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Interview with Marco, Juan and Emilio

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Marco: Three.
Juan: Three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Emilio: You get 2 hot meals breakfast and dinner. Breakfast is extremely early, 5am or so, though and many people skip it. You also get lunch but it is only 2 sandwhiches and 2 small cookies.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Marco: It was terrible. It was enough but it was terrible.
Juan: The food was pretty poor and oftentimes cold. Breakfast was the best. I guess it's hard to mess up eggs or waffles. Lunch consisted of a soup and a sandwich, or on Wednesdays, a bagel and a cereal bar. Dinner was a mishmash of things, although there was usually a dessert involved.
Emilio: Sandwhiches are absolutely terrible. Make you fell sick and many inmates refuse to eat them. The hot trays were ok some days and horrible others. A couple meals like nachos/spaghetti were very edible and others like "cow tongue" some terrible meat slice were horrible. Everything is high fiber so make sure you don't go too overboard or you could have a rough time later that night.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Marco: I kind of like grits. In the morning you got a hard boiled egg, grapes and toast with butter. I would put the butter on the grits. The bologna sandwiches weren't good.
Juan: Least favorite was lunch. The soup was heavily salted and the sandwich was measly. The Wednesday bagel came with a crab spread. I tried to tell the staff that I was allergic to shellfish, but because I had neglected to mention that during my intake (because, you know, I had a thousand other things on my mind), they refused to give me a substitute.
Emilio: Spaghetti and nachos were pretty good whereas something referred to as "cow tongue" and the daily sandwhiches are awful. Certainly not the best food you will eat in your life.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Marco: You could have commissary if you earned it (you can lose the privilege of commissary if you are breaking the rules). You could get ramen noodles, chips, soda. Occassionally the guards would let everyone pool their money to get cheeseburgers from the outside.
Juan: Only the diabetics received a snack outside of the three main meals, and they were also the only ones who received fresh fruit. Everyone else had to subsist on the three meals. I don't remember the commissary being unreasonably priced, but the only "food" on it was cookies or candy bars.
Emilio: You could buy commisary twice a week. They have a very wide range of snacks available to you. Many inmates gamble with the soups and honey buns. Commisary is probably the most important part of making the experience more bareable. Get money on your books! Cost is probably comprable to most jails.

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