Posted on 06/07/2013 4:06:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PHILADELPHIA,- A former prison in Philadelphia said visitors during the weekend will be able to sample meals from three periods in the facility's 142-year history.
Eastern State Penitentiary officials said the menu for the weekend includes "Indian Mush" from the 1830s, hamburger steak with brown gravy and Harvard beets from the 1950s, and Nutraloaf, a product still used in many prisons to this day, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Friday.
"It's one thing to talk about how the food changed over time. It's another to sample it," said Sean Kelley, senior vice president and director of public programming and public relations at Eastern State Penitentiary.
Prison Food Weekend also includes the display of sample menus, archival photographs, prison reports and firsthand accounts of the prison food, Kelley said.
Possum on a stick.
Ghost Adventures..
I wonder if the food includes saliva and other bodily fluids from the prisoners making it?
I’d like to take one of the prison tours at Southern Michigan prison but I’m not willing to fork out $32 to do it.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/04/expanded_prison_tours_seen_as.html
I’ve heard that they used to serve lobster to prisoners long ago, before it became a delicacy.
Benghazi Barry would LOVE prison; lobster and ...um...uh...shower hyjinks, too!
If you are visiting somebody in prison, would you want to eat a meal while you are there? I would think not.
It was eatable but certainly not anything I would go back out there for.
Just what I want to do...go on a tour of freakin’ Cooper St. It appears the tour (for 32 bucks) does the old prison and Cooper St. I visited the Gift Shop once, that’s good enough.
They don’t allow cameras which is all the deciding I need. Why take the tour if I can’t bring any memories out with me.
Not sure I'd like the food, but this is one of the most interesting tours I've ever been on.
Alcatrez was probably better, but this one is damn good.
That’s just in the active cellblock, which seems to be part of the tour. I wouldn’t want to go into an active cellblock, or bring memories back. But that’s me. (Never been in one and don’t want to know.) I looked it up on Wiki, and the Max Security prison is still in business. I used to live about 2 miles from it.
We used to live in the middle of prison property on Hawkins Rd when I was a kid.
I could never listen to his stuff; always screaming, lousy stage schtick. He’d go over like a fart in church, in prison.
It makes it tough in later life. “So, how was it when you were a kid?” “Oh, fine. Except for the nights they leafleted the neighborhood because of Prison Farm walk-offs, and all us kids had to stay inside.”
Going to work could be a laugh riot some days.
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