Date: 10/22/2020 7:01:19 AM
"FOOD and THE FCOC"
I was watching a TV show called America's Heart Land that was covering the American farmer,
and bean production it as showing the class of beans and explaining the grades of the beans.
The class A goes to stores ect, when they got to the class D, they explained these lower grade
beans are sold to the prisons. I was shocked to hear them openly admit that on TV. It kind of
explains the problem we have here. Not only are we being served the lowest quality of
vegetables and fruit, but meats as well. If you go read the FDOC menu, you'll think, hey that's a
great meal. But when you come face to face wtih what's on that food tray.....then reality sets in!
You read mixed vegetables and think that's good, well the other day we got some mixed
vegetables, broccoli that was cooked to a green mush, as was several other unidentifiable
vegetables. The only thing you could identify was the carrots. The past two weeks we've had
chicken leg quarters on Tuesday, its the only meat that we get that's not processed, and we get
it once a week. Well it come back here so raw, that the meat has to be torn from the bone. So
its dangerously undercooked!! We get a sausage patty for breakfast every Tuesday and
sometimes on Fridays, its a processed sausage patty that the public wouldn't eat. But it gets
sent back here indercooked about 70% fo the time, to where most people just can't eat it. And
they serve what is called, hashbrown potatoes, which half the time is undercooked, and the
other half of the time there overcooked to where there just mush. We get served these yelllow
grits, and there not cheese grits. But you'll get lumps in them where they haven't been stirred
up. The fresh fruit that you read about on the menu. Again its a lower grade of fruit, that the
consumer would not purchase. The apples are what is described as a horse apple. Its an off
color red, not like the big bright shinny apples you see at the supermarket. Its about half the size
of that. And the oranges are the same way. Now the bananas aren't bad. But you rearely see
them! I haven't seen a banana in over a month, if not longer. The hotdogs we get, well ther no
Ballpark franks. There small, and have a rubbery texture. The big sausage link we have for
dinner, is the same rubbery texture as the hotdogs and agan its not something that the public
would even eat. The burgers are a low quality meat that is more soy, than actual meat. And the
meath that's used as "a hamburger meat" in other meals, well it might have some beef in it, but in
the country meat gravy, that we get every Thursday morning for beakfast, and some of the other
meals, at times you may get a three inch corner piece, that's still in the block form that it comes
in. Guys who's worked in the kitchen have described this "meat" and said that if you seen it, you
wouldn't eat it. And this meat is served daily. Its in the Taco Skillet, a meal that is overcooked
rice, mixed with corn and some type of red souce that's never seen a skillet!! And the sloppy
joes and other items that have this sauce, and other sauces such as th BBQ sauce, well if your
attempting to eat these meals, your better off eashing the sauce off. And back to the broccoli,
you very seldom see the head of the broccoli, back here you'll see more stalk than heads. Yes
they actually serve use that, and that's all you will see in the slot is stalks. You read about the
peanut butter and jelly, and you think well they can't mess that up. Well you have surely
underestimate them. See we aren't served peanut butter and jely, no they mix it together and
throw it in the freezer, they then put a scoop of it on your tray, its oily looking and the only way
to describe it, well it looks like something you would find in a babies diaper, and thats no
exaggeration. Bottom line is not only do we get fed the lowest quality of product for which the
consumer would not purchase for themselves. But we also have the worst cooks preparing this
food, and on top of all of that, 80% of the time it arrives back here cold. So when you read the
menu, understand your just reading a bunch of pretty words, for its only when you come fave to
face with the end product, does the reality of the situation set in. So don't believe half of what
you read on those menus. The administration is often worried about the wrong things. Inspect
the food, who cares if a bed has a wrinkle,when your feeding him dangerously undercooked
chicken. Yes the FDOC's priorities is lost to stupidity. But welcome to the wonderful world of the
FDOC.
Regretfully Submitted Ronald Wayne Clark Jr.