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Meals

Interview with Hugh, Cameron, Sarah, Roy and Janicki

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Hugh: Three. Breakfast is always the same thing. Cereal, honeybun and a juice. Every once a while they will serve oatmeal. But its usually just a cold meal. When you go to court you get a bag lunch with a couple sandwiches or milk and a juicebox.
Cameron: What a ridiculous question. These places are required to serve three meals a day.
Sarah: Mini breakfast and lunch and dinner full meals.
Roy: 3,breakfast,lunch and dinner and then commisarry would roll around a few times a week on selected days
: We received 3 awful meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Hugh: The food was horrible, Some of the stuff, you couldn't even tell what it was. The way it was processed was bad.
Cameron: The food was passable. I certainly was not gourmet quality, but most of it was edible. The breakfast was one of the small cereal packs we loved as children that would also serve as a bowl. It included a milk and what was called a "dough roll." The dough roll was some sort of sweet roll, but not all that sweet or well baked. The other meals came in trays. The food was not great, sometimes it was not that good at all. but it was not disgusting. I heard many complaints. I do not know what they wanted. If I want to eat steak I certainly do not expect it to be in a jail. The worst part was sometimes you would see a cockroach scamper out of the trays as they were being distributed. So what can you do. You either eat it or go hungry.
Sarah: Worse than hospital food but edible. You can survive on it. There was a regular monthly schedule of rotating meals. You did get a chick leg on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hamburger, tacos. Breakfast was pint of 2%milk, small cereal box and danish or donuts, fridays you got two hard boiled eggs and two slices of bread. Veges and desert with regular full meal. Sometimes you got something that looked like dog food, but was different every day. Drinks are sugar water. That is all you got. Don't always get a plastic spoon with meals so you have to get and save your spoons.
Roy: a lot of people had issues with it,but im poor white trash,lol so i had no qualms with eating it,they make sure to give you decent portions and there is always a fruit,ie pear,apple,whatever they got,lol i have had worse on the outside,not thats its great food,but there isnt anything wrong with the food i was eating while locked up
: The food is disgusting. There are no pork products in the jail so we ate a lot of soy products. Most of the food was unidentifiable, some of it looked like squirrel, some looked like sponges, you never really knew exactly what it was you were eating. I just reassured myself that it was soy and soy won't make you sick.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Hugh: Mystery meat, green bologna. The chicken on Sundays was OK. Fridays they always serve fish. But its never enough, you are always hungry. You can't smoke in there so you are always hungry.
Cameron: My least favorite were the dry sandwiches that I got in the holding cells when I first arrived. These were also what you received when you went to court and sat in holding cells all day. My favorite meal was the last one I ate there. I have no idea what it was.
Sarah: Chicken legs, tacos, favorite. Gulash least favorite I can't remember all the meals but there is variety there were only a few truly horrible meals. You'll know it when you see it. All the above comments are based on jail standards, which are much lower that normal standards.
Roy: ofcourse,i really liked the hot turkey and gravy,had a leftover thanksgiving feel to it,least favorite was the breakfast'2 tiny boxes of cereal per man and a tiny carton of milk....speaking on others beliefs though,lol many people wont touch them cool shot juices,they swear they kill your kidneys and will trade them for almost anything,ive seen people pour it on the floor saying it would eat the paint off of it
: We had really good watermelon in the 4th of July. We had this bbq chicken thing as well as ice cream. My least fave was this bean and rice concoction or the sausage crap.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Hugh: No. If you want snacks you have to get them through commissary. They come around 2 to 3 times a week. You can spend $150 month. But the prices are astronomical.
Cameron: No other snacks. The meals would probably have being sufficient in quantity if I were leading my normal life. In jail the meals are one way of telling time. You await them with grand expectations. The commissary stuff was overpriced, but not overly so. It is just another way of exploiting the poor.
Sarah: I got snacks in the evening because I got the doctor to order a diabetic diet for me. I got milk, sandwich and fruit. Commissary had mostly junk food, chips, candy, some hard salami. The kind of things you would see at 7-11. Very expensive. Double what you would pay outside the jail.
Roy: yes commissary was affordable for all,you could get any number of debbie cakes,microwavable pop corn in dickerson i was told even......small bag of chips,candy bars,bags of ramen noodles,i actually know people that still cook their ramen noodles like they were in jail,lol,you just put them in a plastic baggy and fill it with hot water and swoosh em around,wallah
: Commissary was all junk food, snack cakes and beef jerky. They didn't offer anything that required a microwave because we didn't have one. The prices were jacked up 100% and you could only buy one of each item. If you wanted 2 bags of jolly ranchers, you would have to have a friend buy a bag and in turn, you purchase something for them.

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