Why ramen is so valuable in prison
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2018
- Instant ramen noodles have become like cash among inmates in the US.
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Cash is illegal in prisons. And that means everything from tuna to stamps to cigarettes have their own unique value in a trade and barter market.
But ramen has quickly taken over as the most in demand products the prison system offers.
Watch this video to see how ramen took over prison economies and why it’s the default item for trade among inmates.
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Man would it be nice if they had the after prison show
"Inmates aren't just using ramen as cash, their eating it"
*Suprised pikachu face*
Noodles Nummy *they’re. “Their”, is possession bro I mean come on.
That’s just paying for food with less steps!
They're eating it!? No way!! xD
it's they're not "their", they're means they are
Johann Alyosha Van Tassel impossible
Obviously, to fix the sink.
You saw that video too eh
Hahaa
Haha instagram
Haha. I see what you did there. I've seen those fix it videos too. Hehehe
Mmmmmmm ramen sink soup
"Ramen is like cash in America prison"
Me: *looks at my kitchen cabinets* I'm a billionaire
Ikr
You're a ramenaire
I’m locking my ramen cupboard incase someone breaks in now as its so valuable
i guess i’m broke, i only have 4 measly ramen packs 😔
*Me, a European*
Guess I’m boutta be evicted
Me: i need to go to bed
Vox: *Why ramen is so valuable in prison*
Me: i have to know
_I don't need sleep, I need answers_
Cause it's $1 a bag lol
@@marka2831 Really? On the outside it's 3 for a dollar. Even now in 2024 with Biden's economy.
*Gets stabbed*
Me:why did you stab me?
Guy:you had a 10 ramen bounty
Good one
John Wick references
No joke
Nice one LOL
Probably very accurate
2:00 “your ramen could sell for $2-3 dollars believe it or not”
College convenience stores: *nervous laughter*
I thought he said 250 dollars
Rule 1 of college: Never buy anything g from the college that could be bought from a 3rd source.
LEFT4BASS facts I tried to buy a box of Reese’s a while back and they tried to charge me $7 😭😭 dipped out of there right quick
@@LEFT4BASS It's 2020 everyone should have access to amazon if you are too lazy to walk a mile to a local supermarket. This goes to every single college.
林鼎鈞 Amazon won’t help you if you want a quick snack at 1am (yet).
that one brooklyn 99 episode makes so much more sense now lol
Street flavor. Picanto Beef.
The fisrt thing i thought
I thought it was a joke lol. They actually use ramen
BEEF BABY!
Also it's heaven when you sprinkle the uncooked part on top of it
I've been out of prison for many years and still suffer from awful food anxiety. Spending every day feeling like I was starving was beyond anything I can describe. I still must have food on every floor at my house and I often get anxiety if I don't have immediate access to food. But at least our great nation protects us against cruel punishment.
how do you buy food in prison? do you use the money that you earned during prison labor? if that's the case, the prison is kinda training people to earn their own money and buy food with it. If so, it seems like a good idea to me.
@@marleyebanks328 Yes, personally I think we can skip the starving inmates to death part and just execute everyone who commits a crime. Much faster.
@@marleyebanks328 you seem fun at parties
@@revengeofbanana Little 5 year old Timmy stole a toy from the store.. may he rest in peace.. but at least justice was served
@@bohanxu6125 your family has to put money on your books in order to buy anything. The prisoners are hardly paid anything, 20~ cents a day tops, and with the commissary items being up charged they are very expensive. You cant afford commissary solely from working for the prison lol, it's not teaching them anything and the skills they gain inside are usually skills that they can't apply to real life due to their criminal status barring them from such things as being a fire man etc
Well the richest person in Jail must be called Top Ramen. 😂😂
"The Big Noodle"
*Cough* Naruto Uzumaki *cough*
all things fascinating nope, he is called “The Store”
Anthony Foster take your “L” while you take the “D” in prison. Sorry Looser, not all of us aspire to end up in prison you bad hombre
Lmao!!
Prison: you can't have money
Prisoner: hold my ramen
Prisoner: Actually let me get that back
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Oh my god that made me laugh loud enough at work manager came over lol
just got the 2,00th like, ok, ok
this reminds me of a story where a kid accidentally built a coca cola mafia in school who then spread over other schools then eventually fell down but it was still a very huge cola mafia
elaborate?? please i need to know more
@@dominicanrepublicgrimreaper no one has coca cola, someone has coca cola, everyone wants coca cola
@@beenguy5887 basically gold
I remember I was having a bad day in jail, I was isolated on my bed for awhile and my cell mate made me a ramen spread with other things in it and it was very fulfilling and it made me happy.
Yeah i bet it was very filling 😉
Prisons: 2 Ramen for a coat
Villagers: 16 Emeralds for 1 paperclip
LolzGGnoRe Just Monika.
XD
The paper clip could be traded for
House tho
@@postedfinx5090 o frick yeah lol i know that story lol
@@postedfinx5090 it started on a paperclip to a house
I love how he literally just wrote a book about ramen
and more importantly "prison ramen"
Very yes
The only way to write a book is to literally do it.
@@cliffonator1111 i love you... imma write a book now
he is helping college students
Yup. I spent 10 months behind bars a long time ago. Ramen packets were $.99 each, and you could only buy a max of 10 at a time, and keep up to 15 in your property. It truly was the currency of everything. I had a cellmate who constantly played poker, and they would use soups and shots of coffee as betting chips.
When I got moved to ultra minimum security (which has cells with up to 8 inmates at a time), we would make one huge spread consisting primarily of:
Soups, bags of chips, refried beans, squeeze cheese. Then anyone would add what they wanted on theirs.
It was a moment of comradeship, when we shared, ate, joked, and laughed.
>ultra minimum security
might’ve as well just release them at this point
"ultra minimum security" thats just like an average school 💀
2:11 I like how it says “black market cost” even though they’re just trading a sweatshirt for 2 packs of ramen
a sweater that cost more than 2 packs of Raman that is black market too me
Imagine Hollywood movie scene, in prison, dark atmosphere, menacing music, 2 scary looking dudes exchanging sweatshirt and 2 packs of ramen.
IRS seethed, by Ayn Rand
"The world is peaceful only when everyone has enough to eat" - Momofuku Ando (founder of Instant Ramen)
👍
I love him
:,) thats a beautiful thought
When People are desperate they make bad decision
A Taiwanese
College kids and prisoners are very similar.
Both are held in a system in which they have to try their best to be the top.
The system they are held in is a business meant to make money.
They are in debt or have little to no money when they get out of their system.
And most importantly
They eat a lot of ramen.
WuzNab 👏
Lool let them swap places then
@@adeelm9028 criminals terrorizing teachers and a flood of innocent students is scary
In Job Corp they eat ramen and Newports
There's a TED talk about it. check it out.
I've seen inmates so creative with Ramen that it seems valuable. You can use it to make burritos, tacos, soups, pizzas, alternative to rice, and other side dish. Almost nobody eat it plain unless that inmate is fresh to jail or prison. Once you know what to do with it, it truly is amazing.
This proves my point that school is just prison but rebranded.
Prisons: *59 cents per meal = inedible*
Public US Schools: *It's showtime*
Facts
When I was in a large catholic boarding school in Sydney in the 1970's we were fed by the same catering company that supplied Paramatta jail - but the food we had was a lower grade than the prisoners.
Not only in the US, I think that's universal.
In my country they once put a prison to rent as an experiment and people literally fought to get it...
So glad to live in Germany.
In my country schools don't bother feeding you starting with middle school and above. If you wanna eat, you gotta go to the small cafeteria where you could buy 23 different types of dough with seasonings. Dough with jam, dough with sugar, dough with dough etc etc.
“Prisoners are not only using ramen as cash, they’re also _eating_ it!”
Me: *_gasp_*
Sam1370 what do u mean, just look at your pfp
Wow, I didn’t know they were eating ramen!
@@whenyournameisduoduos1282 *_elaborate_*
wow i didn’t know you could *eat* ramen! What a discovery.
It would be better if it was *le gasp*
If I ever go to prison, I’m gonna make sure I let my family know to bring me ramen as a gift whenever they can.
they cant. you have to order it from commissary menu.
The best job you can get in prison pays 15 cents an hour. Some pay even less.
Most people watching this think that 60 cents is cheap, not realizing that it takes at least 4 hours of work to earn that much.
Slavery
yall might wanna take a look at that 13th amendment again. VERY interesting 👀
I got paid $1.50 an hour, but I had a gate card and went around the state putting office cubicles together. They have better paying jobs than what you say.
Well at least if they break their sinks it can be fixed quickly
Wait omg did u see that video👌😂too
Mirnas channel hAHHAAAAA
That's what I was thinking of the whole time I watched the video lmao
OMG LOL YOU SAW THAT VIDEO TOOO!!!
Someone explain, i dont get it
Me: *gets 5 bags of ramen*
Also me: oh i'm rich now, ok.
Ayan I have 12
Great! Now you just need to go to prison.
5 ramen bags = 2$
I got a whole cabinet full of them 😂
my family is always in stock
In regard to jail food, they were only required to give you the daily minimum per day. So what you ordered in your commissary truly was the thing that supplemented the jail diet.
ill give you 5 ramen if you spilt shot callers wig
@@mikelisteral7863 I'm sorry, I don't get what you're saying.
He’s so right. My x boyfriend spent time in prison and he told me all about the ramen/food/toiletries system. I was blown away.
Imagine being allergic to gluten in prison...
@Andy The Wookie many people are intolerant
In Canadian prisons they have to accommodate for different diets(within reason of course). So kosher/halal, vegan/vegetarian, or allergies will get you a different meal.
@Alexander Heen I have celiac's but its much easier to tell people you are allergic (easier for waiters who may not know what celiac's is at restaurants and stuff). Good point.
@Alexander Heen You can be allergic, it is much rarer, but still possible. While I am celiac, my mother is allergic to gluten, the whole symptomatic and time of "effect", as well as the ways of detecting it are different. For example, both the enteroscopy and colonoscopy, as well as the blood tests showed that she was not celiac, but the less common test for gluten allergy was positive.
I guess if you told you are gluten intolerant in prison, you get beaten to death.
Prison: money is not allowed
Prisoner: hold my ramen
Same prisoner: ok give it back
Did you really just copy and paste a popular 6 month old comment??? Even though you added a line doesn't mean your original. Shame
@@thatguy4363 I didn't copy and paste and why are you so quick to judge.
@@thatguy4363 besides who really cares, you're focusing on the vid not the comments
Who cares it’s funny to those who haven’t heard
Yah also that last line is hilarious
"Turns out: Food isn't just about nutrition, it's also about security." Food has always and will always be the mainstay of security. And anyone who is learning that fact as an aside has never experienced poverty at any level.
True that, if you can feed a group of people and keep them comfortable then you got all the power in the world
I’m 50 years old. I promise you my mom worked and scraped and did all she could, but we were hungry. I’ve spent my adult life making sure my kids never wanted for anything. Sometimes though, I wonder if that hunger, that fear, makes us more……
6 years out, funny how i miss our weekly meal combines. im sure i eat better now, but the group experience of combining bad food to make something great was so fun.
So can I destroy a prison economy by giving an inmate $30 worth of ramen?
Yes
Even 15$ lol
humon
Bro i thought you were me lol
@@louisvalbo1884 Oof
@@louisvalbo1884 lmao
Cop: ARE YOU HIDING DRUGS?!
Prisoner: nah fam it’s chicken ramen want some
BFA Synomical 😂😂😂
BFA Synomical please stop copying me!!
Mr 33 lol I never copied u
@@xSynomical he probaly made the same coment with 3 likes so nobody saw it and is mad u got likes
I selled my wife for interned connecton well that’s his problem he probably didn’t like it
also generally, county jails food is on the smaller end, but in big prisons where people are actually doing real time, the breakfast/dinner servings are much bigger and are technically sufficient to keep you alive. this is HOWEVER very low calorie, low nutritious, and un-filling for the reason to depress you, and generally make you less energetic. by doing this they try to reduce the amount of violence in said prisons. this is actually a true reason.
This whole ramen story is actually about cost shifting the cost of feeding inmates to the inmates themselves (and their families) as the prisons spend almost nothing to feed them to save money.
Tbh ramen should be international currency
tess Bel Lmao no!!!
We are talking ...
Stick to bottle caps
I still prefer bullets rather than caps
Ok brands like Nissan and top ramen would be trillion-dollar businesses. Or trillion ramen businesses?
‘I need that drug now’
‘Ramen, chicken flavor only’
‘Please i only got veggie’
‘Add some extra spices and we got a deal’
‘I’m out of spices, please’
‘No spice,no drug’
‘I’ll add some extra veggies’
‘Show me the ramen’
Stupid gt
*Snort that ramen powder BRO*
HAHAHAHAHAH I DIED
Read backwards
No spice no dice
Just going to drop this here. I once served a few months and was Ramen rich. I knew a lot of origami and I knew how to make boxes out of commissary bags. I made so many boxes for Ramen I was like a bank. I never had to get a lot of money on my books because I always had Ramen to trade. I also re wrote letters for it.
I never bought ramen when I was locked up, I would buy honey buns and trade for Ramen
with the conversion rate (in CT at least) it was an instant come up, and even more so on weekends
When my dad was writing to me from prison all of his letters were talking about his food cravings. Specifically onion rings. When he finally got out I met him at a park and he just started eating ramen straight out of the packet. Watching this video made me think about what he was doing when he was locked up. Occasionally he sent me letters with cool artwork of my name saying his “friend” drew it for me. I’m wondering if his “friend” did it out of the kindness of his heart, or for some ramen. 🤔
Honestly probably out of kindness. You have a lot of time in prison. He probably spoke of you which prompted people who were bored to draw pictures for you.
AndroidsDontDance can I get this version of ur comment in English please?
halo289 His comment made total sense to me.
That's a goddamn fantastic story.
@@halo289 me to.
So a food designed to solve starvation is being used as a way to solve starvation.
Makes sense.
Nice 69
Nice 911
@@RB-mm7ce haha funny
🤯
Ramen = money, money gets you food = ramen, yeah makes sense
A prison in my state had to put in rules on how many items you can buy at one time and you may only have say 5 packs of ramen in your cell. If more than five are found the guards will take all of them. My little brother spent some time in there for DUI that caused damage. He was shocked at what people would do for ramen when they didn't have cash in their accounts. They also hand candy, crackers, and jerky. He was told that all prisons have different items in their jail stores. Also, the Ramon there cost like 1.50 and most thing cost more because it was a Prison for profit
At your local market the lower grade ramen sells for 10 per $1.00 often. Prisons by in far greater bulk than grocery stores. So the profit margins for ramen sales at the State prisons is huge. The California food budget per inmate per day is $.90. This is why prisoners must have a staple to fall back on when the daily menu is inedible (which is often).
Tekashi 69 must be enjoying his ramen in prison right now
With his hair I think he is becoming a little better than ramen if you know what I mean
With tay k eatin good noodles
Bruhh that was fast..LOL...did you catch this doco earlier..and come back just to comment??
You did not just...😧
I don't think that's the kind of noodle he's enjoying
This is what TayK meant when he said “we gonna be eating good noodles everyday”
HAHAHA underrated comment
under rated
So he knew 'The Race' was going to end eventually. That he was going to be caught and put in jail for a long time. And he was.
_kidwithglasses 💀💀🤣🤣
Except he doesn't say that
I always keep a case or two of Romen noodles in my kitchen. Sometimes after paying all my bills and debts I'm left with zero dollars in my account. My safety net is my top Romen noodles, because I can eat for pennies on the dollar..
Same, mostly for emergencies though. They have a long shelf life, and can feed my son and I for months if need be. The way things are going now, I should buy more.
This video is so perfect
*_Gang name: Top Ramen_*
GANG NAME: Noodle
Buttery Noodle
stand name: soft and wet
Gang name: hardbrick
*Gang Leader: Ramen King.*
I can't believe I just watched a video about jail ramen.
"you're not a alone, no no no"
This is our lives now
there is a cookbook on this subject, didn't you know? Prison Ramen ruclips.net/video/IA5z25bb4tk/видео.html. this is an old story, like 5 years old
Am just preparing myself for my Jail Time in the future
I can't believe there is a book about it 🙄
I was curious about Finland and apparently in at least one prison the most popular products are curd (kinda like a thick yogurt) and eggs, apparently to get protein for weightlifting. They also get 4 meals a day which cost more to make than school lunches (and have 2800 calories per day), so they seem to eat pretty well. Oh, and they apparently can buy cigarettes in the store, that was a surprise.
"Cash isn't allowed in prison"
"You could sell your ramen for 2 to 3 dollars"
Which one is it?
Good catch lol
I'm guessing he's using commissary prices as an exchange rate, i.e. ramen can get you $2-3 worth of something else.
@@Sixtybolts commissary money isn't a physical form though, so how would you trade it?
@@pinchpeak5203 It's $2-3 of food etc from the commissary... like a can of Coke.
You guys missed a big reason for Ramon being so useful in jail. The food has zero flavor so inmates put the Ramon seasoning on their food to make it edible
This guy knows.
Why can't they just sell them seasoning?
cbernier3 eat the noodles duh
@@ryat3856 it's far more cost effective to buy spices and noodles separately.
Ramon.....
I can vouch and say Ramen and Stamps are definitely the main currencies in prison! I've sold a few prison meals in my day! 🍜
yo your channel is so good
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AfterPrisonShow instantly thought of you when I saw this video haha 😆 my boyfriends obsessed with your videos
Hi Joe!!
Oh damn, its Joe
I wonder if there is a website that shows you the prison price versus the sale price of an item because i would personally like to see that
Check out his book Prison Ramen. The half that isn't recipes are entertaining, and sometimes heartbreaking stories by former inmates.
Prisoners: Ramen is power
Naruto:breaks down in tears of joy
Ichiraku ramen 🍜 🍜
Heck yeahhhh ichiraku ramen 🍜
I was waiting for a Naruto joke thank you
How does this not have a billion likes
You're the Goat for this one 🤣
BREAKING NEWS: A man escapes jail just to steal Ramen and goes back in his cell.
Yes
When you find the perfect profile picture. 😂😂😂
your 600th like
This comment is making me feel some type of way with those 666 likes
Stonks
3:30 let's be honest. Aramark gives tainted food to college students as well.
It's just the best kind of food that is very practical, other than that it's unique taste for me kinda sums up my love for it
This confirms it. Student life = prison
The cafe at my university is run by aramark
You’re trapped in the library. Basically Prison with wifi
@J. Moore You can escape a prison the same way you can drop out of school- both have severe consequences on your life.
@J. Moore You can't drop out of student loans tho.
Hence proved!
I know Tay-K be eating them good noodles everyday in jail 😂😂
Fr
Bruh I deadass looked up tay k again just because of this video 😂😂😂
Hey yeah lips prolly in there slurping up
#Freetayk
Rggigs _YT why? He’s a murderer.
Thanks for the dinner idea.
It assists in prevent the insertion of the meat cucumbers, sometimes.
*So brooklyn 99 was being serious*
i was searching for this comment
Beef Baby!
Wat does that mean
Picante beef
Josh Burger out for blood
Talking about dedication - spent 13 yrs in prison to conduct this study.
Most likely petty crime, he was 13 yrs in and out so he got like maybe 3-4 year sentences at each time
"It's the chosen favourite among college kids and inmates across America"
You said the same thing twice
Wow, I didn’t know they allowed prisoners to go to college
Love it!
How long until those prisoners leave and replace the world economy with ramen?
The day cometh nigh
College: can I have that ramen pack
Prison: trade you 2 sodas for it
Having worked for Aramark in my younger days, I am not surprised.
Good point, Vox is making this looks like a very normal situation for inmates. Instead of tackling the main situation they chose to make video about Ramen in Prison
Holy moly that prison food looks better than my school’s special.
No joke I'd rather take ramen over my schools Friday special, Big Daddy Pizza.
(Yes that's the real name of our special)
Hold up you guys get food?
LOL ramen is better than my school lunch
@@krikfocowski1315 wait they get food? Wut tha frick going on.
Bro in Romania we literally get a slice of bread and some milk, what you guys are talking about is literal gold over here
*Convicted felon here. I can vouch that everything discussed in this video is absolutely true.*
they forgot about stamps.... Stamps is dollar for dollar, some times more.....
@@freethepeople9075 in Texas stamps only have value in jail. Not so much in prison. Not sure how it works in other states.
@@mackinblack in Alabama and ilinois prison they like dollars. If on a lock down they worthless.
@@mackinblack up in the Clements Unit stamps were pretty popular as currency at least it was when I was a pod boss
How did you become a convicted felon?
Ramen was valuable when I was on the ship in the Navy also. Very rarely was there good food on the chow line. We kept Ramen noodles and the styrofoam cups of noodles in our racks for just such occasions.
The penitentiary in my home town had a farm, the inmates worked it.. the farm produced a large part of their food and taught them skills to use when they left. Some farmers would hire them on to their farms during their probation time frame, depending on what their crime was.
Do you come from Indiana? I made a similar comment about the Farm before I saw yours 😎
@@zenluvsfun no, I'm from Iowa.
@@jessicamcwilliams3346 Great States think alike 😊
Ramen is not nutritious but keeps the stomach full which is important
@@PennyMsElite 2 is my limit...
Penny Proud you eat 5 every time?
Penny Proud I’m full with just 2
Albert The Scientist 10 in a day?
Complex Ez it’s not a salt packet it’s gives the ramen it’s flavor
In short. prisoners don't get fed enough food to survive, so they give you just about anything for some ramen.
Cheap cardboard noodle made in china .
Carbs raises insulin and when it go down, get hungry again.
Well that was way more interesting than I expected
$1.77 a meal?
dang that's more expensive than my school lunch
luxury smh
All food is highly valuable. You'll never understand how valuable food is, until you've lived without it.
Mr.Mystery
B o I
students in university do ahahah
@Mr.Mystery even a water for take a bath is valuable in most third world country
But if u live without food u die
Garnet Queen amen, girl.
This video is interesting from an economy standpoint because it shows that money has no instrinsic value: people have to agree that the thing they use for trade has value.
Power is where people believe power resides in
"In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword..."
@@samuelschonenberger it's that simple principle why Bitcoin will inevitably fail.
Man is d measure of all things...
@@Papercut625 when I read your comment I got a notification from Etorro that bitcoin dropped 3.6% today to $6.067. Amazing coincidence
Yeahhh Vox covering the stories that actually matter!!
Stable video👍
“Inmates aren’t just using ramen as cash, they’re also eating it” wow who would have thought of that
Edit: top comment wow thanks guys
Ben Griffin 😂
Thinking that just now
*they're
i read this comment at the exact moment she said that
Mind blown 🤯🤯
Me tomorrow
*Hooded man breaks in prison to sell ramen*
And gets shanked immediately
and gets ramened right after
*HOW I BECAME A MILLIONAIRE FROM A RUclips VIDEO???!!!”*
You'd make the inmates mad because the value of the ramen dollar (raller?) would go down drastically, and those who have the most ramen/power would be the most angry.
Ramen in jail? This finna be a breeze!
police: why do you have all these instant ramen in your coat
me: to look rich in prison
Nice jobs,thanks share
US Prisons: 56 cents for an awful meal
Public schools: hold my carton of milk
Yeah but prison food is way less filling and doesn’t have as much nutrients and carbs
WOODY IS BETTER
Make it 5 dollars for the same stuff
Lolz
@@rubikubegd408 ...um have you checked out the kind of food kids are getting in public schools? (specially those in underfunded districts) it's literally causing diabetes and childhood obesity due to empty carbs, excess fats+sugars and very little in the way of fruit and vegetables.
Prisoner: “eh man eh man what you got”
Ramen dealer: “I got that kimchi fresh from the market ,20 a G fam”
what's the correlation with kimchi and ramen, ramen is a Japanese soup while kimchi is seasoned Korean food
ronylouis shut up
@@ronylouis0 I think he is referring to kimchi flavored ramen
@@sophievande22 wait, that's illegal
i was in a "dorm" style jail for a while but have never been to prison.. ramen was used more of a low level currently to trade for other food or gamble with, while coffee is what you needed to buy drugs
i agree, even when i was in a "summer camp" style of juvie, ramen was serious business, and people got hassled over paying up. but hey, if you're gonna toss in ramen packs and candy bars you don't have and lose the bet, staff getting upset is the least of your worries
: " How much does this bike cost"
: "That will be 20 ramens sir"
Who did your PFP, Lisa Frank?! 😛
@@Perririri ...
I was a Correctional Officer and was offered 50 soups for my sunglasses. I said “as tempting as that sounds I will pass.”
@Kaleb sorry. No for my RayBans.
0:42 “it’s literally gold”
Hey it’s the same way outside prison walls too
it clicks, we're in a much bigger prison so it's much cheaper
Ever been to the project? 2 weeks after foodstamps everybody borrowing noodles that 75 cent at the chinx store!
i kid you not... i eat on 2 dollars a day and i do it well. rice beans potatoes buckwheat oatmeal peas are my main staples but fill that with tons of veg like kale and once in a while some salmon roe
When I was in prison Coffee and Tuna pouches was definitely more valuable then soups. Only because its way easier to transfer 10 Coffees rather then 10 soups when you gotta pay for something from a different dorm or a different yard
Another thing is if u crushed up ramen in package dump in the seasonings could be eating like crunchy chips
so whats happening in elementary school is also happening in prison, interesting..
School is prison in the end.
@@user-gc8zb1gk4k haha gamers rise up am I right?
WeirdArmy essentially, you’re just doing time in both situations-whether it be school or prison.
same food in school
😂
Psst, hey officer, let me go for 5 packs of ramen
*officer looks back and forth*
*shakes head*
*unlocks door*
Kills him for 5 extra ramen he was hiding
@@fork_film3291 stonks
Bird Life lol
*stabs him*
Oficcer:why did you stab me
Prisoner: you have a 10 noodle bounty and
isn't it *nods head*
Ramen was used as currency in jail, because one packet cost about a dollar. They were only 30¢ in prison. Prison currency was the Mack, a small packet of mackerel that was also about a dollar. There was a limit on stamps, and so stamps were not used. However, stamps became used after COVID-19 hit and commissary was interrupted.
I noticed that Gresham's Law functioned, as the old oily Macks were replaced by new, better-tasting dry Macks. The old ones were more often used as currency, and the new ones disappeared down gullets. I waited some time before I had anybody in prison to note this to, eventually "Philip Drummond," who called himself a _merchant banker,_ arrived, and we discussed it a bit.