# prison **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 17, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075 "2003-09-17T02:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vriggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a4c791/32.png) [@Vriggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vriggs)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/1 "2003-09-17T02:56:08Z")
Heard this on the radio and it may have been part of a comedy sketch but I heard that when you are new and go to prison and you meet your cellmate you are forced to toss his salad… Why? Apparantly if you have to suck his _bleep_ you can still conceivably imagine it is something else , but when you toss his salad, you can never convince yourself you are doing anything other than eating his ass. Don’t kill the messenger… ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/2 "2003-09-17T02:58:38Z")
That would be part of a routine by Chris Rock. I hear it often on XM ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/3 "2003-09-17T03:04:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vriggs \* > \*\* > Don’t kill the messenger… \*\* Urge to kill… \*Rising[i/]. ---
**Author:** ![Vriggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a4c791/32.png) [@Vriggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vriggs)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/4 "2003-09-17T03:07:42Z")
grr. sorry this should be a post under [Why do they call it “tossing salad”?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=211693) What a post to mess up on eh? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/5 "2003-09-17T03:12:02Z")
Coding abilities… Lowering. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/6 "2003-09-17T03:18:42Z")
Heck, you shoulda heard that episode of _World’s Wildest Police Videos_ that had to be recalled for editing. Y’know how the narrator, John Bunnell, is always throwing off some lame pun to serve as the moral of the story, i.e. “This crook thought he could get away in an laundry truck, but he’ll have plenty of time to fold sheets _in jail!_” and “This guy thought robbing an arcade would get him some quick cash, but the only quarters he’ll get are _in jail!_” Well, in this episode, Bunnell ended with “This crook thought he could get away in a stolen vegetable truck, but he’ll have plenty of time to toss salads, _in jail!_” Almost immediately, the episode was withdrawn and a new audio track was added, but I have a bootleg copy. It’s true. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prison/202075/7 "2003-09-17T03:26:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vriggs \* > **Heard this on the radio and it may have been part of a comedy sketch but I heard that when you are new and go to prison and you meet your cellmate you are forced to toss his salad…** Sexual assault in prison is a serious problem, but it doesn’t occur nearly as often as is portrayed in the media. Hell, a lot of prisons don’t even have cells any longer. Many of them have switched to dormitary-style.