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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: mdittmar
Here's what the inmates washed their meal down with:


61 posted on 08/04/2005 3:22:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If there was a problem, yo! I'll solve it!!)
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To: mariabush

The food is really good too, even though it isn't a name brand. I usually like it just as much if not more than the name brand! Their frozen hamburger (85% lean) is cheaper than Walmart here at 1.79 per pound. The cheapest you can get at Walmart is 1.99 a pound for 80% lean and it's only if you buy the big old "family pack", which means I have to separate it into meal-sized servings and freeze, which means I gotta buy baggies! The Aldi's beef is already in pound-sized packages and already frozen!

I love Aldis. Their whole milk was 2.29 for most of the summer! You can't beat 49 cents each for a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread!

Using Aldis, I can feed my family of four on about $15 a week, no kidding.


62 posted on 08/04/2005 3:22:42 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: mdittmar

El Paso Turkey Chili

Ingredients
1 pound ground turkey
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chicken broth
3/4 cup water
1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans
2 teaspoons chili powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

Serves 4
Step 1-Cook turkey, onion and garlic in a large pot over medium heat until turkey is browned, about 10 minutes.
Step 2-Add broth, water, tomato sauce, tomato paste, kidney beans, chili powder, cumin and cinnamon to pot.
Step 3-Bring chili to a boil; reduce heat to medium low. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes.


63 posted on 08/04/2005 3:23:55 PM PDT by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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To: freepertoo

They should know that in true jails people are lucky to get their daily ration of water and moldy bread. These guys should thank the Lord that they have the opportunity to feast on turkey, watch TV, and most of all be able to complain without fearing retribution. Elsewhere they would be facing thumbscrews by now .....on their gonads!


64 posted on 08/04/2005 3:27:01 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: 2Jedismom
Wow!!! My daughter in Law shops their for their family of seven. I knew that cost of living in Oklahoma was low, but I did not know it was that good.

We live in Tennessee, but my husband is from OKC and we are going to be spending a few days there next week. I love the thrift stores. Have you been to the Habitat for Humanity store. My in laws shop in Tulsa all of the time and get the best bargains there for the house.
65 posted on 08/04/2005 3:28:50 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: fortunecookie

I will have to add the ginger ale next time I make it. This receipe was in a WW11 cookbook. A tin of Spam cost over 2.00 here.


66 posted on 08/04/2005 3:33:11 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: mariabush

That sounds like a good recipe. I don't actually know what Spam costs locally. I like the ham recipe with gingerale, I mix in a little of the pineapple juice, as I usually have canned pineapple. It's pretty good with Dr. Pepper, too. Go figure, it sounded odd when I heard it on a cooking show, and I tried it on a request from a family member, but, voila!, everyone loved it. My fav is still the gingerale, tho.


67 posted on 08/04/2005 3:46:59 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: mariabush

Is it here in Tulsa?? I've never seen it!

I love thrift stores...I collect old milk bottles and found an old "third quart" bottle from 1914 in the Salvation Army thrift store...paid a dollar and seven cents for it and it goes for about $25 online! Heh heh!

I also got a sprouter brand new...still had packets of seeds in it, for 59 cents and sold it on Ebay for $11.50 (which I donated to The Hobbit Hole Troop Support project....see my tagline.)


68 posted on 08/04/2005 3:49:51 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: 2Jedismom

I have forgotten the actual name. I will ask my sister in law and let you know.


69 posted on 08/04/2005 4:35:39 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: kingu

Baloney - AKA lips and bags, or snouts if you prefer.

Makes me glad I'm a vegetarian!

Often eat rice and beans for days at a time - cheapest food on the planet.


70 posted on 08/04/2005 11:35:07 PM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: 2Jedismom

It is just called the Habitat for Humanity surplus store.

I am sure that it is in the yellow pages. If you do not find it let me know and I will try to get directions for you.


71 posted on 08/05/2005 5:41:13 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: mariabush

Fantastic! I'll find it.

Thanks!


72 posted on 08/05/2005 6:18:36 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Blurblogger

"...meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel."

You'll get no sympathy from me. You did the crime, now pay the time...and no WHINING!


73 posted on 08/06/2005 4:25:37 PM PDT by Fruit of the Spirit
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To: mdittmar
When I was in college my scholarship ran out about three months before I graduated. I was on short rations for about a month.

I discovered one of the local hamburger joints had a 99 cent salad bar which was all you could eat. There must have been thirty different things you could put on it.

I would eat one large salad a day and it was pretty good. I probably would rather have had something else but I never did get just sick of it.

74 posted on 08/06/2005 4:32:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: mdittmar

They ought to get a break every other day with beans and rice, seasoned with turkey.


75 posted on 08/06/2005 5:14:48 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
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