Prison food tastes exactly as badly as you imagine.

Where I was housed, the meals rotated on a never ending two-week loop of unimaginable awfulness.

I looked forward to spaghetti every other Wednesday (the high) but most of the meats were impossible to identify and the veggies were culled from whatever normal (free) humans refuse to eat.

Jail food is even worse.

True story, the jail I was housed in waiting for my transfer to prison (I was there for about a month) had recently had its kitchen closed and condemned because it was overrun with black mold.

So, when I as in jail, we got three bag lunches (and KoolAid) every day. Usually, this included a mystery meat sandwich, some small bag of some kind of chip, and a cookie (of the oreo variety).

Prison and jail food were really all about eating personal Ramen Noodles and making what are called "cook ups."

Everyone "eats" some of what is served, but most people get together (combine ingredients) and have ramen "cook ups" as often as possible.

Anyway, Elliot (Rami Malek) starts the June 13th entry by complaining that five/nine has resulted in cuts to the jail food budget resulting in watery eggs (I never experienced anything but runny "eggs" in jail or prison). This is one of those ironic moments, one of many examples of showing that five/nine sometimes bites Elliot in his butt. But, I also suspect this is another of the many windows into the larger term effects of five/nine shown throughout season 2.

What I am suggesting is that while five/nine was intended to help the poor and redress the balance of wealth, the end result has been almost entirely borne by the people it was intended to help. Prisoners get even worse food, hard working grocery store owners lose their leases, and all the while Phillip Price still gets to eat at the best restaurants in town.