Remember back in May of 2011 when we gave away all our stuff and road-tripped down to Florida in a Judgment Day caravan to warn people about the impending Rapture? How about 153 days after that when the world similarly failed to go kaplooey?
Shockingly enough, we used those opportunities to ask people how they'd chow down if they knew it was going to be their last meal on Earth. Seeing as we're up against Armageddon (again), according to the Mayan calendar (sort of), here's a little inspiration for a final feast.
Out of 378 responses, the most frequently mentioned foodstuffs were:
50 are eternally pleased by cheese (by itself or in mac 'n' cheese, on a burger, on fries or wherever they can get it)
33 would take steak into the great beyond
29 pine for some permutation of potato
23 want to get their claws on some lobster
18 ache for bacon
15 crave gravy
14 are dying for a final pizza
14 want to bite down on a burger (mostly with cheese and bacon)
13 wish to face the end times with a slice of pie
11 are looking for their mother or grandmother's cooking (awwww!)
And that's not to mention the vats of tequila, oceans of Scotch and kiddie pools of beer in which they'd like to dunk their sorrows before the end times.
Some commenters would savor the flavor of a specific region:
Two...no, make that four all-the-way Varsity chili dogs, one order of fries, two orders of rings, one fried peach pie, and a large FO [frosted orange]. I'll beat the Apocalypse by dying of an MI just before the Rapture. - ATL Native
Thought today the world was ending so last night I went beer tasting in San Diego (Alesmith, Stone, etc.), followed by homemade pretzels with mustard/barbeque/queso sauces, 3 sliders, a huge-ass cinnamon roll with buttercreme icing on top from San Diego Desserts and topped it off with a pepperoni and mushroom pizza from Paradise Pizza in SD at midnight (burp). - LBGrrrl
Lobster from Maine, crab legs from Alaska, conch chowder from Ernie's in Ft Lauderdale, a perfectly cooked artichoke with butter, a pitcher of margaritas from the Rio Grande Ft Collins, and Key Lime cheesecake from Alfalfa's. Hopefully in Telluride with fall foliage, then a nap in a hammock by the river. Take me then, Lord! - Mia
A big bushel of Maryland blue crabs with Old Bay and some local brew with my friends and family! Being Vietnamese, I wouldn't say no to some of my favorite dishes that is so unique to Vietnam. And cheese! A big plate of the best cheeses in the world and some amazing rustic bread (my French side). - Sonj
Big plate of the apocolyptic "Knock Ya' Block Off" wings with blue cheese from Sparks in Apex, NC, full sugared Cherry Coke with a big shot of rum, a fresh watermelon, Clusterfluff ice cream and Italian sandwich cookies from an NY bakery. If I go down, I'm going down fat and full! I'll take a few TUMS in case they are wrong about the time... - mysymphony05
A banana split from Fenton's Creamery on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California (you know, the ice cream place mentioned by the little boy at the end of the movie Up!). Man, oh man, that place is the BEST! - Kristmat
Don't forget the goi cuon, cha gio (Vietnamese or Filipino lumpia), and mi xiao. - ML
A large pepperoni and mushroom pizza from Pepe's in New Haven CT. Plus a bottle of Foxon Park birch beer. Heaven. - Super Don-O
I would want a lau-lau and poi. And some kalua pig. And mountain apples. - Reece
I would eat a New England clam boil with lobsters, steamers, drawn butter, clam cakes, hot dogs, chorizo, and New England clam chowder. Then I die happy! - Lori R
I'd rent a private plane. Fly to the coast of Maine. Get the freshest boat load of lobster available. A bucket of melted butter on the side. a platter full of home-made French fries. Slathered in cheese. Maybe some bacon on top. Find a picnic table on a beach. Eat until I can't possibly eat anymore. Fly home to die. - Lisa
I'd have to start working my way through a whole hog Carolina barbecue. Some good cornbread and greens on the side. With all the sweet iced tea I could drink. Finish it up with some Jack on the rocks and a good cigar. - Well Read
Everything bagel and tuna for breakfast. Millburn Deli Turkey Joe for lunch. Setaro Fusilli pasta with Rao's marinara sauce for dinner. S'mores for dessert. And 2 omakases from Sushi Seki somewhere in between. - Julz
Others would take a more exotic route, or indulge in a few taboos:
Rabbit and dog stew, might as well try that. - Sam
Well, I would start with a giant batch of pot brownies. Then, once they kicked in, I would start with some nice lump crab meat with cocktail sauce, go with steak, garlic mashed potato, lobster mac and cheese, shoestring fries. Then some creme brulee for desert. - Miarezzo
Human meat. We've all wanted to try it and with the world ending you can finally get away with it. - Nick
Humans....mmmmm! I'd probobly be a zombie, so I'll have to practice. - SVP
01) two dinosaur eggs, over easy, fried in butter
02) mosquito knees, black-eyed peas
03) a big chunk of platypus cheese
04) cobra tooth
05) tiger steak
06) flank of hippopotamus, well-baked
07) crocodile tear soup
08) purple watermelon
09) alligator ears
10) two crosseyed catfish, with wavy gravy
11) rattlesnake hips on porcupine spine skewers
12) a banana split with pomegranate gelato and caramel sauce
13) two pepto bismol tablets and a pepcid.
– Mark Mosrie (paraphrasing Jimmy Rogers'"My Last Meal")
And for some, the company (or lack thereof) would be the key ingredient:
My own Mexican food would be my choice. I would make a feast of chilaquiles, tex-mex green chile enchiladas, flor de calabaza chicken, my botana platter stacked high with grilled fajita meat, lots of Negra Modelo, and most of all my wife and kids around me. - Michael
I would invite my family and friends over for my homemade meatballs, 7-layer lasagna, and any dessert they could all think of. Have some Champagne and toast the end of a good ride! - Valerie
A family (excluding my evil sister Tina) barbeque on Mom's or Mom-in-Law's patio. - napigsi59
Everyone is making me very hungry! Everything sounds so yummy, not a bad way to end it all, right? Eat, drink and hopefully be merry! Surrounded with my family and friends :-) - S.
Did any of that whet your appetite? Share your ultimate last meal in the comments below, and we'll feature the best ones the next time one of these apocalypses (and really, should there even be a plural form of that word?) rolls around.
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I would love to have a gigantic cheeseburger with numerous delicious toppings with a side of fries and ketchup. How delicious! And of course, I would not have to worry about that riuning my diet because I don't think I would be around the next day. (:
So nice to read that most responses are real, not shallow, most not "renting a private plane . . . blah, blah, unimpressively blah." Most are down to earth real, I respect you real people so much; the pretentious can go to h e double hockey sticks for proving their lives to be so, so, shallow.
For breakfast I'd have scrambled eggs with shrimp, shrimp pancakes, a bowl of sugar frosted shrimp cereal, and a glass of shrimp juice. For lunch, a shrimp sandwich with a side order of shrimp, and a shrimp milkshake. For dinner, barbequed shrimp on the grill, a baked potato with sour cream and shrimp, and some shrimp ice cream for dessert. I guess that's about it.
breakfast: bacon, cheese blintzes with maple syrup, fresh mango, and spiced fresh apple cider (hot) with Bacardi Oakheart. And a big glass of whole milk.
Lunch: Caesar salad (a real one, not with bottled dressing) pepperoni pizza New York style, Shiner Bock beer, and Blue Bell chocolate cherry ice cream.
Dinner: beef tenderloin med. rare, grilled shrimp, mom's Mexican Spoon Bread, McDonalds french fries, fresh crisp apples, mom's apple pie and her flan. Anasazi Fields fruit wine and Gran Marnier to drink.
Late snack, if there's time: good Roquefort cheese on toast with honey, and a shot of Yukon Jack.
Salmon Sashimi, Hamachi Kama, Unagi Sashimi, Ground Ostrich Burgers, Roasted Butternut Squash, Spaghetti Squash, Ground GF Beef, Salmon Belly, Salmon Skin... And a Donut? LOL... I haven't had a donut in forever. I would rather eat 18 pounds of salmon than a donut or 10.
I would totally eat as much sushi and saki as humanly possible; throw up.
Follow that up with mac-n-chz (my own special receipe); some chilil cheese dogs/fries, onion rings and beer; throw up
Followed by Jaeger and JD, alternating shots; throw up
Then to the grocery store to walk up and down the aisles, eating whatever catches my eye... throw up
DIE
I wonder if the non-thinking conservative multiple religious fanatics are happy the world didn't end today or disappointed. How much money did they spend that they could ill afford?
I think the next date is 2023 when an asteroid is due to pass by between the Moon's orbit and Earth. I'll be getting old by then so if it should somehow hit Earth it will be a great way to checkout with everyone else from this ill fated human race.
Please don't use your Christophobia as an excuse to bring politics into a food blog.
December 21, 2012 at 5:09 pm |
salty len
2023 yes i would be ready and able to depart about then if there's anything left to depart from but there will be prepared a place for the deserved to arrive and be welcomed.
Actually, as a somewhat educated non-Christian, most relgious conservatives are most likely Christian, and since the supposed prophesy was Mayan in origin, they were dismissing it because it had nothing to do with Jesus Christ's return. Nice try to ruin a fun food blog with your anti-Conservative/anti-Christian politics, though, but, sadly, it didn't work. Go Occupy at an athiest rally, please, well we enjoy our "last meal."
Crow would seem to be on the menu for the nut cases that actually thought the world would end and even spent a lot of time and money preparing for it.
12/22/2012 – Still here.
My last meal's for the end of the world are as follows.
Morning: Lucky Charms Cereal
Lunch: A hamburger and steamed Broccoli
Dinner: All the sushi I can eat!
An oyster feast...raw, fried and Rockefeller; a couple of short rib tacos; Memphis barbecue; and a whole key lime pie with whipped cream. Groan....if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna be sick...
I would have Mac-n-cheese with bacon, turkey, hamburger meat, ketsup, mustard, hotdogs, peperoni, ham bits, extra cheese, with a double banana strawberry cherry spit surprise!!! (with whipped cream)
Oh, so much food and so little time! For breakfast, buckwheat banana pancakes (with the bananas in the batter) topped with strawberry jam and a side of sausages. For lunch, steak fajitas with guacamole and three beef enchiladas and sopapillas with chocolate sauce. For dinner, eaten over six hours, two lobster tails, a huge pile of fried clams with tartar sauce, some grilled yellowfin topped with capers, wilted spinach, potatoes au gratin done crispy on the edges, weiner schnitzel, pickled red cabbage, sauerbraten with dumplings, chicken paprikesh with sour cream, lamb with prunes, eggplant parmegana, ratatouille, bbq shrimp with crusty french bread, bread pudding with brandy sauce, bison roasted with sour apples and onion, blackberry cobbler, port royal jamaican coffee spiked with a little brandy, a chocolate milkshake so dark you expect the moon to rise in it, roast beef with baby potatoes and carrots with green peppercorn gravy, schezuan lobster, Alabama fried chicken (cornmeal breaded and fried in peanut oil) with polish potato salad and chess pie, a peach pie with french vanilla ice cream, shrimp pad thai with thai tapioca pudding, a pot of sweetened chai, pork chops basted with butter, lemon and parsley grilled over charcoal, memphis dry rub beef ribs with sweet and sour coleslaw, a white cake pave with marmalde, raspberry and white chocolate filling topped with grand marnier whipped cream, a vidal blanch just short of icey, a Portugese rose, a porter at room temperature, an eggnog heavily dosed with nutmeg and Southern Comfort and a stomach pump on standy-by. I'm sorry, I love food too much to choose just one final meal. The list goes on....
No, actually, once I started thinking of one dish, another and another followed. I love food. Some more than others. Don't care for sushi or tandori and Koreans deep fry their vegetables (which strikes me as counter-productive) and I avoid white sauce (too hard to get right and too many get it soooo wrong!) I don't care for English cuisine (can you even call it that?) and Norse cooking relies on a lot of salted fish so it's out. Also uses cream sauces (back to white sauce, again.) German cooking I love. Provincial French I love. Schezuan and Hunan I love (but you can keep Cantonese and Mandarin.) Italian of any region – gift from god. Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern foods I love (though have no experience of Afghani.) Have only had a few African dishes – the black beans and rice dish was one. Many African cuisines use a hot sauce that will take the skin off your tonque. Hot doesn't describe it. Have had Mexican, Tejano and Chicano but nothing else 'South American'. Some Spanish foods which I like. Eaten in every region of America except the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes regions. I thought Texas BBQ was boring. It's all about the smoke. I like spice. Eaten some NA cuisine, not much. Been here on the Big Blue for 57 years so my palate has had a lot of exercise. Besides, if I thought it really was the end of the world, I wouldn't really worry about my last meal (since I would have no idea what to choose,) I would just curl up under the covers with a book while listening to NPR comedy quiz shows. I have no desire to die with my boots on.
hush puppies from Copeland's, the german cheesecake that the Mennonite butcher used to sell (and that I haven't found a replacement for since he died,) black-and-white cookies from an Italian bakery (they used to flavor the white icing with either lemon or anise – yum!) mustard and pineapple gloazed ham with yams paked with pineapple and pecans, italian green beans (in tomatoes with peppers and onions and garlic!) beef golash over egg noodles, a hot polish sausage with mustard pickled onion relish and sauerkraut on a hard roll, spaghetti with garbage sauce (or Sunday Gravy, if you will – sausage and beef and vegetables and peppers and garlic and onions with many splashes of chianti,) dim sum with lots of different dipping sauces, lagastinos in garlic butter, strawberry ice cream with hot fudge, a bowl of bing cherries, a navel orange, a pitcher of grapefruit juice, calamari with marinara, tomato bisque soup with cheddar and croutons, Manhattan clam chowder with oyster crackers, spinach pie, a lamb gyro, chicken caccitore, sauerkraut and onion perogies fried in butter and onions till the onions are crispy and the perogies are browned and covered with sour cream, latkes with sour cream and apple sauce, a nice crisp german white wine with a crusty loaf of bread and some gouda and jarlesburg cheese, a confetti salad of leaf greens and minced garden vegetables topped with feta cheese and red wine/ olive oil dressing, conch fritters and lemon aid, a poached pear with broiled brie, penuch (sp?), dark fruitcake, a bowl of shelled pistachios. Oh, to never eat again and to have missed some dish, somewhere! Such sorrow! My friend's mother's chopped liver (which turns out to be veal and fake schmaltz!) Roast beef and horseradish on a crusty roll with a nice stout. Apple walnut pie with whiskeyed walnuts. Veal marsala. Fish stew with caviar. Beef barley soup with white cheddar cheez-its. Chili with cheddar and cornbread. Parker House dinner rolls dripping butter. A sour dough breakbowl filled with cheese and broccoli soup. Spinach salad. Shrimp curry (red). Kim chee. A pork loin roasted with peaches and cardamon. A baked yam dripping butter. The trifle Bloomingdale's used to sell in their tea room. Hasty pudding with maple syrup. Russian tea cakes and a pot of black pekoe heavily sweetened. Slow roasted London broil with horseradish. Mash squash with butter, cinnamon and brown sugar. Blackened catfish with lemon. Grilled red snapper. Oh, the fish I've given up for overfishing or poor maintenance! A cod steak with french fries and summer salad, heavy on the radishes. Broiled rainbow trout (headless – can't have my breakfast staring at me!) Braunsweiger and red onion on pumpernickel with brown mustard. A heavy, corned Jewish rye with a pot of whipped butter. Kona coffee. Jasmine tea. Mulled apple cider with a shot of Yukon Jack. Cutty Sark. Carr's whole wheat crackers with cream cheese and strawberry jam. Peanut butter on honey wheat with black cherry jelly. Coarse German bread with pot cheese, toasted crispy under the broiler. A baked potato with sour cream, butter and chives – lots of chives. Eating slivers of raw potato and sweet onion. Olives. A tomato and butter sandwich on white bread. A bowl of chocolate icing eaten with a silver spoon. A caramel apple rolled in peanuts. A bowl of blueberries and sliced peaches, lightly sweetened. A warm cranberry-orange muffin with lots of zest. Nut roll. Chocolate ruggelah. Sour cream cut outs. More wilted spinach. I adore spinach. Braccioli. Stuffed butterfly pork loin chop. Cold sausage stuffing left over from Thanksgiving. Orange-ginger chicken (stuff the chicken with oranges spiked with fresh ginger slivers, put ginger slivers under the skin.) Bruchetta. Hot chocolate spiked with Godiva white chocolate liquer, rum and brandy. A bowl of Wilbur Buds. Cold garbage sauce over bread. Sausage and pepper pizza. Pork, apple and onion casserole. Sharp white cheddar on toasted multi-grain bread. Corned beef and cabbage if you'll eat the corned beef (I like the cabbage boiled with the beef but not the taste of the boiled beef.) Turkish delight. Butterscotch pudding. Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts. Chicken mole. Corn relish. BBQ calico beans with bacon (black beans, red beans, butter beans.) Shrimp bisque on toast points with baby peas. Succotash. Meat loaf with tomato on top. Stewed tomatoes with crumble on top. Montgomery pie (wet bottomed shoo fly, basically.) Lemon custard. Deep chocolate cake. Linzer torte. Cream puffs. Shredded BBQ pork sandwich with cole slaw. Gherkins. Kosher pickles. Cucumber and onion salad. Harvard beets. Black beans and rice with jerked goat. Mincemeat pie. Angel Squares (from the Joy of Cooking cookbook.) Peiffernusse (sp?) Italian cheesesteak with double meat and sweet peppers. Hunan hot and sour soup. Geesh, this is a long list....
yeah if you eat enough artery clogging food all at once it probably would be your last meal. cuz you would die of an artery clogging heart attack!! then it would be the end of the world. at least for you!!
Pinto beans that have been soaked and cooked all day with a ham shank. A 2 inch thick cake of cornbread. Well cooked and seasoned collard greens. Baked macaroni and cheese with a blistered cheddar cheese top. A plate of fresh from the garden sliced tomatoes and sweet onions. Green beans cooked all day with ham and a fresh pitcher of carolina sweet tea for me and my family to enjoy on a cool autumn afternoon. I die happy.
Three Dollar Cafe wings from Atlanta. Extra hot, extra wet and plenty of blue cheese and celery on the side. And, their fabuouls thick fries! I live in Seattle now, but dream of those wings from when I lived in Atlanta.
Doomsday isn't happening today or tomorrow- so don't worry about it, so many prophets have told us about the end of the world and- we're still standing here.
If it's really the end of the world, of course one needs good dark beer...Young's Double Choc Stout, Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout....and Scotch...Glenlivet of course....and for food, go with everything everybody always tells ya not to have...greasy burgers, pizza LOADED with pepperoni and cheese, mushrooms, olives, sausage....burritos with scads of salsa, peppers and sour cream, 16 oz ribeyes, onion rings dripping with fat, and for dessert, every illicit material ya can get your hands on...pot brownies with a side or shrooms and acid shots...all done with all of the family and friends that ya can surround yourself with...when it ends it'll be just like another story from the party ya can tell in the afterlife.
With no hesitation . . . it's the chicken fried steak & eggs at City Hall Cafe in Montrose, CA. Smothered with country gravy and home fries there is no better meal.
My last meal would be dry rub ribs, filet mignon, a loaded baked potato, the most expensive caviar money can buy, a bottle of champagne, chocolate truffles, and a cake from Carlo's Bakery.
I'd have to plan ahead and fly to somewhere or fly some things in, but I'd sip a Pisco Sour from Pura Vida in Atlanta then onto the meal with a Lobster Roll from Cape Cod, She Crab soup from Charleston, and a green salad with local, organic lettuces (probably from Crystal Organics Farm in GA) all with a glass of Far Niente or Grgich Hills Chardonnay from CA. I'd finish with Chocolate Soup from Fritti in Atlanta accompanied by a glass of a good red wine that goes nicely with chocolate. If I was lucky, I'd be eating and drinking it all with good friends and family overlooking the ocean and I'd savor every sip and bite and word and hug.
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Cleg Burris here. This topic is right up my alley, literally. My alley where my box resides is filled with left-over from various place. In particular, I just love to eat me some fries left from Mickey D's. They preserve me well during cold winter nights.
Start with Del Frisco's 14oz ribeye of the cows they graze on ambrosia before slaughter; grilled fresh asparagus dripping in butter and salt; mushrooms cooked in red wine with onions; garlic mashed potatoes; all washed down with generous amounts of Asti Spumante, finished off with mud-chocolate explosion cake – hot, served with vanilla ice cream on the side. Sit back and finish the evening with Irish Coffees and Bailey's Irish Cream, maybe some Kahlua- and enjoy all my family who were dining with me until we are all consumed in flames. ;-)
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LBGrrrl...You're in San Diego & you didn't get a Felipe's Pizza in Pacific Beach? I'd kill for a Felipe's Combo. Well,,,maim, anyway. From the cold, snowy mountains of Montana, a California boy dreams...(No, I don't want to know the temp there...)
I'd take a bath in champagne while feeding my husband lobster, grapes and Eli's cheesecake. Then we'd drink a bottle of the most expensive wine we could find and leave this world drunk, stuffed and happy.
I'd do a world tour. A chili cheeseburger from Original Tommy's ( see the shack, or send it back, baby ), followed by some hot and sour soup, Shepherd's pie, Moussakka, and to end it all.....
A deep fried snickers bar ( made by a local place in Davis, CA....best dessert ever tasted )
Haha....well, my grandma, age 90, saves her red meat day for when I come back to visit her in L.A., and we go to the original in Beverly and Rampart. Once in a while won't kill you....probably
Knoedel! Especially potato knoedel ("dumplings"), with roast goose, braised red cabbage and applesauce! Oh, wait, if the world doesn't end, that's what I'm cooking for Christmas dinner. Odd, isn't it, how we gravitate toward carbs? And, no one has yet mentioned that they'd like to go out eating broccoli....
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*...
Tito's Tacos in West Los Angeles. I'd have one of their burritos, some enchiladas, a couple of tacos, rice and beans scooped up with their chips, lots of salsa.......gut wrenching, I know, but what a way to go! I had to move to Florida for family reasons, and Tito's is the only thing I miss about Los Angeles.
Since it tis the season as well as apparently worlds end I would have to say.... Some freshly caught seafood, prawns, crab and alike, the traditional (northern hemisphere tradition which we still see in the southern) roast Xmas lunch with grandmothers pudding and trifle with custard (maybe sneak in a fruit mince pie). Am sure that meeting my maker on a full stomach shall be all the better.
My last meal would last all day and would include lau lau, mac and cheese, candied yams, a bite of a bacon cheese burger, a scoop of ice cream , a carrot cake cupcake, and pork fried rice...then I would lapse into a carbohydrate coma and never even know when the end hit me.
It is both a masterpiece and a disaster of culinary fare. A chunk of pork, a chunk of pork fat, a piece of butterfish and some taro leaves rolled up in a ti leaf and steamed for a couple hours. After you unwrap and discard the ti leaf eat it with short grain white calrose rice sprinkled with furikake and soy sauce. It's so good it 'Broke da mouth!'
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Small portions of; filet minon /w mashed potatos, prime rib, alaskan king crab /w beer, followed by homemade vanilla ice cream and carrot cake.
Doomsday will not happen this soon.
For more information study Holy Quran.
Its will answer everything for you there...Its the religion of truth..
Lol!
Bull Balls. Just a giant plate of raw Bull Balls.
I like fruit shake, fruit n veg salad, all kinds of nuts, good napa wines. All kinds of orchid around me just in case I will survive and books.
What kind of person would be worrying about a meal at a moment like that?
No wonder people are getting obese.
Myself, just get me an Emma Watson-like to spend the last hours together. :)
I would love to have a gigantic cheeseburger with numerous delicious toppings with a side of fries and ketchup. How delicious! And of course, I would not have to worry about that riuning my diet because I don't think I would be around the next day. (:
So nice to read that most responses are real, not shallow, most not "renting a private plane . . . blah, blah, unimpressively blah." Most are down to earth real, I respect you real people so much; the pretentious can go to h e double hockey sticks for proving their lives to be so, so, shallow.
For breakfast I'd have scrambled eggs with shrimp, shrimp pancakes, a bowl of sugar frosted shrimp cereal, and a glass of shrimp juice. For lunch, a shrimp sandwich with a side order of shrimp, and a shrimp milkshake. For dinner, barbequed shrimp on the grill, a baked potato with sour cream and shrimp, and some shrimp ice cream for dessert. I guess that's about it.
sushi r u crazy and caviar who its fish when there about to die
People that like fish?
all the savory food and pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mmmm food. Some people really put up a big list. cough, whzits cough.
Well what i would really want for my last meal is NO MEAL hahuahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
breakfast: bacon, cheese blintzes with maple syrup, fresh mango, and spiced fresh apple cider (hot) with Bacardi Oakheart. And a big glass of whole milk.
Lunch: Caesar salad (a real one, not with bottled dressing) pepperoni pizza New York style, Shiner Bock beer, and Blue Bell chocolate cherry ice cream.
Dinner: beef tenderloin med. rare, grilled shrimp, mom's Mexican Spoon Bread, McDonalds french fries, fresh crisp apples, mom's apple pie and her flan. Anasazi Fields fruit wine and Gran Marnier to drink.
Late snack, if there's time: good Roquefort cheese on toast with honey, and a shot of Yukon Jack.
I love your 'last snack'! Spot on! :)
i think my last meal would be a big burger and a giant pizza,after that drink some beers.nice
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humberto
Frankly I'm surprised no one has asked for a serving of crow ...
I've tasted that. It would be good NEVER to need to eat that. Nice post, though; thoughtful.
multiple pink tacos pleeeease!
doomsday menu:
crow
Salmon Sashimi, Hamachi Kama, Unagi Sashimi, Ground Ostrich Burgers, Roasted Butternut Squash, Spaghetti Squash, Ground GF Beef, Salmon Belly, Salmon Skin... And a Donut? LOL... I haven't had a donut in forever. I would rather eat 18 pounds of salmon than a donut or 10.
Hamachi kama. Yum.
I would totally eat as much sushi and saki as humanly possible; throw up.
Follow that up with mac-n-chz (my own special receipe); some chilil cheese dogs/fries, onion rings and beer; throw up
Followed by Jaeger and JD, alternating shots; throw up
Then to the grocery store to walk up and down the aisles, eating whatever catches my eye... throw up
DIE
Pig.
Pork cutlet with fries and German beer (much).
I would eat baked chicken, greens, sweet potatoes and cornbread! Southern cooking at it's finest!! Yummy!!!
All-you-can-eat Buffett......I will just keep eating so the meal never ends, and We keep living. Taking one for the team.
Amazing how many stupid people are in this world. Get an education.
You won't catch a cold if it is cold outside, stop playing the lottery, and kill your television.
Now that the world's not ending (today), would you please learn how to spell? Buffett = Jimmy or Warren; buffet = redneck dining Mecca.
I wonder if the non-thinking conservative multiple religious fanatics are happy the world didn't end today or disappointed. How much money did they spend that they could ill afford?
I think the next date is 2023 when an asteroid is due to pass by between the Moon's orbit and Earth. I'll be getting old by then so if it should somehow hit Earth it will be a great way to checkout with everyone else from this ill fated human race.
...ill fated human race that would rather believe and even kill sometimes over various fantasy beliefs then reality.
Please don't use your Christophobia as an excuse to bring politics into a food blog.
2023 yes i would be ready and able to depart about then if there's anything left to depart from but there will be prepared a place for the deserved to arrive and be welcomed.
Actually, as a somewhat educated non-Christian, most relgious conservatives are most likely Christian, and since the supposed prophesy was Mayan in origin, they were dismissing it because it had nothing to do with Jesus Christ's return. Nice try to ruin a fun food blog with your anti-Conservative/anti-Christian politics, though, but, sadly, it didn't work. Go Occupy at an athiest rally, please, well we enjoy our "last meal."
Crow would seem to be on the menu for the nut cases that actually thought the world would end and even spent a lot of time and money preparing for it.
12/22/2012 – Still here.
2112 an album by Rush. They weren't counting on the end of the world either.
Heh-heh.
My last meal's for the end of the world are as follows.
Morning: Lucky Charms Cereal
Lunch: A hamburger and steamed Broccoli
Dinner: All the sushi I can eat!
I would say a salad with a nonfat dressing, a lean protein such as a fish, and a glass of water. Delicious!
Shutup.
a huge platter of Louisiana crawfish, 6 dozen raw oysters, a 30 minute power nap then loving my baby till to clock strike zero
A bacon cheese burger, a milkshake, a cinnamon bun, sweet and sour chicken, and ya that's about it.
How has no one said In n Out Burger with some animal fries
An oyster feast...raw, fried and Rockefeller; a couple of short rib tacos; Memphis barbecue; and a whole key lime pie with whipped cream. Groan....if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna be sick...
I would have Mac-n-cheese with bacon, turkey, hamburger meat, ketsup, mustard, hotdogs, peperoni, ham bits, extra cheese, with a double banana strawberry cherry spit surprise!!! (with whipped cream)
Obviously, 94% of people want poutine: fries, cheese, and gravy!
Oh, so much food and so little time! For breakfast, buckwheat banana pancakes (with the bananas in the batter) topped with strawberry jam and a side of sausages. For lunch, steak fajitas with guacamole and three beef enchiladas and sopapillas with chocolate sauce. For dinner, eaten over six hours, two lobster tails, a huge pile of fried clams with tartar sauce, some grilled yellowfin topped with capers, wilted spinach, potatoes au gratin done crispy on the edges, weiner schnitzel, pickled red cabbage, sauerbraten with dumplings, chicken paprikesh with sour cream, lamb with prunes, eggplant parmegana, ratatouille, bbq shrimp with crusty french bread, bread pudding with brandy sauce, bison roasted with sour apples and onion, blackberry cobbler, port royal jamaican coffee spiked with a little brandy, a chocolate milkshake so dark you expect the moon to rise in it, roast beef with baby potatoes and carrots with green peppercorn gravy, schezuan lobster, Alabama fried chicken (cornmeal breaded and fried in peanut oil) with polish potato salad and chess pie, a peach pie with french vanilla ice cream, shrimp pad thai with thai tapioca pudding, a pot of sweetened chai, pork chops basted with butter, lemon and parsley grilled over charcoal, memphis dry rub beef ribs with sweet and sour coleslaw, a white cake pave with marmalde, raspberry and white chocolate filling topped with grand marnier whipped cream, a vidal blanch just short of icey, a Portugese rose, a porter at room temperature, an eggnog heavily dosed with nutmeg and Southern Comfort and a stomach pump on standy-by. I'm sorry, I love food too much to choose just one final meal. The list goes on....
Are you kidding me?
No, actually, once I started thinking of one dish, another and another followed. I love food. Some more than others. Don't care for sushi or tandori and Koreans deep fry their vegetables (which strikes me as counter-productive) and I avoid white sauce (too hard to get right and too many get it soooo wrong!) I don't care for English cuisine (can you even call it that?) and Norse cooking relies on a lot of salted fish so it's out. Also uses cream sauces (back to white sauce, again.) German cooking I love. Provincial French I love. Schezuan and Hunan I love (but you can keep Cantonese and Mandarin.) Italian of any region – gift from god. Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern foods I love (though have no experience of Afghani.) Have only had a few African dishes – the black beans and rice dish was one. Many African cuisines use a hot sauce that will take the skin off your tonque. Hot doesn't describe it. Have had Mexican, Tejano and Chicano but nothing else 'South American'. Some Spanish foods which I like. Eaten in every region of America except the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes regions. I thought Texas BBQ was boring. It's all about the smoke. I like spice. Eaten some NA cuisine, not much. Been here on the Big Blue for 57 years so my palate has had a lot of exercise. Besides, if I thought it really was the end of the world, I wouldn't really worry about my last meal (since I would have no idea what to choose,) I would just curl up under the covers with a book while listening to NPR comedy quiz shows. I have no desire to die with my boots on.
hush puppies from Copeland's, the german cheesecake that the Mennonite butcher used to sell (and that I haven't found a replacement for since he died,) black-and-white cookies from an Italian bakery (they used to flavor the white icing with either lemon or anise – yum!) mustard and pineapple gloazed ham with yams paked with pineapple and pecans, italian green beans (in tomatoes with peppers and onions and garlic!) beef golash over egg noodles, a hot polish sausage with mustard pickled onion relish and sauerkraut on a hard roll, spaghetti with garbage sauce (or Sunday Gravy, if you will – sausage and beef and vegetables and peppers and garlic and onions with many splashes of chianti,) dim sum with lots of different dipping sauces, lagastinos in garlic butter, strawberry ice cream with hot fudge, a bowl of bing cherries, a navel orange, a pitcher of grapefruit juice, calamari with marinara, tomato bisque soup with cheddar and croutons, Manhattan clam chowder with oyster crackers, spinach pie, a lamb gyro, chicken caccitore, sauerkraut and onion perogies fried in butter and onions till the onions are crispy and the perogies are browned and covered with sour cream, latkes with sour cream and apple sauce, a nice crisp german white wine with a crusty loaf of bread and some gouda and jarlesburg cheese, a confetti salad of leaf greens and minced garden vegetables topped with feta cheese and red wine/ olive oil dressing, conch fritters and lemon aid, a poached pear with broiled brie, penuch (sp?), dark fruitcake, a bowl of shelled pistachios. Oh, to never eat again and to have missed some dish, somewhere! Such sorrow! My friend's mother's chopped liver (which turns out to be veal and fake schmaltz!) Roast beef and horseradish on a crusty roll with a nice stout. Apple walnut pie with whiskeyed walnuts. Veal marsala. Fish stew with caviar. Beef barley soup with white cheddar cheez-its. Chili with cheddar and cornbread. Parker House dinner rolls dripping butter. A sour dough breakbowl filled with cheese and broccoli soup. Spinach salad. Shrimp curry (red). Kim chee. A pork loin roasted with peaches and cardamon. A baked yam dripping butter. The trifle Bloomingdale's used to sell in their tea room. Hasty pudding with maple syrup. Russian tea cakes and a pot of black pekoe heavily sweetened. Slow roasted London broil with horseradish. Mash squash with butter, cinnamon and brown sugar. Blackened catfish with lemon. Grilled red snapper. Oh, the fish I've given up for overfishing or poor maintenance! A cod steak with french fries and summer salad, heavy on the radishes. Broiled rainbow trout (headless – can't have my breakfast staring at me!) Braunsweiger and red onion on pumpernickel with brown mustard. A heavy, corned Jewish rye with a pot of whipped butter. Kona coffee. Jasmine tea. Mulled apple cider with a shot of Yukon Jack. Cutty Sark. Carr's whole wheat crackers with cream cheese and strawberry jam. Peanut butter on honey wheat with black cherry jelly. Coarse German bread with pot cheese, toasted crispy under the broiler. A baked potato with sour cream, butter and chives – lots of chives. Eating slivers of raw potato and sweet onion. Olives. A tomato and butter sandwich on white bread. A bowl of chocolate icing eaten with a silver spoon. A caramel apple rolled in peanuts. A bowl of blueberries and sliced peaches, lightly sweetened. A warm cranberry-orange muffin with lots of zest. Nut roll. Chocolate ruggelah. Sour cream cut outs. More wilted spinach. I adore spinach. Braccioli. Stuffed butterfly pork loin chop. Cold sausage stuffing left over from Thanksgiving. Orange-ginger chicken (stuff the chicken with oranges spiked with fresh ginger slivers, put ginger slivers under the skin.) Bruchetta. Hot chocolate spiked with Godiva white chocolate liquer, rum and brandy. A bowl of Wilbur Buds. Cold garbage sauce over bread. Sausage and pepper pizza. Pork, apple and onion casserole. Sharp white cheddar on toasted multi-grain bread. Corned beef and cabbage if you'll eat the corned beef (I like the cabbage boiled with the beef but not the taste of the boiled beef.) Turkish delight. Butterscotch pudding. Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts. Chicken mole. Corn relish. BBQ calico beans with bacon (black beans, red beans, butter beans.) Shrimp bisque on toast points with baby peas. Succotash. Meat loaf with tomato on top. Stewed tomatoes with crumble on top. Montgomery pie (wet bottomed shoo fly, basically.) Lemon custard. Deep chocolate cake. Linzer torte. Cream puffs. Shredded BBQ pork sandwich with cole slaw. Gherkins. Kosher pickles. Cucumber and onion salad. Harvard beets. Black beans and rice with jerked goat. Mincemeat pie. Angel Squares (from the Joy of Cooking cookbook.) Peiffernusse (sp?) Italian cheesesteak with double meat and sweet peppers. Hunan hot and sour soup. Geesh, this is a long list....
Are you about done, lol
LMFAO! And I thought I was obsessed with food. Good to know I am actually normal compared to whozits... ;)
Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
Mate.... i can't even think of one~
yeah if you eat enough artery clogging food all at once it probably would be your last meal. cuz you would die of an artery clogging heart attack!! then it would be the end of the world. at least for you!!
Thank you for explaining your, um, "joke."
Pinto beans that have been soaked and cooked all day with a ham shank. A 2 inch thick cake of cornbread. Well cooked and seasoned collard greens. Baked macaroni and cheese with a blistered cheddar cheese top. A plate of fresh from the garden sliced tomatoes and sweet onions. Green beans cooked all day with ham and a fresh pitcher of carolina sweet tea for me and my family to enjoy on a cool autumn afternoon. I die happy.
bacon cheeseburger well done no onions, fries, & a pepsi!
Pho with brisket and bo vien. And some sambal sauce. Served in a man's fedora hat and delivered by a shirtless Adrian Brody in a helicopter.
We had our "last meal" just for fun last night and it included wine and ALOT of bacon!
Three Dollar Cafe wings from Atlanta. Extra hot, extra wet and plenty of blue cheese and celery on the side. And, their fabuouls thick fries! I live in Seattle now, but dream of those wings from when I lived in Atlanta.
Prime rib medium rare with horse radish and a baked potatoe.
Oysters at Turtle Kraal's in Key West!
BEER
I would eat the person who made this stupid article.
Really? ~_~
Ok hannibal
I don't think that is quite the connotation she has in mind, if you know what I mean...;)
It could still happen. We have until Midnight at the international date line in the Pacific before today is officially over.
Just Saying.
Doomsday isn't happening today or tomorrow- so don't worry about it, so many prophets have told us about the end of the world and- we're still standing here.
Not all of us are still standing.
It. Is. Going. To. Happen.
Mark. My. Words.
All the fresh Dungeness crab that I could possibly eat.
It's a Double Double no question
Onion rings, baked potato, mom's bread pudding and a NYC chocolate Egg Cream.
That's what I forgot on my list - a chocolate egg cream! (they do make great ones, like the ones I used to get in NYC, at Bagel Palace in Atlanta)
If it's really the end of the world, of course one needs good dark beer...Young's Double Choc Stout, Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout....and Scotch...Glenlivet of course....and for food, go with everything everybody always tells ya not to have...greasy burgers, pizza LOADED with pepperoni and cheese, mushrooms, olives, sausage....burritos with scads of salsa, peppers and sour cream, 16 oz ribeyes, onion rings dripping with fat, and for dessert, every illicit material ya can get your hands on...pot brownies with a side or shrooms and acid shots...all done with all of the family and friends that ya can surround yourself with...when it ends it'll be just like another story from the party ya can tell in the afterlife.
With no hesitation . . . it's the chicken fried steak & eggs at City Hall Cafe in Montrose, CA. Smothered with country gravy and home fries there is no better meal.
dooms day or not...this day is nonsense thus far. What the f*ck? If it makes any sense...I missed it too. Someone want to explain it to me?
My last meal would be dry rub ribs, filet mignon, a loaded baked potato, the most expensive caviar money can buy, a bottle of champagne, chocolate truffles, and a cake from Carlo's Bakery.
I'd have to plan ahead and fly to somewhere or fly some things in, but I'd sip a Pisco Sour from Pura Vida in Atlanta then onto the meal with a Lobster Roll from Cape Cod, She Crab soup from Charleston, and a green salad with local, organic lettuces (probably from Crystal Organics Farm in GA) all with a glass of Far Niente or Grgich Hills Chardonnay from CA. I'd finish with Chocolate Soup from Fritti in Atlanta accompanied by a glass of a good red wine that goes nicely with chocolate. If I was lucky, I'd be eating and drinking it all with good friends and family overlooking the ocean and I'd savor every sip and bite and word and hug.
Again, all I do is post what I'm told from the folks that handle this stuff. They make the desicions about what to do with CBGXtra's forums and website, not me. They also have to handle all the websites F+W owns, many of which DO have commercial activity on them. Ours is tied to some of those, making this procedure necessary.
Cleg Burris here. This topic is right up my alley, literally. My alley where my box resides is filled with left-over from various place. In particular, I just love to eat me some fries left from Mickey D's. They preserve me well during cold winter nights.
Listen here buddy. That's uncalled for. Where do you get your free internet access?
Tough call. Either a juicy burger, rib-eye steak, or Maryland blue crabs.
Definitely Applebee's.
Applebee's is too liberal. You want something more like LoneStar or Olive Garden.
Guys, please can this be stopped atleast now? Doomsday itself is already over..
Haha, our country is so fat. When talking about the end of the world, all we can think about is food.
Better than having to listen to a judgemental pr!ck like you.
Dave's not here.
Funny...I didn't think of food. I thought of sex. And I got some before midnight last night...just in case.
Start with Del Frisco's 14oz ribeye of the cows they graze on ambrosia before slaughter; grilled fresh asparagus dripping in butter and salt; mushrooms cooked in red wine with onions; garlic mashed potatoes; all washed down with generous amounts of Asti Spumante, finished off with mud-chocolate explosion cake – hot, served with vanilla ice cream on the side. Sit back and finish the evening with Irish Coffees and Bailey's Irish Cream, maybe some Kahlua- and enjoy all my family who were dining with me until we are all consumed in flames. ;-)
Whiz wit.
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Bald eagle. What the hell, who cares? The world's ending and I wanna know what it tastes like.
Haha
china buffet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yuk man. you can do better
My Grandmother's lasagna. The best thing in the whole world!
LBGrrrl...You're in San Diego & you didn't get a Felipe's Pizza in Pacific Beach? I'd kill for a Felipe's Combo. Well,,,maim, anyway. From the cold, snowy mountains of Montana, a California boy dreams...(No, I don't want to know the temp there...)
i will eat carrots and broccoli , just in case I get saved the last minute and happen to survive
I'd take a bath in champagne while feeding my husband lobster, grapes and Eli's cheesecake. Then we'd drink a bottle of the most expensive wine we could find and leave this world drunk, stuffed and happy.
I'd do a world tour. A chili cheeseburger from Original Tommy's ( see the shack, or send it back, baby ), followed by some hot and sour soup, Shepherd's pie, Moussakka, and to end it all.....
A deep fried snickers bar ( made by a local place in Davis, CA....best dessert ever tasted )
A Tommy's burger is a Doomsday burger, especially after the age of 50. Can't burn it off like in younger days. Too bad . . .
Haha....well, my grandma, age 90, saves her red meat day for when I come back to visit her in L.A., and we go to the original in Beverly and Rampart. Once in a while won't kill you....probably
Knoedel! Especially potato knoedel ("dumplings"), with roast goose, braised red cabbage and applesauce! Oh, wait, if the world doesn't end, that's what I'm cooking for Christmas dinner. Odd, isn't it, how we gravitate toward carbs? And, no one has yet mentioned that they'd like to go out eating broccoli....
I want to go out eating broccoli...And tofu, lots of tofu...
And thus, and interwebs sensation was born:
SteakAllTheWay
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*...
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Mmmmmm . . . flamenon.
A plate of Bat in Palau. Yes, real bat and it is delicious.
Don't you get splinters in your gums?
Tito's Tacos in West Los Angeles. I'd have one of their burritos, some enchiladas, a couple of tacos, rice and beans scooped up with their chips, lots of salsa.......gut wrenching, I know, but what a way to go! I had to move to Florida for family reasons, and Tito's is the only thing I miss about Los Angeles.
A tin of Caviar from Prunier at Harrods.
there are some really hilariously funny ideas on the apocalypse out there. this site:
http://www.2012-is-over.com
sells tshirts for "survivors" :-)
Since it tis the season as well as apparently worlds end I would have to say.... Some freshly caught seafood, prawns, crab and alike, the traditional (northern hemisphere tradition which we still see in the southern) roast Xmas lunch with grandmothers pudding and trifle with custard (maybe sneak in a fruit mince pie). Am sure that meeting my maker on a full stomach shall be all the better.
My last meal would last all day and would include lau lau, mac and cheese, candied yams, a bite of a bacon cheese burger, a scoop of ice cream , a carrot cake cupcake, and pork fried rice...then I would lapse into a carbohydrate coma and never even know when the end hit me.
You have inspired me to look up what lau lau actually is
It is both a masterpiece and a disaster of culinary fare. A chunk of pork, a chunk of pork fat, a piece of butterfish and some taro leaves rolled up in a ti leaf and steamed for a couple hours. After you unwrap and discard the ti leaf eat it with short grain white calrose rice sprinkled with furikake and soy sauce. It's so good it 'Broke da mouth!'
Just let me go with chocolate on my breath!