats I am already past 25 years after retirement.
This makes total sense ! You should try to do this as a Hypoglycemic!
how hypoglycemic we talking here
@@markusfink5248 The most hypo of the glycemics.
That’s what the ice cream is for. 😂😂😂
but then you just go from "hypo" to "hyper"
"Living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo boo bus really is." I can't even tell you how hard I just laughed at that.
My Brother in Law is in EMS and there's a hospital close to where I live so I get to see him from time to time if he takes a transfer there. Theres a couple of restaurants nearby so I like to go get him and his partner some food when they're close so I can take it to them while they refuel for the trip back. Nice chance to catch up for a few min and like being able to get them something tastier than whatever's at the gas station.
You're awesome! There really are angels roaming the Earth! ❤
We heed more people like you! My husband is a Critical Care Technician in a Level 2 ER and he never gets lunch (even though he packs his lunch, he is still unable to eat it) What you do does help tremendously wjen EMS is on the streets! Thank you ☺
Two words….BED DELAY. Our main hospital we transport to is in the down town area. A lot of the restaurants will deliver there for us. Always a welcome delay. And personally, I hate bed delay most the time.
@@AB_Evans Aliens too 😬
We need more people like you in the world
This reminds me of how I was a total health nut…before I became a volunteer firefighter. It’s amazing how quickly after finishing Firefighter I that you realize you’re inhaling a cheeseburger off the rehab unit for BREAKFAST at a fire scene and that the idea doesn’t bother you one bit! And the ibuprofen-you need to pop that stuff ASAP after a working fire or major medic call or you’re gonna be moving like Igor with a hangover for days afterwards!
Don't forget to pop that baby with that cheeseburger or some milk or you'll destroy your gut!
@@SarafinaSummers Considering that ibuprofen works best when taken with a meal/snack chaser, that goes without saying! But I do thank you for your concern regardless. Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Ranger Pudding works better: (Military Version)
Ingredients are 1 hot cocoa packet, then dump some Folger's coffee chunks ( oops I mean crystals my bad ) to taste or until personal tolerance is reached and Then add a ton of sugar with a lil bit of the good ole "hotish" (something approximating hot water) H20 so you can stir the slurry. By all means , add a second packet of hot cocoa if your mix looks off or it is indeed "too watery" to get that nice firm perfect "brown town" look / feel with it.
Use the spoon that you used in stirring process to shovel the slurry into your face hole since it's usually located in the appropriate face hole at the time, not that one! The one with all the teeth (hopefully).
And my personal touch? I add Jolly Ranchers which I always keep in my medic bag so they soften up in the "water".
Congratulations, you've just made your very first gut destroying Ranger Pudding, which will keep you up for hours (one way or the other) plus now you'll be able to never fall asleep again.
So Have fun with it, paint a room while the kids are sleeping (no problem) or maybe you can even beat that boss level that the kids kept you from doing the other day! Maybe prank the wife as she wakes up! Cause who needs sleep right?
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Lol that pretty made me die from laughter
Dear Lord, that sounds disgusting! I'm gonna try it first thing Monday morning.
@@thehappydragon9491 (Two Thumbs Up) Good choice Sir or Madam, I hereby wish you luck with the "coffee farts".
A little tip though? If your farts do not knock a maggot off a gut wagon (when, or more likely, If you can do so), then your mix is off and needs to be corrected.
Let me know how your "experiment" goes in a civilized setting because I'm looking forward to the data since I already have the data for all the uncivilized ones. Should be interesting.
And Yes it IS Normal to Hallucinate on the Third or Fourth Consecutive Day without sleep, so by all means have fun with that too. It's your brains way of going "are you even listening to me?!!!"
@@warsprite1888 Lol. I'll let you know Monday night how it went. I think my roommate even has some of that horrible powdered espresso I can add to it. Cheers!
Watching this as I'm scarfing down a "fully loaded croissanwich" from BK, after getting off shift and hitting the gym. I literally looked down at my food and went, "Hm. He's right. Cool." Nomnomnom.
Looking forward to see a fire truck sponsored by Starbucks
That'll never happen Starbucks hates first responders too much
That implies first responders get paid enough to afford starbuck's premium grande prices
In the near future with how bad municipalities are messing with the budgets, I fully expect ambulances and fire trucks to have sponsored livery akin to NASCAR.
*Radio Screech*
"NESTLÉ EMS 24, Pfizer EMS 18, Goodwrench Engine 62, please respond..."
Theyve almost sponsored my personal vehicles 🤓
@@slumbynature4557 LMAO!!! I want mine sponsored by the local mortuary! Miller Memorial Medic 666 respond to priority 1 traffic address…. Cardiac arrest. No CPR in progress, unk down time, poss 1144, stage…scene is not code 4.
0:21 Bold of you to assume they actually had health in mind when making the food pyramid, and didn't literally decide order of importance by which food group's lobbies paid the most.
The framerate of this video is for some reason lower than normal, and it makes Jason's movements so much more graphic. I love it.
Shutter speed
Wondered why it looked worse than usual....
There was an episode of Emergency, where Chet Kelly, played by Tim Donnelly, RIP, tried to get the guys at the station to eat healthy. He was trying to get them to eat Wheat Germ and Alfalfa. Finally Gage and DeSoto had to get Dr. Morton to come to the station and tell Chet that firefighters need to eat a lot of protein to do their jobs.
You got a link ?
And then at the end of the episode, Chet made barbecue steaks; using his leftover health supplements to make the sauce. The guys backed him into a corner and forced that crap down his throat.
I used to love this show when I was young! i dont remember this episode, but I will be looking it up now! TY
@@inconnu4961 The Great Crash Diet.
But wheat germ and alfalfa sprouts have lots of protein...🤨 That sound like shenanigans on the doctor's part. Lol
Burritos, chips, Gatorade, coffee(for the old men), energy drinks... Snickers...
You don't want fiber... Can't leave the station pinching off a fence post...
Ibuprofen killed my stomach and liver.
Liver? That's paracetamol's job!
I had a medic when I first started, she’d hardly drink a drop of water when she was on duty.
I've been out since July due to an OTJ injury and figured I'd spend this time to figure out how to eat healthier when I get back. Than I watch this video. I was then reaching for a bottle of ibuprofen literally as Jason mentioned it.
All hope is gone.
Jason does your rigs come stock with an onboard coffee machine? Our neighboring depts trucks do. They even got a mini mini fridge in there engine.
Now stop making all the firefighters jealous because I noticed your evil grin when you told them, that's just mean, cause not everybody has an instant caffeine IV hookup in their rig.
Bad Buck!
And how did you get the city comptroller of all your money to let you sport a mini mini fridge? Did it involve blackmail? We want to know!
@@warsprite1888 We don't have one in our rigs 😂 Our mutual aid dept does. They're a bunch of rich jerks 😂
@@warsprite1888 What they've said is they pooled there money up to buy one, because I asked so we could do the same
we also have a fridge on our trucks but its for medicine but it can easily fit 2-4 cans of soda
Why not just replace the water in the tank with coffee? How fast can you drink?
Respect to all first responders, medics, firefighters. ❤ Ty for your service and most of all, dietary sacrifice
"Should we have a side dish... so we can have more meat ontop of that!"
The original food pyramid was a product of agricultural industry lobbying.
It's also a similar diet used to fatten livestock
The original Food Pyramid got modified to keep agribusiness happy.
As everyone knows, the five major food groups are caffeine, fat, sugar, alcohol and black crunchy bits.
I thought there were only four: beans, bacon, whiskey, and lard.
Them's brown crunchy bits, and they're the food of the GODS!! :)
Sir Samuel Vimes would approve
@@boneclawwalker3778 GNU Terry Prachett.
I'm laughing because we got called to a safeway for a guy destroying it and assaulting staff. Once he was tackled and cuffed we look up and there was the fire department with ice cream they were buying in their hands.
Damn. This is so true. I've spent plenty of time at the firehall with my dad and therefore I've shared plenty of meals with him and the others. We've eaten some pretty weird stuff and they've mixed so much stuff to create one thing. So half the time I didn't know what I was eating. All I knew was it all looked good, smelled good, and I was hungry so I ate it without questioning it. 3 quarters of the time it was good. The other quarter not so much. I was too hungry to care though and ate it along with my dad and everyone. else.
You ate your dad and everyone else?! Damn! You must've been hungry! 🙃🤣
@@reachandler3655 lol
"diabetes causing yum yums" "And Ibuprofen is the cherry on top of this pyramid of inevitable cardiac arrest" CRACKS ME LIKE NO OTHER X"D HAHAAHHAAH OMGGGG
When I broke my ankle pretty much all I was eating was high protein so eggs ,tuna ,chicken ,sausages etc surgeon said 6 months to a year to heal I was up and walking and out of my cast in 3 months flat also lost like 30lbs by cutting our carbohydrates and sugar . I’m conflicted because I normally just eat grains fruit and vegetables legumes etc it had been years since I touched animal protein at all but I can’t argue with the results .
@@Feroce nah I can’t be that restrictive with it because of the very real threat of losing my gallbladder it’s genetic my grandfather father and older sister already lost theirs :( so I’ve gone back to eating my usual fruits and vegetables and stuffs
You can tell the caffeine is working bc of how energetic this video is
Dude reminds me of Hulk Hogan from the Pastamania commercial
lol 😆
That's ain't coffee, that's manic sleep deprivation.
Can’t forget protein shakes and bars all day long for the meathead firemen who sprint back and forth from the bay to the gym all shift, every shift
Bacon flavoured?
@@phoenixfire8978 I haven’t found bacon flavored yet but it’ll be a bad day when I do 😂
@@21theslayers just rap some bacon around it. Done.
Or the non meatheads who are developing tremors from all the caffeine and simple carbs but don’t have any time for anything meat based and desperately need some protein to help stave off a total metabolic melt down.
he definitely looks like his diet is mostly caffeine
So... after this video I sure as hell gonna carry a pack of honey peanuts and a snicker bar or two with me. It's not for me, if something happens and first responder comes, it's for him.
I won't know if I live, but I'mma gonna get that best treatment with 'em snacks
The best offense is a good defense. I think you'll score with this, AND live to tell the tale! 👍
@@AB_Evans I won't have offence while having seizure... but I'll be defending with pockets full of snack and getting diabetic treatment for cardial arrest XD XD XD
@@buenoloco4455 ~ There ya go! Think positive! 😂 LOL
Seriously though, all the best to you! God bless!
When I had an elderly friend living with me, I had EMTs visit on a regular basis for one medical emergency after another. I always had sack lunches made up with sandwiches, fruit and home made cookies and to go drinks for the EMTs ready to go as I figured they were probably getting hungry by 3 am. I figured they should get something tasty for their trouble.
I almost spit out my energy drink into my coffee when I watched this.
I so want to see him in a horror movie popping up scaring people with those crazy wide eyes 🤣
"Now I'm going to show you the scariest thing of all... REALITY."
Hahaha ending part had me crying with hysterical cynical laughter...
Someone at my dept made a flowchart to show how long our guys lived after they retired....on average 6months...to just shy of 3ish years....glad to see the FD is the same as the PD
So, survival tip: whatever you do, don't retire?
@@Julia-lk8jn yup...die on duty...so it's a Line of Duty death...better benefits eheh
I knew a guy who would down Instant Glucose for the energy spike so he could study for his Pharmacology section in medic school. (20 years later he is now a diabetic... who could have seen that coming.)
This man speaks the truth, my father did 30 years as an engineer and this was more or less the routine. You also eat about 2.6 times faster than everyone else because inevitably a call will come in.
At my old department it was pie and ice cream at the top of the cart. One FF once very carefully cut the bottom out of A shifts ice cream carton, ate half of it. Then carefully refilled it with cold water until it froze, then put the bottom back on it. Thus appearing to still be full of Ice cream.
That is so evil.
So he likes it from the bottom. Got it.
That is the 1st shot in a shift war. Get the popcorn B shift because you know C shift did it.
is it a weird thing to say I'm jealous of people who can stay up late or be woken up while they are sleeping? I have epilepsy and my seizures are triggered from not sleeping enough or being woken up in a surprising way.
As a food service/deli worker, that looks just like my own food pyramid. Lol
Some parts of the explanation also feels very familiar 🤣
Not as extreme though, of course
It is funny how often our kitchen work crosses over with his videos. Especially the video on being shiftfaced.
ROFL! Don't leave us night shift nurses out of that glorious food pyramid!
I just found your channel and I had to sub! I'm medically retired now--but oh how true to life your stuff is! And I totally get your humour! I only get to talk about the "good ol days" with hubby now (also a retired nurse). So much joy and laughter from watching your stuff tonight! Please please keep it up!
I wish I was friends with a few first responders, so when I was bored I'd just cook a big ass meal and give it to them. Like Goulash, or Shepard's pie. Think they'd appreciate free hearty food
Eh just go down to your local fire or police dept. They'd probably still appreciate it.
@@kyle333halfevil figured that'll be weird. random chick with a pan of Shepard's Pie showing up, and handing it over? lol
@@layna-heyhey ~ Nah. Just tell 'em you wanted to do something nice for them. It'll be appreciated. If you're really not sure call first (non-emergency of course lol), and tell 'em what you'd like to do and ask if that's okay. They'll most likely say you don't have too, but if you want to that's fine and appreciated.
Shepard's pie and Cottage pie all the way!
This guy has the right amount of crazy that it seems like he hasn't slept a whole night in several years.
Nebulized soda.... excuse me while I go do something here.
My daughter/partner and I always claimed that we could not go to nice restaurants after the first few months in EMS. We ate so fast we could make sparks fly from plastic silverware and tended to discuss decapitations over dinner.
I think here in Germany it's meat and onions ratio 1:1 😂
Don't forget that if you do cook, you're starting with ingredients that are all the temperature of the grocery store produce cooler because of that call you got just as you reached the checkout.
"Booboo Bus" 🤣🤣🤣
The Food pyramid of myself and my fellow staff at our small zoo.
The base: Water. You better have a strong bladder because it's this or stomach acid fighting you for the next few hours and there's no way you've got time for a bathroom break.
Tier 2: Snacks. Much like firefighters, we have a tendency to hoarde little snacks in places, especially HQ, so that if we have a spare second we can sit down and cram some oreos or gummies down our throats.
Tier 3: Leftovers. What's for lunch? Well if you have the time to shove it down your gullet then whatever you cooked for dinner last night unless you managed to find the willpower to make a sandwich.
The Top: To the tune of hallelujah: IIIII-BU-PROFEN. IIII-BU-PROFEN. IBUPROFEN. IBUPROFEN. I-BUUU-PRO-FEN~ and the occasional muffin that the founder will bring in for us
What're your food pyramids folks?
What's the role of the ibuprofen? I only use it when in pain, but this video seems to suggest it acts to keep you up?
@@mrbigsmile3902 Pain killer for us. Probably for them too. I mean really if you were hauling around 300+ pound patients and god knows whatelse your back would be f-u-c-k-e-d FUCKED.
@@izices plus the sleep deprivation headaches
Veterinary medicine, especially overnight emergency vet med:
The base: Water, coffee, energy drinks; anything to keep you awake and going. But not too much as you may not be able to use the bathroom for a bit.
Tier 2: Candy or whatever fits in your pockets or tool pouch. There's no food on the floor and you may not have quick access to the breakroom, so no place to hide snacks.
Tier 3: Lunch? On a good night you get to clock out and eat. But make it simple and quick in case you get called back on the floor. Most nights you eat whatever you can shovel in your mouth on a ten minute break. Usually something leftover from the previous shift that you hope won't give you food poisoning.
The Top: Pain medication. Keeps you going when you can't feel your feet at the end of a shift and your back is seizing up to the point that you aren't sure you'll be able to get back up once you sit down.
This is 100% true! Although Jason, while you were making this video it seems you were stuck on the caffeine level 🤣
Jason is always this way in his videos!
Going from call back to post up west broadway, I decided I wanted lunch. so I pulled out my bag, poured the BBQ sauce on the sandwich and ate it. along with the salad.
My partner from the passenger seat: "uh bro you want i can drive you know"
3:06 - “…Retirement, which none of us will live long enough to enjoy…”
That hits too close to home.
My grandfather was a fireman for almost thirty years after coming home from WWII. He got a decent pension and retired at 52. Lived another 43 years. Whatever that career did to him, it didn't involve an early heart attack, and even kept him healthy through a serious bout of alcoholism that he finally fought his way out of.
survivor bias
@@TheAlison1456 Possibly. If you think about the original study on survivor bias from planes shot down in WWII, the lesson learned there was not to ask the question, "Why do we keep getting shot in these areas" but instead, "Why do these planes survive?" That's the question I'm asking with my (admittedly) small sample here.
after my last paycheck went bust, I didn’t sleep for a good 132 hours and I can tell you from what very little I ate, this sums it up almost shockingly. But then I remembered oh wait, no he has a point,
By the quiver of Artemis! My personal best is only 44. How are you still alive?
@@firestorm165 no clue, started last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and it kept going till early yesterday. Sure I got sleep but back to it today.
I also drank a half gallon of jungle juice from the halloween party and I also didn't get drink or die, though my liver and heart must hate me
According to this chart, a well balanced meal consists of cookies and ice cream with a side of chicken nuggets and pop to drink
*So much truth ... this is why ambulances have so many cabinets, gotta keep snacks and cans of energy drinks everywhere.*
It's not SOP, but... I have seen fast food in the fluid warming cabinet :D
@@QemeH You have warming cabinets?? We couldn’t even dream of such things in my day, even for their intended purpose. Nothing like hitting a critically ill patient with a bag of half-frozen fluid on a cold winter’s day.
I had a really good laugh over this. My grandfather was a volunteer fire chief and he said that there was always room for ice cream.
I watched this video while eating a tub of cool whip
Keep up the good work!
Thank you EMS for helping ER nurses get through our shift. If it wasn't for your ems snack/break room, there'd be many of us that wouldn't survive. We love our EMS!
OK. Many things on this channel should not be funny, but laughed till I cried.
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MY EMTs. ... They've saved me many times.. While we laughed together in the ambulance trying to get me to open heart surgery !!!
We were all so giddy because of lack of sleep.. !!! We had a great time of sarcasm and laughter that even the surgeon couldn't believe I was the patient.. Not the right age....
Not obese... And laughing as we made it through the emergency doors... What a night 😂😂😂
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Can’t forget the final resort of mystery things in the back of the medic.
There's some sort of candy/energy bar in one of our rigs. I have no idea where it came from, all I know is that it's been there for months
I am not even a emergency responder... and i feel this to my core...
Training to be a street medic. So far I've got the diet and caffeine addiction down pat!
“Without showing any signs of sleep deprivation” lol idk I see lots of zombie medics out there
Didn't know I eat like a first responder.😂😂😂
Thank you guys for what you do I used to do bailers in memory care and thats only 16 hours in a shift so you guys are monsters though I did used to enjoy the drunk feeling you got after the weekend was over kinda like your brain was picking up static lol would pick up breakfast at the bakery next door to my apartment and serenade my cats with songs of how I loved them while they napped peacefully in my lap and we drifted off together eventually waking up enough to drag myself to bed
Fun fact: back in the Middle Ages “meat” applied to any “meal” even if there were no animal products involved.
mmmmmm its similar to my "student" in his 30s preparation period, except being from italy i got a lavel called PASTA
It's the nights that do it! I was fine while taking only day shifts for about 6 months, even lost some weight!! but the moment I started doing nights again, it's the 3 am candybar, the 5 am caffeine reload number 10, and every other shift it's the birthday cake for someone!! I swear I wasn't a diabetic before coming to the er, I sure as hell would be one now.
Caffeine+sweets+carbs=sounded good at the times.
Unless you are the one scrubbing those toilets. Who died in their.
This is why I always thank firefighters, paramedics, police officers, nurses, and doctors, for their service, whenever I encounter them.
That, and the fact that I would not have lived to see puberty, if it weren't for them.
MY GOD YOU ARE SO FUNNY WHEN YOU’RE FULL OF CAFFEINE AAAAGGGGHHH 😵💫 no but seriously dude, you’re hilarious! Here’s to keeping your knees going ☕️🍻🥩🍗🥓🍔🍖💊🍦
Thank you for your kidneys & stomach’s service and sacrifice 😉
Greatings from Germany, and yes on this side of the World its exactly the same ... i laught the shit out of me :D
As a person who works for a newspaper, that ice cream rule is also true is also for me. That or cake. Cake is the easiest. Also, our sports editor said the "sports reporter dinner" was a can of Coke and a pack of Pop Tarts. Easy to carry, easy to eat, always in the vending machines in the breakroom.
For the wildland variant, replace "ice cream" with "nicotine."
I honestly was surprised nicotine wasnt in here anywhere, but it is youtube so.
Nicotine and caffeine are the corner stones of the food pyramid.
Jason's delivery seems to be the food pyramid in action.
Not a firefighter but the local station comes to my store to get food frequently. They always seem to eat healthy. They're always getting fresh meat, vegetables, milk and eggs. I'll see some frozen stuff come through too.
Sssshhh....Don't ruin the fun! :P I'd still bet the meat outweighs the rest.....and what's milk but a different cut of the cow? :)
My husband is a firefighter--I can vouch that this is far too accurate! :D
Jason, you need to borrow from the British Army and adapt a boiling vessel to an ambulance for the on-the-go-meal-sharing-as-you're-en-route-to-a-destination. (120mm main gun optional.)
First, I would like to say that I love your stuff. Now that that's out of the way, I can confirm the veracity of this video because my mom works for the EMA in my town (She's a secretary) and I have had the pleasure of eating with the crew once or twice (was there waiting on mom to take me to an appointment or take me home after work (I worked within walking distance)). (My mom occasionally pays up for lunch with the crew and she was nice enough to pay for me too).
I work at a hospital as an ultrasound tech: can confirm the struggle is real.
Damn, I really wanna give him a hug right now... It makes me sad to think of how overworked these guys are but they're somehow still so nice at the same time...
When you see his face you know he's telling the truth.
This diet explains why so many EMS look like they're about to have a diabetic induced heart attack. He forgot Adderall or Meth. I swear, he seems like he's on that all the time. Urinalysis?
Rule number one about eating while on shift. If you're hungry, put everything else aside and go get food.
Rule number two about eating while on shift. Pray to the EMS, Fire, or PD gods you'll be able to eat it while it's still hot.
Rule number three about eating while on shift. If you do get to eat it hot, be prepared. The First Responder gods are fickle and cruel. You'll pay for it later.
Rule number four about eating while on shift. Rinse, lather, and repeat when it comes time to use the restroom after the meal.
Going to the bathroom after is always a balancing act. Quick so you dont get called while still passing a massive shit but not to quick because stains from patients are already plentiful no need to ad to that.
God dang.....honestly...hospital truck drivers have been the most awesome charactered people I met....their charisma and character felt like I met a famous person...no lie. Idk maybe it was just the one that I was taken in when the covid vaccine wrecked my body terribly.
Ironically the video is 3:14. 3.14 is pi. Pie?
Pi 3.14159 this is pi
Went to visit my niece in KY a few years ago. She lives on the edge of downtown, where there's a fire department right down the street from her house.
I decided to take a little stroll one evening to check out the town. As i was approaching the fire department, i saw a small herd of firemen walking in the general direction i was headed in. I was taking my time, checking things out in a touristy kind of way, so the firemen out-distanced me pretty quickly.
I had just made it into town when I noticed the firemen again, headed back to the fire station, all with ice cream cones and cups they'd just gotten at the little creamery on the corner.