Tulare County Jail

Meals

Interview with Jen


JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Jen: 3 meals a day were provided

JM: How would you rate the food?
Jen: Awful, breakfast usually consisted of high fat foods; tortillas, 1 hard boiled egg, milk 2%, an orange or banana or apple, and cold cream of wheat. Lunch was always a sandwich, usually meat that as old and dried up cheese, another piece of fruit, unripened orange, and a small bag of chips. Dinner was usually tortillas with beans, rice and a hamburger substance, lettuce and some tomato diced. It was better in General population, you had friends that worked in the kitchen and you could always get the better food; this was because they were able to bring back the food they made for the cops in the kitchen. The cops always got better food: chocolate cake, speghetti, tacos, real hamburgers and hotdogs. Things that had taste were not given out to the inmates.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Jen: I hated all the food they had. It tasted like crap. I like to eat food with flavor not cardboard.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals?
Jen: No there were never any snacks given out. They snacks were if someone saved the chips from lunch, or if they got to go shopping from the money they had on account.