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Meals

Interview with Victor and Mike

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Victor: You get 3 shitty meals per day.
Mike: We were given three meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Victor: Poor. Very Poor. I would not eat this food unless it was for the fact that it was my only source of nutrition. The portions were small. Often times the meals consist mainly of carbohydrates, with very little protein in the diet. There is also very little fiber in the diet. I would get to know what people have more money and would make a deal with them for them to give me the trays that they did not want to eat, since going to a meal was optional.
Mike: The food was terrible. The main reason why is because they try to feed you as cheaply as possible. Many times it was inedible, so I would end up eating three or four helpings of apple sauce to fill myself up. Sometimes I was just so hungry I ate stuff I normally hate and stuffed it down my throat and flushed it with water.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Victor: I enjoyed the morning breakfast where we got a danish, that was one of the rare things that I can recall because it actually had flavor. My least favorite meal happened pretty much every meal.
Mike: The only decent meal was chicken on Sunday nights. It was a leg and a thigh and you hoped to get only that was ridiculously overcooked and dried out. It was fried and they even managed to make that dried out sometimes.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Victor: No snacks were given unless you had AIDS or were diabetic. The commissary was insanely expensive and it was hard to afford anything. These are prices that I would never pay a fraction of now that I am free. Matter of fact, I would spit in someone's face if they tried to cell me a crackhead Ramen soup for 60 cents.
Mike: Commissary was available but it was pretty limited in county jail. There were only a few food items offered, like cookies and oatmeal. I was lucky enough to have someone sending me money so I was able to get a decent amount of commissary which never lasted until the next order.

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