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Interview with Jessica, Sarah, Curt, Brad, Peter and Michael

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Jessica: We would get three meals a day. Breakfast was at four in the morning, lunch at eleven in the morning and dinner at four in the afternoon. No food was offered in the middle twelve hour period.
Sarah: 3
Curt: three meals a day.
Brad: 3. They weren't "square" but it was three.
Peter: 3.
Michael: 3 and that is a stretch.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Jessica: I did not particularly care for most of it but I personally am a picky eater. The meals were hot and didn't seem to make anyone real sick.
Sarah: 1
Curt: terrible
Brad: I say one thing, it's better than food in Orange Count but not much... it still sucked
Peter: At first I thought it was horrible, but after years of eating it I didn't mind much. I would actually look forward to some meals.
Michael: The food is horrible. It is small portions, they serve lumpy grits and watery eggs, if we are lucky even the sandwiches are horrible didn't think you could screw up bologna and cheese but they have figured a way to do it. There is a multi purpose pattie they serve not sure what it is maybe soy?

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Jessica: My favorite meals were breakfasts with the eggs and jelly with bread or the chicken on the bone with macaroni and cheese. The chicken was the only real meat in there, everything else was soy. I did not care for the oatmeal, spicey green beans, bologne or really much of any of the other food there. I mostly ate bread for my 9 days.
Sarah: Yes I hated the mashed potatoes they tasted like paste, the beans were horrible. They must have had a huge vat of them because you would eat them for 3 or 4 days in different recipies. I enjoyed the noodles with a brown meat sauce and the chili and rice was good.
Curt: all of it was my least favorite.
Brad: Chili! Wouldn't touch it. I hate chilie. They did have some chicken or beef noodle stuff people was calling goulash... that wasn't that bad.
Peter: My least favorite was liver. The 4th monday of every month they gave us liver. My favorite was burritos and cheese grits which was taken off the menu before I was released.
Michael: All of it is my least favorite. My most favorite is when commissary came and delivered my order. Because we would starve without.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Jessica: You could have snacks outside of meals only if you purchased them from comessary.
Sarah: no you could buy commissary food but if your owed the jail money they would take what you owed them before you could get anything. I was a trustee so they waived the $2.50 a day fee for being in there.
Curt: no!
Brad: You could order from the commissary once a week.
Peter: Yes. You could buy ramen soups, honeybuns, chips, soda, etc from the canteen.
Michael: Commissary was crazy priced but was a neccissity because the food was so horrible and I could go back and eat from my commissary if necessary and feel like I was full and not having to do without.

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