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Interview with Jenna, Mel, Bonnie, Ashley, Aaron, Walter, Shawn, Mimi, Saul, Heather, Ricky, Sterling, Doug and George

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Jenna: Three meals.
Mel: I worked on the trustee floor, so 5.
Bonnie: Three.
Ashley: 3
Aaron: Three. Meals per daay that's it.
Walter: We got 3 meals a day
Shawn: There were 3 meals a day
Mimi: We would get 3 meals a day.
Saul: We received 3 meals a day.
Heather: you get three meals a day
Ricky: We were served breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Sterling: Jail food is just nasty shit. Meat patties that are fortified with meal worm. Only once did they give us something that was inedible to anyone but crackheads. Crackheads eat and sleep good in jail.
Doug: You got 3 meals a day.
George: we got 3 meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Jenna: Gross!!! But that's where commissary comes in, it's worth it.
Mel: adequate, institutional type food made in big, 50 gallon batches.
Bonnie: Scale from one to ten.. I give it a negative score.
Ashley: You must remember you are not at a 5 Star resturant. It's FREE food, and you are there because you broke the law, so keeping all that in mind, it's OK.
Aaron: Simple. Meals. Almost ddisgusting sometimes. For how. Much time and effort. That goes into the kitchen. And these meals you would think that they. Would. Atleast give you a somewhat largeer portion. Considering. The hours between dinner and breakfast the meals shoshould. Be consideraably larger to. Say the least. It hurts at. Night your so hungry.
Walter: The food quality was pretty bad. Many of them had unknown cubes of pink meat, assuming it was turkey or pork. There was also an abundance of pasta noodles not cooked all the way. The best meals were the breakfasts. Scrambled eggs or cereal usually. There was a meal schedule to know what's coming up. I traded lots of food for better for on later meals.
Shawn: The food was very bland and there was not much of it. They definitly don't go overboard on feeding the inmates and the only was to get enough to eat was to work as a trustee in the Kitchen at the jail. If you did you got enough to eat
Mimi: The food was digusting. It reminded me of the $1 Banquet frozen dinners. On a 1-10 scale it would probably get a 3. The only food that tasted good was the milk that came in a carton. The eggs were like plastic, so was the butter. They would give you a Kool-Aid type powder to add to your water and event that was gross.
Saul: I was not able to bring myself to eat the food that was served except for whole fruit or food that was sealed. The rest of my food I gave away. None of it appeared appetizing to me and was served in trays that did not appear to be sanitized well or was spilled or dripping from the tray stacked on top. Lunches were always the same - Baloney Sandwich, chips or cookies, fruit, and milk.
Heather: on a scaled from 1-10..ten being the best i would rate the food like a 4. what sucks is that you get a sack lunch every single day at king county with the same exact stuff in it.,. sandwhich..one piece of crappy fruit,crackers and a little juice packet. and the sandwich is always bologne.
Ricky: Unbelievably, the food was very good when I was there. I had figured out the menu schedule and knew what we were having each day. I am a lifetime chef and I knew what to expect as far as institutional food. I was very surprised at the variety and quality.
Sterling: Out of 1 to 10 a 2. Some of it was ok but. Its hard to mess up eggs and when you worked in the kitchen you got better food so I would say the workers ate 4s and 7s when they had chicken on the bone. The food is just low quality and freeze dried.
Doug: I would rate it on a scale of 1 through 10, Id say maybe a 5. The meals are basically like tv dinners or the same kind of food that they serve in our local schools. its not the best but its not the worst. its pretty in the middle.
George: the food was not very good. the portions were small, and you would get constantly solicited for food by other inmates. I was constaltly hungry in jail. i am sure any person that has gone to jail will tell you that the best part of any day in jail, is when you would get to eat.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Jenna: Hard boiled eggs, bread and butter. Some of the meat was ok, but very little.
Mel: manderin oranges, didn't like the bologna sandwiches in the sack lunches.
Bonnie: They were all so terrible I refused to eat but the banana.
Ashley: Breakfast is terrible oatmeal, a piece of bread, and packet to make orange drink or instant milk. Not too good. Lunch is a balony sandwich on cheap wheat bread, piece of fruit (apple or orange) cracker or cookie, pint of milk It's like being back in 4th grade and having a bag-lunch. The milk is cold and fruit was fresh.
Aaron: The hotpockets were good but. Barely enogu food for a toddler. The worst was hot. Dogs and soupy "beans". Who the hell wants 20 dudes sleeping shitting themselves. Heat rises.
Walter: The breakfast was always the best. Scrambled eggs, coffee cake, cereal and a fresh orange. The dinners were hit and miss, many were terrible.
Shawn: I was usually very hungry and was glad to get anything to eat. Chicken day seemed a big favorite at the jail
Mimi: My least favorite meal was dinner. It was either way too hard or mushy and never had any flavor to it.
Saul: Having not eaten any of the food I can't really say. The only parts that I ate were the Hard boiled eggs. cookies or chips in a sealed bag and whole fruit that I could wash off.
Heather: my favorite meal was salsbury steak it was the only dinner that would actually fill you up and it was good. then there was this meal we called bicycle parts and i still dont know what that stuff was.
Ricky: Spaghetti is always a favorite because so easy to make or rather hard to mess up. Portions were adequate when I was there 2002-2003.
Sterling: The one time they gave us food that only the crackheads ate. It was so stale it taste like dust.
Doug: No i didnt they were all pretty much all the same on the rating of the scale for me at least.
George: i did not have any least, or most favorite meals that i can think of, i was happy if i got a large portion.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Jenna: Nope. You have to buy your own.
Mel: commissary
Bonnie: No.
Ashley: don't know, I didn;t see any
Aaron: The commisary is insanely. Expensive compared to prison. In. Prison aa. Case of top ramen is 5.28 and. A. Single soup in. Countyy is. 1.50. That's ridicuulous to say the very least. A soda which is amazzzing to be able to have in county but only when you reach the 4th floor which could be months and then its 2 dollars.
Walter: You could only keep food that came on the tray that's bagged, such as chips. You can buy lots of snack type food, candy and instant coffee from commissary. It's delivered weekly. I never ordered anything o conserve my funds.
Shawn: Yes there were vending machines on the minumun and trustee floors and comissary was done for the various inmate once and week where you could order things from the commissary and they would bring it to you
Mimi: No, no snacks were offered. The commissary was ok, I never actually ordered any but I looked at the order list. It had everything on it from chips and noodles, beef and cheese sticks to deodorant.
Saul: There were no other snacks offered outside of meals. The commissary was accessible once a week and had a rather decent selection. The prices were reasonable and not too expensive. We were limited to spending $60 a week.
Heather: no snacks offered outside of meals unless you were pregnant and in which case you recieved a peanut butter sandwich at night and an extra milk at lunch typically. commissary was cool but it definitly cost money.. some items are spendy like hygiene items and coffee but the rest is relatively cheap.
Ricky: There was a snack vending machine and a pop vending machine as well as commissary available once a week. The vending machine consisted of mostly pastries and candies. There was also a microwave oven and boiling water tap for coffee and tea.
Sterling: Commissary is like 7-11. When I did the 20 days my kid's mom and I were on good terms. She put my own money on the books and I ate ok and had text books.
Doug: Commissary was like stuff you can get in the grocery store but way more expensive then it would be on the streets like instead of paying 99 cents for a candy bar it would cost $1.50.
George: There was no other snacks offered by the jail. we got commissary 2 times a week and we payed, i think 35 dollars a time maximum. it was very easy to max your commissary out.

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