You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love a Kosher Prison Meal.

[elleng]

Captive diners know that a good meal is hard to find.Airplane passengers, for instance, have been known to order kosher meals, even if they are not Jewish, in the hope of getting a fresher, tastier, more tolerable tray of food. It turns out that prison inmates are no different.

Florida is now under a court order to begin serving kosher food to eligible inmates, a routine and court-tested practice in most states. But state prison officials expressed alarm recently over the surge in prisoners, many of them gentiles, who have stated an interest in going kosher.

Their concern: The cost of religious meals is four times as much as the standard fare, said Michael D. Crews, who is expected to be confirmed as secretary of the Department of Corrections in March.
“The last number I saw Monday was 4,417,” Mr. Crews said of inmate requests at his recent confirmation hearing before a State Senate committee. “Once they start having the meals, we could see the number balloon.”

To which, Senator Greg Evers, the Republican chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee remarked: “Is bread and water considered kosher? Just a thought. Just a thought.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/us/you-dont-have-to-be-jewish-to-love-a-kosher-prison-meal.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0

[MADem]

1. Bacon.

Serve more bacon with the "crappy" food, and you'll have fewer people going for the kosher choices.

Bacon is a drug. People get addicted to it.

If you have a houseful of people who will not wake up when there's, say, a funeral to go to, or something like that, just make some fresh coffee and start frying up the bacon. Oh, and maybe some cinnamon rolls.

They'll be down the stairs like zombies after brains.

[Fumesucker]

2. I bet you prison "cooks" can even make bacon unappetizing

[MADem]

3. They need to let the prisoners cook it, maybe in those

Bacon Wave things!!!! Idiot proof!

[Fawke Em]

4. Not if you're allergic to it...

... as I am with all pork.

And, no, I'm not sad. I'd rather not eat it than be hospitalized after a stomach pump, thanks.

[MADem]

5. Ok, if you say you are allergic to pork flesh (as opposed to beef or chicken), then you shouldn't

eat it.

How could you be "sad" (???--interesting leap, that...) if you don't know what you're missing?

That said, you're not in prison--unless everyone gets internet in the prisons now--and your conditions are not controlling for the bulk of the prison population, who are the 'customers' under discussion.

The reason large numbers of people are ordering the specialty meals isn't because they are allergic to anything--it's because the special meals, since they are being made in smaller batches with kosher ingredients-- better tasting than the "regular" fare.

Bacon makes most everything taste better. It's bad for you, but people who like to eat it often don't give a damn about that....!