Choose your own back story, the ending is the same. You did it and you’d do it again. You were framed by the Illuminati. You’re covering for someone else. Whatever.
Appeals are exhausted and you’re walking the green mile in a week.
Picking something impossible or designed to delay the execution date gets revised to a spam sandwich on toast with a glass of tepid water.
You probably don’t have a choice. In Texas you get nutraloaf like everyone else (OK, nutraloaf is usually reserved as a punishment. You get burgers and beans like everyone else).
I have looked at last meals of people being executed before. They overwhelmingly seem to choose comfort foods, probably from their childhood. Fried chicken, chicken fried steak, apple pie, coke, dr. pepper - very little fancy food. The meal often comes more than a day before their execution, as the tend to lose their appetite just before. Also a lot of the food seems to be prepared in the prison, so good luck getting really fancy food that does not taste like rubber.
So my last meal - dunno, think I would also lose my appetite. Maybe if I had a craving it would be my favourite meal as a kid, hamburgers, mashed potatoes and peas.
I’m actually a Phenomenal cook; all I ask is a refrigerator that isn’t empty, a spice rack, a frying pan, a sauce pan, a cutting board & knife, a stove, some fresh ingredients… and nobody in my way.
I Always make too much for one… so the deal is… if I can cook it, Warden can have half.
Delmonico steak (rare), half a bucket of KFC Original recipe, two large McDonald’s fries, two pints of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream, a can of Coca Cola, a cup of coffee (black) and a gallon of Poland Springs spring water
Chicken fried by a Southern cook, with mashed potatoes on the side, biscuits and gravy made by me with a couple of fried eggs on top, a good pot of coffee to go with it.
