I'll be in the county jail on Saturday

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Only time I saw any kind of candy was on my only visit to nearby Phan Rang, which was soon declared off limits. Streets was lined with shops filled with wide and deep assortments of American-made black market stuff, and baskets filled with live rice bugs -- a Vietnamese delicacy.

First taste of grits was while stationed at Luke AFB, outside of Phoenix. There must be some good ol' boy recipes, but I find them to be very bland.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
smokeywolf, that is hard to do when you only have powdered eggs, powdered milk, powdered potatoes and salt fatback for the morning rations. At least the wife sent me Tabasco and Heinz 57 sauce every month in my care package. We would raid the Ranger Company ( H company) Connex containers and steal their freeze dried LRRP rations. The hardest part was disposing of the aluminum foil wrappers!
 

Ian

Notorious member
Not much of a reconstituted cow feed guy. I don't mind powdered eggs or potatoes though, so long as I have at least salt and pepper to go on them. The trick with powdered eggs is to tilt the plate so the congealed liquid drains away from them.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I can attest to USMC stateside Cold War Era chow being pretty lame. The Navy shore station food wasn't much better. Never ate at an Army installation of any kind I can recall. Overseas on Okinawa the Corps food was horrible! Baked (BAKED!) rabbit 3x a week, green tomatoes, brown lettuce, stale bread, "veal parmigiana" that was breaded flank steaks in tomato sauce, the worst burgers you ever ate in your life, etc. C-rats were many levels above the mess hall food, but you couldn't just choose them. OTOH, any chance I had to go over to Kadena AFB I'd take and eat there. What food! It was like eating in stateside restaurant! The AF chickies like Marines too!

I tried grits in North Carolina and Mississippi. Maybe it was because it was USMC/USN food, but if I wanted to eat wall paper paste, I'd just eat wall paper paste. I also tried what is called "chili" down south. Sorry, but acidic, burning hot conglomerations of multiple types of chiles is not "chili" in my book. Lots and lots of kidney beans, hamburg, onion, diced tomatoes, etc. and some mild spices. Add in cornbread and you have a great meal that will stick with you for hours. If I needed an excuse to drink gallons of beer to quell the burn, I suppose that other stuff would be a great excuse.

Jails. I used to live in the least populated county in NYS. 1800 sq mi, about 4K people last I knew. The county jail was a 2 cell affair in the rear of the Courthouse. The sheriff lived there and collected the jailers salary. His wife did the cooking and collected the cooks salary. I think his daddy, who of course was Sheriff before him and then served as Undersheriff well into his late 80's, did the same thing. The sheriff looked, acted like and was about as big around as Boss Hog from The Dukes of Hazzard. Last I knew he had his son in law lined up to be the next sheriff. If you ate there, you ate really good. The inmate(s) ate the same food as the sheriff. You could do a lot worse than spending the winter in that jail, that's for sure. The politics of it were laughable, but that's life in rural America.
 
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fiver

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The trick with powdered eggs is to tilt the plate so the congealed liquid drains away from them.
it's the same trick with non powdered eggs.
you just keep tipping the plate over the proper receptacle until you hear them hit bottom.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
My Brother Frank was in Nam right after the "Tet Offensive" I was finishing high school. I remember him sending packages of rations to me I remember eating the crackers and hot chocolate made with hot water only watching the World news about the Viet Nam war! Imagining I was there wonder If I would be there! I drew a low number after graduation but wasn't drafted because the troops were pulling out!
I still remember the taste of those items he sent me and I had a pile of those little can openers!
He also sent me a huge cargo Parachute and a bunch of different spent ordnance projectiles ( darts balls and stuff) a cross bow and a bunch of other memorabilia !
Sure wish he was still around to pick his brain! Oh yes he was in the 101st
 
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RBHarter

West Central AR
Been in a few retired jails . No desire to be in a new "comfortable" one .

I are a few C and K rats . I have 2-3 boxes of MREs .
I married the AF and had chow at Edwards a few times .
I can't remember now if I ever had Navy chow in Fallon but I did have lunch at North Island once .
My Uncle was Army but ended up cooking on the ship coming home from Korea . He was asked for another slice of meat " we didn't have any meat sailor "," well just give me another slab of gravy then" .
The messes I ate in were contract and the food was pretty good .
Ms now was a galley cook at NAS Fallon for several years and I have to be careful , she could have me out of 36s and into 40s without any trouble at all .
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Went and toured the new jail, kind of impressive I reckon. Spent about 15 minutes talking with the Sheriff & learned a few things. Some cells on the ground floor have bunk beds but all the dorms on the second floor have single beds only. I asked him about that, he said that in the old jail all the beds were bunk beds and when he removed the top bed from all of them his monthly medical costs dropped by 75%. Wow, asked him if that many people fall out of bed. He said that was what all the other inmates used as an excuse, must have fallen out of bed and cracked his head/broke his arm or whatever. Also found out that any type of government health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, VA or any other government issued health insurance is void in the county lock up. As soon as your arrested all your medical bills are on the county taxpayers. Didn't know that. I asked about what if you arrest a pregnant woman? He said if she gives birth while in custody the county pays the bill. He also said that they try hard to avoid that very scenario for that very reason. Didn't try any of the jail food, they were setting up tables outside for that when the wind came up and they put everything away.
 

uncle jimbo

Well-Known Member
Well Rick, let me guess, you are all ready to go back for an extended stay. :eek: Being all nice and new like that.
Free room and board courtesy of the county. After all, you helped pay for it with your taxes.
:headscratch:
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Na Jimbo, even though it would be both cruel and unusual punishment it's pretty doubtful they would supply me the required quantity of caffeine. :eek:
 
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freebullet

Guest
Lol, i would not visit a jail for fun. Only time I been "inside" we was paid to be there & didn't spend the night. It was really moldy.

So..now I'm curious...what offences get the delivery paid for but let the lady back out quickly? Hope the wife don't read this.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Our State is going to a "no bail required" type of paradigm. Makes zero sense to me, but not much this state does makes any sense to me. Someone sells a felony load of drugs and you don't stick him in jail? Black is white, white is black I guess.