I’m making prison food from around the world to see which countries are worth committing crimes in. And today we’re heading to South Africa. Now, food here is cooked to a strict national cycle, a 12-day rotation where meat is rare, seasoning is optional, and joy is technically contraband. The Department of Correctional Services recently slashed their food budget by over 200 million. And you can taste every missing scent. Inmates once got chicken three times a week. Now, once if you’re willing to do some unsavory things to get it, but what’s on the tray in a South African prison? Well, it could be a scoop of maze porridge or pap, a ladle of soy mint stew, a spoonful of overb mashed pumpkin or gourd, a banana if you’re lucky, and a glass of water that’s about as inspiring as the sentencing guidelines. My final verdict is a three out of 10. It’s functional. It’s filling. But it’s completely flavorless.
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This meal is the embodiment of sadness and misery.
I wish I was kidding, my bf and I watch these together sometimes. When I saw this, i pressed pause and said to him "this is the most disgusting one so far" I press play and he says it is from South Africa… we live in South Africa 😂
Good job Dr. Groenewald
Lol I have the same potato ricer I literally bought it couple days ago off Amazon. It's mint
Things were better in the before times, before the end of apa😮rtheid
The yugioh knife is always awesome
Türkiye pls
Do Russia
nah my countries prison food is so ass, when i visited my mother all they had was boiled chicken… yuck
Oh my word looked for my country in this series and uh I found it
That what you used was a butternut squash. Close enough to pumpkin
Wouldn't catch me eating that chimp scran
Well you are in prison as a punishment. Not as a vacation.
Free Nelson Mandela!
That looked like an American lunch people always claim they have even though we go by Fredrick's diner now in majority of states
I got depressed only by looking at this food
This is a water dyt
The pumpkin falling into the water. DUAL PURPOSE FLAVORING BOI
As a South African, I find it crazy that even prisoners aren’t given proper food as food is one of the biggest parts of SA culture, even different cities in the same province have radically different food cultures and recipes, sometime even in the same city
Sounds about right for South Africa to be honest
Is suicide a contraband too?
i dont know if its just me but every video he sounds more and more depressed
Mate, this content is good and fascinating. You don’t need the tiny hands or Pokémon cars to try be quirky.
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Great now do CECOT. Should be easy!
I wonder what changed
Now do the menu under apartheid.
That’s the worst mielies I’ve ever seen
Hos phakamisa.
Prison food is probably my biggest motivator to never commit a crime. The unsavoury things being a close second.
You sound sad in this one
That sounds awesome (especially before the budget decrease)!
Waka waka E e~
i’m from SA and even i didn’t know this😭😭 but yeah pap is only good with good gravy some fried cabbage and onions and any meat of your choosing? personally i prefer beef with pap as instead of chicken and pap, I prefer rice with chicken
🇿🇦🇿🇦 also there was a fake rumor that said the R2 for add hope charity by kfc just gave inmates kfc
Some weird mix between African and East European prison foods
Food is the last thing you want in our jail's trust me I know
Facing Tyson and Kak till sunrise is what you have to think about not food
Looks like garbage food
Why is seasoning optional ? I mean aren't those cheapest things in a meal
I doubt they cook anything for the inmates in those countries
No prison is worth doing time 😂
My first impression is food with no texture, nothing to chew or use teeth. It might be ok for 80-90 years old, looks easy to digest.
Hey please next can you do hospital food 😋
You can learn everything you need to know about a nation by how they treat their prisoners and homeless population.
we used to eat braai on fridays❤❤
jokes😂
Next do Norway lol
So far all the recipes I’ve seen in this series focus on overcrowded jail systems from mid to low income countries of course the food is going to be bland boring snd downright horrible
I saw the thumbnail, and thought "Ew, questionable pinkish meat…..oh, those are his fingers." 🤭
Flavourless! As it should be!
You know, the more I hear about this "prison" place, the more I don't care for it.