Tarrant County Jail

Meals

Interview with DC, Keith, Joe, Heidi and Dillon


JM: How many meals did you get per day?
DC: 3 meals per day.
Keith: Breakfast at 4:30 am. Lunch between 11 and 11:30. And dinner around 4:30 pm.
Joe: 3
Heidi: 3
Dillon: 3 if u were in your pod. If u were out for any reason u got 2 cold carls budding looking meat and cheese sandwich with no dressing and 2 cookies I just ate the cookies.

JM: How would you rate the food?
DC: Disgusting. I usually gave mine away to a roommate in exchange for oranges. Now that I think of it, most inmates in there didn't like oranges or any other type of fruit, so I always ended up with it. That's probably how I lost so much weight in there.
Keith: Barely enough to survive. Too much soybean meat. The poor food drives up commissary sales.
Joe: bad,bland,same thing all the time.
Heidi: awful
Dillon: ABout a 6.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
DC: Favorite - none. Least favorite - salisbury "steak", and whatever nuclear waste that was on top of the instant mashed potatoes.
Keith: Breakfast is waffles with peanut butter. Lunch and dinner has to be chicken patties.
Joe: yea,breakfast on fridays,cereal,coffee cake peanut-butter,oatmeal,oranges,milk,coffee.
Heidi: mystery meat
Dillon: no

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals?
DC: Yes, if you bought them on commissary. Commissary's expensive though, so don't go overboard.
Keith: You can buy inflated items off of commissary.
Joe: no.get for real!
Heidi: no
Dillon: yes