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Inmates Complain After 5 Turkey Dinners
ABC News ^
| Aug 4, 2005
| Associated Press
Posted on 08/04/2005 2:24:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
Five straight turkey dinners prompted El Paso County jail inmates to go on a brief hunger strike. The inmates refused to eat Saturday, arguing that meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel.
Sheriff's officials said Wednesday that the hunger strike ended after about half an hour.
"Turkey, turkey and more turkey is not a form of punishment," the Sheriff's Office said in a tongue-in-cheek prepared statement. "The inmates accepted this reasoning and gobbled up their dinner meal."The inmates had spaghetti for dinner Wednesday with turkey-based meat sauce.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cary; inmates; waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah; whiners
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To: cajun-jack
I'll give ya one. Amen!
I've been pondering my own line of MREs just for inmates and prisoners. Guess if they didn't like the bird, they wouldn't like my idea, huh?
To: mdittmar
Just trying to keep their cholesterol down.
To: mdittmar
Sheriff's officials said Wednesday that the hunger strike ended after about half an hour. Wusses!
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:49:02 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
("If I am the Scourge of God, you must be truly wicked." - Genghis Khan)
To: mdittmar
Sounds like the jail got a haul of U.S. gov't commodities.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:49:27 PM PDT
by
zeaal
(SPREAD TRUTH!)
To: mdittmar
I'd give them nothing but ramen noodles for the next month for complaining.
To: billnaz
durbin on the phone to the aclu,
"Should we run with this?"
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:50:37 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: mdittmar
I'll bet the homeless shelters and the people who visit John 3:16 wouldn't be griping about a free meal. These criminals are lucky...they eat better than most of the rest of the world, and they don't have to pay for their food. Ingrates.
To: mdittmar
Alternate between baloney and Spam!
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:53:02 PM PDT
by
Bommer
To: fortunecookie
Spam is not real cheap, and my Husband loves it sauted in butter, and then simmered in pineapple and brown sugar. It is a real treat for him.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:53:04 PM PDT
by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
To: joesnuffy
Amen. Poverty does wonders for one's appetite!
During my poorest time? Store brand bologna, thrift store bread and water. No cheese, no condiments.
Even now, when things are extremely tight, I stretch our milk with powdered milk (the family has no idea, so this is between you and me) and we buy ground turkey at Aldi's for 79 cents a pound... eaten in Hamburger Helper or spaghetti sauce, you can't really tell it's not beef.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:53:28 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
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To: ol' hoghead
LOL,Thanks alot!,gotta clean the tuna and beer off my keyboard now.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:53:38 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: mdittmar
feed those convicts Prison Loaf till they BEG to get their turkey back...
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:53:40 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: 2Jedismom
Aldi's is a great place to shop on a budget. I wish that we had one close, but I have to wait until we go to the city.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:58:29 PM PDT
by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
To: kingu
When my Mom and Dad got married, my Dad wanted her make some ham salad like his Mother made. So my mother tried different recipes, but could just never get it right, as far as Dad was concerned. So Mom finally went to Grandma and asked her what the secret was. It turned out that Grandma used baloney instead of ham.
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posted on
08/04/2005 2:58:32 PM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
To: mdittmar
You are what you eat.....Turkey.
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posted on
08/04/2005 3:07:03 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: freepertoo
give them peanut butter and saltine crackers w/o h20. Did they want to be transfered to Gitmo?
To: BigTex5
Kraft mac and cheese. No butter. Water instead of milk.
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posted on
08/04/2005 3:18:56 PM PDT
by
YoungCurmudgeon
(I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke to find that life is duty.)
To: mariabush
Oops, I rarely get it and thought it was cheap. I, too, know people who love it. I'm not one, but then I never tried it that way. ;-)
Except for the saute in butter, I make ham that same way, I sometimes add gingerale to the mix. Yum. I guess maybe Spam knock-offs for the inmates then?
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