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OILFIELDTRASH

OILFIELDTRASH

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I ate prison food for two years. I lol at the comments that it was good. It was probably worse than dog grade food. Literally. My digestive system took a few months after I got out to get normal. I still have some digestive issues due to the food I ate in prison. Not nearly as bad now.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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master_shake_ said:
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looks delicious.

j/k that's a school lunch in the us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-s-meals-compared-cash-strapped-nations.html
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Is that cat vomit? :awe: That does look pretty nasty. When I was in school we pretty much could order what we want but typically we packed lunches or it would get expensive to order every day. The cafeteria food was half decent though. I'd usually treat myself to it once or twice a week.

As for the jail menu it does sound half decent, but my expectations of the actual quality would be pretty low.
 
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unokitty

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Can't speak to prison food. But if it is any worse than the Ham and Mothers that the US Army fed me, the prisoners have my sympathy.

Uno
 
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ninaholic37

ninaholic37

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Yes, they have way more variety in nutritious food groups because I don't know how to make anything except cereal and pizza pops. I used to work in the kitchen in a jail and I would say their menu is 500% better that what I usually have the patience make at home. Wish someone would make me jail food every day.
 
NikolaeVarius

NikolaeVarius

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Oct 25, 2006
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Wonder what would happen if they just replaced all the food with Soylent or something similar to it.

Just flavor it chocolate.
 
WelshBloke

WelshBloke

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Jan 12, 2005
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lxskllr said:
I'm more interested in the picture perfect foreign food(UK notably absent) that I'd be happy to pay real money for. I don't believe for a second these other countries are serving their kids food that Americans would pay $12 for at a hipster cafe.
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There were a couple of pictures of UK school food there.

I've eaten at my kids school a few times and it's OK. The portion sizes are crap but it's for 4 to 10 year olds so that kinda makes sense.

Italian and French school food is supposed to be pretty good TBH. I'll check with the wife later, she's been at both.

I guess it's going to vary school by school so you could probably pick and choose to prove whatever point you want. That said those pictures of US school food look excessively revolting. Like someone actually put effort into making them as bad as possible.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

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Oct 10, 1999
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I had a friend who was in prison about 45 mins or so West of Springfield IL for being a dipshit. When he got out, he would rave about how awesome shitty campbells soup was or how great chef boyardee was. No, prisoners, at least in Illinois, do not eat tasty delicious healthy good food. They eat low quality "old country buffet" rejected slop. Enough nutritional content to keep most prison officials out of prison, but bad enough that the food could possibly be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
 
dainthomas

dainthomas

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When I was in school, my mom paying for hot lunch was always a treat because the food was pretty good. Based on that assumption, I was buying hot lunches frequently for my third grader. That is until she revealed the fact that even she thinks they're gross and hardly touches them. Nuked chicken nuggets or mac and cheese or hot dogs 90% of the time.
 
Newell Steamer

Newell Steamer

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#1 - you don't live in a 3rd world country, so finding good nutritious food is not an issue
#2 - you are a grown adult, so figuring out what is good nutritious food is not an issue (unless you are a mongoloid / man child)
#3 - you have freedom, so you can decide to eat crap or good nutritious food

Furthermore, I would rather have my freedom than being locked up to eat better - especially since I can figure out how to eat better on my own.

Unless of course this was just a thread on how you feel prisoners should be given clods of dirt to eat and a glass of monkey spunk to drink - since they are prisoners. If that is the case, good luck trying to change how prisoners should be treated; because a country with a high rate of prisoners 'should' have their prisoners totally mistreated, so that when they get out they are driven to jam clods of dirt and monkey spunk down the throat of the pissant who pushed for such treatment of prisoners. Yeah, this will totally reform criminals.
 
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Exterous

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lxskllr said:
I'd be interested in seeing what the kids are really served. Not the advertising photos from the menu board. The images are clearly cherry picked to further their agenda.
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Anyone who has spent a meaningful amount of time with students as a group could have told her quality of food is only a small part of the issue. There are numerous examples of failed healthy food examples in schools so I am not quite sure what lead to the 'this time its different' mentality. Schools replace soda machine for healthier options and revenues plummet as no one wants the healthy options. School stores stop selling candy bars and revenues plummet as no one wants granola bars and bananas.

My wife doesn't work there anymore but 3 years ago the school she worked for tried basically the same thing and with quality ingredients. The food was quite good. Having had the old food and the new, healthy food the new food was significantly better in quality (The hummus was particularly good) but the number of students buying school provided food notably decreased

A huge black market grew up around some enterprising kids who would buy giant boxes of candy bars and sweets to resell for a profit

The students don't want healthy. Its not what they get at home and they don't want to eat it at school.
 
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TheGardener

TheGardener

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Exterous said:
A huge black market grew up around some enterprising kids who would buy giant boxes of candy bars and sweets to resell for a profit The students don't want healthy. Its not what they get at home and they don't want to eat it at school.
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Capitalism does work. And students do get an education on economics, even if the school system doesn't want them to.

In Concord MA the town decided to ban the sale of single serving water bottles. I always thought that some enterprising person could sell water bottles out of the trunk of their car to the tourists visiting this nationally known historic town. Also supermarkets are affected by the ban as well. Keep in mind that bottles of soda with loads of sugar and chemicals, is deemed to be okay to sell. Political Correctness gone awry.

http://www.concordma.gov/pages/ConcordMA_TownClerk/Water%20Bottle%20Bylaw.pdf



TOWN OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS

SALE OF DRINKING WATER IN SINGLE-
SERVE PET BOTTLES BYLAW

Section 1. Sale of Drinking Water in Single-Serving PET Bottles
It shall be unlawful to sell non-sparkling, unflavored drinking water in single-serving polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles of 1 liter (34 ounces) or less in the Town of Concord on or after January 1, 2013.
 
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Linux23

Linux23

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Quite shocking to know that we have quite a few anandtechers who've been in the pokey.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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TheGardener said:
Capitalism does work. And students do get an education on economics, even if the school system doesn't want them to.

In Concord MA the town decided to ban the sale of single serving water bottles. I always thought that some enterprising person could sell water bottles out of the trunk of their car to the tourists visiting this nationally known historic town. Also supermarkets are affected by the ban as well. Keep in mind that bottles of soda with loads of sugar and chemicals, is deemed to be okay to sell. Political Correctness gone awry.

http://www.concordma.gov/pages/ConcordMA_TownClerk/Water%20Bottle%20Bylaw.pdf



TOWN OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS

SALE OF DRINKING WATER IN SINGLE-
SERVE PET BOTTLES BYLAW

Section 1. Sale of Drinking Water in Single-Serving PET Bottles
It shall be unlawful to sell non-sparkling, unflavored drinking water in single-serving polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles of 1 liter (34 ounces) or less in the Town of Concord on or after January 1, 2013.
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...the hell does "political correctness" have to do with that?
 
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