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March 04, 2008
Tuesday
 
 
Discussion point XIX
Thaddeus Tremayne (London)  Personal views

You are on death row awaiting execution. What would you order for your last meal?

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Liver, fava beans and a nice Chianti of course.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at March 4, 2008 07:32 PM

White truffle risotto. Argentine fillet steak. A bottle of Cheval Blanc 1947 to wash it down.


Posted by Michael Jennings at March 4, 2008 07:36 PM

1000 year old eggs...

I'll wait!


Posted by trainer at March 4, 2008 07:36 PM

Reindeer steak, grilled to blue.
Black truffle risotto.
Vichy carrots.
A good Chateuneuf to wash it down.


Posted by Dave Walker at March 4, 2008 07:43 PM

Stuffed cabbage.


Posted by Alisa at March 4, 2008 07:45 PM

Dozen Bluepoint oysters (gotta be ready for those 72 virgins).

Angel hair pasta with clams, scallops, muscles, and shrimp in red sauce.

Stuffef Veal Chop.

An entire Cheesecake factory chocolate fudge cheesecake.

Bottle of Opus One.

Grappa.


Posted by JerryM at March 4, 2008 07:57 PM

Something low fat, low sodium, free range organic Fair Trade.... oh never mind!


Posted by Mark at March 4, 2008 08:05 PM

A big steak.

Rare of course. The chair will bring it all the way to medium later.


Posted by Ralf Goergens at March 4, 2008 08:08 PM

This time of Year?

Creamy winter vegetable soup.

Roast beef, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts, peas and horseradish sauce

A very large slice of chocolate cheescake

Cheese Board

Several, (many), pints of bitter

A large Cuban cigar

And of course, a wafer thin chocolate mint.


Posted by Kevin B at March 4, 2008 08:13 PM

My lawyer, well-done.


Posted by Kit at March 4, 2008 08:16 PM

A revolver and escape map salad?


Posted by Phil at March 4, 2008 08:36 PM

whatever will cause the stinkiest most disgusting mess as the inevitable happens during the execution.


Posted by michael farris at March 4, 2008 08:42 PM

Fugu?

Wouldn't this be the time to indulge in potentially fatal foods?

Alternatively, eat something so awful that you don't might dying. The perfect time for a person with peanut allergies to have every peanut related dish known to man.


Posted by August at March 4, 2008 09:00 PM

I'd order Hemlock, along with a garnish of Cyanide - so retaining the honour of controlling my own demise rather than leaving it to the State.


Posted by Tanuki at March 4, 2008 09:05 PM

Chicken chimichanga, with extra onions and extra sour cream.


Posted by chaika at March 4, 2008 09:35 PM

Since no one mentioned it yet:

Solution of U[235]Cl4 in D2O -- enough of it to go out with a bang.


Posted by ...Max... at March 4, 2008 09:38 PM

I read something by a prison chaplain( sorry I can't remember more) to the effect that nobody ever ate their last meal;they were to upset.Anyone to refute or confirm this?Sounds plausible to me.


Posted by renminbi at March 4, 2008 09:43 PM

Tanuki has it, otherwise? Who cares. The bastards are about to kill me, you think I would give a toss what I eat?

Any ceremony about the condemned mane last meal is, in the circumstances, a sick hypocrisy.


Posted by CountingCats at March 4, 2008 09:47 PM

Beans, cabbage, and eggs. In preparation for my last words.


Posted by roy at March 4, 2008 09:54 PM

Yes indeed Tanuki has it !
I was going to order a razor blade sandwich
myself.
Just to thwart the bastards!
But I prefer to spit in the eye of sanity
and have started a small tunnel...


Posted by RAB at March 4, 2008 10:34 PM

Counting cats I have read many of your comments in the past and always considered you rather civilised but your comment above has completely discredited you.

A mediocre meal is a lost opportunity. One should not waste any chance to enjoy good food. A person who lives to 70 will only get around 75,000 opportunities cradle to grave. It simply is not enough, and, no I am not overweight.



Posted by Nick Timms at March 4, 2008 10:40 PM

roy,

"Pull my finger"?


Posted by Gareth at March 4, 2008 10:47 PM

Beef tenderloin, medium rare, with romanoff potatoes, grilled asparagus with hollandaise, and Johnny Walker Blue Label on the rocks.

BTW, you might want to check out the Dead Man Eating page(Link). A lot of states have strict rules about what you can have -- I think the US Feds limit you to $20, has be prepared in the prison kitchen, and no alcohol.

In that case I think I would go with Southern Fried Chicken, cheese fries, and sweet tea, with ice cold watermelon for desert. A whole watermelon.


Posted by Phelps at March 4, 2008 10:54 PM

Something heavily seasoned with Ebola and the opportunity to give all of my captors a warm hug and tell them [atchoo! ] of my forgiveness [atchoo! ]. I would miss out on experiencing the delightful symptoms, but they on the other hand would know the full measure of my contrition.


Posted by Midwesterner at March 4, 2008 11:33 PM

5 lb of Semtex, 10 lb of nails, and a detonator in an Angels Food cake. I don't belong here, I was framed, and if you think I'm going out alone, you've got another think coming!


Posted by Billll at March 5, 2008 12:45 AM

I don't know if you guys ever heard of this great food/cooking show, but it's on the "Mojo Channel" here in the states and it's called "After Hours With Daniel" (Link)wherein Chef Daniel Boulud gets a bunch of his chef buddies together along with a celebrity or two and they dine on exotic and ridiculously extravagant cuisine.

One week he put the question similar to the one for this thread to his chef buddies, and Chef Daniel's answer was probably my favorite-

(thick french accent)-"I'm eh, not sure from which parvt it will be, but eet veel definitely be from some part of ze peeg."

I second that. Baby back ribs, slow smoked shoulder, stuffed pork loin.......ok now I'm hungry.


Posted by Tman at March 5, 2008 12:56 AM

Something that takes a FUCKING long time to prepare, I should hope!


Posted by Jonathan W at March 5, 2008 01:32 AM

Sugar and water, so I could put my hair up in spikes and do "hey, I already been done" gags all the way to the Chair. That would be cool.


Posted by Chertiozhnik at March 5, 2008 02:20 AM

Something involving whale and panda meat with a sider order of baby seals, kittens and, hell, a unicorn.

Reason is quite obvious.


Posted by Just Me at March 5, 2008 02:37 AM

Richard Nixon


Posted by Jonathan Rubinstein at March 5, 2008 04:57 AM
Something that takes a FUCKING long time to prepare, I should hope!
Already told you: stuffed cabbage.
Posted by Alisa at March 5, 2008 06:59 AM

Hm. Following the rules most prisons have for the last meal:

Shrimp Fra Diavolo with angel hair pasta, a Caesar salad, french bread and butter. Iced tea with lemon to drink, and a bar of Belgian chocolate for dessert.

What can I say? I'm a somewhat simple man with somewhat simple tastes.


Posted by DaveK at March 5, 2008 09:30 AM

Nothing at all. If I was on death row for the assassination of a certain Ms H Clinton, Mr B Obama and Mr J McCain I think that would still be on a permanent high at having removed those 3 from the daylight.


Posted by Julian Taylor at March 5, 2008 09:55 AM

The Manchu-Han Banquet. All 108 dishes of it.

Good luck making that live monkey brain dish!


Posted by The Wobbly Guy at March 5, 2008 12:36 PM

I'm confused. Is this the thread about Scarlett Johansson's and Natalie Portman's breasts?


Posted by Sunfish at March 5, 2008 02:15 PM

Osama bin Laden's liver. They can't kill me until they find him.


Posted by Alan K. Henderson at March 5, 2008 03:48 PM

Steak and chips - hold the salad, I do not need to worry about my health.


Posted by Paul Marks at March 5, 2008 03:53 PM

Gordon Brown's kidneys.


Posted by Jack Maturin at March 5, 2008 07:55 PM

A bucket of orange juice and 3 bottles of vodka.

I'll be drinking myself to bolivia.

I wonder if one were to get alcohol poisoning would they postpone the execution until you were healthy enough to be killed?


Posted by Billy Oblivion at March 5, 2008 10:54 PM

Lots of factual material about last meals is available, for example here. I've read several of these lists over, including the largest ones from Texas and Florida, and what strikes me is the large amount of sugary desserts and junk foods, particularly ice cream. At the risk of sounding like some granola progressive, it really makes you wonder about correlations between junk-food intake and crime.


Posted by CJ at March 5, 2008 11:15 PM

Lot's of interesting ones here


Posted by murph at March 7, 2008 04:44 PM

Assuming they were planning to do me at dawn according to tradition, I would have a full English breakfast like you would get in a farm B&B in the Yorkshire Dales. I hope they wouldn't use the fatty Canadian so called bacon we get here, though. That would be very upsetting.

Double helpings of black pudding and fried eggs with a side order of baked beans would help give them something to remember me by.

A fry up and gas chamber in one.


Posted by david h at March 11, 2008 07:07 PM
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