Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf, the Prison Food for Misbehaving Inmates

ChicagoMag.com ^ | September 2010 | Jeff Ruby

[LibWhacker]

That'd be enough to put me on the straight and narrow.

[ArrogantBustard]

On the one hand, it sounds like something out of a dreadfully dark, dystopian SciFi novel.

On the other hand, it should become standard fare (24/7/365) for inmates in Guantanamo Bay.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I just outfitted a survival bag for my personal plane and I purchase a box of mainstay bars. They are basically the same thing. I ate one out of curiosity and it’s not half bad.

[LibWhacker]

standard fare (24/7/365) for inmates in Guantanamo Bay

I LOVE that idea!

[StarfireIV]

Maybe it is made of...
PEOPLE!

[Paleo Conservative]

On the other hand, it should become standard fare (24/7/365) for inmates in Guantanamo Bay.

Especially if they were made with pork by products.

[razorback-bert]

I do believe this was invented in military messes many years ago.

[ArrogantBustard]

Dunno 'bout military, but it sure sounds like a mess.

Soylent Orange?

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Nope.

My first wife beat them to it...

[Secret Agent Man]

“Nutraloaf is rowdy prisoners!” /Heston

[GraceG]

Make our prisons more like the Japanese Prisons and feed them this stuff and we will be starting out on the way to making this country better in no time.

[GunsAndBibles]

signing off, have a good evening - GandB out

[ConservativeMind]

Excellent! My idea was to feed all prisoners organ scraps, oatmeal, and a vitamin pill, but this is virtually the same.

Yeah!

[martin_fierro]

Looks better than fruitcake.

[mware]

Looks a bit burnt around the edges, but at least that will give it texture.

[raccoonradio]

Frank Zappa talked about something called “Confinement loaf”
on his 1988 album Broadway the Hard Way. Same thing?

[bunkerhill7]

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[Slyfox]

My mother emptied the refrigerator of leftovers into a big stew-pot and cooked it. It had every vegetable, every piece of meat and chicken that we had partially consumed weeks previous. It had leftover gravy, sloppy joes, Maltomeal, corn bread, chocolate pudding, coleslaw, mustard and even a hint of dill relish.

She served it in bowls and my father, who has a high metabolism and will eat anything, asked what it was and she said, "It is Glump Stew."

Nobody touched it.

We had Kentucky Fried Chicken that night.

[Redcloak]

I like the suggestion on the comments page that this stuff be used as a replacement for food stamps...

Make it freely available everywhere and to everyone. Those who don't need it won't eat it; those who refuse to eat it because it's not tasty... well, they clearly don't need food assistance. Unlike food stamps, it can't be used as cuirrency in underground economies... nobody is goign to trade freely available nutraloaf for crack or cash.

[NTHockey]

Our food was so bad on the Princeton, that we would steal “C” and “K” rations from the grunts. On one Pacific crossing, we got SOS for breakfast, chicken a la king for lunch and chop suey for supper, EVERY SINGLE DAY.