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sooo.. is prison food that bad?

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Ryuelli said:
Here's different school foods for comparison:

http://fedup.dosomething.org/fedup
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Some of those actually look edible.

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I spent a night in the drunk tank. Breakfast was shit, imagine the worse tv dinner you had and multiply the awfulness by 2 or 3 and that's what prison food is.
 
btrboyev said:
Well I know which Gaffers went to prison now.

I imagine prison food is much like school or hospital food.
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There's a difference between jail and prison in the US, to be fair. I've never been to prison(which is generally for more serious crimes/felons), but I've been in jail a couple times.
 
Best part about prison breakfast are the grape jelly packets. These things are like gold in prison, almost worth more than cigs. They can make anything taste good.

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I wasn't in prison but in jail for a few days.. It's not horrific food BUT it will upset your stomach and make you want to shit unholy death out your ass in front of other people
 
I just got out of jail and the food was pretty awful, most of the time. They actually say the food in prison is better. But man, it was like torture! Seeing Burger King and stuff on the tv 24/7, then getting this nasty, hardly cooked food sucked lol. Not all of it was bad though, some of it was actually good.
 
butzopower said:
My brother was in county for a month, and his stories were disgusting to me, but he didn't seem to mind. There was something that involved making a burrito out of instant ramen. And lots of things involving canned tuna. I don't think this was food they were being served, but overpriced garbage they could purchase and make weird jail culture snacks with.

Here's a 30 minute video of some recipes:
http://youtu.be/GTKoKHoCzRg
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That's disgusting.
 
It's edible so that isn't the problem. It's the way they throw it/slide it your way that's condescending.

And before anyone starts getting funny ideas I only served twice. One was only for a day and the other was for 2 days.
 
Don't go to jail in Arizona.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/27/americas-toughest-sheriff-takes-meat-off-jail-menu/

Now these same prisoners –totalling roughly 8,000 in number — must suffer one further hardship: they will no longer be able to eat meat.

According to Arpaio, who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” it’s a cost saving measure. In a recent appearance on Fox 10, a local Phoenix affiliate, the Sheriff explained that “little by little,” he’s taking his prison system vegetarian. “There will be no more meat on the menu,” said Arapaio, “we’ll save $100,000.”

Instead, Yahoo News reports, the jail will replace meat with protein-rich soy. Arapaio defended his decision to Fox 10, donning a chef’s hat and endorsing one soy and vegetable dish. “It looks great. It looks like stew,” declared Arpaio. “I’m getting hungry.” However, the affiliate’s reporter wasn’t sold, pointing out that many of the carrots in the “stew” were brown, and the soy looked like “wood chips.”

“Oh, that’s probably just dirt,” replied Arpaio. “Don’t worry about that.”
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butzopower said:
My brother was in county for a month, and his stories were disgusting to me, but he didn't seem to mind. There was something that involved making a burrito out of instant ramen. And lots of things involving canned tuna. I don't think this was food they were being served, but overpriced garbage they could purchase and make weird jail culture snacks with.

Here's a 30 minute video of some recipes:
http://youtu.be/GTKoKHoCzRg
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FUCK YEAH! It's called a spread. Shit was delicious lol. We used chili, not tuna. We made better food than the trustees.
 
i've never been to prison but i spent a night in jail in college. the breakfast looked so bad i didn't even eat it. it was a step below school cafeteria food at the very most
 
I honestly think everyone should try to spend a day at least in jail lol. I loved most of it. I was in there for a month and half, but I learned so much shit about life from all my homies in there. I miss em all... I don't miss jail though, I didn't like being stuck in there. I didn't see sunlight the whole time I was there, cept for like 20 minutes.
 
American school lunches are as follows (my high school)

Chicken nuggets with fries and milk, one fruit
Plain chicken sandwich and milk, one fruit
Plain burger with fries and milk, one fruit.
Cheeseburger and fries and milk, one fruit.
Circle Pizza with milk, one fruit.
Sloppy Joes with milk, one fruit.
Plain burger doused in BBQ sauce with milk, one fruit.
Tacos with sour cream and milk.
Soups (chicken, vegetable, beef and vegetable)
Prepackaged salads
Pizza Hut (pepperoni, sausage, vegetarian)
Baked Potato, with or without cheese
Prepackaged subs

All processed (besides milk and fruit).

Remember watching a prison documentary and the figure given for how much each meal costs is 50 cents or 75 cents. Would wager School lunch is around that level.
 
it all depends on the system. hell remember the congressman that wanted to limit his state prisons and jails to literal bread and water?

I mean if he wants to spend millions of dollars on healthcare for malnutrition, that's fine, but just remember some of these people are using social pop-fiction as their reference text, not logistics or nutrition or science. They feel that punishment means punishment, and to some people that translates into bad food.
 
Vyroxis said:
It's better than what we serve kids in schools some days.
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working in a school kitchen i have to say most everything is better then what we serve the kids. With the meat, we have to go through it and remove the intestines and other organs. its great.
 
I've seen inmates take a pack of ramen noodles, a bag of cheetos or other flavored chips, the flavor packs from the noodles, and add some hot water in a trash bag to make a "spread". It's supposedly tastes good.
 
I spent a week on remand in Saughton (HMP Edinburgh) and only had one meal that was unpalatable - the rest was absolutely fine - and that could have been avoided if I'd actually ordered something else off the menu rather than accepting the default option. Most of the people I was in the hall with bitched like crazy about the quality of the food - but they were comparing it to other prisons in Scotland and saying that the food at Saughton was dire in comparison.

However, I've also spent over two years in a secure hospital. The food there really was fucking god-awful and it's not helped by the fact that they're obsessed with 'healthy eating' these days when it comes to hospital food. The only upside to the food in the secure hospital was that you didn't have to eat it because if you had passes off the hospital grounds you could eat a decent meal at a pub or cafe and even if you didn't have passes our unit allowed patients to order takeaways (Chinese, Pizza, Indian, Chippies, whatever) every night if they wanted to plus I routinely got to make my own meals in the unit kitchen with anything I'd bought at local shops.
 
MormaPope said:
American school lunches are as follows (my high school)

Chicken nuggets with fries and milk, one fruit
Plain chicken sandwich and milk, one fruit
Plain burger with fries and milk, one fruit.
Cheeseburger and fries and milk, one fruit.
Circle Pizza with milk, one fruit.
Sloppy Joes with milk, one fruit.
Plain burger doused in BBQ sauce with milk, one fruit.
Tacos with sour cream and milk.
Soups (chicken, vegetable, beef and vegetable)
Prepackaged salads
Pizza Hut (pepperoni, sausage, vegetarian)
Baked Potato, with or without cheese
Prepackaged subs

All processed (besides milk and fruit).

Remember watching a prison documentary and the figure given for how much each meal costs is 50 cents or 75 cents. Would wager School lunch is around that level.
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I bet Norwegian prisons offer healthier, more nutritious and tastier food.
 
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