 Food in the Field gives a sneak peek into what CNN's team is eating, and the food culture they encounter as they travel the globe. Today's contributor, photojournalist Jeremy Harlan is based in Washington D.C., but he travels. A lot. Pictured above: death row inmate Hank Skinner If we’re going to have this discussion, I have to start with Memphis-style ribs. I’d move onto a heaping amount of moist Texas beef brisket. Grilled asparagus. One In-n-Out 3×3 burger with fries, animal-style. A 12-oz dry-aged ribeye medium-rare. Wait, make it rare. What the heck. Wash it down with a cherry lambic and finish it off with peach cobbler and one piece of chocolate cream pie. Did I say one piece? Better make it two. Over the past year, I’ve covered two executions in Virginia and have interviewed a death row inmate in Texas. At each of those events, one subject that always draws a lot of interest is the last meal request. Next to what a prisoner’s last words were, the most popular inquiry by reporters always seems to be what the person ate before death. My reaction: that’s it?! Of all the things you could have, you just wanted chicken and cake? But as I later came to find out, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the menu options aren’t limitless. As Larry Traylor, the Director of Communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections, explained, "For the last meal, the inmate may select any meal, or combination of items, from the institution’s 28-day cycle menu. The meal must be completed no later than four hours prior to the execution." I’m sure the cooking staff does a fine job in making the meal, but I’d want a little bit bigger selection for my last eats on earth. Then again, if I’m on death row, do I really deserve to have whatever I want? In Texas, prisoners get far more leeway in choosing their last meals. “I had three pieces of Popeye’s fried chicken, two catfish filets, a bowl of green onions, a bowl of tartar sauce, a bowl of homemade ranch dressing, a bowl of shredded cheese, a bowl of crumbled eggs, two double bacon cheeseburgers, a large order of fries, and a chocolate milkshake,” boasted Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner a month ago. I know, I know. What’s crazier about that last paragraph - the half-grocery store that Skinner ingested for his last meal, or the fact he can still talk about it? Skinner was set to die by lethal injection last March for the murders of his then-girlfriend and her two sons. Less than an hour before he was to enter the death chamber, the United States Supreme Court stayed his execution and agreed to hear his suit against the local Texas prosecutor, whom he has sued for violating his civil rights and failing to turn over DNA evidence. But let’s get back to what he ate. “The guys over here [on Texas death row] make [the meal] out 14 days before our date. When guys are making it out over here, they’ve got real big eyes, they want this, they want that. None of them ever eat it all,” says Skinner. But, for his own part, Skinner was determined to leave no bowl of cheese or green onion behind. He told us that he made it all the way to the last half of the second cheeseburger before stopping. I guess when you're about to die, you don’t worry about the digestive repercussions of such a huge meal. Last week I found myself back in Jarratt for the execution of Teresa Lewis, the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly one hundred years. Unlike her counterpart in the Lone Star state, Lewis kept it simple: two fried chicken breasts, peas with butter, apple pie or German cake, and a Dr. Pepper. All of this got me to thinking - what on earth would I want to eat for a last meal? Granted, I don’t ever want to find myself on death row scribbling down a menu of my last grub. But if I were given a chance to plan it, where would I start? Barbeque would be the first and the last word on the menu. And it has to be Texas-style barbecue. I love you, Carolinas, but my culinary heart belongs to brisket. And the brisket I really want is the moist version from Rudy’s Country Store. My grandma’s snickerdoodle cookies would be a must. Mom’s fried chicken, Matty’s prime rib, Emily’s chocolate chip cookies, artichokes with mayonnaise, ripe California avocados, El Pollo Rico rotisserie chicken….aargh, so many choices to make. My wife’s list is pretty simple: my Caprese salad, my guacamole, my homemade applesauce, and a triple-scoop of gelato from her favorite shop in Rome, Giolitti. It's a simple question but harder to answer than you'd think: what would you want on your last dinner plate? |
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Last meal? Hmmmm.....I'd want Campbells Tomato Soup, two grilled cheese sammiches, jar of dill pickle spears, a brownie with vanilla ice cream, a pepsi and a tall glass of sweet tea!!
Sounds wonderful to me also. This is exactly one of my favorite meals. : )
I'm going to go buy pickles now.
My Dad's spaghetti, my mom's steak, scalloped potatoes, fried chicken, macaroni & tomatoes, her homemade fudge, & her veggie beef soup, my fiancee's marinated mexican beef ribs w nopales (grilled cactus), al pastor & abogado (specially marinated pork & chicken) all with El Milagrro tortillas, & sushi.. super Small portions of everything of course so that I can finish it.. A blunt (i dont.even smoke lol) and a few good swigs of Remy Martin or 100 anos tequila reposado.
like a couple of you have stated the meal we just ate at lunch could be are last..with that being said the last meal has been practiced by the Romans,Greeks and Chinese. Basically the last meal is a social act and accepting the meal the condemned was believed to forgive the executioner,judge and witnesses. The last meal is like accepting their punishment.
I would have 50 white Castle Hamburgers; The stench of those in my dead body would insure I was not soon forgotten!
I wish osama bin laden could have gotten life in supermax prison and been fed nothing but rice forever!
Stale cornbread and icy cold buttermilk with a crisp Vidalia onion and some salt to dip it into.
I don't think these guys deserve a last meal. But, since they are asking.. here's what I'd want. Prime rib, mashed poatoes and gravy, and a loaded baked potato too – what the heck!, frozen corn, & chocolate ecstacy for dessert.
If I'm going to die via the electric chair, I think my last meal request would have to be a mega helping of beans washed down with a gallon of salt water. That way when they turn on the juice, kapow!
I would eat two dozen pickled eggs and a six-pack of near-beer.
I'd turn that whole prison wing into a gas chamber.
t's a simple question but harder to answer than you'd think: what would you want on your last dinner plate?
Starters,,,,, fried calamari, bbq baby back ribs, garlic bread
Soup,,,,,,,,,french onion soup
Salad,,,,,,,,hearty wedge of iceberg lettuce with Russian dressing with croutons and parmesian cheese
a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palet
Main course,,,,,,36 oz,,King cut medium rare prime rib on the bone with buttered mushrooms and au jus, idaho baked potato, green beans with spaetzle, corn and shrimp scampi side.
Dessert ohhhhhhhhh this is hard..... blue bunny vanilla ice cream on a ny cheesecake with whipped cream
I like German Apple cake. It's really good.
If they get a last meal, then get a stay, then get another date for execution, do they get another last meal?
One pressing question here: Why does one on scheduled to die need a "last meal"? If you think about it, we ingest food to survive, not to die. Why do we feed prisoners that are going to be executed? Should we stop feeding prisoners that are scheduled to live?
Is it my imagination, or is there no moderator today and the inmates are running this asylum???
Quiet! We're about to bust out of here. Now where did I put that nail file?
Morbid? Yes, but you have to admit, we've all thought about it at some point. It's hard not to.
Personally, if I'd done something so heinous that I deserved the death penalty (or was convicted falsely), I'm not sure I could eat anything. But if I could, I think I would go for a steak, a side of rice, some fresh green beans or spinach, fresh homemade bread and butter, and some ice cream for dessert. That's what I say today, because that's what I'd want at the moment. The one thing I do know is that my request would change from day to day. Tomorrow I might be craving chinese take-out, monday I might crave seafood. It all depends.
Leave it to the Obama administration to give these merciless killers whatever they want for a last meal. Why don't we just fly them all to Kenya to live with your criminal family, Obama? Maybe they could be cross trained as terrorists. Get this joker out of office, vote Palin '10!!!!!!
You are a complete idiot. Always have to bring Obama into issues which don't even relate to the executive branch. You do realize that it is up to state officials to determine the stipulations that surround a prisoners last meal, Right? I mean, even if Obama wanted to put a stop to last meals he wouldn't be able to. It is a conflict of separation of powers. Maybe you should do some research before you post idiotic and hateful statements. You and your tea party buddies should go down to texas and start your own country because you are all a bunch of conservative whackos. If Palin was president we wouldn't be any better off than North Korea. Maybe you want to live in an oppressive totalitarian state, but I sure don't.
Oh, and you realize that Obama isn't up for re-election until 2012 right? So Palin '10 makes absolutely no sense unless she is running for Congress.
now what does Obama have to do with the last meal???? He dont have anything to do with what each state does with their deathrow immates last meal!!! get a grip!!
Why would we want to put in a person who quit under pressure, to be the president??? God that makes no sense...well about as much sense as any of her stupid comments. Palin my ass..good grief what next.
All 24 flavors of Pop tarts and a bowl of Peanut Butter Capt. Crunch!!!! Oh yes and dont forget the 2 gallons of milk!
All 24 flavors of Poptarts and a bowl of Peanut Butter Capt. Crunch!!!! Oh yes and dont forget the 2 gallons of milk!
Seeing as the only way I could end up on death row on my own means would be by preventing or avenging a catastrophically gross injustice on a member of my family, it wouldn't really matter what my last meal was, as I would probably spend my last moments SAVORING MY TOTAL LACK OF REGRET.
Roadkill possum with a side of "cocka-roacha-crema" and maybe some sort of endangered species.
Turkey and Dressing, Black Eyed Peas and Collard Greens, fluffy white biscuits; and for dessert, Tiramisu from Babbo in Surprise, AZ and Dark Chocolate Mousse from Gumbo's in Austin, Texas. Washed down with plenty of strong coffee. Yep. Kill me now.
what is the matter with these fat ass ppl. steak. no one cares, go eat somthing healthy. no wonder u guys are fat. u dont need to diet, just dont eat anything bad. fatass obese bitches tat eat all the food while ppl are dieing from starvation.
a huge bowl of all bran moistened with a copious amount of milk of magnesia, two packages of chocolate exlax washed down with a quart of chilled prune juice with extra pulp. If the state is going to take me out, they'll have a mess to clean up!
Well, at least you wouldn't have to worry about eating healthy.
Hmmmmmmm, last meal? A loaf of hard crust french bread and a bottle of vino, with my pastor and close friends to be with me for my last supper.
cannot believe that cnn would stoop to this level of "reporting"...well, i sorta/kinda can believe it cuz is typical...no wonder their ratings r in the total crapper. larry king? is he still alive? i know he salivates whenever a celeb dies...gives him the oppty to lob a few more softballs.
this started out as a fairly interesting thread... but has digressed into junior high homophobic antics.
I, of course.... would also have the Flamenon... very rare
Do you mean "Filet Mignon"? Typical liberal, can't even spell. Vote Palin '10
You can spell homophobic, but not Filet Mignon? Seriously?
my last meal would consist of hot hallah bread, followed by a salad, then a huge steak with a baked potatoe, lobster tails and for dessert chocolatecake with vanilla ice cream
I spelt dessert wrong. Doooh!
Would love to go all Hannibal Lecter and have a Vegan and a PETA supporter...
Hmmm...something rare and endangered and possibly poisonous (I mean, really, what's the harm, right?). Maybe a fugu appetizer with bald eagle soup, a white tiger steak infused with wormwood extract and dressed with nightshade berries finished with a cup of warm hemlock (like Socrates :) poured over squid ink ice cream.
My last meal would be kill a guard that come to ask me what I want on my last meal. So I can live on with trials and appeals...Hahaha...Kill and kill more. I'm on death row anyway. So why care so much about my last meal. The justice system is so pathetic. If a person is proved beyond any doubt, take him out back or parade him out on the busiest street and shoot him.
While they are on death row, find out what food they don't like, then give that to them as a last meal.
O_O' I think the last couple of emails are one person... that or a duo of people who have no life.
:) I want a rack of ribs, one side smothered in a spicy sauce and the other dry rubbed. Creamy mac n' cheese, a bowl of french onion soup with the cheese a gooey mess. Deep fried chicken breast – xtra crispy – and for desert... well If I'm gonna die I want deep fried oreo cookies with a huge jug of milk straight from the cow.
I wouldn't care what it was as long as I could eat it with my kids.
a recent poll places Flamenons at 99% and T.M.F. at 1% in popularity! I'm guessing he voted for himself.
Man if eating feces is a real turn on for you, you will have no problem fitting in with the prison pretty boys. In fact you might even be voted most popular new inmate you are one sick human!
FLAMENONS! FLAMENONS! FLAMENONS! YESSS! This whole article was worth reading just for FLAMENONS! hahaahahahaha
What is wrong with some of you?
If I had to make the choice it would be a bottle of Laphroaig 10 year.
I'm sure glad I'm free and can do my wife anytime, and not worry about being raped by one of those prison love staved losers. Freedom is a privilege us law abiding citizens enjoy!
Hey, MONITORS - you need to get busy deleting the comments of the sick and twisted!!!
Tub of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream for me.
These guys who order huge , greasy meals before execution (like Skinner, who got a reprieve and had to live with the clogged arteries and indigestion) make it awfully hard for the poor employees who have to clean up after the execution. You body releases (or expels, depending on the method used) intestinal and bladder contents at death.
I would like a salad from Gyro in Tarrytown with 2 pita breads.
Either way I guess I'd have to go with the never ending pasta bowl from Olive Garden. I'd say thats a smart decision.
I'm pretty sure the death part would ruin your appetite regardless of the food on your plate. If anything, I'd ask for a few shots of alcohol. You guys make a death sentence seem like it's Disney World.
Penelope Cruz, hold the whipped cream
One of everything from the Sunday brunch at The Breakers Hotel here in Palm Beach Florida. At least I'll think, if only for the duration of the meal, that I've died and gone to heaven.
If they give me a problem with that I'll settle for 6 cans of Hormel chili with beans and a tall glass of olive oil filled with jalapenos followed by 3 large beef and bean burritos from Taco Bell with the hottest sauce that they have. Desert? I'm thinkin' about 3 or 4 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce, pepper and salt followed by a large order of Sashimi with mostly sea urchin and roe with maybe an eel role on the side. My last words would be "Hope you have a mop and a can of Fabreeze handy, 'cause as soon as they say, May god have mercy on your soul" I'm gonna start pushin' "
I think I'd have to go with Brinner: Two banana and walnut pancakes with butter and maple syrup, two eggs over easy, sausage patties and fatty bacon, hash browns with peppers and onions, and sourdough toast with butter and strawberry jam. A tall glass of 1% milk to wash it down. And then just because, a one liter bottle of Coke Zero.
Onion soup, Salad w/ranch. blooming onion from outback steak house, along with there massive prime rib with extra outback seasoning, a full rack of ribs from backyard BBQ, 2 lobstertails and about 10 pounds of crab legs. for desert real vanilla iced cream on top of chocolate cake. i could and possibly have eaten it all before.
Wow it would be really hard for me to decide what I wanted.
I love a lot of different but normal foods.Steak{flamenons), southern fried chicken, pizza, burritos, meatloaf, hamburgers, fried catfish with hush puppies and cold slaw, the list goes on.
I love all kinds of vegetables. (no beets, boiled okra or rutabagas please).
Dessert would be easy. Homemade Lemon Meriguane Pie. Or Key Lime Pie.
Good cold southern sweet tea.
I wonder if I could get 7 last meals. You know like a week. I could make up a good list then.
Well I'm not of death row so I have made myself hungry. I think I will make some of those meals each night for the next week.
Later
Why are we wasting tax dollars on this last meal? These people are on death row and the only thing that they should have to look forward to is death.
Compassion, kindness, peace and love.... thy name sure as hell ain't 'Ashley'
Your right, most people on death row deserve way more than what they are getting, especially the ones who murder innocent people and do horrible things to others. You are right I am very unkind.
The article was about what your last meal would be...stay on topic folks:
My last meal:
Caprese salad with fresh basil paired with a Talbott Cuvee Chard, next fresh pink tuna sushi with soy, ginger, and a little washtishire paired with some DeTierra 2002 Syrah. A soup should follow…a good lobster bisque with healthy chunks of lobster, crab and shrimp paired with Heller Estate’s Merlot. The next course should be seared Bison Filet with roasted Gilroy Garlic cloves, brown figs and potatoes of course paired with a bottle of Gary’s Pinot (pick one they are all very good), oh and a side of grilled fresh asparagus with hand churned honey butter! For desert…a slice of European strawberry chocolate Grenache cake (3 layers of cake, 2 layers of filling (strawberry butter cream with fresh strawberries no canned mess and a layer of dark chocolate Godiva Grenache) all topped with a European fondant) paired with a simple glass of 30 yr aged Port. Yep that should do it!
what no grey popon, shame on you!
I forgot about wine...I think to start I would like an nice ice wine to be followed by a nice sweet maderia and to finish a really nice, 50 year Portuguese port.
The sweeter the better, I mean dessert is dessert.
Also, I caught the misspelling. I just knew there would be one in there, it is DESSERT not DESERT.
Nice catch...it is indeed dessert!
washtishire – I love it ! ( You do mean Worcestershire don't you? ) But wastishire is now my next favourite to flamenon. In fact you could have some wastishire ON your flamenon
Crabcakes from G&M & Faidley's (so I can compare), my husband's pork chops (fried and smothered with onions 'n' gravy), my mother's fried chicken, caesar salad, my sister's lambchops, my step-mother's potato salad and my dad's barbeque and steak!!! Broccoli, peas, kale and Carvel icecream cake for dessert. LOL I'll die of indigestion before they can lethally inject me!!!
If your going to die you might as well die happy a hooker as a side dish would be on my menu if your doomed to hell then what the hell .
I think living with you would be enough to kill me
Did you mean living with me? Don't you like desserts?
Ah yes,Da PooPoo Au Gratin. A fitting last meal.
MMmmmm!
MMmm! Right up there with my other fave: sh*t sandwich and tomato soup.
Last meals are to comfort the living, not the condemned.
Personally, I think that murders should be locked up in an 8'-10' for the rest of their lives. A cage without any human contact. Death is great but they do not suffer. These monsters need to suffer for the rest of their lives. Humans derive comfort from interaction with others, with intellectual stimulation. These animals do not deserve any comfort. No books, no TV, no letters, no exercise and no special diets. Day upon day, upon day, with no end.
Do you think the people they killed had any choice? Let their killers live in a sterile, silent cage for the rest of their natural lives. Death will be their goal, anything to give them an escape from their cages. These people will desire an end to their suffering, they will want death; and it should be denied to them. They will have no choices, just like the people they killed.
To get back to the origional question of last meals, I would want desert. Lots and lots of desert. Cake, pie,cobbler, chocolate, pudding, custard, ice cream. I would want at least twenty thousand calories!
And please forgive my spelling, I don't think I have ever met a work that I could not mangle, even with a dictionary!!
Finally, somebody with a decent post. I agree 100%. Life in prison without having a life would truly be worse than death itself.
Hmm. I think I would choose, Paneer Butter Masala, a dragon roll, a caterpillar roll, moussaka, hummus & tzatziki with pita, super rare porterhouse with béarnaise sauce, a large artichoke with melted butter, fried calamari, apple pie and a pint of new york super fudge chunk.
I would have the biggest ribeye they could find cooked medium with a side sweet baked potato with butter and cinnamon sugar along with a lobster tail, heck make that two lobster tails with some sauteed scallops. After that, I would end with a slice, no ....two slices of Death by Chocolate cake. I mean its only fitting, right? :)
I'd like lobster with butter and shrimp scampi over linguini. I'm allergic to crustaceans, but if I'm going to die anyway, I'd like to taste these two foods one last time.
I haven't laughed this hard in a while! Thanks every1
Does Claudia Schiffer count as a last meal?
How about some Hemlock tea? If you don't expect a pardon.
OH adn one can of Kroger Homestyle cream corn.
It's almost like the food guys are asking them "If I get you what you want to eat, is it okay to go ahead and execute you?".
Yes, just like the inmates asked their victims, "Hey, if I fill your last moments with pain and terror, can I go ahead and murder you?"
I would require 1 can of spam, 1 can of potted meat, a boiled egg – mayonnaise and raddish salad, some spicy pork rinds, fried crappy filets, 1 can of underwood chicken spread, iceberg lettuce, 1 jar of blueplate mayo, 4 fried pig ears, some boiled tripe, 3 slices of fried buffalo heart, 4 scramble pigeon eggs w/kroger cheese slices, 1 pack of apple cinnamon quaker instant grits, 1 jar of jalapenos, 4 fried cow hooves, 1 serving of liver and onions and some 1 32 oz container of Kroger orange juice.
Redneck much?
Brains. Need Braaaaaaiins.
After that, any public defender oughta getcha another 5 years easy while they debate yer psych tests.
Unless, of course, you're already at room temperature in which case they oughta be debating the proposed method of execution.
I would want chicken fingers with ranch dressing, spicy curly fries with lots of ketchup, a big glass of iced Pepsi and chocolate cheese cake
I would like crab legs with lots of butter to dip them in.. a filet minion cooked medium.. along with half a dozen baked baked oysters.. that would do me.
Oh no! Now we have filet "Minions!" I'll have an army of extra rare "Filet Minions! Why didn't I think of that. I'll take over the world and eat well at the same time!
ok.. is that all you have to do is spell check people and call their bluffs?
I'll have Dreamland BBQ Ribs from Tuscaloosa AL, with some corn on the cob and BBQ baked beans. That's it.
Death row criminals deserve nothing more than a cold plate of reality and a warm cup of STFU before they die. this "last meal" bs is the epitome of what is wrong with the US.
bistecca di fiorentina medium rare with a light cream sauce, quattro formaggi gnoochi in a red sauce, tomato soup, insalate di caprese, a baconater, some seafood gumbo, jumbo shrimp cocktail, crab legs, snickers ice cream bar, profiterole dessert, and nice slice of good ol' poontang pie
Missie, I am with you. Communion.
Rudy'sin Boerne Texas. Nice!
I cannot stop laughing at FLAMENONS...hahahaha... I have tears in my eyes...
It's my last meal and I'm going to die. I want communion. I don't believe I'd have the appetite for anything else.
The death penalty is stupid and serves no purpose. But, I have to tell you, the responses to the article has been great comic relief for the most part. We seem to be on a comedic roll today. Some of you folks are hilarious!
I'd have to go with fugu. And if the chef prepares it incorrectly and it kills you, have the next of kin file a wrongful death suit!
PS I would not take a dump for days beforehand too.
They do diaper you for electrocution. No mess left behind on the chair. :-P
I would want a gallon of chilli. If they are going to zap me I'm gonna leave a big mess for someone to have to clean up.
No wonder your wife left you, you're a pig.
And I mean you're a pig in the sense that you're a disgusting person, pigs are beautiful, sentient beings.
The Eucharist.
I'd start with Tom Ka Kai soup from Pin Kaow in Las Vegas followed with lamb chops with mint sauce and asparagus with butter and Ohio corn, the way it tastes in the fall. Juicy and delicious. Or hand made ravioli stuffed with chorizo in a white vodka sauce. I'm not a dessert person, bring on the savory!
Lamb is full of mercury and should never be eaten.
What's the diffrence if he/she is going to die anyway?
So is Corn
I now the bastards deserve what they get, and I'm all for the death penalty being used more often and with less delay, but there's something just unsettling about reading a man's final dinner menu and knowing it's the last he'll ever get.
Agreed, all of these people wanting to eat dead cow, that's just so totally wrong.
If eating tasty, delicious steaks is wrong, I don't want to be right.
You're right, no more dead cows. Now can I get my rare veal chops?
it's amazing how grossly uninformed most of you are here regarding life imprisonment vs. death penalty. The death penalty is costly in terms of appeals, lawyers, cost of incarceration. However if one receives a life sentence (with or without the possibility of parole) they are made to work for a few cents/hour. Prisons are mostly privatized and are a very profitable industry. The prisoners work in prison industries making things such as school furniture (i.e. desks) that your kids sit at each day in class. So before you go spouting all high and mighty about how we should kill anyone that commits even the most minor crime due to it costing your hard earned tax dollars why don't you actually stop watching idol or dancing with the stars for a minute and actually read a book or even tune into PBS and you may actually learn something like things are rarely how you think that they are in America. Putting these people in jail (excluding death row inmates) actually is making some people wealthy and some of these corporations are actually traded on public exchanges. What saddens me even more is how some of you fancy yourselves Christians yet you would seem to sit in judgment of those that commit crimes and the harshness with which you want these people to be brutally killed is sad. Your thirst for blood is deeply troubling. It is no simple coincidence that our society is rife with violence...
I agree, eating meat turns people into murderers.
The things that get the death penalty are not "humans". They gave up their humanity when they killed and raped their way to death row. They are no better than rabid animals, and putting them down makes the world a better place for good people. This is not about judgment, God will judge them... the death penalty simply arranges the meeting.
Oh, and I'd have my mom's ribeye, sister's green bean casserole, sweet potato with brown sugar, a bowl of Ivar's clam chowder, some homemade cranberry-apple pie, and one of every kind of Dogfish Head beer.
The death penalty has it's pros and cons. It has been found to not be a significant deterrent for crimes, and it is "final justice." It does not allow for appeals. But, it does take those that are a true threat to society and eliminate the threat. There are those that should not have the possibility of escape and endangering the general population once again. There are also those that have no possibility of every being rehabilitated. I am for the death penalty and think that the argument should not be whether the death penalty is doing it's job or it's morality, but to make sure that it is only used in cases where there is no doubt that the person is guilty and that it is administered fairly.
You people could learn a lot from PETA. http://www.peta.org
PETA is a fringe group in Norfolk Virginia. Other than that, I don't care.
PETA is the only organization in America that tells the truth, meat is murder, eating a steak puts you on a level with these people on death row.
I like my rabbit wrapped in bear bacon with a side of flamingo. MMM-mmm! Char-broiled, of course, to a medium well consistency.
I'm a member of PETA.... People Eating Tasty Animals
I would like to start a petition to force all inmates to eat vegan diets, animals should not die for anyone, especially murderers, of course, anyone who etas meat is really a murderer.
Anyone seen my chainsaw?
Cutting down trees is almost as bad as killing animals for selfish reasons like to eat them.
Uggggg! The jails will be pretty full then. I am all for animals and protecting them, but if we were meant to be herbivores we would not have the teeth that we have. If you want to not eat meat, that is great, but please don't push your views on others! Thanks :)
That's not true Kristi, our teeth would be sharper if we were meant to eat meat, evolution has made or teeth less sharp because it's trying to tell us a vegan diet is healthier, it's really pretty obvious.
Don't even think about trying to hug me or I will Bark at you and drop nuts on your head!
I believe you would have to have nuts to drop them on my head.
I'm all for that. More meat for me!
Where's the beef?
I'd have a slice of cheese pizza, or I'd pass it up. Funnything about anyone's last meal is that everyone gets to see it when you die.
I would start with 2 cannolli from Maria's in Boston (hey...I have a few hours left, I am having dessert first lol), Sweet tea from Florida, pommes frites from Germany, crapes with nutella, bananas, and strawberries, french onion soup from Victoria Station in Salem, MA. Then...fettuccine alfredo with prosciutto and chicken, Canadian Bacon and pineapple pizza from the Wells (Maine) House of Pizza, Brisket from Texas, and a ribeye steak (med-rare)...I think that is it...
My grandmother's enchiladas, mole`, rice, beans, tortillas, my aunts two second sugar cookies and peanut brittle, iced tea and Dublin Dr Pepper.
Interesting....But, what is Dublin Dr. Pepper and can you substitute diet Dr. Pepper?
Dr Pepper from Dublin,Texas where they still use Pure Cane Sugar-NOT Fructose to manufacture Dr Pepper. You CAN taste the difference!
This is one of the most moronic pieces of journalism that I have seen. Shocking it came from CNN! (sarcasm intended)
I can't believe you all would use your last meals to kill innocent animals, this is precisely what is wrong with the world, MEAT IS MURDER!!!! Convicted murderers, all inmates AND the resto of the world should be forced to go vegan.
Yes! Free the poor animals for a more humane death at the jaws of wolves and bears.
Nature should be allowed to run it's course and we should not interfere, humans were meant to be Vegans, just ask PETA.
@Treehugger *snerk* I love your comment. :)
You know I'm right, laugh all you want, why would anyone want to eat one of mother earths beautiful creatures when you can gain all the sustenance you need from tofu and vegetables?
I read an article once that proved plants can sense pain too. Guess you'll starve. Isn't a plant one of mother earth's creatures? It's alive. Eating anything that doesn't actually fall from a tree is murder.
Nic, it's o.k. to eat anything without a face, trees don't reall feel pain and they're not cute so you can totally eat them!
Thats hard core i rather not go to jail.
pheasant and quail jambalaya would do it for me.
Beans, onion rings and beer. If they're going to put a needle into me, I'm going to fart until I die, and I will NOT say "Excuse me."
I couldn't eat.
Salad: Romaine hearts, goat cheese, turkey bacon very crispy, red and green peppers, cucumbers and a balsamic vinagrette dressing
Daddy's meatloaf
Mom's garlic mashed potatos, lumpy, with skins
My sister's garlic string beans (who cares how my breath is going to smell, right?)
Corn
Grands Dinner Rolls
Dr. Pepper, unless I can have alcohol then it's my best friends specialty "girlie drink"
Applebee's Triple Chocolate Meltdown with extra white chocolate
How about serving the guy that wrote this story his last meal. How lame..
I think my last meal would consist of: one stuffed cheeseburger, one large order of home fries, one large order of fried mushrooms, a large piece of lasagna, spaghetti (leave the pot please), half a dozen yeast rolls, and a half gallon of sweet tea.
If any of these people were murderers, did they offer their victims the meal of their choice in their final moments?
Steak, lobster tail and chicken parm
A few years back, there was one of these last-meal stories where the condemned man ordered a steak, baked potato, apple pie and a Diet Coke. We were all puzzled by the Diet Coke. I mean, why worry about your weight at a time like this?
A BIG BOWL OF HOT POOP!
For the folks who are so outraged about the topic – get over yourselves. And for the record, yes, I had a very dear friend who was murdered many years ago. You mourn, you heal, you move on. I suggest you self-righteous goons do the same.
How about a glass of warm milk and cookies to help them sleep.
A steak fajita burrito from chipotle with guac, sour cream, medium salsa, lettuce, cheese, diced tomato. Also a chicken pot pie with a Hoegaarden white ale to wash it down.
I'd have to go with 2 lobster tails with butter, a filet mignon medium rare topped with grilled mushrooms, 5 blue crabs with vinegar and old bay, asparagus, and some garlic rolls with butter. Doubt you can do booze, but i'd throw a couple tallboy Paulaner's in there.
What a bad taste in choosing the subject to write about.
Cost-cutting? I suggest you look to your local government for much more effective solutions than eliminating what is, essentially, a non-cost (compared to so many other pork bills) than some mentally ill person who might or might not have accepted all responsibility for the pain and death caused by his/her own actions. This is a very, very tiny pebble in a sea of inequities.
Liver and mushrooms. I hate them so much I'd die before I ate them.
That's perhaps the way to avoid the death penalty! ;)
I hate to be a downer but with all the financial problems in our country, this is one area we can cut. What is the cost of this? Personnally, I don't think they should get a meal at all on their last day. Why should they? They won't even digest it. I think this should be a cost-cutting measure. No more special meals for our "special guests"!
I would die for a McDonalds #6 hold the onions. Oh and Coke Cola.
oh btw, all these meals were pay with my hard working tax money!!!
So were all of the meals prior to this. So glad you finally figured out that you were paying for this, dork!
Cost-cutting? I suggest you look to your local government for much more effective solutions than eliminating what is, essentially, a non-cost (compared to so many other pork bills) than some mentally ill person who might or might not have accepted all responsibility for the pain and death caused by his/her own actions. This is a very, very tiny pebble in a sea of inequities.
Oh yeah, forgot.....if I'm allowed food from anywhere, let's add these culinary delights, that I used to eat when I lived on Guam:
Beef Kelaguen
Red Rice
Grilled white fish with finadene sauce
Pancit
Pork Adobo
Lumpia
Ah, heaven!!! :)
I personally object to the tone of the article. It just doesn't feel right to produce humorous banter about people's last meals whose lives are about to end and who have in most cases ended the lives of others. Is life not precious to this writer? He writes as if he were referring to the last meal that a student eats before going to college or something trivial like that.
The problem with the last meal is, many states have (since the downturn of the economy) started limiting the dollar amount of the last meal (can't cost more than a prison meal would cost), or limiting it to items locally available (no gelatto from Rome....sorry!).
Personally, I'd like mine to be meat loaf the way Mom made it (with a nice red piquant sauce on top, NO GRAVY!!), mashed potatoes with butter (who's worried about cholesterol now, right?), asparagus spears (also drowned in butter), some "death by chocolate" cake (we can't cheat the executioner, but we can try!), all washed down with some nice cold milk (since they likely won't give me a beer). If you allow me to get food from anywhere, let's add some grilled Zweigle's White Pork Hots (from upstate NY....if you haven't had one, you have NO IDEA what you're missing!!), some onion rings, and an fresh apple pie with whipped cream.
One question, though.....if you eat your last meal, and then get a last minute stay of execution, does it count as your last meal?? Or do you get another one, if they decide they're going to execute you anyways???
When you really think about it, the next meal is never promised to anyone soooooo, what ever you ate last could be your last meal, even if it was that tic tac you just put in your mouth before the heart attack!
i just read an article about the shortage of one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.. and the possibility that the shortage will put a hold on some of the sentences to be carried out in some states. the manufacturer of the drug, Hospira, is against it's product being used for capital punishment.. kinda makes you wonder if the shortage is intention since sodium thiopental is rarley used in a hospital setting anymore anyways. Google it.
I would choose my vegan baked macaroni and cheese (for which I am famous), a turkey burger with only pickles and chipotle mayo with oven-fried seasoned sweet potato fries, a bowl of pho (with shrimp and pork salad rolls on the side), Pad Kee Mao, Thai papaya salad, Filipino-style lechon (roasted pork), pork and shrimp shumai, sushi (Spider Roll, Dynamite Roll), Spam Musubi, deep fried seasoned chicken gizzards and kim chi from a jar. Hefeweizen and Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper would be my beverages.
To Philip Chen and others. Chill, my friends. The question was put to us in a very innert manner and said nothing of being exicuted. Each and every one of us will eat a last meal. The question is "if you had your choice what would yours be?".
Simple - Key Lime Pie from the Palm in San Antonio, Texas!!!!!!!! Then, New York strip with garlic mashed potato's, and garlic sauteed spinach.
WTF?
My answer would take more effort than I'm awake enough to muster up this early but I'm sure it'd be food so unhealthful it could well be the cause of it's being my last meal.
Not to be a spoilsport, but this article and comments trivializes capital punishment as it attempts to make it into a spectator sport. I'm sorry, but I think that this article is an insult to both the condemned and even more so to his/her victims. As a point of clarification, I do not believe that our country should put itself in the company of third word nations in executing its citizens, especially since so many errors have been uncovered in recent years on the administering of this punishment.
Not to be a spoilsport, but this article and comments trivializes capital punishment as it attempts to make it into a spectator sport. I'm sorry, but I think that this article is am insult to both the condemned and even more so to his/her victims. As a point of clarification, I do not believe that our country should put itself in the company of third word nations in executing its citizens, especially since so many errors have been uncovered in recent years on the administering of this punishment.
Philip Chen wrote: Not to be a spoilsport....FAIL
boudin n saltines, a bowl a real seafood gumbo, potato salad and some tarte a la bouille. mmm...nah ya talkin padnah.
A very rare ribeye laced with herion and some single malt
How about offering them a roasted whole pig, you know, the kind with an apple shoved in it's mouth because the head is still attached? Then they can compare and contrast their own lives and fates to those of the pigs while they eat.
Lots of liquor. Why does it seem nationally prohibited as a last meal? It'd put the condemned at ease. In fact, perhaps that'd be even more humane than the whole drug cocktail bull advocates try to feed you, despite the fact that no actual medical study ever was carried out to show it really humane. The whole drug cocktail is based on the theory that they know the effect of each of the drugs separately, and just assumed, without everconfirming, that they work the same together and won't conflict. And yet that is one of the reasons cited that they don't allow alcohol in your blood, so it wouldn't conflict with the drugs. Rather hypocritical.
If anything, the condemned should be allowed to choose to die by alcohol poisoning. It is no less humane than what we have now. (not that humane capital punishment isn't an oxymoron to begin with)
Why are taxpayers on the hook for these lavish meals for convicted criminals? They have 4 hours to live. Just give them a Clif Bar or something to tide them over. It's not like they need the nutrition, or deserve a fancy meal.
It's a multi culture tradition found on every continent. It's a number of things, one its the jailors letting the guy they are about to kill thats its nothing personal, they are just doing their job, that if the guy is innocent they arent the ones to come haunt. Among other reasons. Today its just the curtious thing to do to a fellow your about to snuff off, i guess its a way to help the killers (of the killer) seperate themselves from the criminal.
By that same argument why not have them starve for the entire week before an execution? It's wasted food anyway. And the cost of each of these meals, even the huge one described in this article is less than what a lawyer charges per hour defending or prosecuting the criminal. It is a very small expense in comparison. In fact, it is because of the mandatory appeals and lawyer fees that death sentences are considerably more expensive than life-imprisonment sentences. And watch out in case the police did in fact catch the wrong criminal, as is being found for an alarming number of death row cases. It'll cost even more. The only thing certain about death penalty cases, just or wrongful convictions, is that lawyers on both sides get rich. Often from your tax dollars. That won't change either. The lawfirm lobbyists are pretty powerful with Congress to make sure that the mandatory appeals process stays in place.
my last meal would be baked chicken and roasted potatoes
I think it's great that they allow inmates the right to a last meal.......im sure at least 1 of the thousands have been innonoc
Oh and a package of Nutter Butters, Oreo Cookies and a jar of peanut butter and a jug of milk
Who HASN'T thought about this? I just finished reading The Chamber by John Grisham and the guy in the book had a bowl of Eskimo Pies
I'd have: A large Dominos pizza with ham, pineapple and sausage. Garlic breadsticks.
Dreyer's birthday cake flavored ice cream (the whole tub)
Diet Coke awww ok go with real Coke
OR
An ENTIRE bucket of Fried chicken, tons of French Fries, Coleslaw and Heinz Ketchup on the side....
Red velvet cake with vanilla bean ice cream
Sick thoughts ain't they?!
How about a couple of freshly groomed super attractive blond's with killer bodies, followed by a nest of delicious brunettes with blue eyes that wear a size 0 dress, and for desert... I'd like some yummy redheads and whipped cream... perhaps some strawberries and hot fudge!
Charlie.... I hope they make a mistake.... and give you a double portion of tubesteak.
Yes, some home made pork tamales and jalapeno with cheese stuffed tamales, guacamole, fajitas, enchiladas, menudo, pozole, frijoles refritos, fresh home made tortillas (I'll make them), chile rellenos, camarones rancheros, beef & vegetable cocido, carnitas and albondigas. Don't forget some mangos and papayas. Hot coffee canela (cinnamon) flavored and capirotada (Mexican bread pudding) and flan for desert. As these dishes are usually (sometimes) eaten during the holidays, we would have to wait for a holiday. Might throw the execution day off a little bit, but whats the difference, the execution days are always being changed now anyway, so just wait for a holiday and don't worry about it. I don't think I'm asking for much.
Frank, are you Italian?
moules frites, portuguese style. seafood casserole with lobster tail, shrimp, scallops, crab and lots of butter and breadcrumbs. little necks fra diavolo. fried whole-belly clams. snail salad. lobster ravioli. one stuffed quahog. one veal and beef meatball with fresh marinara and of course, one petit med-rare flmenon
What a despicable piece. Why not survey hospices, too? The planned death of others, whatever we think of the justice involved, becomes another lazy gimmick for slobbering food fantasies? Get some values.
I am grateful someone has the sense to call this article what it was – a poor use of words for an even poorer choice of subjects. Where is the common decency here? Every one of these death row prisoners is a heart breaking tragedy to their families, their victims and themselves. The decision by our society and government to end a person's life – and we make it an occasion to take about favorite foods?
Values? I think if any of these death row inmates had "values" they wouldn't be in the situation they are now. We live in America, what kind of "values" do you speak of anyway?? Take that pickle out of your @$$.
Oh, and a HUGE bowl of hot fudge and STRAWBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES topped w/ walnuts and whip cream, the REAL stuff, not the junk in a can ... there, now I will die happy!
Some of these posts are HILARIOUS. As for 'flamenon' dude, hey, at least he SOUNDED it out, give him/her a break, he/she TRIED, good way to learn buckos! Anyway - on to the question. I guess for my last meal I would definitely want a bowl of Benihana's Hibachi chicken for sure, and a Double Double from In-N-Out w/ grilled onions (what the heck, right?), and definitely a huge broiled lobster tail w/ drawn butter, baked potato w/ lots of REAL butter, yummo!! And I must have a well done hunk of Ribeye steak for sure w/ A-1. And if I can squeeze it in, a slice of Pepperoni Pizza from Round Table. Dessert? Hell yeah... a scoop of vanilla ice cream w/ some Kahlua drizzled on top AND finally a slice of Junior's cheesecake from Brooklyn, New York... yeah, that's it. Then I can say 'I died happy'. :)
Oops... I meant to say Benihana's Hibachi chicken RICE, love that stuff!!!
flamenon is a pokemon
Let them all eat shit!!!!
if you're having your last meal before being executed you'd best skip the meal and pray that God will forgive you – like the wise thief crucified with Christ – he said "Lord, remember me when you come in your kingdom." and Jesus responded "This day you will be with me in Paradise." Do you think that thief would have been concerned about ordering a milkshake or fries? I doubt it seriously
This is by far the most intelligent and most important message posted, finally, THANK YOU.
While I agree with you in principle, I really don't think the Bible story is applicable to this modern article. In the US you get a last meal AND the four hours of family visit and spiritual guidance before you get executed. (not to mention you have years to pray to God before all your mandatory court appeals are exhausted) In the Bible days when a thief is caught he is immediately convicted on the spot, and his sentence (whether light or capital) is carried out without delay. Even Jesus himself, who, being not found of any normally punishable crime by Roman law, got through his appeal process (if you can call it that) in less than a day. It was a bit faster in those times.
So yes, I agree with praying to God. But I don't think the processes are even remotely comparable.
This. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/low-country-boil-recipe/index.html
A nice Moist Pink Taco!!!!
I would definitely have to get some homemade peach cobbler, a medium prime rib dry rub steak from Perini Ranch Steakhouse, Brussels sprouts with butter,pepper, and salt, palmitos, crawfish ettoufee, boudin, alligator tail, gumbo, bread pudding, and some creme brulee to top it all off.
I will take that thing we used to eat back in the day it starts with a P and ends with a Y ooo ya and if this jogs your memory, it kinda looks like a taco, thanks for taking my order and make sure it does not smell like fish please!!!!
Muff burger
That's what I was thinking!
Little Caesars crazy bread and sauce, Pizza Hut pizza, vanilla coke, cherry pepsi, a caesar salad from Artist cafe, bruschetta (my own), pasta carbonara, cabbage rolls,pierogies, starbursts Favreds, strawberry shortcake ice cream...This is just the tip of the iceberg lol
Rex Ryan got the death penalty? Oh yeah, he coaches the Jets.
just go to KFC for that request, no need to kill someone for that
I think your right shawn, I would want a Spiritual adviser i dont smoke so cigarettes would be out, a large cup of Starbucks coffee would be good for me and a about 100 milligrams of Xanax would be good too
My luck, I'd find a short curly hair in my last meal.
hum,I dont think I would have much of an appetite to be honest . I would ask for a cigarette ,good fresh perked coffee,cream sugar and spoon to stir probably and either a priest or some clergy to talk to for the last 12 hours of my life and maybe a hug a box of kleenex BUT not food.
I'm thinking peanutman should contain his sex life to his species only, the human race isn't ready for him or his diet yet!
I'd order a pepsi and menthos to get it over with already.
oops one more request i want to have sex with the Warden's wife
oh i forgot one last thing, i would wan to have sex with a female guard
Not on the menu
Had to laugh about the earlier posts that criticized someones spelling of 'fillet mignon. Yeah, everybody here is a rocket scientist. I think the collective IQ here adds up to my shoe size, and I've got big feet, so maybe that's a good thing.
I would have 3 lobsters 2 pounds of crab, steak, 4 boiled eggs, 2pound of mexican beans, 3 beef tacos, chocolate Pie, a bowl of Coco Krispies, half a pound of Mash Potatoes A bowl of captain Crunch, Ben and Jerrys Peanut better ice Cream, a bottle of red wine. and a gallon of water
Let us hope that Van Der Sloat dies in prison from a torn rectum, and not from lethal injection !
Joran Van Der Sloat's liver with fava beans.
Here's a link to a cool blarticle on SeriousEats.com title 'What's your Death Row Meal' from a couple weeks ago....
http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2010/09/whats-your-death-row-meal.html
it is sad to say. in all of humanidy killing a presumed guilty person has always bin there. proof is the winner. some are innisent most are guilty.and all who have smarts CAN NOT SPELL we read bad words.
my last meal would be..........kfc. brest & wings.. walmart hojos, a pecan pie, rich french vanilla coffie. no need to worrie about the suger........lol.........
Anything from an all-you-can-eat buffet. I figure if it's all I can eat, and I never stop eating, they can't get me. ; )
hey zounds you would love brussel sprouts by the sounds of it , a room clearer for sure
Aw ha ha har har ha ...pooooooofff.Fooooomp!..whups.
These lame murderous bastages should give the warden their fantasy food requests....and then servered dog crap.
*served
Good one, Bob. I like the word "Bastages." Kind of like a description of a hostage who's a bastard.
I'd eat a pile of beans-full on, and try to gas people back on my way out.
Your mom. Definitely your mom.
how about a chicken vegetarian pizza, chickens are vegetarians aren't they ?
I'd have the roast duck with the mango salsa.
an interesting topic–in a taboo way. i would want the most expensive meal possible–if i was a hardcore mastermind murderer–lobster or whatnot. but, most expensive doesn't mean tastiest. How about a Chick-fil-a classic chicken sandwich, a johnsonville brat with sauerkraut, some chili-cheese fires, and a root beer float. maybe a piece of cheese pizza or some sunny side up eggs with biscuits and sausage gravy and hash browns. oh yeah, and a slice of key-lime pie. not sure i could eat all of that, but, oh well. man, i'm hungry now...
LoL @ dumb hicks who can't spell
This article is disgusting? I think it's far more disgusting that people are being executed by the state in the first place. An eye for an eye will make us all blind. For people complaining about tax payers paying for inmates, do you think you'll refuse to eat if you ever end up in jail?
As for a last meal, I don't usually eat meat but I might go for some caviar with cream cheese on water crackers as an appetizer. Farro with wild mushrooms for the entree, with a side of glazed carrots. Caramel cheesecake for dessert, with a scoop of pistachio gellato on the side.
This is hypothetical cause I am NOT ever going to be in prison I've got more class than that & I'm NOT a criminal. I want a large black sweet Ice tea from Starbucks, lobster, crab & shrimp with a baked potato with LOTS of butter & bacon bits, Rice & for desert I want a plain piece of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory & some chocolate milk from Bordens I hate shwepps, Thank goodness this is only hypothetical but THANK GOODNESS I'M NOT in prison & I HAVE THE FREEDOM TO HAVE WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT TO. Good night prisoners I'm going to bed myself but in the morning I'm going to get up & enjoy my family & friends & again be grateful I DON'T have to share a jail cell with you scum bags. lol
Well...first I would love to taste these Flamenons i keep hearing about, they sound delicious smothered in A1 STAKE sauce.hahahaha and then I would have to get me a 4X4 Animal Style with Animal Style fries from IN N OUT and a Jamoca shake from Arby's with a beef and cheedar dripping horseradish. I would then like for desert, a cookiedough Chimichanga from Tijuana Flats in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. For a beverage, well just a bottle of Jack Daniels...yummm.
This story makes me want to skip eating for a day or two.
Wouldn't it suck if the poor bas@@rd found a short and curly hair in it?
Just think what the cooks and waiters do to that food order prior to serving it !
Simple, 24oz T-bone medium rare with 2 baked potato's smothered in southern style gravy and bacon bits, Triple Bacon Cheesburger w/chili cheese frys, German Chocolate Cake topped with Ben & Jerry's "Fish Food or Chunky Monkey", 1 slice of apple pie, 1 slice of key lime pie, 1 2 liter of Mtn Dew Code Red to wash it all down with, and a Chocolate Double Mocha cappuccino for a nice warm ending.
How about a bowl of STFU?
ROTF! I'm getting tired of all these people who are just creating menus just to impress us with their culinary prowess. Now how 'bout that bowl of STFU!?! LOL!
My thoughts exactly. My list at the bottom, though big, is simple and diverse.
A wood grilled margarita pizza from Al Forno in Providence Rhode Island, some naan bread and rogan josh from Cormnadel in Stamford Ct, a # 8 sandwich from Post Office Bagel on Block Island, RI (turkey, bacon, avocado, vt. cheddar, lettuce, tomato mustard and mayo on freshly baked sour dough bread), my mother's meatballs and rigatoni with homemade ricotta, a watercress salad with white peaches and gorgonzola cheese from Frankies 457 in Cobble Hill Brooklyn, and finally banana bread pudding with caramel sauce from Sweet Mellisa's Patisserie in Park Slope Brooklyn. To finish it off a cold Magic Hat # 9 followed by a snifter of Glenmorangie's 12 year old Madeira wood finish scotch in a snifter, neat.
16oz or larger filet mignon
large order of seasoned curly fries
1 pound of shelled, boiled peanuts
small order of mozzarella sticks
a large calzone
ben and jerrys chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, pint
1 litre Mountain Dew
large order of whipped mashed potatoes.
6 pack of Magic Hat 9 (do they let them have alcohol? If it were up to me I think I would...somebody is about to die, after all)
and if I were in California, 1/2 ounce of marijuana
A foot long with a saw and a file inside.
I just bought some FLAMENONS at the fresh market. I bet they're gonna be delicious.
I want whatever Caligula had for his last meal.
Oh my....flamenon. Maybe some "VINEGARETTE" salad dressing on the side too ? LMAO
hOW ABOUT SOME CROAKETS, WHOREDERVES AND PLATE OF CANOPIES?
This is a strange conversation. Only one person has mentioned BBQ.
Flamenons – bahahahahaha. Does anyone know if they are available in Australia – or is this a traditional American dish?! This blog has given me a great laugh over lunch today.
And a Vanilla Ice Latte with whip cream from Starbucks.
and strawberry cheesecake for desert.
I would ask for rice and beans with Staek and Maduros.. cooked Dominican style. ahh
My meal: A dozen each Island Creek and Kumamoto oysters, with mignonette and cocktail sauce. Grilled lamb kidney chops with Montreal seasoning. Roasted asparagus. Beet salad with fresh leaf herbs and shaved parmesan, dressed with raw garlic, EVOO, Himalayan pink salt and freshly crushed Tellicherry black pepper. A quart of unpasteurized whole milk. An Iggy's Sourdough boule. Some Vlasic sliced pickled jalapeno. Danish beef shank soup with dumplings. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. An ice cold Miller High Life with a wedge of lime.
My crime: Hmmm, I'm not the murdering or raping type, so what would get me on Death Row? Probably some sort of accidentally negligent situation involving explosives? Or alleged cannibalism post-wilderness plane crash?
I'll have one walnut.
one?
I'd only ask for one item. A large slab of grilled sasquatch, rare, with a little lemon.........what's that? You can't find it? Not to worry. I can wait.
The very thought of eating anything much less a big meal just prior to being killed makes me queasy. I find myself wondering if, at the time of death, with all ones muscles relaxing, if it doesn't all come back up...
(Stop groaning – I'M not the one who started up this morbid subject!)
No... I think I'd just be so annoyed at being executed that I'd just tell everyone to get out and leave me alone.
Maybe it's different if you're THERE and it's actually happening though. God knows, most death row inmates have long enough to get used to the idea I suppose. (I'm with those who think execution should be much swifter than it is in this country, as long as the persons guilt is irrefutable)
Julie,It doesn't come back up but it does come out if you catch my drift.
i believe he's referring to beef steak and that is correct.
i would ask for 3 30 packs of natty light do to its superior taste, and a table with some cups and a ping pong ball...
"Ill just have the lobter from Sonny's over on 13th street, thats what I ate the night of the murder"
"Sonny's on 13th street? Thats on the other side of town"
"And, is that a problem?"
"How could you have killed your wife when you were on the other side of town?"
"Bingo..."
I agree natty light is a good quality beer. I like it extra cold in a glass with ice.
Why the heck would it be a light beer at this time?
I'd offer to give my last meal to a homeless child... maybe, just maybe they'll call it off...
stake is good. Thats all i'd ask for
beans and cornbread! beans and cornbread!
This is one of my favorite questions to ask people. It's amazing the things people want to eat. I myself would want one pound of bacon fried nice and cripsy, one pound of warm, lean corned beef, and a baked salami. I figure this would save the executioner the time because I'd be dead of congestive heart failure from all the sodium before morning.
Assorted olives and cheeses.
Garlic shrimp on angel hair pasta (my recipe).
Roasted asparagus.
A bottle of chilled Gewurztraminer.
A heap of fresh mango.
Mocha pots de creme and tiny shortbread cookies.
A couple of glasses of a fine Port.
Id just eat beans for a month straight, so while Im getting lethally injected, theyre getting the gas chamber.
I would request a quality beer preferably a thirty pack of natty light. ;)
Id just eat a huge can of beans, that way, after my death I can play my own trumpet funeral music..Da da dahhh....Da Da DAAHHH...
I would probably spend months reading over chemistry books to see if I could find some combination of foods that would be lethal, thus denying my murderers the satisfaction of killing me.
Bravo! Good call!
Down a whole bunch of Baking Soda, then drink a bottle of vinegar, and duct tape your mouth and your butt closed.. wait for it....wait for it......Kaboom!
I had to post. "Flamenons?" Or, since this would be prison, did he mean "Flame on?" Stick with the oysters for stamina, lol!
I would order one of those french dishes that takes a month to marinate.
I think they should make the last meal request, but let the executioner eat it in front of the condemmned person, minutes before the switch is pulled.
definitely in bad taste...
Theres actually a reason for the "last meal." It's important that when the state takes a person's life after due process, the condemned should meet their fate calmly. The last meal symbolizes that they accepted their punishment. After a long appeals process and antagonism between the state and the accused, the meal represents some finality and closure. After all, we're a civilized society, we don't take another's life without proper reflection and deliberation.
Cheeseburger, fries, glass of coke (not pepsi), chocolate milk-shake, blueberry pie, vanilla ice cream.
Damn, where can I get some flamenons?
I can't wait till one of these people get's food poisoning due to their last meal. Being in pain till they were finally executed would be well awesome
I'd just take a beer, a garlic cheeseburger and some garlic fries. Make that 10 beers ;)
In the words of good ole' Slingblade..."I'd love me some french fried taters...mmmm."
olive garden endless salad
Crabmeat au gratin, file gumbo & link of boudin followed by a seafood muffaletta. The muffaletta consists of fried shrimp, oysters, and fish stuffed inside a crusty muffaletta loaf that has been dressed with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, and pickle. Cheesecake brownies for dessert. Coca cola.
Mmm. Oyster Po boy,dressed, on Leidenheimer bread from Parasols. Yes,maam.
3 cans of Spam and a fork!!
Mmm. Oyster Po boy,dressed, on Leidenheimer bread from Parasols. Yep.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs. sausage and spam.
What I would want is fresh cooked dungeness crab, San Francisco Sour Dough bread, melted butter, California Chardonnay and New York cheese cake for dessert. What they would provide: imitation krab sticks, wonder bread, margarine, Welch's grape juice and a piece of jello no-bake cheese cake. That's why I'm against the death penalty. It is clearly inhumane.
I would have spanikopita, In-N-Out fries-animal style, a rosted garlic bulb with goats cheese, pesto and bread, and for dessert 12 cupcakes, all different flavors. YUM.
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I now realize that the last meal for the condemned is not for them, it's for us.It's to make society feel a little better about what it is about to do. I'm not making a judgment here about the death penalty itself but there is little question that the generous final meal is for our benefit.
You hit the nail on the head! It is absolutely true. All this 'humane' treatment of convicts has nothing to do with their feelings, and everything to do with our pretensions that somehow any of this is civilized, acceptable, or even necessary. Humane execution is an oxymoron. And it has not been shown to be any deterrent either. It only costs us millions of taxpayer dollars. (because of lawyer fees due to the mandatory appeals process) It is the most expensive form of punishment. It has been shown that putting a man to death costs over three times as much as imprisoning the same person for 50 years.
so the bastrd who kills my wife, three sons, two daughters, while i'm working gets a life sentence behind bars? He gets to LIVE so you can justify costs to the taxpayers? He took all their lives, including my own, there is only one punishment to fit the crime in my book.
I know I couldn't eat all of this, but would definitely want a taste of it all:
– Barbeque (chicken, brisket, sausage, ham, and turkey) with my sauce.
– Pizza Hut Meat Lovers pan pizza.
– Bone-in Ribeye, cooked medium over an open flame. (Although, the flamenon sounds really good).
– Chicken wings, again my sauce.
– A grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich (so bad it's good)!
– Bacon cheeseburger with fries
– Coca-Cola
Guess I'd just ask whatever is served on that day. But I dont think that I'd be eating any.... How about getting our prison system to stop executions and get (all) the inmates (including CeLeBs) to work making things that we import at ever increasing debt – not to mention why should we all pay for their good food and TV and games and what not? After all, one in every 100 Americans are in prison and this will boost our economy significantly. Then I'm sure most will dread the prison more than being placed in the death row which will a real deterrant against comitting crimes. Whoever leave the prison will know some kind of an industry, know the pleasure of being productive, and hense a higher hope and a chance of a true rehabilitation. We have a "Department of Correction" – not a department of "elimination".
Well if it is going to be my last meal anyway; an array of Sushi complete with several orders of Fugu (Puffer Fish) prepared by a newbie chef.
Home made tamales, guacamole, fajitas, enchiladas and queso, bbq from the best BBQ joint in the Houston area, Central Texas style BBQ, and my me-maws tomato gravy and home made biscuits. :)
BIG BOWL OF H4G1S
Well, I would order something that I'm allergic to that would throw me into anaphalactic shock (assuming they don't catch on to this request). I would much rather die from my own hand...call me crazy.
People, there is no period in Dr Pepper. CNN should know better.
I'd fast. No food. Just a little cold water.
Funny – that used to be one of my first date questions – it tells a lot about a person to see what their last meal would be.
I'm picturing the discussion over drinks, then settling down for the meal, followed by you ordering and then interjecting, "...and he'll have (his last meal description)."
I don't knwo if I'd go with Rudy's. Maybe because I have it all the time. If I am going to go with BBQ I would want them to head over to Lockhart and pick up some sausage, brisket, and pork chops. mmmmmmmm now THAT'S BBQ. I'd keep it Texas
I'd order Snow's BBQ from Lexington,Tx. They're only open on Saturdays so they'd have to wait till Monday to drug me.
man i feel bad for the person or people that have to kill this man... so sad.....I cound not sleep at night knowing I have killed somebody, i dont see how a normal human being could do this,and say it's my job ...u are some sick bastards.geesh
They aren't normal. I have a sister who works at Walla Walla Maximum Security in Washington State and they have to screen the sicko guards from working in the death row area. Even in Utah, where they offer death by firing squad, they always have one gun with blanks so that the marksmen can have some comfort that their gun might not have killed the prisoner. Only sickos would enjoy the task. Same with the killing floor at meat plants. Here in Idaho I have friends that work at a local plant and they tell me the mentally unstable work up on the killing floor.
Oh really... And what if you could pull the plug on Manson? He's bled the system dry for how long? I wouldn't blink or lose a second of sleep sending him straight to hell. Heck, I'm surprised all these bleeding hearts don't start with hiring prostitutes for the condemned cause they need love too. Remember people, these guys chose to commit a crime, their victims didn't get any choice. They should be executed with the same dispassion they showed to society.
I'll have to admit that I find it interesting to read about death row inmates' last meals simply due to the ability to glimpse into their sick-beyond-belief thinking. If I had my druthers, I would get them all worked up about their meal choices (mmmmm, steak, lobster, pie...) and then give them NOTHING followed by a slow, painful death drawn out over days. These animals get far better than they deserve on death row, especially considering how heinous their crimes were. Raping, torturing, and mutilating people to death should not equate to cable TV, three squares a day and a big feast before "departing".
Eat? I would be so upset and sick about the fact I would be entering the death chamber there is no way I could eat anything. I don't get how these people can sit and eat a big meal knowing they are going to die. Eating would be the last thing on my mind. I rather have some strong valium to settle my nerves! They can have the food!
Remember these people have YEARS and YEARS and YEARS to get over the fact that they are dying. I've heard it's a relief for some of them simply because the waiting is over
Not that I give a give a rats behind.....these are cold blooded murders we are talking about
How about a nice home cooked meal, fixed by my ex-wife, then they wouldn’t have to execute him.
lol that was funny, well there is a reason why she is an x...lol
Couple dishes. One made by mom, and other one by my wife.
Check out Anthony Bourdain's show he always asks people this question, including other semi-famous chefs. For me ribs from Sticky Fingers in Myrtle Beach, SC would definitely be there, maybe a pulled pork sandwich too. In fact, just roast me a pig and I'm good to go.
This is morbid.
lol @flamenons, sorry I can't picture a person ordering a filet mignon that can't spell it..roflmao....I would order a filet mignon, rare, garlic mashed potatoes, lazy man's lobster (all I can eat), a Dominos pizza loaded, Arizona Blueberry Diet Ice tea, no desert as I am trying to watch my figure and please make sure you swab my arm with an alcohol pad as I do not want to get an infection as you put the iv in my arm...lol (why do they do that, they are going to die)
Why should people on DeathRow be allowed to have a last meal. Why shoiul we care if they eat when what they did was wrong in the first place. Or if they were to request there last meal wish why should they be allowed to eat it. For what ever they did to put themselves in that situation food would be the last on their mind, if you believe in a higher power you should be requesting for the higher power to come for you. Food for thought. People that are starving and not sitting on deathrow should benefit from their last meal. When it is all over who will clean up the mess when the bowels break. Eat in the after life.
a gallon of mineral oil and about 25 tacos
thatl make the executioner pay
blahahahahahaha
hmm it would have to involve lots of cheesy foods and of course chocolate. Perhaps some Ben & Jerry's Phish Food ice cream to wrap it all up.
I would like a one pound burger made out of humming bird tongues. No, its okay, I'll wait.....
Seeing how your waiting around.... you might as well ask for an appetizer of pickled Dodo bird eggs.... and maybe a little snifter of 400 year old Scotch. No rush right?
Easy. A bottle of 20-year Highland single-malt Scotch whiskey.
i would probably want a cake with a nail file in it...wonder if thats on the menu...
Dude, if you eat that much food, you could get a heart attack.
I would have the meal catered by 12 Bones in Asheville,NC
BBR Pork, Corn Pudding (2) servings
Sweet Tea
Amazing!
oh ya...I forgot to put what I want for an appetizer....
I want flamenons and nothing but flamenons. For desert more flamenons. To drink flamenons. For breakfast flamenons flamenons flamenons flamenons flamenons flamenons flamenons
I can't believe you all would use your last meals to kill innocent animals, this is precisely what is wrong with the world, MEAT IS MURDER!!!!
My last meal request wouldn't be for food!!
Larry, thats what I was getting at above LOL.... something that taste like chicken and smells like fish....
Frog Legs?
A Delmonico steak rare, spicy tuna on crispy rice, a lobster tail, chicken McNuggets with hot mustard sauce, a TNT sandwich (chicken parm with mozzarella sticks and onion rings), a Walter's hot dog, chicken maki (pretty much a california roll with chicken instead of rice, fried, and covered in teriyaki sauce), pan pizza from Pizza Hut, NY style pizza, shrimp cocktail, mustard crusted salmon, swordfish with butter and lemon, spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's, fried chicken, Kraft mac and cheese, garlic mashed potatoes, baby back ribs, apple pie, chocolate lava cake, and wash it all down with Dr. Pepper, A&W root beer, and a cherry coke. Feel like I'm leaving something out though...
Buttermilk pie.
I think i would make my last meal, 2 shots of Crown, 2 shots of Capt. Morgan, 2 shots of Patron, 2 shots of Hennesy, 2 shots of Jose Cuervo, 2 shots of Johnnie Walker, 2 shots of Vodka and if there were still room; i would have me a 12 oz bottle of MGD 64.
Way to keep it light! :)
If I were a criminal, I think the real question would be whether you want to take your last chance at a simple pleasure of living or create the worst possible experience for the executioner. Since many criminals are angry people, I'm a bit surprised more don't go for plan B which would be to make themselves a pooping, puking, slobbering mess. Hot, spicy, greasy, screwy mixtures of stuff in large quantities. If I decided to enjoy myself, it would probably be the best delicacies that were available. Definitely some Fava beans and chianti ... seems that's almost necessary.
If you really want to stick it to The Man, order something ridiculously expensive. Try abalone in a champagne saffron sauce with truffles and macadamia nuts. With a lobster/caviar garnish.
I would be ok with a chocolate cake sprinkled with some Xanax!
If I were being executed for a crime that I did not commit, I would want a last meal that would make me exceptionally gassy.
Is it just me, or does that guy look a lot like Rodney Dangerfield?
FORGIVENESS
Screaming and then silence.
Who really cares what the author of this story or anyone else would choose as a last meal. This is a sorry excuse for an article and really depicts how embarrassing our justice system is.
If you don't care, Eric, why did you click on the story? The truth is, you DO care. That's why the reporter wrote the story, and that's why you clicked on it. Stop being holier than thou.
Thanks Dude. That goes for all the others posting here who take umbrage at the IDEA of a last meal. Stick to the topic people and save your indignatious pontifications for articles that actually cover the topic you so badly want to bring into this conversation ABOUT FOOD!.
Do they make the 'dead men walking' wear diapers into the execution chamber? I think if I was to get it with the electric chair I'd eat a ton of cabbage, beans etc, so maybe the methane gas would explode in Old Sparky and I'd go out with a bang and not a whimper. :)
WR2
haha – nice
Thank you. There is a really nice 12 yr old scotch all over my monitor.
THANK YOU for that lovely laugh...so perfectly executed!!
And now there's coffee all over *mine*!
My mom's fried chicken livers, home cooked green beans, crab au gratin, chocolate almond creme brulee from a little place in Louisiana, these really cool brittle like almond cookies we get for christmas, 3 cans of dr. pepper, and a slice of pumpkin turtle cheesecake pie with some boneless barbeque chicken wings and blue cheese dressing on the side.
I'd love to cook, single handedly, any last meal request of a death row inmate, so long as the death is quick and cheap. I miss the firing squads and hangings of past. Criminals do not deserve any more than that. There is no dignity in being a convict. They had their fare share of civil rights in court. After conviction, their rights to all civil liberties should be revoked. They made the choice to commit heinous acts of violence. With that choice should come nothing short of righteous punishment.
I agree with Thomas, this topic is pretty creepy, something 18 year self abusers might discuss with glee. Have at it creeps
3BNE, I'm dying over here at your question to SteakAllTheWay....Were you trying to spell 'filet mignon'? ,,,now that just made my day, I can't stop LOLOLOLOL!...Priceless
what I want to eat is not on the menu LOL
LOL
I hear yu – I don't want to suck on no popsicle!
This is land fill journalism at its most venal, will we next discuss techniques of pedofillia ? Where is your dignity ?
I agree. A very poor choice for discussion.
you, doubting Thomas, were the one to read it and take the time to comment :-) don't be lame
I think that it is funny that people are bashing the journalism of this article and whether or not it is an appropriate discusion.... You all stopped and read it and then took the time to read all the replies and comment. I think good journalism is appealing to readers and obviously this article appealed to a lot of people...even you who think it is offensive!
How about something I'm deathly allergic to, but isn't on my medical records for whatever reason?
That, or something with a bone that could be expediently sharpened against the concrete wall...
I would choose a shepards delight. In case you don't know, thats a glass of goats milk and a piece of ewe:)
as a vegetarian, i think that at least the last meal shouldn't have meat in it because it is the last gesture of compassion someone could have -- not taking the life another creature just for pleasure since the food ain't for his survivial. another creature had to suffer and die to let them have a 5 minute pleasure....
Go preach somewhere else.
I like your idea, though not your thought pattern. Why feed inmates on death row anything at anytime. There future is already decided. Why do we prolong the inevitable for people that have obviously earned no more than a compasionate end to there being. Starvation takes effect in what, 7 days? I think that is long enough.
try a month, and you're getting closer
Actually it can be much longer than a month, depending on your initial body weight and how much activity you have. Anorexics live for years on barely anything.
Now if we didn't have water, that's another story. Lack of water will generally kill you within a week. Sometimes a little longer, if you're a fighter.
And that's why you're a nut job. You can be a vegetarian all you want but do you really think that humans weren't made to consume meat? Is that why 98% of the WORLD consumes meat on a daily basis. Do you think all the other carnivores (or omnivores for that matter) really are going to just go vegan because they don't want to harm their little wild friends. Go get a life or sit in front of a moving bus in protest for hauling a big load of steaks to your local wal-mart. Dumba$$.
Please, Please – for the love of anything that you ever held in high esteem – FACT CHECK.
98%?ddd It is actually about 70%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism
Sorry dude, but I hafta say it: you're a damn idiot. There's no need for humans to eat meat and your "facts" are crap. There may have indeed been a need in the earliest days (to separate our evolutionary path from the neanderthals) but now we have developed ways to obtain protein even more efficiently, like by soy products. Furthermore, with technology, we're creating tastier and tastier substitutes...even growing artificial meat in labs. I'm sure that in the mid-term future, eating meat will be marginalized as it already is becoming. As to the argument: "does a lion think about ethics when he tears into a gazelle?" I always reply: "No, but a lion is an ANIMAL, you idiot." Human beings should set our standards a bit higher, especially because we have the mental capacity to do so.
I think it's very interesting that people posting who appear to be male all request a lot of meat items while the few female-appearing posters mention salad, potatoes, dessert. Clearly nobody is looking out for their figure (for obvious reasons) but women may have a broader appreciation for taste sensations beyond the cooked carcasses of animals. What is the male obsession with meat? I understand including some of it but ordering several kinds of meat to the exclusion of almost everything else? That's dumb.
sooo , you'd have a salad?
Really? Did you really just post that ridiculous comment?
Men have a higher muscle mass and metabolism geared for protein and fats. Women have more of a craving for sugars. Nothing about either points to a more refined palate.
don't be lame, please. I'd be a vegetarian too if bacon grew on trees :-)
Somehow I really don't think their going to freshly kill an animal for a last meal request.
I think these pricks on death row should get jack sh*ttt for there last meal.
How do fix that, rare, medium or well done?
Theres actually a reason for the "last meal." It's important that when the state takes a person's life after due process, the condemned should meet their fate calmly. The last meal symbolizes that they accepted their punishment. After a long appeals process and antagonism between the state and the accused, the meal represents some finality and closure. After all, we're a civilized society, we don't take another's life without proper reflection and deliberation.
Cheeseburger, fries, glass of coke (not pepsi), chocolate milk-shake, blueberry pie, vanilla ice cream.
Thanks for saying this, I know this seems silly to everyone but I like to think that we are a civilized society. Maybe if we could all feed our families better from birth we might have a tad less crime? I think about my last meal all the time. And I hope to have someone with me when it happens. I don't want to eat it alone and hope to have reflection- food can be love.
I'm not good at making decisions. Can a brotha just get two plates at the buffet instead?
Steak, Medium Rare, Baked Potato with butter, cheddar cheese and sour cream and broccoli and cheese sauce. Same thing that I have on my anniversary every year.
Why bother? You're going to die anyway. Oh wait, I forgot. You're not going to get executed. You're going to die of old age long before your execution date arrives.
lol @flamenons
^^^ :)
Sushi. I whole crapload of sushi.
I'd probably be tempted to order a large Papa John's pepperoni pizza with cheese sticks and a large fountain Mountain Dew soda...but then I'd get scared about what all those carbs would do to my figure...don't want to look fat on my big day!
LOL!!!
Those orange jumpsuits do absolutely nothing for the figure.
Anice Steak & Lobster Tail, with a good bottle of Spanish Wine, on secluded beach in Hawaii.
The author got it right...El Pollo Rico is commonly referred to as "Crack Chicken" here in DC
Why do so many of you find this offensive. I can't understand why we bother giving them a last meal of their choice. Their victims didn't get that choice. Most of these people are seriously defective pieces of trash. Many deserve nothing more than a bullet in the head, and they should see it coming.
I think everyone on death row should be killed within a few months or less of being there. Why should I (and everyone else) pay for these people to get 3 meals a day when alot of us aren't. It's not that hard to flip a switch or put a needle in. I would gladly pull the switch on all of them. We would save so much money and it would make room in prisons that are over crowded.
Lindsey Lohan would be my first choice!
That would never be possible because of the appeal process. Nor should it EVER be possible to kill someone without allowing them to fully exhaust all aspects of appeals! As messed up as our judicial system can be I find it strange that we still have the death penalty at all..
"Clever" response Rayvn. Any room in your paradigm for mistaken convictions? Nah...never happens right? Read a book or two on the subject please. The only thing worse than a deliberate murder of an innocent is a deliberate murder of an innocent...by the state. In the meantime, let's all keep laughing about this topic, seeing as it is so productive.
aw, come on, cut em some slack, there about to die anyways, let em eat what they want
The "last meal" is an anachronism dating back ot the days when people had rather naive ideals. Myself, I would lose my appetite and all ability to enjoy food knowing I was facing death - and that for committing some terrible crime. The food would taste like ashes/cardboard, and fear would dry up all my saliva. But that's me; I can't enjoy food if I am upset and worried over something.. .
However, since a lot of these characters pm death row are psychopaths anyway, they probably could still enjoy food.
I also sort of don't like the idea of animals having to die to give a pleasurable sensation to some murderer who is not even going to digest the food.
It's surprising to me how many people on the boards choose some sort of fast food for "their" last meal. America's romance with fast food is really hot. Or I should say, the preparers of fast food products really know how to tweak the human taste buds.
"If we’re going to have this discussion, I have to start with Memphis-style ribs. I’d move onto a heaping amount of moist Texas beef brisket. Grilled asparagus. One In-n-Out 3×3 burger with fries, animal-style. A 12-oz dry-aged ribeye medium-rare. Wait, make it rare. What the heck. Wash it down with a cherry lambic and finish it off with peach cobbler and one piece of chocolate cream pie. Did I say one piece? Better make it two."
You are a moron.
First, they don't allow alcohol in prisons – your Cherry Lambic would be a forbidden item.
Secondly, the real conversation should be about the fundamental immorality of the death penalty.
Whats so immoral about the death rowiee that slaughters and rapes, yes they should live and be out on our streets once again. What if it was you or your family it was done to. I bet your tune for death penalty would change instantly.
...or the immoral behavior that caused a verdict reached to demand the penalty. My hard earned tax dollars go to supporting the life and care of life-long inmates and the salaries of those made to detain them. However, if I didn't earn a wage, maybe I could feel the same... not having to pay for it and all. If they were made to work hard labor to earn their meals and bed I may change my opinion.
But it's not. AND that's not how it was presented in the first place. Take your righteous indignation and tuck in your napkin at a different table.
caviar, krug and dom one bottle each, 2 lobster tails, 24 new england oysters, freshly squeezed OJ, assortments of tropical fruits fedex overnight from malaysia, assortments of un-pasteurized cheese
Yes. And a whiskey.
OJ is in the cell next to yours, I suspect he is into it, if you are.
I would be careful on freshly squeezin OJ.
Tell 'em cousin Guido has a shank w/ his name on it and it doesn't involve citrus.
Its ridiculous that these people are granted an extravagant meal in the first place......and who is paying for this?
Taxpayers do. Most likely above market price as well + chef wages. Each prisoner on death row costs us at least 100,000$ to maintain. Kinda high huh.
the standard budget for a last meal is $20.
In the words of the good ole' Slingblade..."I'd love me some french fried taters...mmmm."
Yes, they cost a lot. In fact they cost considerably more on death row than if they were given life sentences instead. But that's not because of their meals. Each of these meals costs less than the hourly wage of the defender or prosecutor on their case who are required by law to carry each of these cases through the entire appeals process. (guess who created that law... it was such lawyers) If you are really concerned about your taxpayer money then you probably should either advocate against death sentence all together, or against court appeals. Not that either would be fruitful. The one thing about death penalty that is certain is that lawyers for both sides will get rich, and will use some of that money to lobby Congress to keep these laws in place to make them richer. Death penalty is just a fancy way to channel millions of dollars to lawyers. If only it had a purpose, like it being a deterrent... Unfortunately no data shows that death penalty works in any country, the US, China, Iran, Saud Arabia, Columbia, North Korea, or other countries that still use it.
"Chef wages"? Perhaps you should educate yourself on the differences between a line cook/fryer and a "chef". Even then, the wages are sub-standard, at best.
I definitely don't agree with the actions that the people committed to be on death row, but they are still humans. Some say that they don't deserve it, for they are being punished, but death row and incarceration are pretty serious punishments. However, taking a human life is is unspeakable, for that person must have had something amazing to offer to the world. Perhaps it would set a good example to show people kindness and compassion. Just because you do so doesn't mean that you accept or tolerate their actions.
What a bad choice of a subject, making fun and peeking into the last desire of people that is going to be executed. CNN's naivete (to choose a polite word) has no limits.
They are convicted of the most heinous capital crimes...lets not forget that. Their feelings are irrelevant to me and should be to you as well.
I agree. Why should we waste our money? they shouldn't get anything!
yup. this article is complete garbage. Jeremy Harlan is a joke. write about something else, or quit your job.
Have to agree. Regardless of what these men and women did, using their final hours as a platform to so gaily parade around whatever menu would tickle Jeremy Harlan's fancy is shameful. I'm sure the sheer terror they experience completely undermines any pleasure that comes with a good meal.
In the spirit of the thread, I'll give my 2 cents. My knee jerk reaction would be the usual – lobster, FLAMENONS, a good Merlot, etc. But those choices would give me pleasure right NOW. If I knew I was going to die in a day, I would probably choose a meal that deeply comforts me. Something I ate often growing up. Something that would help put me in a better place emotionally. Reminds you of home.
Then the state inoculates you with the last beverage you'll ever have. Cheers.
Bravo, CNN Sucks. I watch CNN every night on TV but I'll remember this little bit of trash next time I do so...hopefully I can forget it while I watch real journalists in action. To those of you who are so eager to laugh about this topic: whether you support capitol punishment or not, I think we should all agree it is not a subject of laughter. Laughing at someone's death, no matter how you may think it is deserved, just seems pretty damn bizarre to me. Gotta ask yourself what the hell's wrong with you...someone's exit from existence, whether justified or not is really not funny.
Man, if i could have my way my last meal would be two flamenons with garlic mashed potatoes...and some rainbow trout, nice and tender with pepper and lemon. Warm Biscuts with butter and jelly...a mint chocolate chip shake and limitless skim milk...a chocolate cake with nuttela icing and some smooth vanilla ice cream ontop....*drool*...
flamenons? Were you trying to spell 'filet mignon'?
"flamenons" That's hilarious and sad: someone who goes by "SteakAlltheWay" can't even spell his favorite "stake." HA!
Hmmm...Maybe America should be more obsessed with education and less with what murderers want to eat.
you have got to be kidding me. flamenons. FLAMENONS. the fact that you have no idea how to spell filet mignon is absolutely out of control, and the first time that a spelling error has actually made me angry.
not to mention that the CNN name your specifically chose to make a comment was "SteakAllTheWay". just wow.
You guys are killing me ....FLAMENONS...ahahahahhahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't even know what they were talking about until you translated haha!
Don't be angry...this is the funniest thing I have seen in months....I still haven't stopped laughing. Perhaps you just need to take a break and have a flamenon...you'll feel better.
No...he just likes 'em flambé style...(nyuk nyuk nyuk)
Come on y’all, they sells Flamenons in the meats department at Harris Tweeter and Piggly Giggly.
i was outraged by this as well considering i would want a beef wellington with a madeira sauce, which is obviously made with filet mignon...or is it flamenons lolololololol
My son spells words like this sometimes because that's how he hears it...Of course he is 1st grade.
@kari, a beef wellington is made with a beef tenderloin which is not a filet mignon or a flamonon for that matter. A beef ternderloin when cut into steaks is then called a filet mignon, but as is, a beef willington is a tenerloin roast not a steak. By the way is this guy for real! My last meal would actually be a Kaprazay salad followed by a some lazanua with extra parmashion. For desert i would for sure go with some tiremesooo, and a couple glasses of shardaneh
Robert, please tell me that your spelling in your last sentence was a joke.
Flamenons...lol. Then Larry chimes in with a bust on the guy and then says "stake"...lol even harder!. Let's not forget GeeBee's addition of "not to mention that the CNN name your specifically chose" OMG! I can't stand it!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!
Then we have the ripe "a beef wellington is made with a beef tenderloin which is not a filet mignon or a flamonon for that matter. A beef ternderloin when cut into steaks is then called a filet mignon"...lol. So what do you call it when you slice your wellington? Robert however persists with "a beef willington is a tenerloin roast not a steak."...um, what's a beef willington when it's sliced? A filet mignin? Oh, and a tenerloin? a haphazard reference to a tenderloin with a deeper voice perhaps? LOL!
Robert, Robert, Robert...I just gotta ask..."For desert i would for sure go with" with what? the Sahara maybe? HAHAHA!
Man, this place can sure be entertaining at times!
groovy – you are an idiot. let me correct you.
1. larry says "stake" in quotes for a comedic effect.
2. it is "you" not "your"
3. a beef wellington is also coated with pate de foie gras and then baked in a pastry. quite different than "stakes" (see quotes?) that you're used to
4. you write like you are 5 years old. thanks for keeping our standards low.
but... flamenons. good stuff.
The Wellington is ROAR, you coulda killed somebody you dunkey!
Oh that's the point, well Bon Appetite!
I guess you never knew the classy way to spell this fine cut of beef.
wait...SKIM milk??
Yes, LIMITLESS skim milk. One can only eat so much flamenon, but keep that skim milk coming all day long! HA
Larry Molmud
"flamenons" That's hilarious and sad: someone who goes by "SteakAlltheWay" can't even spell his favorite "stake." HA!
"stake" ? You can't make this stuff up! LOL!
I love flamenons
Before you refudiate flamenon, consider ebonics.
is refudiate even a word? Are you making fun of someone?
LMAO @ flamenon
ya gotta love flamenons
Thank you for making me smile with the flamenon. Just in case it was a name of a burger somewhere else in the world I Googled it a found you are already a blogging sensation!
sorry dude, you set yourself up for that one...ps, its biscuits
AND it's Nutella but some of the other words are correct :)
that is some funny chit!
I LOVE the spelling of 'flamenon." I love it!!
From the rest of the guy's post, he doesn't seem like an illiterate idiot. I think perhaps that might be an intentional misspelling.
I myself intentionally misspell 'acetone' on a daily basis (Acetone is a solvent that is one of the primary components of most nail polish removers). A former boss spelled it 'actone' in a meeting, so it became a habit from then on to use the word "ACK-TONE."
A former classmate still uses the word 'Bo-Log-Na.'
I think the guy's just having fun. :)
If not, who cares. I think perhaps from now on, I'll use the term 'flamenon' because it's so hilarious.
Every Saturday my family likes to grill out, this weekend, I mean, I gotta go with flamenons!
And unlimited skim milk??? WTH?
Because they don't want to contribute to heart disease before they die.
Oh dear lord. I hope your genes are wiped from our species and never get the opportunity to spread amongst us.
what a terrible thing to say. Spelling a foreign word or words correctly is not an indicator of someone's worth or right to live. However, the cruelty, arrogance, and stupidity that you and everyone else has shown in mocking a simple mistake makes it where you all stand in terms of human worth.... not much.
Are all of you so pathetic that you need to ridicule a stupid mistake to make yourselves feel superior? Are your lives so boring and empty that you have nothing else to do? Read a book, talk to your friends, try to grow as humans and realize what's really important in life. And, since there's obvious confusion, hate and arrogance aren't.
flambe Mignon is a crime against nature. Fillet Mignon should be rare to medium rare. The better the beef, the less adornment. Grill it simple, with maybe a little hickory wood in the grill for a hint of nice, smoky flavor.
"Fillet Mignon should be rare to medium rare"-AMEN! i was starting to think i was the only one who thought so.lol
Agreed, although meduim rare is a bit overdone for me. Better make mine somewhere between rare and blue...then you can take me for a walk down the last mile.
This is a joke, right? Please tell me this was done purposely to be funny. Flamenons? I'm actually laughing out loud at this.
ohhhh....flamenons. Thats what everyone is laughing at. i'll have mine MR
Don't feel bad for FLAMENONS – that's probably how my first grader would spell it.
OMG, you guys are hilarious... and, flamenons... that's just foul... LMAO
Oh come on people, it's so obvious "flamenons" was tongue in (beef) cheek. Love it! As for the unlimited skim milk – I totally get it. Whole milk is more filling. For each glass of whole milk you can drink 3 glasses of skim before you feel as full. And I would sure want to be able to drink enough milk to wash down my entire meal!
It took me a while to figure out what "flamenons" were – too funny! I thought – no way. He can't really mean.... no.... the gar-lick-pot-ay-toes confirmed it though!
I'm on Steak's side! This is America! We need to quit spelling things the fruity French way. I don't want cuisine! I want food! I want to eat some orderves! You can keep your Hors d'oeuvres! And, I want some Flamenon, not any of that Fillet Mignon!!
SteakAllTheWay you made my day!!! Oh yeah-I'm a poet and didn't know it! ;) Thanx, needed this laugh today, I will remember flamenon always.
Thank You! This is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks. Not to mention the way the incredulous replies just keep going the more you scroll, I think that had me laughing even harder.
Flamenon! That's my new war cry.
gallons of Jimmy Buffet margaritas (fresh lime, some salt, on the rocks), big bag of fresh green boiled peanuts, and some cans of vienna sausages.
Is that Glenn Beck?!? Please say yes.
Soon to be Singletary's job
At least they canned Jimmy.
He really looks like a young Charlie Weis to me.
Sufferin sucotash-Where's Joe Montana or Jerry Rice when we need them? Last meal-a 10pk of Weinerschnitzel Chili cheese dogs.
haha... I know
How's about a lobster tail with drawn butter, some caviar, a selection of cheeses, a warm, fluffy croissant, a few purple grapes, a mixed herb and green salad with balsamic vinaigrette, and a dessert featuring chocolate and something creamy? No, no, this isn't morbid at ALL!
A bowl of french onion soup with a huge portion of melted bubbly cheese on top..Then I would move on to a fresh greek salad with fresh cucumbers and red onion and delicous feta drizzled with a nice zesty creamy greek dressing. accompanied with a large loaf of garlic chees bread... Then a pound of king crab legs drenched in salty buter, a large pepperoni deep dish pizza ( from oregano's) Almond chicken (from china star in Westland MI) oh and dont forget about some HOT wings from Hooters and then...dessert. Chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. Pralines and cream from Baskins and Robins and whit chocolate macidamis nut carmel cheese cake from Cheesecake Factory... Then go ahead kill me....
If you notice it's only from the menu from what they serve.. So, they are limited to prison food.. Sad kinda, but you have to ask yourself, did any of them ever ask the victim " what fabulous dinner can I serve you before I rape and kill you "... yea, not once !
Yes! I want what you're having.
I would kill for that dinner .....
Everything you listed sounded wonderful. DITTO! Great tastes think alike, I guess.
Good lord, after all of that, you'd probably have a heart attack!
What? Just one tail?
How about a big plate of turds for these scumbags? Think their victims had a choice for a last meal? http://www.scoreface.com
I AGREE 100%!!!! What the heck is up with these "last meals?" That is so ridiculous. As a matter of fact, they shouldn't even tell them when they are set to die. Let it be a surprise, like it was to their victims.
Umm... unless they were 5 and their parents forced them to eat broccoli, they most likely had a choice of last meal. Way to think before feeling.
obvious moron: the victims didn't get to choose their last meal knowing it would be their last. How can you possibly have any sympathy for these scumbags on death row??
Obvious, that was good! Left me laughing, so true!
Love your responce. These losers don't even deserve a last meal !
I 'm with you but I think a nice plate of roaches would be in order since he will be visiting them real soon.
brie said: "I AGREE 100%!!!! What the heck is up with these "last meals?" That is so ridiculous. As a matter of fact, they shouldn't even tell them when they are set to die. Let it be a surprise, like it was to their victims."
sanjosemike responds: In Asian countries, like China and Singapore, condemned prisoners are never told the actual date of their execution. They usually "know" a range of time when it will occur, but not the actual date. A team arrives at the cell, and they are taken to execution, in the case of China, by a bullet to the head. In the case of Singapore, by hanging.
Consequently, they are never really offered a "last meal." Their last meal was what every other prisoner got that day. sanjosemike
Massive LOL @ huge plate of turds!!! CLASSIC!!!
I think we should ask them what there last and final meal should be, prepare it un a manner in which they request, and allow the family of the victims to eat it in front of them as they are being put to death. They don't deserve any better then their victims.
I can agree but I do like the psychological dread and foreboding the entire process of choosing and eating your final meal brings to the dead man walking.
I totally agree, I've said it over and over again what did these monsters offer their victims for a last meal? They should never be given any form of special treatment because they are sentenced to die, their victims didn't.
If i had a choice i'd be electrocuted, but my last meal would be hundred popcorn seeds with oil, and butter. now would that be intresting?
That would really be interesting... Dont forget the salt.
funny
Love it! Love it! Morbid, but hysterically funny answer!!!
jiffy pop for the witnesses
Funny, but I do not know if electricity would pop popcorn.
Horrible article...criminals need not have the gratification about there last moments.. they need not need to be put to death by the state.... they need to be "put away".... locked away with no water....
I personally think they should have just done the story on "your favorite foods or meal" I dont think they deserve to get what ever they want for their last meal just because they commited a horrible crime.
I love that my tax dollars are going toward giving these monsters a buffet of awesome before they die. They shouldn't get any kind of special treatment before they die. They're not dying because they have cancer, they're dying because they murdered or raped or whatever. There would be a lot less crime if murderers, rapists had to go through the same punishment they did to their poor victims. We're like the cuddle bunny nation of the world. Everyone knows they can get away with stuff here... even if you get caught you'll always have shelter and food. There are homeless children and poor folk starving while these assho**s are fed and warm every day and night. What a country we live in! Freedom's great but we need to treat criminals like criminals.
lobsta with Chateaubriand steak. grilled vegs. a vintage wine desert cheese cake chocolate.
I think they should get a bowl of rice and a slice of bread. These losers did nothing to get a soft death.
yep i would like an all you can eat buffet and i would sit on the shitter and eat my meal till i died of heart failure
This entire discussion makes me sick – we are putting people to death and this is what we talk about. The reporter who wrote this story should reconsider his profession as he clearly does not deserve this type of forum.
Doesn't deserve this type of forum? What type of forum do you think this is, dude? This isn't going to be looked at for a Pulitzer. It's a shlock article online. Journalistically, it's like the lowest of the low. What other kind of forum do you think would publish this rot?
The fact that you and I are both commenting on this confirms this. Garbage. Rubbish. Trash reporting.
Chuck, I couldn't agree with you more. It's just sickening how people revel in this kind of thing. Life is life and just because it's a "sanctioned" execution, its still death. I just don't get it.
CNN, this story is appalling. We are putting people to death and this is how you flippantly discuss it? The woman recently executed in VA was borderline mentally incompetent–that is a media story worth reporting.
Tell me this didnt peak your interest though? What would your last meal be Chuck? Honestly I think its nice that we can find a sort of humor in this event, what these inmates have done to thier victims is vicious and wrong and they got peer voted to death by people just like you and I. Does that mean we all have to morn and be respectful about their death, absolutely not. We joke about life, death, how fat Oprah has gotten, etc, every single day so why is this different? Calm down a little Chuck, look at the bigger picture.
Oh get over yourself. It's not like the reporter killed anyone is it? Explain to me again why reporting on last meals is so terribly wrong because I, and you, were both interested enough to click the link and read it.
The thing that kills me (no pun intended) is that if you are so upset at CNN for posting an article such as this; why do you read it fully knowing what it is about? Instead of rolling your eyes when you read the subject (or first lines for that matter), you choose to read. Sad…
yah right, but what would your last meal be?
Thanks, Chuck. I'm surprised how far down the comments I had to read to get to one like yours. This whole discussion is sickening, whether you support or oppose capitol punishment. The death penalty and murder are both tragic topics and this article's lighthearted attitude toward both is troubling. Just a really stupid idea for an investigation. More troubling perhaps is the nature of the comments I've read so far: kinda makes me wonder: does anyone feel anything anymore?
How about some Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs and Coke?
Last meals of death row inmates ranks up there with what movie stars wears when they go to court - WHO CARES
id want a main course dish of a key to my cell with a side dish of one shotgun several explosives, and a bag of 5 million dollars.
and if you were on death row, a heart attack would be an excellent way to get out of the humiliation of being EXECUTED. So this what I would suggest:
Hamburger with extra cheese, grease, bacon, and mayo
Greasy French Fries lathered with chilli and 10 kinds of processed cheese
BLT with Bacon instead of everything else
Beer infused with margarita mix, bourbon, wine, whiskey, and vodka
Icecream topped with caramel, fudge, chocolate syrup, maple syrup, whip cream, strawberry syrup, blueberry syrup, sprinkles, marshmellows, and coffee beans
A taco drenched in hot sauce and full of jalopeanos and steak
A ham sandwhich with extra cheese
A coke
A rootbeer
Anything from Germany, the UK, or Ireland
~ okay, maybe this would just make you throw up/become sleepy/and or drunk, but a combination of all three and you won't feel a thing!
One thing I explored in my book “Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals from Death Row” is the fact that last meal choices give us a broader perspective and a better understanding of this segment of the population that most of just can’t identify with. Since everybody loves food, it establishes a connecting thread between your average Joe and the citizens of Death Row. That thread might be as thin as a strand of angel hair pasta, but it still exists!