From the LVRJ: In a city that has become renowned for its hip and innovative restaurant scene, a local tourist attraction is offering decidedly different fare: prison food.
This weekend, the defunct Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia will serve visitors sample inmate meals from the 1830s, 1940s and today: broiled salted beef with “Indian mush”; hamburger with brown gravy and beets; and Nutraloaf — an unappetizing concoction currently served as punishment in prisons across the country.
Event organizers say the not-so-haute cuisine is a way to stimulate both the taste buds and the mind. The meals reflect the changing nature of food service at penal institutions and, in some ways, attitudes toward inmates, said Sean Kelley, the prison’s director of public programming.
“We hope to have a discussion all weekend long about what these policies mean to accomplish and whether they’re effective,” Kelley said. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/philadelphia-jail-offers-tourists-taste-prison-food
I don't, I like beets, I like hamburger and gravy- what could go wrong that a little Ketchup couldn't cure?
Also, why haven't the Indians complained about the name? They complain about everything else, why would they find this name acceptable?
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They really should be serving lobster!
ReplyDeleteWhen lobsters were more prevalent, it was commonly served to inmates. It got to the point that near riots would erupt because groups of inmates coun't stand to eat it anymore!
As for the Indian Mush, they can't complain because they invented it! The colonists learned it from them when they learned to grow corn.