What Would Be Your Last Meal?
"Last Meal" as a concept is normally associated with someone who is about to be executed, but we can expand it to a general hypothetical concept. What would you like your last experience with food to consist of?
last meals
Adolf Eichmann: He declined a special meal, preferring a bottle of Carmel, a dry red Israeli wine. He drank about half of it.
Aileen Wuornos: She declined a special meal, but had a hamburger and other snack food from the prison’s canteen. Later, she drank a cup of coffee.
Gary Gilmore: A hamburger, hard-boiled eggs, a baked potato, a few cups of coffee, and three shots of whiskey.
John Wayne Gacy: A dozen deep-fried shrimps, a bucket of original recipe chicken from KFC, French fries, and a pound of strawberries.
Karla Faye Tucker: Banana, peach, and garden salad with ranch dressing.
Perry Smith and Richard Hickock: Shrimp, French fries, garlic bread, ice cream, and strawberries with whipped cream.
Robert Alton Harris: A 21-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two large Domino’s pizzas (no anchovies), ice cream, a bag of jelly beans, a six-pack of Pepsi, and a pack of Camel cigarettes.
Ted Bundy: He declined a special meal, so he was given the traditional steak (medium-rare), eggs (over-easy), hash browns, toast, milk, coffee, juice, butter, and jelly.
Timothy McVeigh: Two pints of mint chocolate-chip ice cream.
Saddam Hussein: Sources say he ate boiled chicken and rice, and drank hot water with honey the day before his execution. The Times (UK) states that “he refused their offers of cigarettes and a last meal of chicken.
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I'm going with a thick grilled pork chop, grilled onions, sliced beefsteak tomatoes, jambalaya, my home made chicken stew, a few really good egg rolls, roasted bell peppers, 3 or 4 Taco Bell tacos, a Whopper, the best chocolate shake I can get, and a chocolate cream pie.
I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!
But if I had to....
Start with a Gin and Tonic, Foie Gras, Lamb chops (medium rare), Tuna tartar, Steak tartar, Chicken Pad thai, Chocolate Mousse...
Of course you would have to roll me out after that and my butt would be extra wide and say pass/ don't pass.. but who cares? You're killing me!
j/k.
You are too high class for me.
yummy!
Steak tartar
I remember the first time I was out with my wife and I ordered steak tartar. It was great, but she had her eyes turned away the whole time I ate it. I make my own at home sometime. Of course she reacted the same the first time I ordered Escargot too.
I love tuna and steak tartar. However, I don't recommend the kibbeh nayyeh. It's a patty of raw lamb, and it's got the texture of uncooked hamburger. So gross.
Never tried it. Might be interesting to see what it's like.
When I make Steak Tartar at home my wife doesn't even want to be in the house. Of course I have to use raw chicken egg instead of quail because, quite frankly I can't find a store that sells them.
I think I would go with cheese and something similar to a charcuterie board with A LOT of dry red wine.
What is a charcuterie board ? It sounds inedible.
Fresh salmon (copper river salmon) baked on a cedar plank. Wild rice, hand harvested. For desert, wild blueberry pie with a splash of ice cream. OK, more than a splash. Oh and to drink, Ojibwe tea.
Lake Superior white fish or walleye can be substituted for Copper River salmon, but would be fixed differently.
This requires some thought...
One thing for sure: Two hot baked croissants with honey butter. From KT's, a restaurant here in Louisville. Fried catfish, from Cracker Barrel, with mashed potatoes and white gravy, green beans, and a piece of butterscotch pie. And a whole afternoon/evening to eat it in. Undisturbed...
Shrimp cocktail, garden salad with Thousand Island dressing, cream of chicken mushroom soup, hot buttered tea-biscuits, 1 lb. filet mignon barbecued medium rare, 2 lb. dressed steamed lobster with melted butter, baked potato with sour cream and chives, dill pickles with cottage cheese, Coca Cola with lots of shaved ice, strawberry rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream, coffee, assorted cheese board, a bottle of vintage Baron de Rothschild Bordeaux, a big joint of the best Mexican....
That should give me such a severe case of gout I'll WANT to die.
Let's see:
Alexander Keith's IPA to start
Crock of French Onion Soup from the Great Adirondack Steak and Seafood Restaurant (Lake Placid, N.Y.)
Medium cooked 3 inch (thick) Ribeye from Joe Allen's in Abilene Texas, mushrooms sautéed in butter and red wine (Served with Alexander Keith's Red Amber Ale)
Mashed Potatoes from Ruth's Chris Steak House
Sweet Corn on the Cob with plenty of butter and salt.
Homemade Jalapeno corn bread, fresh Italian and french breads, all hot, with butter
Salted Almond Caramel Tort form Savor Restaurant (the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute Restaurant)
Buttered Almond Ice Cream.
Bailey's on the Rocks as an Apertif.
I want a Chick-Fillet chicken sandwich ...
LOL!
Tomatoes, lottsa tomatoes, warm from the garden with salt and pepper. Also corn on the cob and green beans from the garden. buttermilk biscuits, pickled cucumber and onion, new York strip medium rare, American fries, and New Belgium mothership wit to wash it down. My grandmas chocolate crazy cake for dessert.
Then I could say "goodbye cruel world"!
Serve those warm tomatoes on a plate kept in the fridge, and I'm in!
What?! I'm going to die today?! Nothing for me, thanks. I lost my appetite.
It's good to see that nobody wants their meat cooked more than medium-rare (if cooked at all). It always amazes me that there are people who eat meat that could be used as the soles on their shoes.
Nothing. I'm on a diet.
There is no future for your diet in this scenario.
I refuse to be executed in a 40 inch waistband.
Well, I will take a double Chivas on the rocks. I think I could handle those calories.
It would have to be one of those meals from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
A plate of Mrs. E.'s Passover Matzoh Brei with cinnamon sprinkled on top.
A piece of Matzah Shmurah with Benecol and Blackberry preserves.
A Clover Brewed Burundi Dark Roast Coffee with Vanilla Creme. Groujnd vanilla, chocolate, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
A small bowl of Shav with chopped fresh garden veggies and non fat Greek Yogurt.
To complete the feast, a slice of Mrs. E's, flourless Cadorei Botz pastry.
I adore Passover Foods any time of year. As luscious as the Freedom the holiday represents for me.
Great article John. Intriguing question posed.
Good show.
E.
Shrimp and Grits. Four Vicodin. A Bong and a gram of fine Afghani Hashish.
I'll have fresh walleye over a bed of wild rice, a bit of fry bread, wild blueberries with cream and a couple of buttons.