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Meals

Interview with CC, Kurt, Kimberly, Karen, John, Ashley and Michelle

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
CC: 3
Kurt: 3 meals a day
Kimberly: 3 meals a day
Karen: 3
John: Three regular meals befor i worked in kitchen.
Ashley: three meals a day that's all
Michelle: You got 3 meals a day if you were sleep and didn't hear them yell it they wouldn't give you your meal

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
CC: poor
Kurt: It was subsitance. "Edible" that was all you could say. It wasn't a lot, it wasn't spiced, but kept you alive.
Kimberly: On a scale of 1 to 10 a 3
Karen: poor too many carbs n tasted awful no variety
John: Nasty and accomidating because your in jail you dont expect The best but this was horrible. Working in The kitchen provided me with a wider option of food but over all its not fit for a stray dog. As expected many inmates complained but that didnt help you juat get used to it
Ashley: the food was not good at all it was very nasty the food has no taste to it very bland , taste like it came out of a slop jar , the serving of the food was by the inmates , so I don't know if that was a good thing
Michelle: It is a 0 the nastiest food I ever ate but had no choice cause its all you got it had no flavor at all you had to put sugar in it just to have some type of flavor the meat looked like canned cat food or dog food the noodles were way over done

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
CC: breakfast
Kurt: The keilbasa and sauerkraut was okay. I liked that. The worst was the grits for breakfast.
Kimberly: Favorite meal would be breakfast with the pancakes. The worst was some kind of mix of pasta sauce whatever they had leftover all mixed together.
Karen: spicy chicken patties
John: No i would reather eat comminsaey. I dont recall one deserible meal. If i had to choose id say breakfast because it was effprtless
Ashley: all of it was nasty , if I had to go back to jail I would only eat the fruit
Michelle: No none of it was good it was all nasty the only thing that wad edible was the fruit .

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
CC: buy commisary no snacks provided even when i waspregant
Kurt: You could order from snacks from the commissary. No soda, just kool aid.
Kimberly: You got to go to commissary twice a week. First you would put in your order then pick it up. They had chocolate candy, chips, kool aid only... no ice or microwave or hot water.
Karen: it was affordable but this selections were minimal
John: Commissary was The only snack it was expensive so if yoy had no money you went hungry. Robbery was a better name for The jail store because of The steep prices and thwy only sold candy bars
Ashley: fruit , and cookies maybe some juice if you were pregnant you got more snacks I was still hungry but sometimes there were no snacks available to get so we had no snacks or fruit
Michelle: No not unless you were diabetic or pregnant it was not too expensive a tiny less then it would be on the outside it mostly was just like little Debbie snacks and chips and stuff

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