I did 120 days county I didn't even know what I was eating. Turkey w all the fixings on Thanksgiving and we got Christmas gifts a few ramen, chap stick, deodorant, pen and a couple stamped envelope. I admit I curled up and cried
You don’t know what it feels like to starve until you’re eating these trays without commissary. These photos are definitely taken by guards, I didn’t get 50% of the size of these servings. Being locked up, sucks.
It's crazy how hungry I got in jail. I mean, I was just laying around not doing shit all day not burning any calories really, yet I was constantly fucking starving. I think that instant coffee made me even hungrier. I usually had commissary (thankfully it came 3 times a week, Mon Wed & Fri) but I'd smash that shit so quick, it would be gone in like a day and a half.
Try eating nothing for 5 months while being kept alive on IVs. THAT is starving. The first time I got solid food after that nightmare, I inhaled that pathetic hospital burger with NOTHING on it or anything else on the tray and sent my mom out to buy me two more from the cafeteria. I ate those in record time too. When you still think after 20 years that first hospital burger is the BEST burger you have ever eaten in your life.... well you know you were starved.
Same until we found out my "pickiness" was from health problems she didn't believe it actually made me sick. After that she'd always make sure I have food I can stomach
that and greens with literal sand/dirt/rocks in it. commissary can be pretty good if you do it right and they actually let you go get it.. they will deny you for having stubble on your face and then you have to wait 2-6 weeks to go again lol
I'm from Michigan's U.P. and I ate a Jean Kay's pasty my first day out on parole: crust made with actual lard, ground beef, diced potatoes, carrots onions and rutabagies. With Heinz ketchup. I dreamed about those things when I was locked up. One pasty has about 2000 calories.
My school literally told me our food comes from the same place as prison food and we are not "prisoners" and supposedley lots of money is invested into education but the "healthy" movement just made food worse.
It's just bulk cafeteria food. It really is the same. We use to get it from Aramark at the prison I was at around here. They also have a HUGE farm with lots of veggies & stuff growing to offset costs. Aramark also provided the food to the in-patient rehab place I went to some years later. And they provide food to all sorts of places. The main difference is going to be how it's prepared and cooked. Prison gets as little extras as possible. No garnish. Gotta buy your own condiments half the time. And cooked as blandly as possible. V's everywhere else, where taste is somewhat important. It isn't in prison. Being edible is what's important. Lol
I was in High School during the peak of the Obama administration. Literally the food served in the cafeteria was basically the same as Prison food (The school as well felt like a prison). For this reason, I always brought my own food or ate out.
@@diablocls55 same, except my school took it to a whole new level...we weren't allowed outside food (as in parents bringing you food at lunch time and even food you brought from home if "it looked too good", administrators would actually throw your shit in the trash.) because no one was eating the actual cafeteria food and the school was losing money. I'm so glad I graduated that ghetto shithole on time....because the school during your senior year was known for trying to actively fail you so you'd have to repeat a year.
I worked at a meat packing place here in East Tennessee called Travis Meats. Actually, the same meat that is sent to schools are also sent to prisons. I'm sure the schools get more experienced cooks and larger portions along with a dietitian planning their meals.
I've been locked up 3 times in 3 different countries across europe, but I was lucky with the food every time. Some would serve seconds, and freshly cooked food as well. I remember this one meal in Croatia, mash and duck, it was better than my mom would make it.
For a guy that's never been there, this is really helpful. Makes me appreciate my freedom to choose the food I want to eat. Really worthwhile watch. Thanks!
Yeah, people tear up that food like it really is hitting. First day of 9th grade they had some pizza that tasted like good delivery....after about 3 days they had the usual nasty pizza.
Honestly where I live primary school food was like this but middle school food I actually started eating school food and high school was greg you had like 10 options everyday about 5 changed daily and the others were always available it was pretty good tbh
Never been in prison, but I was in the Army, and uncle Sam has a similar philosophy on food. So I learned to like a lot of food that I wouldn't have eaten before. And I said about the same thing you did, "I can either eat this, or I can just be hungry". Also found out early on that according to the Army, gravy is a meat.
very true. brings back memories of Fort Hood field chow. Worse field chow had to be at Camp Swift. Me and my battles would literally stash MREs in our assault pack and id stash em in my med bag. Sad that sometimes the field chow is so bad fellow joes and myself would rather eat MREs.
Plus once your in there long enough and get hungry you'll eat multiple trays...I ate it until I got my commissary and than there would be certain things I'd eat...but the place I was in had that nasty soy meat it was horrible
Another Dish known to me as the "El Pobre Hombre" translated from Spanish into "The Poor Man" is basically Frito Corn Chips, A cup of Pinto Beans, Two slices of Bimbo Bread and a cup of canned corn with butter and Tapatio hot sauce on it. No meat, all Vegetarian.
At least in America prisoners can eat 3 times a day. In some southamerican countries you're lucky if you can eat some rice with a fried banana and some soup once a day.
Australia looks wealthier than USA, we have the largest average house size in the world by country, we have excellent food because we don't believe the idiotic crap South Americans believe.
funfact: schools get their lunches from the same providers that prisons get their food from. so when you think about it, youre basically preparing yourself for prison.
the ironic thing is my old high school was supposed to be a prison but the state didn't have funds for it to be finished so they turned it into a high school you could even see the fences with razor wire were they were building the fences my old high school is Mingo Central Comprehensive High school in case you want to search up a photo of it or something
Sup Joe! I’m a US Navy veteran & for the most part prison & the military have lots in common!! Food, living conditions, bed supplies, all that. It feels great to be a free man & not owe the country anything. Now I’m a 24 year old disabled veteran trying to find me way in the civi life. This Corona thing has limited some progress in my goals that I had set but being free beats everything!!
I don't know kid. I been locked up and I'm a naval vet. Jail ain't beating the nacho line or a made to order breakfast burrito on the ship. As many eggs as you want.
I just got out at the beginning of the year and its not going how I planned but im happy I have gi bill and disability. I'm so happy to be free as well. Good luck friend!
Ashley Polk hell yeah same! I went to school fall semester bc I got out last summer but it was difficult bc my seizures were happening frequent at the time so I had to learn to live with it & adapt to civi life. I’m glad I have these benefits so I can finally start a family get a home & go to school. I still don’t know what I wanna be but I’m getting there. Now I am 8 months seizure free. I’m ready to go back to school & grow in life
I never did time but it did work for the boc for 30 years and we had a staff side chow hall. I will give credit where credit is due those men who cooked in the staff side chow hall were excellent cooks.They were all in the culinary school and they did a great job and took pride in their cooking.Much respect to them
When we had the dry "state cake" at CCC (Chillicothe Corrections Center) in Missouri, we would dump our cherry, orange, or grape kool-aid on it. Made it moist and added flavor.
@@kevinfernandes1882 lol....ewwww! We could buy beef jerky on canteen. When I was in processing, the first breakfast I had that had cubed, cooked meat, I thought was ham. I love ham. I sporked a few chunks, put it in my mouth, chewed once, and spit it out! It wasn't ham! I was like what the hell is that?! Spam. It was spam. 🤢🤢
I just want to stop in to tell you that I'm glad I found your channel. Bro you're friggin hilarious. Also I watched some of your old videos from 2017. And bro I see that you have grown and come a hell of a long way. You almost look and sound like a different person. You look like life is treated you alright these days. And I hope that is the case. Keep being proof that, yes you can turn your life around. May friends respect you, trouble neglect you and angels protect you dawg. Be easy brethren.
20:22 "Where is the cheese at though?" It's right there on the burger bro. First you thought the crushed pineapples that came with the pizza were cabbage, now you can't see the cheese. Seems like ol' Joe needs an eye exam.
When I was a senior in high school we went to a place called Stringtown for some sort of "scared straight" thing.. I went cause it was a free day from class lol. Other than the fucking horrific stories of prison rapes and violence, the lunch we had with them is the thing I remember the most.. It was the craziest shit I had ever seen. I traded mine to a dude that was one our "tour guides" for a bag of chips from the commissary. My dude told me, as I slid the tray over I was passing up one of the best meals they get.. Fuck🤦♂️
@@revoltoff I perceived it to be a brick of shit with shitty gravy, some rough ass cake and a "steamed" vegetable smush. My man who took the tray said it was Salisbury Steak, and they only get maybe once every couple months... He followed it with "Son, at least it's not loaf night or the chicken al a fucking king shit. That shit looks like and smells like warm Bolo (that's a cheap, shitty dog food)."
Corporations make money off of prisoners. So don’t think that they don’t want people going to jail. That’s why they don’t try to set you up to not go back. They do everything to make sure you end up back in.
cop out...most people who end up back in jail have only one person to blame..themselves. if we didnt have so many folks who return to jail time after time those profiting from the whole jail thing would have to find other jobs.
This is by far my favorite APS video, and I've seen almost all of them. Most of these are probably jail trays or trays for when the Governor was visiting.
When I was at FMC Lexington (feds), they served us prime rib, baked potato, dinner roll and ice cream on Memorial Day. I ate very well for the 3 months I was there. I feel bad for the guys in the state that have to eat the food in this video.
The Texas prison systems are pretty self sufficient. Some units have slaughter houses, some make the clothes, some the cheap ass state soap, etc. So (in my experience) we didn’t eat poorly in TDC. The pancakes we had every morning were fucking awful though. So bad that I can’t eat em in the free world no more.
The only days they fed us semi decent was on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. We'd get fried chickens on those instances, which led to brawls with dudes fighting over breasts and drumsticks.
I was in county for my time. Worse thing was our mystery meat. It looked like a giant ball of dryer lint. It was GREY. Being hungry you try to eat but I couldn't. I managed one bite and yeah it really reminded me of dryer lint. Our version of at the end of the week food we had 7 day stew. It was literally everything we had through the week mixed together. We had to empty our trays in a can liner and I'm sure that's what they used.
I'm not because my government is forcing learned helplessness under the guise of the common cold. Not to mention medical facism. No one can STAY safe if they NEVER were.
TBH, I come from a poor family. I’m not poor now and I eat good but honestly, I could revert and go back to eating anything. I am really not hard to please. I would eat all that prison food.
Right? That looks just as good, or even better than some of the meals I've had in the past. They aren't great meals but they really don't look that bad either.
I actually knew people like that when i was younger. They were homeless and needed somewhere to stay during the winter, so they'd do a small crime get sentenced to a couple months in jail then be out after winter.
I met a guy like that when I was in County. He drank until he pickled his brain. He sat in the sunny patch on the floor by the payphone most mornings and talked to the Angels.
i has locked up in wayne county PA prison and they fed us double cheeseburgers tator tots on the reg , cold cereal with milk and fruit they fed us quite well true story
Stokes County, NC Jail serves big ass baked chicken legs every Sunday. I mean a whole ass leg as the main course, and it usually comes with the cabbage stew, and ALWAYS with cornbread.
i was in a british colombian remand in vancouver that was the bomb. alberta ham steaks.. steamed veggies etc .then i went to oakalla which was condemned.
Good job bro..I did 13 years and your pretty authentic..been hip for a couple years but didn't support until now had to see you cool a couple years on. Good shit bro. Even if you ain't perfect.. nobody is..
Lol. They make those trays out of a polymer that must have come from Outer Space. The Food normally corrodes metal trays, pits plastic trays, and eats through and dissolves that hippie cardboard. They should make airplanes and space shuttles from the stuff these trays are made from...😝
Plus they run those trays through a washing machine we used to call, "The Dragon". Big long washing machine, about 25 feet long, it's about 120 degrees in the room with it, and they steam clean those things. They make a hardcore weapon too. Anyway, that #2 tray Joe showed, looks like straight up vomit. I would just be going hungry during that meal.
On one hand there's a part of me that thinks prison food _should_ be rough, it's part of the deal and if you don't want lousy food then don't go to prison. But I think at the end of the day a society is only as good as how it treats the people at the bottom, the ones who -- as a result of their own choices or not -- are no longer fending for themselves and are in that society's care. I think when you take away someone's freedom and therefore their ability to provide for themself, justified though it may be, you're taking responsibility for that person from that point forward. And how that person thinks of you when they leave, and your sense of justice and fairness and their desire to work with you and play by your rules going forward, I think may have something to do with how you treat them when you're holding the keys.
I understand your logic. I see both sides. I think that food should be decent. I also think that depending on your crime(s) should depend on your treatment
I will say imo I partially agree with you. Murders, rapists, child molesters etc hardened criminals SHOULD absolutely eat that shit. On the other hand people that commit petty crimes or less serious offenses should be eating more "normal" food. If I went to prison I'd straight starve to death. 🤢🤢🤮🤮
Your ignorant. Not everyone in prison is guilty - even if they were deemed that by a jury. It's people like you that say stuff like this, and then end up going to jail, and end up holding someone's pocket for protection.
Joe, I did 6 years in Kentucky. All at once. The jails and prisons in the state usually contract with a provider. If not, the inmates are the ones who prepare and serve the food. In Louisville, where I am from, an outside provider supervises while inmates prepare their approved menu. It's the same way in the state prison system. Their provider is Aramark. Aramark was a main reason the 2009 Northpoint riot happened. I was not at Northpoint, but got into the system just after it happened. I talked to several guys who said Aramark was doing things to add to tension already present. As for food, Aramark use a set menu. It is comprised of a breakfast, lunch and dinner. They also have something similar to "Fresh Favorites" at certain prisons. They cook certain things using their logistics and material and charge inmates for it. Things like real hamburgers and fries. On a given day, breakfast usually consists of grits/cream of wheat/farina, 2% milk, a dry biscuit. Sometimes they had 2-3 pancakes. Also a soy or turkey sausage that was horrible. They had a rolling menu for lunch and dinner. They had this crap called KC Cheesesteak. We called it Kentucky Corrections Cheesesteak. It was not steak. Aramark used a lot of mechanically separated chicken or pink slime in their menu. I submitted an open records request to Aramark and the DOC asking to know what was in our food. I was told I didn't have a right to know this under the law. Some of the meals we had were decent, just usually not enough of a portion size. We had nachos made out of MSC, 5-10 doritos or tortilla chips, watery cheese sauce, rice, beans, and state cake. For desserts, they would fluctuate between cookies, state cake, brownies. They also had decent soup. Grilled sandwiches were a favorite. They started giving us mystery meat hamburgers, but we had tater tots. Those things sold like hotcakes if you could get some from the guys in the kitchen. We had hot dogs, but they were disgusting. And we had sloppy joes and a barbeque sloppy joe type thing with bread. Very rarely got buns. The worst was when you went to court or somewhere off site. You got a sandwich, chips, and a water or juice type thing. As for drinks, it was either water, some nasty juice kool aid type thing that would literally stain the tables, or tea. I usually drank tea. Food was critical. Like you said. Eat it or you will starve. Thanks for doing this video.
@@erichauck5747 it's in a lot of stuff. Textured vegetable protein is also. The problem I had was it was the meat or protein basis for a lot of meals. And they reused it. And the warnings on the Tyson box. For me, it wasn't about knowing the ingredients, I wanted to have Aramark put it in writing. I worked in the kitchen and saw the boxes and labels.
Hey! I was a cook in the navy for 4years. Our food was pretty good! At least at the places I was stationed in San Diego. (Naval Amphibious Base, USS Dixon, USS Ajax and RTC Orlando)
I worked briefly as a C.O. at a state work release. The kitchen manager was an incredible cook. The homemade yeast rolls they made were better than any restaurant. The fried chicken was off the hook. On chicken days we had to monitor inmates to keep them from going through the line twice. They actually sold their chicken to other inmates. The kitchen was ran with more efficiecy than most restaurants. I guess with prison food it's all luck of the draw.
At the facility I was in the,”Chicken and gravy” meal was called Shank by the inmates. Because after you ate it it felt like someone was shanking you up from the inside.
Dude, this is a great channel. I love how down to earth you are and how unique the channel is to you. It feels like most successful youtubers just follow checklists they read on the internet, I'm glad you don't do that and it's very refreshing to see. Kind of reminds me of Steve1989MREinfo!
I rember the tails my son told me about prison food. He said they served alot of johnny sacks where the meat was spoiled. Only on special holidays he said was decent food. Texas prisons ....
THIS IS THE KINDA STUFF we wanna see Joe, Respect man you finally get it. Now we need some updates on some ppl man. And we need new people as well man come on bossman Joe!
@@captainfancypants4933 NO... just no.... EVERYTHING they serve in prison is donated food or expired, almost EVERY meal i ate for over 16 months had either bugs in it, mold, or both.
PANIC WITH PINK, oh, they DEFINATELY do! I have a family member who is so institutionalized, he makes goolosh for dinner..in a trash bag..in the kitchen sink..sigh..
@@montay759 shit. They're ok.. don't get me wrong I love bologna.. its just the rest of the shit in the tray is what I don't like and how stingy the bologna is
I was so poor that prisonfood looks like champagne and caviar.Even rats started to throw breadcrumbs at me feeling sorry that I didn't have food as a kid.
Sounds like youve been through something like the great depression :( the only time when killing someone to go to prison might be worth it if they still kept serving food like this video.
"It's Supposed to be Syrup" could be a great companion product to go with "I Can't Believe it's not Butter".
5:07 AM. I've been up for 7 minutes and have no idea why I'm here. But your comment woke the rest of the place up too...
Cant belive its supposed to be byrrup
with "i cant believe its not gang rape" for dessert.
Except I can't believe its not butter is, you know, ACTUALLY GOOD
Lmao W
If prisons served Golden Corral I'd still be scared straight.
Really yeah me too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not me! I aint scared of prison! I aint gonna end up in there.
Have you seen the video
Prison Stories - Getting Jumped Over Jelly Beans
It’s hilarious and crazy! 🔪 😆
I can say worse. Fast food breakfast. I rest my case.
@@postmalonesbff4634 that video doesn't exist
These are for sure staff photos. Never once had a tray look this fuckin good. Except Fourth of July. That was a boss tray.
Yup I Agree. Only trey that looked half as good as those were chicken day!
What about Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter?
That fourth of July tray is bustin
Damn, we had a regular tray on the 4th
I did 120 days county I didn't even know what I was eating. Turkey w all the fixings on Thanksgiving and we got Christmas gifts a few ramen, chap stick, deodorant, pen and a couple stamped envelope. I admit I curled up and cried
You don’t know what it feels like to starve until you’re eating these trays without commissary. These photos are definitely taken by guards, I didn’t get 50% of the size of these servings. Being locked up, sucks.
It's crazy how hungry I got in jail. I mean, I was just laying around not doing shit all day not burning any calories really, yet I was constantly fucking starving. I think that instant coffee made me even hungrier. I usually had commissary (thankfully it came 3 times a week, Mon Wed & Fri) but I'd smash that shit so quick, it would be gone in like a day and a half.
Stop. Breaking. The. Law.
I'm 51. I got one ticket my whole life for not wearing a fucking seatbelt. That's it. Never been in a courtroom.
@jbnanaz He may have, but he never had to eat prison food.
Try eating nothing for 5 months while being kept alive on IVs. THAT is starving. The first time I got solid food after that nightmare, I inhaled that pathetic hospital burger with NOTHING on it or anything else on the tray and sent my mom out to buy me two more from the cafeteria. I ate those in record time too. When you still think after 20 years that first hospital burger is the BEST burger you have ever eaten in your life.... well you know you were starved.
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Eat it or starve? That's like what my mama used to tell me.
Same here. I sat at the table till midnight because i wouldn't eat my broccoli. Now I love it...
Eat it or wear it boy...what my mom told me..
Lol. We say: eat what is servered
Same until we found out my "pickiness" was from health problems she didn't believe it actually made me sick. After that she'd always make sure I have food I can stomach
I'm going to eat it
And be thankful.
And I Did.
''When the food runs out, we still have each other.'' - Jeffrey Dahmer -
Oh no you di'ent!! 😳😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Speaking of Jeffrey Dahmer, the guy on the far left?😶
Damn right we still got each other XD
@Mike Debrocky Holy. Shit.
Here in Texas it's rice and beans or beans and rice
You get to choose
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Lol they are the same thing!
The illusion of free choice 😭
that and greens with literal sand/dirt/rocks in it. commissary can be pretty good if you do it right and they actually let you go get it.. they will deny you for having stubble on your face and then you have to wait 2-6 weeks to go again lol
“A Bandaid…”!!!!!!
I laughed so hard that the cat got up and ran off!!
I hope I'm not the only one that's realized how similar prison food and public school food is
School food isn't great but it's way better than that shit lmao
@@ChroniclesofBrandon lmao my school had shit that looks similar to this. It was only slightly better looking
Never compare school food to prison food. You show your lack of experience
@@jeffreydesormeaux3539 stop
Obviously you have no idea what you’re talking about. Stop with the massive over-exaggeration. 🙄
2:45 You know you’ve been institutionalized when you hold Golden Corral to a high standard😂 gotta love Joe
Lol exactly. I like Golden Corral but it’s school food quality to me 😂
Talk about slop house
Hungry jacks for me when I got out
I'm from Michigan's U.P. and I ate a Jean Kay's pasty my first day out on parole: crust made with actual lard, ground beef, diced potatoes, carrots onions and rutabagies. With Heinz ketchup. I dreamed about those things when I was locked up. One pasty has about 2000 calories.
LMAO :-D i know right ?!!
My school literally told me our food comes from the same place as prison food and we are not "prisoners" and supposedley lots of money is invested into education but the "healthy" movement just made food worse.
It's just bulk cafeteria food. It really is the same. We use to get it from Aramark at the prison I was at around here. They also have a HUGE farm with lots of veggies & stuff growing to offset costs.
Aramark also provided the food to the in-patient rehab place I went to some years later. And they provide food to all sorts of places. The main difference is going to be how it's prepared and cooked. Prison gets as little extras as possible. No garnish. Gotta buy your own condiments half the time. And cooked as blandly as possible.
V's everywhere else, where taste is somewhat important. It isn't in prison. Being edible is what's important. Lol
Funny that you say that. Idk where you’re from, but here in Florida it’s the same I find that fascinating.
I was in High School during the peak of the Obama administration. Literally the food served in the cafeteria was basically the same as Prison food (The school as well felt like a prison). For this reason, I always brought my own food or ate out.
@@diablocls55 same, except my school took it to a whole new level...we weren't allowed outside food (as in parents bringing you food at lunch time and even food you brought from home if "it looked too good", administrators would actually throw your shit in the trash.) because no one was eating the actual cafeteria food and the school was losing money. I'm so glad I graduated that ghetto shithole on time....because the school during your senior year was known for trying to actively fail you so you'd have to repeat a year.
@@diablocls55 I was doing all my eating out after school
I worked at a meat packing place here in East Tennessee called Travis Meats. Actually, the same meat that is sent to schools are also sent to prisons. I'm sure the schools get more experienced cooks and larger portions along with a dietitian planning their meals.
So who stamps the food "NOT MEANT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION " THAT IS SENT TO TN STATE PRISONS AND FEDERAL PRISONS?
I've been locked up 3 times in 3 different countries across europe, but I was lucky with the food every time. Some would serve seconds, and freshly cooked food as well. I remember this one meal in Croatia, mash and duck, it was better than my mom would make it.
It was probably because you were in Europe
For a guy that's never been there, this is really helpful. Makes me appreciate my freedom to choose the food I want to eat. Really worthwhile watch. Thanks!
It’s sad and scary how school lunch in America looks exactly like this 😩 ! And they call it “nutritional “ yeah ok 🙄🤬
Thank yooouuuuuu!!!!!!!!!
Where??? Alabama?
Yeah, people tear up that food like it really is hitting. First day of 9th grade they had some pizza that tasted like good delivery....after about 3 days they had the usual nasty pizza.
Raul Garcia yes fr
Honestly where I live primary school food was like this but middle school food I actually started eating school food and high school was greg you had like 10 options everyday about 5 changed daily and the others were always available it was pretty good tbh
"On the female side they probably gunna be cutting those up"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, 'cause they use them for "recreational purposes".
The guy on you left shoulders facial expression says it all.
Lmao
😂😂😂
The horror
😂😅😂
This background has been used before and it always bothers me how that dude on the left is staring into my soul 😂😂😂
Lmao
You think your uncomfortable? Look at the guy next to him😁
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With those spectacles, he can probably see through the earth and to the opposite surface.
@@catluva74 dude looks like he’s standing at attention!
Never been in prison, but I was in the Army, and uncle Sam has a similar philosophy on food. So I learned to like a lot of food that I wouldn't have eaten before. And I said about the same thing you did, "I can either eat this, or I can just be hungry". Also found out early on that according to the Army, gravy is a meat.
I was in both and, believe me, Army food is much better, the philosophy being, eventually they are going to issue you a weapon in the Army.
@@davidgoza5620 fair point lol
very true. brings back memories of Fort Hood field chow. Worse field chow had to be at Camp Swift. Me and my battles would literally stash MREs in our assault pack and id stash em in my med bag. Sad that sometimes the field chow is so bad fellow joes and myself would rather eat MREs.
It looks like 80ies school food so I would eat it like i did then and trade to
@@davidgoza5620 I can just imagine a dude trying to get revenge for being forced to eat bad food for months. XD
🤣 lol this whole video got me dying.
He ain't lying. Hahaha
@20:27. "Might get poked up for this tray" lmao
This is the only incentive I will ever need to avoid a life of crime
As you bite into McRonaldz "hamburger"
Don't join the military either. Same stuff.
@@daddydidnt9700 I don’t eat McDonald’s, that’s strike 1
So I guess becoming someone's buttwife didn't bother you much eh. It's the state trays!
This is reason enough for me to avoid getting sent to prison at all costs.
I want to go to prison for the food
@@freeeggs3811gross
Considering I've been so poor I'd go days at a time without eating id scarf it down just saying
Plus once your in there long enough and get hungry you'll eat multiple trays...I ate it until I got my commissary and than there would be certain things I'd eat...but the place I was in had that nasty soy meat it was horrible
Same
Eat well - better to eat good food over bad... Bad hurts you more. Learn Art!
@@mrnobody8540 food is food when u can't afford well
@@hopesanmiguel oh ive totally been there, I agree when your poor and hungry and haven't eaten in a couple days (Food Is Food) id eat it
Another Dish known to me as the "El Pobre Hombre" translated from Spanish into "The Poor Man" is basically Frito Corn Chips, A cup of Pinto Beans, Two slices of Bimbo Bread and a cup of canned corn with butter and Tapatio hot sauce on it. No meat, all Vegetarian.
At least in America prisoners can eat 3 times a day. In some southamerican countries you're lucky if you can eat some rice with a fried banana and some soup once a day.
Maybe, no be a shit hole. Just a thought, no pressure poncho
In Australia we get 4-5 star restaurant meals and everyone gets their favourite delicacies. America looks like a shithole country to us
Australia looks wealthier than USA, we have the largest average house size in the world by country, we have excellent food because we don't believe the idiotic crap South Americans believe.
@@mohammadwasilliterate8037
The USA is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We have no excuse for treating our prisoners like this.
@@tyrannicalbigtech5842 Way to bring criminals to your country. You can have them brother. More power to y'all.
FACTS,EAT IT OR STARVE.ITS THE JOINT.STAYING OUT CAUSE IM A FAT BOY.
Here here bro!
I dunno, love me some honey buns and white girls and im not takin about the snaaaccs lmao
theres your incentive lol
Haha whatever it takes
@@msmechanic u sure ain't panicking around the pink 😂😂😂
I would probably eat 50 to 80% of most of these trays and try to sleep as much as I can.
You are hungry you'd eat it all!
Eventually you sleep till you can't anymore n after a couple weeks you start to eat everything
undereating actually leads to insomina and bad sleep so u would be screwed over regardless
funfact: schools get their lunches from the same providers that prisons get their food from. so when you think about it, youre basically preparing yourself for prison.
Really I didn't know that I remember school food be good and I never did Time in prison or county jail
No prison food is definitely on a different level. I would eat every tray if it was school food.
Sounds made up bro
That's true! ARAMARK serves jail, factories and schools
the ironic thing is my old high school was supposed to be a prison but the state didn't have funds for it to be finished so they turned it into a high school you could even see the fences with razor wire were they were building the fences my old high school is Mingo Central Comprehensive High school in case you want to search up a photo of it or something
THAY GIVE you A "PORTION OF ""FOOD". Fit for a 10 year old ""GIRL"".. they want you to spend all your money ON COMMISSARY ....
"Prison food sucks"
Everyone, Everywhere: don't go to prison
Actually Greek prisons serve tasty homemade meals
Greek Grandma's cook for prisons. Good jobs
Jail food worse then prison
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I've eaten alot of them trays look like that
This is how my daughter views her dinner each night lol
Hahahahaha oh man I feel that. Mine too
Its awesome to see how well your channel has done over the years ❤. You deserve so much success ❤
Sup Joe! I’m a US Navy veteran & for the most part prison & the military have lots in common!! Food, living conditions, bed supplies, all that. It feels great to be a free man & not owe the country anything. Now I’m a 24 year old disabled veteran trying to find me way in the civi life. This Corona thing has limited some progress in my goals that I had set but being free beats everything!!
I don't know kid. I been locked up and I'm a naval vet. Jail ain't beating the nacho line or a made to order breakfast burrito on the ship. As many eggs as you want.
I just got out at the beginning of the year and its not going how I planned but im happy I have gi bill and disability. I'm so happy to be free as well. Good luck friend!
Disabled veteran? Oh come on. Unless you were hit by an IED on a navy security detail, you are just playing the VA.
Ashley Polk hell yeah same! I went to school fall semester bc I got out last summer but it was difficult bc my seizures were happening frequent at the time so I had to learn to live with it & adapt to civi life. I’m glad I have these benefits so I can finally start a family get a home & go to school. I still don’t know what I wanna be but I’m getting there. Now I am 8 months seizure free. I’m ready to go back to school & grow in life
All the Navy chow I've had was pretty boss.
this is what the food looked like when my mom and us were in the shelter in nyc in the early 2000s
Hope you are on better times now.
@@ninjaviking1999 thanks man!
bump for pepe
hows your Mom?
@@Shadynastys dead lol she died a couple years ago to lung cancer. its apart of the life cycle.
Steve1989mreinfo would say Alright let’s get this out on a tray...nice!
Steve would say that this food is Absolutely Decadent.
@@ninjaviking1999 you are right he would think prison is 5 star!
So this is how it ended up on my feed. After seeing this I would chance eating a Chinese ration over a prison tray.
@@stevewilson6723 I think I’m with you man! I know for fact it would be better than school food!
@@ethanthopy1996 The Chinese ration was the one that hospitalized Steve1989mreinfo back in 2015 with E Coli
This guy is hilarious...i love when he says "Boss Tray" 😂😂😂
That hamburger tray is waaaay too nice.
Shit i barely got bread and half a hotdog with some like pink lemonade powder n salt n shit
One bottle of syrup mixed with 10 gallons of water that tickled the shit out of me
Now this is how you get scared straight.
The Caesar has marked you for death, and his Legion obeys! Ready yourself for battle.
@@ninjaviking1999 ANOTHER KILL TO MY NAME
No this is the time you better get your shit straight.
@@joaquimrodriguez8961 lol facts 😂😂😂
I never did time but it did work for the boc for 30 years and we had a staff side chow hall. I will give credit where credit is due those men who cooked in the staff side chow hall were excellent cooks.They were all in the culinary school and they did a great job and took pride in their cooking.Much respect to them
Dude so glad you're doing these videos again! Thank you for what you do!
I really missed these series
When we had the dry "state cake" at CCC (Chillicothe Corrections Center) in Missouri, we would dump our cherry, orange, or grape kool-aid on it. Made it moist and added flavor.
We'd break ours up into our cereal. Actually made it decent.
This guy took mystery lunch meat hung it by the air vent in the cell and it dried up into beef jerky
@@kevinfernandes1882 lol....ewwww! We could buy beef jerky on canteen. When I was in processing, the first breakfast I had that had cubed, cooked meat, I thought was ham. I love ham. I sporked a few chunks, put it in my mouth, chewed once, and spit it out! It wasn't ham! I was like what the hell is that?! Spam. It was spam. 🤢🤢
ON GOD IT WAS THE SAME WAY DOWN IN STL!!! We used to be BASHING that shit tho
I just want to stop in to tell you that I'm glad I found your channel. Bro you're friggin hilarious. Also I watched some of your old videos from 2017. And bro I see that you have grown and come a hell of a long way. You almost look and sound like a different person. You look like life is treated you alright these days. And I hope that is the case. Keep being proof that, yes you can turn your life around. May friends respect you, trouble neglect you and angels protect you dawg. Be easy brethren.
20:22 "Where is the cheese at though?" It's right there on the burger bro.
First you thought the crushed pineapples that came with the pizza were cabbage, now you can't see the cheese. Seems like ol' Joe needs an eye exam.
Intended message : Prison food sucks
The foods in the clip : Ain't that bad.
Get locked up boy. You ain't eating shit. Actually all you eating is shit.
@@RonnieG chill out there, big boy.
Its a joke. The foods in this clip ain't that bad, anyway.
@@RonnieG both sums it up pretty well from the looks of it. :3
When I was a senior in high school we went to a place called Stringtown for some sort of "scared straight" thing.. I went cause it was a free day from class lol. Other than the fucking horrific stories of prison rapes and violence, the lunch we had with them is the thing I remember the most.. It was the craziest shit I had ever seen. I traded mine to a dude that was one our "tour guides" for a bag of chips from the commissary. My dude told me, as I slid the tray over I was passing up one of the best meals they get.. Fuck🤦♂️
Wow, what was it
Stringtown Oklahoma? My buddy did time there not a good place
I’m guessing you went to a really rough school if they were offering a visit to prison/jail for everyone!
@@mattkaustickomments Nah, it was actually just a small country school lol! The person who took us just really believed in that shit I guess🤷♂️
@@revoltoff I perceived it to be a brick of shit with shitty gravy, some rough ass cake and a "steamed" vegetable smush. My man who took the tray said it was Salisbury Steak, and they only get maybe once every couple months... He followed it with "Son, at least it's not loaf night or the chicken al a fucking king shit. That shit looks like and smells like warm Bolo (that's a cheap, shitty dog food)."
I never had a tray looked that good in SC
Corporations make money off of prisoners. So don’t think that they don’t want people going to jail. That’s why they don’t try to set you up to not go back. They do everything to make sure you end up back in.
Slavery has always been a multi billion dollar business,even in Ancient Rome. Multi Billions in Gold and Silver.
cop out...most people who end up back in jail have only one person to blame..themselves. if we didnt have so many folks who return to jail time after time those profiting from the whole jail thing would have to find other jobs.
But people choose prison.
@@markrush5013 false and unfortunately you're too intellectually unintelligent to have this convo
@Koba making billions off of human beings. Of course they want them back.
I’m dying at the terminology 20:26 “This is a dangerous tray!” 🤣 and boss tray earlier LOL
commentary was on point the whole time lol u KILLED it in this video sir
God i love running into people i watch in completely unrelated content! Keep up the great vids nosleep
Lmfao what are u doin here haha
rs is everywhere
The guy on your left shoulders facial expression says it all.
Cool to see you here i worked at a prison most of the food is edible but some days are bad
At Harris county jail in Houston they serve loaf in gen pop cus the “chef is sick”
haha when they ain’t sick it’s always “chicken rocks” 713 for life
I miss these type of videos! the good old one on one, silly backrounds, and that mello dramatic tone. wishing you the best fam!
This is by far my favorite APS video, and I've seen almost all of them. Most of these are probably jail trays or trays for when the Governor was visiting.
When I was at FMC Lexington (feds), they served us prime rib, baked potato, dinner roll and ice cream on Memorial Day.
I ate very well for the 3 months I was there. I feel bad for the guys in the state that have to eat the food in this video.
This one trick to get better food food in prison...... commit higher crimes
The Texas prison systems are pretty self sufficient. Some units have slaughter houses, some make the clothes, some the cheap ass state soap, etc. So (in my experience) we didn’t eat poorly in TDC. The pancakes we had every morning were fucking awful though. So bad that I can’t eat em in the free world no more.
Chris Torres how about that green ass soy milk in the morning that literally not a single person would drink
The only days they fed us semi decent was on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. We'd get fried chickens on those instances, which led to brawls with dudes fighting over breasts and drumsticks.
I was in the county and we were getting similar shit to what y’all was eating in the feds
I was in county for my time. Worse thing was our mystery meat. It looked like a giant ball of dryer lint. It was GREY. Being hungry you try to eat but I couldn't. I managed one bite and yeah it really reminded me of dryer lint. Our version of at the end of the week food we had 7 day stew. It was literally everything we had through the week mixed together. We had to empty our trays in a can liner and I'm sure that's what they used.
Sup my APS fam😎hope everyone's staying safe and well out there 😎APS4LYFE ❤️
I'm not because my government is forcing learned helplessness under the guise of the common cold. Not to mention medical facism. No one can STAY safe if they NEVER were.
I'm here doing a 12 night shift (I'm 1 hour in) and I forgot my food at home. These foods look great now lol Keep up the great content 😎👍
TBH, I come from a poor family. I’m not poor now and I eat good but honestly, I could revert and go back to eating anything. I am really not hard to please. I would eat all that prison food.
Right? That looks just as good, or even better than some of the meals I've had in the past. They aren't great meals but they really don't look that bad either.
@@SpiritWolf209 Dude i’d eat the fuck out of that meal at 16:23
I've heard of people going to prison for room and board and the food around winter time because of being homeless 🤷🏽♀️
Yes, I’ve heard that about jail
I actually knew people like that when i was younger. They were homeless and needed somewhere to stay during the winter, so they'd do a small crime get sentenced to a couple months in jail then be out after winter.
I met a guy like that when I was in County. He drank until he pickled his brain. He sat in the sunny patch on the floor by the payphone most mornings and talked to the Angels.
i has locked up in wayne county PA prison and they fed us double cheeseburgers tator tots on the reg , cold cereal with milk and fruit they fed us quite well true story
I saw that one orientation of wash county man. Wtf that prison looked banging ngl. They had everything
Well shit, I live right near Wayne, PA I hope if I get arrested I go there
I’m sorry these look more like hospital & nursing home trays
“They Are!”😳
I worked in both. They never served garbage like that
@@kristyann9912 I was a patient at both i know what i saw & ate lol
@@djdigital3806 apparently so
Those look on par with what my husband was given some nights at the Skilled Nursing facility he was at for short term rehab.
when he said that they would cut up the hotdogs on the female side of the prison... LMAO
What did he mean by that I didn't get it
What does that mean
Stokes County, NC Jail serves big ass baked chicken legs every Sunday. I mean a whole ass leg as the main course, and it usually comes with the cabbage stew, and ALWAYS with cornbread.
State of Colorado, we called the "Soup", '7 day soup', not the 'Manager Soup''. As for the hamburger tray, only on the 4th of July.
I’d love a video where you remake your favorite prison trays.
I did over 7 years in prison in New York. They used plates and bowls on a tray. The food was pretty good and a nice amount. You'd be surprised!
i was in a british colombian remand in vancouver that was the bomb. alberta ham steaks.. steamed veggies etc .then i went to oakalla which was condemned.
Good job bro..I did 13 years and your pretty authentic..been hip for a couple years but didn't support until now had to see you cool a couple years on. Good shit bro. Even if you ain't perfect.. nobody is..
Lesson: Keep your ass out of prison
I think your right for the most part. But there is a small percent of prisoners who are guilty of nothing more then bad luck...
The tray itself makes everything look even worse. Blech
Lol. They make those trays out of a polymer that must have come from Outer Space. The Food normally corrodes metal trays, pits plastic trays, and eats through and dissolves that hippie cardboard.
They should make airplanes and space shuttles from the stuff these trays are made from...😝
@@laurabeane8862 LOL
Plus they run those trays through a washing machine we used to call, "The Dragon". Big long washing machine, about 25 feet long, it's about 120 degrees in the room with it, and they steam clean those things. They make a hardcore weapon too. Anyway, that #2 tray Joe showed, looks like straight up vomit. I would just be going hungry during that meal.
@@jtjones4727 Very gross. lol
im literally in tears. " brake pad" " meat rock " and the horse apple 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When i did my 2.5 years in juvenile prison in florida we had pizza, baked chicken every tuesday( chicken tuesday)
Tatertot casserole
Bottom line.. "Commissary is necessary."
Only did 5 weeks.
On one hand there's a part of me that thinks prison food _should_ be rough, it's part of the deal and if you don't want lousy food then don't go to prison. But I think at the end of the day a society is only as good as how it treats the people at the bottom, the ones who -- as a result of their own choices or not -- are no longer fending for themselves and are in that society's care. I think when you take away someone's freedom and therefore their ability to provide for themself, justified though it may be, you're taking responsibility for that person from that point forward. And how that person thinks of you when they leave, and your sense of justice and fairness and their desire to work with you and play by your rules going forward, I think may have something to do with how you treat them when you're holding the keys.
I understand your logic. I see both sides. I think that food should be decent. I also think that depending on your crime(s) should depend on your treatment
I will say imo I partially agree with you. Murders, rapists, child molesters etc hardened criminals SHOULD absolutely eat that shit. On the other hand people that commit petty crimes or less serious offenses should be eating more "normal" food. If I went to prison I'd straight starve to death. 🤢🤢🤮🤮
Your ignorant. Not everyone in prison is guilty - even if they were deemed that by a jury. It's people like you that say stuff like this, and then end up going to jail, and end up holding someone's pocket for protection.
@@greyskywarren6028 Someone didn't read the whole comment, lol.
Image that prison food is awful.
Just remember there are a lot of people in the world today that would consider that meal a blessing
theyd call it a curse, not a blessing.
my breakfasts were usually grits with no salt or sugar but mixed cool aid to make it palatable
So cool to find you. At age 59 i served a short time in county jail, and prison.
Joe, I did 6 years in Kentucky. All at once. The jails and prisons in the state usually contract with a provider. If not, the inmates are the ones who prepare and serve the food. In Louisville, where I am from, an outside provider supervises while inmates prepare their approved menu. It's the same way in the state prison system. Their provider is Aramark. Aramark was a main reason the 2009 Northpoint riot happened. I was not at Northpoint, but got into the system just after it happened. I talked to several guys who said Aramark was doing things to add to tension already present.
As for food, Aramark use a set menu. It is comprised of a breakfast, lunch and dinner. They also have something similar to "Fresh Favorites" at certain prisons. They cook certain things using their logistics and material and charge inmates for it. Things like real hamburgers and fries. On a given day, breakfast usually consists of grits/cream of wheat/farina, 2% milk, a dry biscuit. Sometimes they had 2-3 pancakes. Also a soy or turkey sausage that was horrible. They had a rolling menu for lunch and dinner. They had this crap called KC Cheesesteak. We called it Kentucky Corrections Cheesesteak. It was not steak. Aramark used a lot of mechanically separated chicken or pink slime in their menu. I submitted an open records request to Aramark and the DOC asking to know what was in our food. I was told I didn't have a right to know this under the law. Some of the meals we had were decent, just usually not enough of a portion size. We had nachos made out of MSC, 5-10 doritos or tortilla chips, watery cheese sauce, rice, beans, and state cake. For desserts, they would fluctuate between cookies, state cake, brownies. They also had decent soup. Grilled sandwiches were a favorite. They started giving us mystery meat hamburgers, but we had tater tots. Those things sold like hotcakes if you could get some from the guys in the kitchen. We had hot dogs, but they were disgusting. And we had sloppy joes and a barbeque sloppy joe type thing with bread. Very rarely got buns. The worst was when you went to court or somewhere off site. You got a sandwich, chips, and a water or juice type thing. As for drinks, it was either water, some nasty juice kool aid type thing that would literally stain the tables, or tea. I usually drank tea.
Food was critical. Like you said. Eat it or you will starve. Thanks for doing this video.
Mechanically separated chicken is contained in Slim Jim's.
@@erichauck5747 it's in a lot of stuff. Textured vegetable protein is also. The problem I had was it was the meat or protein basis for a lot of meals. And they reused it. And the warnings on the Tyson box. For me, it wasn't about knowing the ingredients, I wanted to have Aramark put it in writing. I worked in the kitchen and saw the boxes and labels.
I was told this early in my military career and now tell young Soldiers the same thing. Simply put "It will make a turd!"
Haha !! So true. Did 34 years in the Military.
@@martyshannon7542 thank you.
Thank you too, Steve Hoppe. Semper fi from me to you both.
I can’t complain about the chow hall food I got back in the 70’s. Of course that was the Air Force.
@@jonathanhansen3709 i was an army grunt who once found himself in an air force mess hall. Thought i was at the Ritz.
Hey! I was a cook in the navy for 4years. Our food was pretty good! At least at the places I was stationed in San Diego. (Naval Amphibious Base, USS Dixon, USS Ajax and RTC Orlando)
Thank you joe for keeping me prepared for prison.
I worked briefly as a C.O. at a state work release. The kitchen manager was an incredible cook. The homemade yeast rolls they made were better than any restaurant. The fried chicken was off the hook. On chicken days we had to monitor inmates to keep them from going through the line twice. They actually sold their chicken to other inmates. The kitchen was ran with more efficiecy than most restaurants. I guess with prison food it's all luck of the draw.
How fortunate for you.
@@stevenserna910 lol
Yeah the food y’all eat is totally different meals than what the convicts eat I l know
Prolly not the reality of most prisons
Yup chicken real chicken was a sellable item at the prison I worked at too but chicken was rare
At the facility I was in the,”Chicken and gravy” meal was called Shank by the inmates. Because after you ate it it felt like someone was shanking you up from the inside.
Here on AZ the prison food mainly the meat says "not for human consumption"
Same as my stint in Marine Corps boot camp. Grade D, not for human consumption.
Yup
Same in Oklahoma
Same in Ohio....in my last year or so they had maggots in the mess
@@harleyquinnsf3262 yikes!
Dude, this is a great channel. I love how down to earth you are and how unique the channel is to you. It feels like most successful youtubers just follow checklists they read on the internet, I'm glad you don't do that and it's very refreshing to see.
Kind of reminds me of Steve1989MREinfo!
Def loving the prison content! Keep it coming!
I rember the tails my son told me about prison food. He said they served alot of johnny sacks where the meat was spoiled. Only on special holidays he said was decent food. Texas prisons ....
It honestly makes me wonder how do you even survive if the food is unsafe to eat
I worked at OK corrections industries when my level got low enough. I was making those corn dogs and the chicken patties for all of DOC.
16:20 was definitely a boss tray.
those look like real potatoes even WTF?!
"Boss Tray" is gonna be the title of my debut album. First track will be called "This is a boss tray".
I read this comment after he said it and I’m literally dead now you’re invited to my funeral 🤣💀
spacelord420 Is your band’s name going to be State Cake?
@@Punkpsychobilly Nah bro, we're called Two Soups fo Life
Lol even better. Big shout out to Two Soups Fo Life
rap name “Cadillac Spread”
THIS IS THE KINDA STUFF we wanna see Joe, Respect man you finally get it. Now we need some updates on some ppl man. And we need new people as well man come on bossman Joe!
The worst meal I never could stand was the cat food
I always traded the catfoot...can't believe there were people that would trade the cakes for that stuff
Alpo
I once traded my tray for some other guys tray. It was the same tray...
The Cook County Tuesday night pepper steak is pretty good.- Jake Blues
Maybe someone is just recreating their trays at home.
That's what it is 💯
I think you maybe onto something, it looked at least as good as a decent cafeteria.
@@captainfancypants4933 NO... just no.... EVERYTHING they serve in prison is donated food or expired, almost EVERY meal i ate for over 16 months had either bugs in it, mold, or both.
PANIC WITH PINK,
oh, they DEFINATELY do! I have a family member who is so institutionalized, he makes goolosh for dinner..in a trash bag..in the kitchen sink..sigh..
@@bumblebeeznutz9506 Gulyás? In a sink? How? Are you hungarians?
He has a career in narrating. Very entertaining and funny. Well done sir. Please don’t shank me
That food sometimes is violating the 8th and some is rated by the fed health agency "not for human consumption"
You should make a prison food tier list
Never in my life have i seen that food in county jail. Hanover Co. Virginia will serve you stuff they dont even know what it is.
@@montay759 lol..same here in san antonio texas... shit looks like cat food... bologna is one of the best plates served here
Never been there. But I'm from Louisa. I know people that have. They've told me horror stories about how shitty it is there.
@@montay759 shit. They're ok.. don't get me wrong I love bologna.. its just the rest of the shit in the tray is what I don't like and how stingy the bologna is
I was so poor that prisonfood looks like champagne and caviar.Even rats started to throw breadcrumbs at me feeling sorry that I didn't have food as a kid.
Sounds like youve been through something like the great depression :( the only time when killing someone to go to prison might be worth it if they still kept serving food like this video.
Ratz are decent folk 👌
Get a job gronk, I spent 2 years in prison in Australia 🇦🇺 and now I’ve got a job and jail is just the past
@@chrisallie9960 bootstrapping in the UA-cam comments.. I've seen it all now.
@@ImARealHumanPerson and u are a jock strap
"Eat it.. or starve."
Reminds me of my Mum. 😂😂😂
“Meals you can guarantee you will eat in prison”
*90% of the video is him saying he’d never seen that meal*
Ikr.
It was hilarious!😈