Whats y’alls favorite? Big fan of the unidentifiable grey slop personally.
if you close your eyes it almost feels like you’re eating runny snot
I think it might be soup? Except they only have a single type of serving tray and simply use that for every single meal.
Gruel is technically soup.
I’ll trade you my top center and bottom left unidentifiable grey slop for your top right unidentifiable grey slop.
No deal. Top right is my favorite.
Man, that’s gruelsome.
I’d rather have gruel. Ground up hempseed is not that much different from oatmeal or grits, and you can season it to taste good. It’s also a complete protein, and hemp and marijuana are the most efficient carbon capturing plants, and they store 85% in their roots, so we could be doing something about climate change, at least slowing it down by letting these weeds grow everywhere, harvesting the roots, compressing them to a density that won’t float, and dumping them into the Marianas Trench. That carbon would effectively be trapped for a few hundred million years.
Tastes fucking shit.
The Matrix had something similar. “It’s got everything the body needs.” 😬
Did it? Don’t quite remember that quote. Must have been that scene right after they fish him out of the gutter and have breakfast on the Nebuchadnezzar.
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I honestly have no fuckin’ idea.
I was so confused about what you meant by eating on the Nebuchadnezzar until I connected the dots that this was probably the name of their ship.
My mind had assumed the possibility that their belowground refuge somehow contained the tomb of Nebuchadnezzar and that they would eat breakfast off of it, but no that would be silly.
Yeah no, Nebuchadnezzar is definitely the name of the ship.
Soylent grey
Who took this picture?
Oh god, not this again!
I get this reference
Your mom
The person holding the camera
Also plastic sandals with socks. Prison really is hell
I love sandals and socks! I bbq in mine, garden in mine, get the mail, etc!
I wear socks everywhere inside the house. Why would I want to take my socks off in order to put sandals on just to step outside?
Well, who are you gonna dress to impress in there anyways? Might as well be comfortable.
Honestly more effort than serving actual food at that point.
Isn’t that just a cream chicken soup, but disgustingly plastered on a already gross plastic food tray? The soup looks mighty fine, just the serving is questionable…
I assume so, but “mighty fine” is not the words I’d use to describe what’s on the plate.
17.99 with the right bowl
$30 and it’ll be delivered to your door!
In a fucking plastic tub
Best we can do is cold and half spilled into a paper bag
Would you like to leave a tip?
Hmm, looks like pea soup with shreds of chicken in it.
I think my country does the opposite of this, the prison food is very fatty and heavy to keep the prisoners lethargic
What sort of colourless beans do you guys have, eww
The average American in the wild is already fat and lethargic enough, probably doesn’t hurt to keep them on a bit of a leaner diet.
That’s because the cheapest and easiest food is the one full of fat with the highest calories
Well, clearly the cheapest and easiest food is whatever this slop is, though I can’t imagine it’s very appealing to anyone with a tongue.
The United States, alleged land of the free, has the largest prison population on the planet.
That’s the free market at work. 🫡🇺🇸
Excellent movie. Hugely enjoyed all three of them as a kid even though I didn’t even understand half of the jokes and most of the references made. Should probably watch them again some time to find out what I missed.
Can’t even use a bowl?
There were a bunch more pictures where I got this from, apparently all from the same facility. They all use the exact same tray, no matter what’s being served.
Since this got a lot of upvotes I’ll probably share the others over the next few days. They’re not all quite as awful as this one (it’s by far the worst) but they’re not exactly great either.
That’s fucked
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So dehumanizing conditions are cool and good?
we basically passive-aggressively legalized and normalized torture as a punishment…
something something eight amendment
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the fact that some people aren’t eating has literally nothing to do with grind all of a prisoners food up into a mush just to make sure they can’t enjoy any aspect of it.
locking someone in a cage is way more than enough punishment.
we’re supposed to be rehabilitating them so when they reenter society they’re not completely feral
It’s soup on a tray bro, not maggots and rot. The presentation is bad obviously but that is clearly chicken soup.
If that’s all they get for a single meal, then it’s still nutritionally deficient. You can argue exactly where the line falls, but “as long as they don’t starve to death” isn’t it.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that a tray of soup is a well balanced and nutritionally sound meal, but these aren’t the metrics we use to evaluate “food crimes” around here either. There’s not enough context from one image of one meal to draw conclusions about the state of affairs of food in the prison system at large.
I mean, I doubt it’s very good considering what cafeteria food was like in school, but this isn’t enough info to warrant sharpening a pitch fork.
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I don’t think it’s free… A lot of states apparently charge a per-day fee that you’ve gotta repay on release.
E: this is (of course) in the US
40 states currently have ‘pay to stay’ programs, but, my understanding is that they’re the minority of prisons even in those states, and generally the ones on the softer side of the spectrum. still very fucked up.
No idea. Never been, and not planning on it either, but I guess nobody really does.
Prisoners should still get basic nutrition. Food is a human right, even for convicted criminals.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Nice try Mouse
I hear you’ve met the woman in red…?
it looks like tasty recycled plastic
Soup?
More like slop, but yes, probably. Looks like a sad version of chicken soup if you ask me.
Chicken and dumplings is what I think, but the dumplings must be small
My guess would be shredded chicken, which would explain those white fibers everywhere. I certainly can’t see anything remotely resembling dumplings, however.
It’s just the color and black pepper that gave me that impression.
Is it all chicken soup, or is some of it rice pudding?
As other commenters said, it could also be gruel.
It’s lacking for a noodle, but it doesn’t look like bad soup. The presentation is obviously not amazing, but it looks better than my elementary school chicken and noodles did.
It definitely looks bland AF but certainly edible.
You guys have chicken?
