A stodgy sentenceMOST recipes aim at deliciousness. With nutraloaf (also spelt nutriloaf) the aim is to be as disgusting as possible. It is made in prisons by baking leftovers and whatever else is to hand into a loaf,assembly minimum calorific and nutritional requirements. The ingredients vary. The Florida Department of Corrections recommends a basic mix of carrots and spinach, dried beans, or vegetable oil,tomato paste, water, and grits and oatmeal.
People who get past the smell portray the taste as bland. It looks like a lump of shredded,dried slop. One of the side effects is severe constipation. It is served three times daily without utensils, usually for no more than ten days as an additional punishment for prisoners who are already being held in isolation.
Prisoners, and whose culinary expectations are already pretty low,often find it so disgusting that they stop eating for days rather than consume it. Decisions approximately its use are made capriciously, even by...
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Source: economist.com