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Interview with John

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
John: 3 . I mentioned the specifics about the trays , etc. , elsewhere .

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
John: Adequate/OK . Rather like 1970s-era middle school cafeteria chow .

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
John: I rather liked the Wednesday morning breakfast " S.O.S. " , as even a guard would refer to it - " S--t On A Shingle " or country gravy/creamed chipped beef - I've always liked that ever since as a child my mother would buy/defrost similar " beef/Chicken Stuff " that my brother always liked ! Shame I was never in he Army (Navy ?) , eh ??????? Breakfast and dinner were full/had some hot foods , lunch was really always a sandwich - usually PBJ with , really , just he slightest J - or baloney , with a coupl other once-a-weekers . The meals tended to follow the same repetitive pattern of " THIS Mondays , thisTtuesdays..." There could have maybe been a little more vegetables/greens it was pretty starchy continuing ohe 1970m school chow comparison...One weird thing we , generally , got with lunch was a packet of this Kool-Aid substitute some sort of fruit flavor which was both (It said on its package) both vegan and kosher - Oy vey , where's my chakras ?One fruit with lunch , too , generally decently/fresh .Sunday we'd get a small ice crem as an extra at dinner . Sunday morning IIRC was for this eggs and potatos two-fer , once or twice there were 2nds , generally oher wise breakfast was Cheerio's/similar and toast with some jelly sometimes one egg...A lot of cons got caught up in trading fooditems , like elementary school classroom , even trading against future meals , I never did that .

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
John: There was commissary offered once a week (I believe , as I have filled his out out of exact linear order , I say this elsewhere . Please excuse me .) , I never had money for it so , basically , N/A...They didn't offer soda as such even in comissary (Reportedly Watsonville had a soda machine - & weights , as others said . ) so i was lent-like on that , no soda .

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