Here we show the darker side of this festive day, including a deadbeat Santa stuffing his face with rancid Pannetone bread.
Here we show the darker side of this festive day, including a deadbeat Santa stuffing his face with rancid Pannetone bread.
She was soon transferred to Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), where she joined some sixteen hundred other women — a "helpless class" — and was subjugated to inhumane treatment that included ice-cold baths, flimsy garments, and meals consisting of nothing more than "stuff honored by the name of tea," bread with rancid butter, and a few prunes.
She also described prison sanitary conditions as appalling and said that inmates are routinely fed stale bread, milk diluted with water, rancid millet and rotten potatoes.
Convicts are always given stale bread, generously watered-down milk, exceptionally rancid millet and only rotten potatoes".
She loomed over us with a pitcher of warm milk and a tray with slices of buttered bread that had absorbed all the rancid smells of the kitchen, watching closely to make sure we ate and drank everything.
For breakfast, we got a piece of dry bread, a boiled egg, a packet of rancid margarine, and occasionally a slice of gooey, unsmoked bacon; we washed it all down with tepid sweet tea or decondensed milk in plastic cups that had been absorbing grease for all eternity.
Sometimes she will eat what people offer; more often she will refuse it, waving the bread in the air, pointing at her benefactor, shouting that it is rancid with his sin.
The main staple of the North Korean diet is rice, though bread is sometimes available, accompanied by a form of butter that is often rancid.
"It is probably also in the interests of reform that inmates are given only stale bread, only milk that has been diluted with copious amounts of water, only rancid porridge, and only rotten potatoes.
Our politics remain rancid.
