Rikers Island jailers let 65,000 pounds of meat rot - and one even talked of serving it to inmates

[no_hypocrisy]

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"They didn't check it for at least five days," a chef at the East River jail told The News.

Instead of just tossing the rancid beef, chicken and turkey, one official later moaned that the meat could have been salvaged by washing it with cider vinegar and sodium bicarbonate before serving it to inmates, sources said.

"People would have gotten sick," the jail chef said Monday.

A supervisor added, "You can't get rid of the toxins."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/07/19/2011-07-19_rotten_at_rikers_65000_lbs_of_meat_spoil__one_jailer_thought_it_shudda_been_give.html

[octothorpe]

1. Probably well over $100,000 wasted, aye?

Unless there are some extreme circumstances, I think some people deserve to be fired.

[hobbit709]

2. Maybe the officials should have been used as tasters.

[Erose999]

3. atThe picture in that article is a ribeye steak. Hope thats not what they're serving at Riker's, LOL

I guess it must be a slow day in the newsroom. Sucks to know that the foodservice program at Riker's is so cheese dick that they could let this happen though.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. They can give it all to Sheriff Joe.

He'll serve it along with the green bologna.