This comfort food can be made using ingredients that can be purchased at a prison commissary. One common example is a bag of Fritos Corn-chips with canned chili poured over the Fritos while still in the bag — the bag being split open from top to bottom being used as a plate/container for the “Zoo Pie”.
The Four “F’s” make it easier to survive in prison they are:
friends on the outside
family,
fellow gang members inside and outside
faithful wife or lover who hasn’t yet succumbed to loneliness and infidelity while you are inside.
These people can easily make Commissary Deposits and send valuable packages containing socks and underwear — two things you can’t be without in prison or in the military.
The Four F’s are a necessary but not sufficient element of prison survival.
I couldn’t have served my prison time without The Four “F’s” in my corner; Man, I’m a short timer now. Just one month and a wake up.
four functions regulated by the hypothalamus:
-fighting -fleeing
-feeding -mating
"The hypothalamus plays a major role in the regulation of basic drives related to survival, including the so-called "four F's":fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating."
--Wayne Weiten's textbook Psychology: Themes and Variations
How are fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating the four F's? ...wait...ohhhh...