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Interview with Lola, Eve, Pat, Peter, Al, Trevor and Camille

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Lola: 3, I think, but they were horrible
Eve: 3
Pat: 3
Peter: Three issued by the Prison but non perishable snack and the such are available for purchase on commissary
Al: we got 3 meals a day
Trevor: 3 small meals a day.
Camille: I was offered three meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Lola: horrible
Eve: Bland but it had everything it should have.
Pat: 5
Peter: the food was rather horrible, as the meals are designed for sustaining the "three square meals and healthy heart diet" It was more so a flavorless variety of food that was meant to keep an inmate sustained while incarcerated. The Holidays such as Christmas Thanksgiving and Easter were the only "real food as they are called" meals in which were usually double the portions and follow the "normal" holiday menu items
Al: the food was terable with exception of a couple meals, all the meals were real small and breakfast was basically cerel every day. there were on or two good meals they served and that was when they had chicken and rice but that was about it. if you didnt have commisary you would be hungry
Trevor: very poor. many meals I and others have gotten there is things like half cooked green beans with half cooked brown carrots. their hot dogs are literally a grass green color when we got our trays. one lunch consisted of a peanut butter and jelly snacker, it was the wheat cracker sandwhich about the size of an icecream sandwhich and a fruit cup and 2 small cookies. very very poor food, the only place I have been that while your eating you only become hungrier.
Camille: I chose to stick with the vegetarian diet because the general tray promotes constipation. I get constipated very easily which means I fart (is there a fancy word for fart? I'm sure there is, but I can't remember what it is.) Anyway, my farts are wretched. They stink really bad and the inmates around me were NOT happy. So, I rate the general tray a minus 25 and the vegetarian tray a 2 because I would MAYBE pass a stool once a week on that tray. (Life was really grand then.) :)

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Lola: no, they were all bad....and we got bread and hard butter with every meal.
Eve: I liked when we had salad, but the chicken was usually pretty good.
Pat: the chilli the best with the sald the nastiest was the viel OMG i hated it
Peter: I personaly like the chicken patty meals as well as the hot dog and tator tot type meals. they were the ones that seemed more like home style meals rather than a bunch of mixed veggies and gravy with mystery meat as I called it. My least favorite was the "beef stew" as it resembled not only appearance but close in taste to canned dog food
Al: my favoite was the chicken and the rice and my least favorite was the spaghetti it was just noodles and ketchup type sauce
Trevor: none, the only half way food in these places anymore is commissary. the only thing good in ycp would be their cookies.
Camille: My favorite meals are outside of York County Prison. My least favorite meals are inside York County Prison. Otherwise, I would recommend the peanut butter and jelly, which isn't good if you get constipated.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Lola: Yes, you could purchase drinks and snacks from Canteen. Most times, I didn't have any money.
Eve: Only what you buy from commissary.
Pat: ur meals thats it but u get comissary
Peter: Snacks were only available on commissary for purchase. They included Ramen Noodle soups that required hot water that was supplied via a "hot pot" on each block in which makes about three to four cups of hot water ( not boiling but hotter than faucet) in each. There was candy bars chips and such also. The prices were slightly higher than outside prices but not ridiculously over priced
Al: yes commisary was avaiable to purchase once a week if you had money on your books. it was expensive and the price of stuff would go up every year, they had coffee and cookies. cosmetics were also avaiable
Trevor: no snacks offered. the guards actually ate the extra trays that came on the carts and ate their lunch as well. commissary was exspensive. like 75 cents a pack of oodles and noodles and so on.
Camille: No snacks were offered. Are you serious? Commissary was golden because you could have SUGAR and COFFEE and daydream. It was a bit expensive but crime does not pay, so you deal with it. "Jail sucks"

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