A week of turkey dinners are deemed a cruel punishment by El Paso inmates.
The inmates are so bothered by their menu that they went on a hunger strike in protest.
The inmates refused to eat Saturday, arguing that meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel, according to the Associated Press.
Sheriff's officials say Wednesday that the hunger strike ended after about half an hour, the news agency reports.
"Turkey, turkey and more turkey is not a form of punishment," the Sheriff's Office says in a tongue-in-cheek prepared statement.
The inmates accepted the refuted claim and then ate their spaghetti dinner; made with a turkey meat sauce.
