From Wiki: Purée Mongole, also called Cream Mongole, is a creamed split pea-tomato soup of unknown origin.
Looks like they took the leftover split pea soup from the day before and dumped tomato soup into it for this culinary delight.
“And oddly, it doesn’t look half bad. There are three solid meals a day, each mostly different from the day before”
Today, if one can stay out of jail they can use their EBT card to buy steak and lobster.
I took a tour of Alcatraz several years ago. The tour guide explained that they served very good food there because the conditions were so horrible otherwise (cold and dank) that having good food made the prisoners less inclined to riot.
Yea but your not eating the menu your eating what your fellow inmates are cooking up there's the trick ! sometimes it don't even look edible let alone taste like what it's supposed to be !
I’ll have the Monday special and a window seat view of the
Bay. Also, a bottle of your best Napa Valley white.
Paula Deen’s, “Cookin’ From Da’ Joint”
First up, Alphabet Soup.
Serve up this chow at Gitmo and see what the inmates say.
Seems like a lot of entrees contained sauces or gravy. From what I’ve read, it was never a good idea in prison to order anything with a sauce or gravy. Apparently the cooks often added a little ‘something extra’ and personal to sauces and gravy.
“Hold the sauce, but can I get a cup of hot water and an OXO cube instead? Thank you!”
I seem to remember someone wanting to sell a Christmas dinner menu from Alcatraz on “Pawn Stars” a while back - I think it got turned down because of the usual “too unusual, no one will want to buy it” - maybe not such a good call......