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Interview with Carrie, Michael, Roy, Tiff, Lela and Manuel

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Carrie: Three.
Michael: 3
Roy: 3
Tiff: WE WERE RECEIVING 3 MEALS PER DAY
Lela: 3 meals per day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Manuel: You get three meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Carrie: Discusting
Michael: out of 1-10 a 2
Roy: (1-10) 3. It was comparable to Detox.
Tiff: THE FOOD WAS NOT GOOD.IT CONTAIN NO SEAsONING AND VERY SMALL IN SIZE. MOST OF IT WAS SLOP. THE DRINKS WERE 8 OUNCES AND THE MILK WAS ALWAYS WARM. what more can I say it was horrible in taste but hey that's all u could get so u had to eat it to survive especially if u have no canteen.
Lela: ZERO. Straight up horrible! I didn't touch any of the 'meat' they served at all. Everything is so plain and tasteless. All starch and carbs. The best thing would probably be canned pineapple if you were lucky enough to even get that. Bologna sandwiches for lunch every other day does not cut it, especially when I wouldn't eat the bologna and not even the bread most of the time because it would be so stale.
Manuel: The food was not enough.and most of the time it was cold.didn't have no taste. The bread was old .sometimes it was even raw.one time I was eating a hotdog and there was a piece of bone in the hotdog so when I told the correctional officer about it he told that if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Carrie: all of them were tasteless
Michael: cookies and juice
Roy: The kool-aid was good and you could get as much as you wanted, but the portions of food we small. There was an obese man sitting next to me and I was curious how he was surving with such small portions.
Tiff: No. there were no favorites. I was however surprised that they had a taco Tuesday. LOL.it was stil minimal in portion but came with the necessary ingredients
Lela: Worst meals for me would be beef stroganoff and what we called 'cat food'. I think it was like little diced ham with celery and some other stuff in it. It looked just like cat food tho. Best meals would be tacos (I wouldn't eat the meat or beans tho) and anything else that had plain white rice. Thats what I liked to fill up on. Breakfast was probably the most decent meal besides when you get just biscuits and gravy. But they had 'pancakes' which were just corn bread with syrup, but they were decent and corn flakes were decent too. Get a carton of milk every morning and I never drank milk but did there just to get some vitamins in me.
Manuel: No I didn't have any favorite meals but the only thing that was good food was the chicken patties .

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Carrie: You were able to order cantene, if you had money in your account. Cantene is where there is a list of things, snacks, toothpaste,a calling card, brushes, shampoo, more luxurious things then you are given that you can spend your money on. You can only order these things one day a week and then you have to wait lke 3 days after you put your order in to get yor things.
Michael: yes you could buy brand name products with money put on your books
Roy: Not sure.
Tiff: the canteen was inexpensive. It offered things like noodles chips and candy bars. it was ok. it came once a week. the only snack that came with meals was sugar cookies which u smuggled in the room for later.
Lela: The jail didn't provide any kind of snacks. Only snacks were given to pregnant women and diabetics. Many people would save some of their food or other people's unused food and keep them in their cells for later - which leads to many fruit flies. Commissary was decent at best. All junk food for the most part and expensive. Small bag of chips $1.29, one Ramen noodle 99 cents, Honey buns $1.69, most candy bars $1.29, 12 oz bottle soda $1.29 as well. At Least they have brand name goods tho. Many women would make 'burritos' by ordering tortillas and putting all sorts of things in it. Such as Ramen noodles, chips, tuna, nacho cheese, beef sticks and plenty other things including saved food from the trays.
Manuel: Once they served the three meals a day if you didn't have any money on you're books you could not buy commisarry and it was real expensive some times you couldn't by snacks cause you had to buy the beauty products wish where very expensive to.

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