# Last meal-DENIED!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660 "2003-12-03T05:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/1 "2003-12-03T05:35:42Z")
Me and **Tuckerfan** were debating lsat meals for inmates on death row. most of them (which we found about about [here.](http://deadmaneating.com/) ) had fast food and what not. Almost none had really grand meals. I wanted get lobster, with a nice Filet Minon and 2 appitizers Fried Calimari, Crab cakes and Cocktail shirmp, and something else fish related. Also I’d have 2nd course maybe some snaper with a nice cream sauce and asparigus. And a bottle of a nice white wine. (What goes well with that? ) Anyway Tucker was cool with that, untill I said I wanted sea Bass and not snaper. he goes on and on about how its endagnered and the environmentalists this, and nature that I just wanted to shank him for my damn sea bass! He feels that I should be made to suffer, even in my last meal. Now I ask you, if A man is going to be killed in the morning, is a bit of sea bass ALL THAT MUCH TO ASK FOR? What say ye Dopers? and don’t forget [I’m the Evil overlord with style](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205079) ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/2 "2003-12-03T05:37:31Z")
I doubt he’d get the sea bass… he lost his rights and such. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/3 "2003-12-03T05:40:50Z")
But I’m gonna DIE people, just A LITTLE sea bass? Not even a large filet, its the 2nd course after all. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/4 "2003-12-03T05:45:37Z")
Remember folks, it’s bad enough that we’re making the sea bass endangered because of over fishing to meet the demands of upscale diners, but **MM** , wants to allow condemned criminals the right to eat them as well. Considering that **MM** would have had to do something particularly heinous to be put on death row, why should the poor sea bass be killed just so that **MM** can have something interesting in his gullet, in case his body decides to puke it all up at the moment of death? I don’t think that it’d be considered cruel and unusual punishment to deny you the sea bass by anyone’s definition, other than your own. (Of course, you could probably delay your execution a couple of hours by taking the matter to the courts, but I’m sure you’d lose in the end.) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/5 "2003-12-03T05:51:41Z")
Well looking at past precident, I’d be the FIRST person to order something that exotic. It’d only be one small fillet of sea bass. C’mon where is your Christian love. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/6 "2003-12-03T05:53:21Z")
For _my_ last meal, I want roasted spotted owl with a nice snail darter stuffing. I don’t think **MonkeyMule** is being unreasonable. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/7 "2003-12-03T05:57:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MonkeyMule \* > \*\*Well looking at past precident, I’d be the FIRST person to order something that exotic. It’d only be one small fillet of sea bass. C’mon where is your Christian love. 😃 \*\* Kind of hard for me to have it when I’m not one. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/8 "2003-12-03T06:02:51Z")
I have since found out that sea bass are \*\*[not](http://www.consumerfreedom.com/oped_detail.cfm?OPED_ID=144) \*\* endangered. ok fine that is a pro resturaunt industry site, but it seems vaild enough ---
**Author:** ![primesite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@primesite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/primesite)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/9 "2003-12-03T07:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uvula Donor \* > \*\*For _my_ last meal, I want roasted spotted owl with a nice snail darter stuffing. I don’t think **MonkeyMule** is being unreasonable. > > 😉 \*\* \*\*\*Don’t forget the bog turtle soup appetizer… \*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/10 "2003-12-03T07:58:52Z")
Since you’re going swanky, might I suggest Chilean see bass? ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/11 "2003-12-03T08:03:02Z")
More information can be found at [Final meal requests](http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm) A goverment site. Texas, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/12 "2003-12-03T08:14:53Z")
> [@](#): > > One cup of hot tea (from tea bags) and six chocolate chip cookies Inexpensive fellow, isn’t he? > [@](#): > > Cool Whip and cherries Was he having a conjugal visit? > [@](#): > > One pot of coffee That much caffeine will kill you (sorry) > [@](#): > > 1 bag of assorted Jolly Ranchers > [@](#): > > Chocolate birthday cake with “2/23/90” written on top, seven pink candles, one coconut, kiwi fruit juice, pineapple juice, one mango, grapes, lettuce, cottage cheese, peaches, one banana, one delicious apple, chef salad without meat and with thousand island dressing, fruit salad, cheese, and tomato slices > [@](#): > > 1 jar of dill pickles > [@](#): > > Justice, Equality, World Peace > [@](#): > > 2 lb. of crispy fried bacon, one quart chocolate milk and one pint of fresh strawberries > [@](#): > > Eucharist - Sacrament > [@](#): > > None. Last minute he decided to eat a hamburger at his Mother’s request. > [@](#): > > Asked that final meal be provided to a homeless person > [@](#): > > God’s saving grace, love, truth, peace and freedom > [@](#): > > Justice, Temperance, with Mercy > [@](#): > > Apple > [@](#): > > Yogurt ---
**Author:** ![kiwiboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@kiwiboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiwiboy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/13 "2003-12-03T08:18:42Z")
That’s one morbid site. There’s some pretty moving requests: Danny Harris (who was eighteen when he committed his crime) requested “God’s saving grace, love, truth, peace and freedom” Carlos Santana (convicted of killing a security guard during a robbery) requested “Justice, Temperance, with Mercy”. I hope they both got their last wish. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/14 "2003-12-03T08:21:19Z")
I can’t help but feel that some of the moving requests were not said in all seriousness. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/15 "2003-12-03T08:56:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Shrimp and salad. Shrimp not available. Served cheeseburger, french fries and cola. Poor guy, didn’t get the shrimp he wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/16 "2003-12-03T11:08:08Z")
You wouldn’t get that grand meal anyway. A last meal has, in many cases, a monetary limit. I think I once heard $20. And it’s usually limited to what the prison has on hand, although someone could volunteer to fetch in some special ingredient I suppose, the system being willing. That’s why that guy got a burger instead of shrimp. I wonder if that one request, for the Eucharist, was granted. Prisons can be strange about wine being brought in, I’ve heard of it being barred, from a cousin who worked for a period as a guard in a maximum security unit in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/17 "2003-12-03T12:54:55Z")
**Baker** I think that’s correct. Typically, you get to choose your last meal out of whatever the prison typically has on the menu. I’m sure there are exceptions, like fast food or whatnot, and bear in mind I remembering from some documentary type show. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/18 "2003-12-03T15:25:23Z")
There was an article in the local paper a few days ago about last meals for condemned prisoners. In Georgia the rule is that the food and/or ingredients must be available in the prison or surrounding town. There is no monetary limit. Give **MM** catfish and call it sea bass. It’s not like he’ll complain long. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/19 "2003-12-03T15:38:01Z")
**MM** : Hey, this isn’t sea bass! Guard: Yes, it is. **MM** : No, it isn’t! Guard: You’ve got 30 minutes left. You gonna complain or you gonna eat? I dunno, **Doc** , that’s just plain evil! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660/20 "2003-12-03T16:18:41Z")
I’d like a glass of water and the Electric Eel please. If you’re short on that then how about the Puffer? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-meal-denied/216660.md?page=2)