Food at Manzanar
Unfortunately, not much was served at Manzanar. As we know, Japanese are customed to their own style of eating, it was not like this in camps. Internees at Manzanar had to wait in long lines for meals at the mess halls. Food at Manzanar was based on military requirements. Meals usually consisted of hot rice, vegetables, and cans of fruit. Their food was basically syrupy fruit over rice and some vegetables to the side, they had to eat this most of the time. Meat was scarce in the camps but the camp provided meat supplements for the prisoners' diet. The Americans that cooked the food did not know anything about the Japanese.