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Interview with Larry, Tawnie and Henry

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Larry: in the beginning the 3jail would serve 3 hot meals a day but through the years it turned to 2 then 1 then mostly bag lunches. The last time I was there they were again serving 2 hot meals a day depending on the day.
Tawnie: 3 meals per day, served at 6am, 11am and 4:30pm.
Henry: a bag breakfast, a bag lunch, and a tray meal. 3 meals a day. if your lucky, you might get 2 lunches when we have extras. or you might get two cool aid packs or an extra peanut butter, things like that, sometimes, if i knew a certain batch of lunches were going to my floor i would throw in extra stuff so people were happy.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Larry: on a scale of 1 to 10 I would give the food -23. It was really bad and constantly made me sick. Every meal was served with milk also and I am highly aqllergic to milk.
Tawnie: It was hot and there was a lot of it, but it had really high salt content. Breakfast was 1 cup of dry cereal, 500ml of milk, a banana or orange. We were served 4 slices of bread at lunch with 2 slices of either bologna, salami, or turkey; a package of mayo and mustard; 4-5 carrot sticks, a package of sunflower seeds and a "nutritious" kool-aid drink mix. Dinner was some variation of beans, rice and a breaded mystery meat cutlet, canned green beans, and canned pinneapple with 500ml of milk.
Henry: on a scale of 1-10 1 being (eating out of the garbage) and ten being normal made at home food.. id say 3-5 why? well,take lunch, all you get is a an apple, which is not a very good one to begin with,two pieces of bread and a stick of peanut butter with a little jelly pack.the worst quality. but its not eating pooh..so , how good can it really get? how bad can it really get? the hot meal which was dinner, was served with a milk, or a cool aid packet and had some generic food that was bought in bulk and packaged for long storage..it was jail food. its always been gross, it always will be until they start spending more of our money on the food WE eat instead of throwing it away on police pensions or other BULLSH*T we dont know anything about. people should have the right to choose what their taxes dollars are being used for.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Larry: back in the 90's the had a meal on sundays which was some noodle strogenoff crap that would always give the whole pod gas and it would stink for the rest of the night. It had to be made with milk.
Tawnie: The best meal was Friday night - chicken drumstick(on the bone) night with mashed potatoes and chocolate pudding. The worst was any lunch. Always 4 slices of bread with 2 slices of digusting lunch meat that was always dripping wet.
Henry: i have to laugh at this question.its jail. there is nothing favorite about it. if i HAD to choose one, it would most likely be tacos.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Larry: the 3only way you could get snacks is if you had money on your books so that you could buy commissary. You could get noodles and candy bars and honey buns along with cookies and things like that.
Tawnie: You could order it on commissary and pay for it but there was no extra food ever given out. Most people would buy Top Ramen noodles, cookies, chips, candy, coffee, tea and sugar/sweetner.
Henry: the commissary was actually pretty good and kept people alive in there.lol not cheap not expensive, about what youd expect to pay for snacks in jail. like, 1.25 a bag of chips..just a little bit more than store prices. they have a large selection. i made a lot of good food mixes with my commissary.like burritos..chop up summer sausage, put in a bag with sugar, and soy sauce, heat up tortillas,rice and bean mixture, cook ramen noodles, no sauce, then add a jalapeno cheese sauce to noodles, mix some curry powder, mustard and pepper in a bag and put meat in it.lay on top of water heater until hot( ten minutes) mix all together in a burrito, and heaven shows up.

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