If you are about to be executed, what the heck do you order for your last meal? What are your final words?
I was stuck in traffic and for some reason my mind wandered to the topic of executions. Since I’m not particularly bright, I didn’t ponder whether capital punishment is right or wrong, but I wondered what to eat and what I’d say. These are the final decisions you get to make on this mortal coil, so you better make them count.
For me: Thick steak (rare, T-bone), baked potato w/sour cream, butter and bacon, corn on the cob, a Dos Equis and Key Lime Pie.
My final words: I can’t decide what to say here. I suppose if I am guilty, I’d admit my guilt. Otherwise, I don’t know what to say.
Final Meal: Fried Fisherman’s Platter w/cole slaw and french fries, bowl of clam chowder w/oyster crackers and bread to sop it up, and 2 whole boiled lobsters.
I would ask for the Golden Gate Bridge deep fried. Make them work hard before they kill me… Or maybe I’d ask for a hershey bar, just to piss off the cook who is preparing to make a huge meal.
Oh, btw VERY MORBID WEBSITE, I forgot who showed me this but it is VERY MORBID.
(I warn you, I would not click on it if I were you, I wish I never saw that site)
Last meal: lobster ravioli. (Had a plateful last summer at a restaurant in NYC. Dayum, that was amazing stuff.) Dessert: chocolate tequila sorbet, as done by Taqueria Poblano in Alexandria, VA. And to drink with dinner, a steady supply of rum-ritas, also as prepared by Taqueria Poblano. If I’m gonna make the transition from this world to the next involuntarily, I might as well be very happy for my last few minutes.
Last words: *Oh, you’re gonna lay me out pretty, eh? That’s the thanks I get for freeing an innocent girl who, although she’s hiding in the closet at this moment, has promised to become the mother of her children. And with that, sir, I bid you a fond farewell.
Grilled cheese sandwich, & french fries.
I went to the site clayton_e posted, and I was feeling all sorry for the guy whose last meal choice was the same as mine. Until I read why he was there. Raped & killed a 7 year old. Then I remembered why I am in favour of the death penalty.
I’d order “Your finest food, stuffed with your second finest” Mke them think a little. Course, in a prison it’d probably be salisbury steak stuffed with chipped beef on toast.
Last words: “By any chance, has the governor called?”
Five dozen raw Appalachicola oysters. Yes, they have to be from Appalach. Yes, I will be able to tell the difference. Why so many? Because food poisoning will not be an issue. Also about 10 or 12 lobster tails, cherry tomatoes dipped in ranch dressing, and around 75 shrimp scampi.
I’d probably order something I had never had before because, you know, if I didn’t try it then I would probably never get the chance to.
Last words is a tough call. I guess what with people sitting on death row for so many years they have to come up with some pretty good material but since I’m not on death row all I can think now is something along the lines of “So long, suckers!”
Most of the last meal requests were about what you’d probably imagine: fried chicken, steaks, cheesburgers, and somewhat surprising BLTs.
A few were noteworthy:
John Wheat - Liver and onions
Stacy Lawton - 1 jar of dill pickles
Odell Barnes - Justice, equality, world peace
Sammie Felder - 1/2 lb of chitterlings
Robert Madden - Give last meal to a homeless person
Larry White - Liver and onions
Jeffery Barnes - 2 boxes of Frosted Flakes and a pint of milk.
I don’t know about the last meal, but I’d like to really shake them up with my last words. Something along the lines of “Father forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.”
Regarding the site…in real life, they don’t actually let you have whatever your heart’s desire for your last meal (not in Texas at any rate); one can generally order anything available in the prison kitchen, although if you have a special request like Mc Donald’s or some such the warden or chaplain will often try to oblige. Cheeseburgers are a frequent choice because they tend to be the best of the prison fare. Most last meals go uneaten.
I’d like to think I’d stay on my vegetarian, alcohol free diet and order vegetable egg foo yung with extra gravy, vegetable fried rice, french fries, ice tea, coffee, and one pint of every flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with real whipped cream on top.
However, I think it would probably be a bottle of red wine, 1/2 pound bacon, ful pound chicken friend steak with extra gravy, french fries, coffee, and one pine of every flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with real whipped cream on top.
