# Choose a fictional or historic food for your last meal. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881 "2011-05-05T21:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/21 "2011-05-05T23:24:26Z")
Or if we’re not allowing foods that grant immortality, I’d ask for the deadening potion supposedly used by voodoo practitioners to fake peoples death so that they could be dug up and used for zombies. Course, I’d need someone I trusted to dig me up once they buried me. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/22 "2011-05-05T23:30:39Z")
Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstopper. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/23 "2011-05-05T23:32:47Z")
Roast rump of tree-dwelling elephant with ecstasy sauce with a side of gnat’s kidneys. It would take years and the lives of countless people to get the ingredients. And there is only one source of ecstasy sauce, and that’s well guarded by Abner and Mammy. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/24 "2011-05-05T23:35:04Z")
[Some of that delicious](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsano%C2%ADdrim%C2%ADhypo%C2%ADtrimmato%C2%ADsilphio%C2%ADparao%C2%ADmelito%C2%ADkatakechy%C2%ADmeno%C2%ADkichl%C2%ADepi%C2%ADkossypho%C2%ADphatto%C2%ADperister%C2%ADalektryon%C2%ADopte%C2%ADkephallio%C2%ADkigklo%C2%ADpeleio%C2%ADlagoio%C2%ADsiraio%C2%ADbaphe%C2%ADtragano%C2%ADpterygon) λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων – just the act of ordering prolongs my life slightly. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/25 "2011-05-06T00:14:44Z")
Unless the warden is named Johansson or the like, I can probably slip by an order for apple pie made with the Apples of Idun. I’m reasonably sure it will get through because Loki is a drinking buddy of mine, and he owes me a few. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/26 "2011-05-06T00:57:25Z")
I want one of those gigantic yard-long lobsters that were considered food fit for only the poor people, back in the days of the Puritans. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/27 "2011-05-06T01:00:33Z")
I’ll take bagna cauda. It’s not fictional, but I learned about it on a television series, Babylon 5. After eating it it’s quite possible my breath would knock out those closest to me and I could escape. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/28 "2011-05-06T01:36:00Z")
Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms as prepared by Mrs. Maggot (brought to me in a covered basket, of course…with a bottle of wine, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilles_de_Rais)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/29 "2011-05-06T02:00:55Z")
I’d ask for the same menu that Charles Dickens was served during his visit to the U.S. at Delmonicos in New York, prepared by chef Charles Ranhoffer. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/30 "2011-05-06T02:02:06Z")
1st choise: Whatever Jesus ate at his Last Supper. I’m thinking it had resurrectional herbs in it. 2nd choice: Romulan Ale and with some green eggs and ham. 3rd Choice: Soylent Green! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/31 "2011-05-06T02:14:05Z")
(Yeah, I’ll admit my first thought was “Ambrosia,” too…and my second thought was that I was probably going to get executed by mincing, and then buried at sea. So I’d get to spend eternity as semi-digested chum. :eek: ) For the record, if one can find a universe where the Unicorns are in fact totally mundane creatures, or actually evil, would Unicorn steak be acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/32 "2011-05-06T02:18:14Z")
A box of chocolates from the Whizzo Chocolate Company. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/33 "2011-05-06T02:21:45Z")
Perhaps this is overly sentimental, but I’d like my grandmother’s sauerbraten dinner, complete with potato pancakes and red cabbage, with the gravy made with crushed up gingersnaps. She used to make it every year for my grandfather’s birthday, but we haven’t had it in over a decade due to her failing health (and now Alzheimer’s.) No one else can make it quite like her. I’d like it just once more. Especially if Grandpa (died in 1998) could be there to carve the meat while I “stole” snitzels from the platter… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/34 "2011-05-06T02:29:14Z")
Out of spite, I’d finish my meal with a wafer-thin mint. ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/35 "2011-05-06T02:47:16Z")
A Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. So I couldn’t be considered competent for execution. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/36 "2011-05-06T02:55:44Z")
I would order lembas but I would request to wash it down with a Pan-galactic gargle blaster. If the warden couldn’t, for whatever reason, violate the laws of physics necessary to mix a Pan-galactic gargle blaster on earth I would settle for the drink that Tom Bombadil gave to the hobbits. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/37 "2011-05-06T03:10:42Z")
I’m a simple man with simple tastes. I’ll just have a [Taco Town Taco,](http://www.hulu.com/watch/1447/saturday-night-live-taco-town) hold the refried beans. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/38 "2011-05-06T03:32:09Z")
How 'bout a Duff Beer, or a Slushie? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/39 "2011-05-06T03:33:22Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > For the record, if one can find a universe where the Unicorns are in fact totally mundane creatures, or actually evil, would Unicorn steak be acceptable? Absolutely, if you can stomach the fact that the cross-section of Unicorn meat is rainbow colored. With sparkles and magic. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-a-fictional-or-historic-food-for-your-last-meal/580881/40 "2011-05-06T03:51:15Z")
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