You even get a lunch!
"Prison food, then and now, served up to tourists in Pa." June 08, 2013
PHILADELPHIA — In a city that has become renowned for its hip and innovative restaurant scene, a tourist attraction is offering decidedly different fare: prison food.
This weekend, the defunct Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia will serve visitors sample inmate meals from the 1830s, 1940s, and today: broiled salted beef with ‘‘Indian mush”; hamburger with brown gravy and beets; and Nutraloaf — an unappetizing concoction currently served as punishment in US prisons.
Event organizers say the not-so-haute cuisine is a way to stimulate the taste buds and the mind. The meals reflect the changing nature of food service and, in some ways, attitudes toward inmates.
Eastern State was closed in 1971 but was later reopened to tourists seeking an eerie glimpse of life behind its 30-foot-high walls.
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Talk about cultural decadence.
