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Meals

Interview with Tommy

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Tommy: You get three meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Tommy: For a jail I guess I'd rate it three out of five, but for food in general it gets a one. Depending on the floor you're on your two "hot" meals (breakfast and dinner) were either lukewarm or cold. Your lunch was a bologna and cheese sandwich (which warmed up to room temperature and was disgusting) or a PB&J sandwich that was alright. It all tasted pretty terrible, it was all frozen or instant and usually over cooked or undercooked. At breakfast you got a milk carton and an orange juice carton, and for lunch and dinner you got a packet of generic kool-aid to drink.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Tommy: The bologna and cheese sandwich lunch is disgusting because whatever imitation cheese they use gets all slimy at room temperature. The chicken dinner tray is probably the best.It had a chicken breast/patty thing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and a roll.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Tommy: You could buy snacks off of commissary. You could get all kinds of snack foods (chips and candy etc.), coffee, tea, kool-aid, and even a bottle of soda. It was all marked up, but really no worse than a convenience store.

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