Recently, a death row inmate in TX chose as his last meal: fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, buttered biscuits and, seriously, a Diet Coke.
The Diet Coke thing killed me, excuse the pun. Even if he was trying to lose weight or was diabetic, so what !?
But it got me to thinking what I would order as my last meal.
What would be your final meal??
Sky's the limit......

Filet of beef, grilled Argentinian style - a whole filet rubbed in coarse salt and placed on the grill. *drool*

Not sure I still need a side dish...

And to drink, a nice Appenzeller Bier or two - or three.

I neglected to name MY Final meal:

Appetizer: Backfin Lump Crab Cakes drizzled with a lemon butter sauce AND Coquilles St. Jacques AND chilled Jumbo Stone Crab Claws with a lemon-mustard sauce. (Might as well go for the gusto)

Salad: Caesar Salad loaded to the max with garlic and anchovies ( Hey....why do I care if I'll have bad breath. I'm headed to the gallows in an hour. )

Main Course: Chopped Sirloin made from Kobe Beef laced with fresh garlic, finely diced Maui onions and grilled to medium rare.

Side Dish: Macaroni and cheese laced with large chunks of Maine claw lobster meat

Veggie: Fiddleheads and morel mushrooms sauteed in garlic and cold pressed olive oil.

Dessert: A whole Key Lime pie flown in fresh for the "occasion" from Key West, FL

Beverage: Diet Coke, of course.

Fish and Chips, Extra Large Cod, extra salt and vinegar
Diet Coke, Light Ice

I have been drinking Diet Coke for so long that real Coke tastes nasty.

Mine would be sushi, an osaka (hot beer ), miso soup, fried ice cream, and a green salad with ginger dressing.

Oh, just a sandwich. As described by Giles Cohen of the Times of London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...154045,00.html

"...The main filling is a half-pound sirloin of wagyu beef, the famous beer-fed, regularly massaged Japanese �100 per kilo variety, whose angelic marbling with uncountable seams of pale fat give a sweetness and complexity that make it, if meat is your thing, a giveaway at the price.

The beef is grilled rare and basted with foie gras, then served between two slices of the chef�s own 24-hour fermented sourdough, with truffle mayonnaise, foie gras dressing, brie de Meaux, red pepper confit, English plum tomatoes and rocket..."

And a diet coke, laced with some soju.

Unless you are under a sentence of death, you are unlikely to be able to predict which meal will be your last. An argument against cheap fast food if there ever was one.

My last meal? I don't know yet...

Hey!!!. I like diet coke.. uh hmmm... thats what i've heard .. i think

Something that takes days to prepare probably, and a diet coke, I totally love the stuff.

I'd have to say a little of everything...kobe beef steak, prime rib, excellent sashimi, uni, and raw scallops, oysters, raw shrimp and a few slices of Japanese blowfish, Maine Lobster, and a few of the delicious Chinese Crabs (da ja xie). I'd also like a few of the internationally renouned chefs to prepare it all.

Topped off with a bottle of Ch�teau Yquem with the vintage year of 1787. (only 100k USD/bottle). Okay maybe that's asking too much, I guess the correctional facility can afford a few bottles of '02 Screaming Eagle. Oh yes a nice sniffer of Louis 13th and a nice Cuban Cigar.

That will be my last meal if I am imprisioned and sentenced to death.

Nothing, need to leave room for an endless supply of good food!

A beautiful filet, grilled with salt and herbs de provence, add a pan fried crab cake with lots of lemon and french fries, thinly cut with lots of ketchup. And follow up with coffee ice cream and whipped cream. And a diet coke!!!!

Appetizer: Beef Satay with peanut sauce

Salad: Goan Chourizo and Herb Salad (with lots and lots of chourizo)

Main Course: Chicken Cafreal with a Four-cheese Rissotto.

Dessert: Amul Shrikhand (Elaichi flavor)

Beverage: Hoegaarden Grand Cru

Sorry to spoil the fun but if you are planning on a gourmet last meal in prison you are generally limited to items that are easily available (read stuff that they normally buy or can get cheaply). :P

I tend to wish for a meal that is so large and indulgent that it kills me before the executioner has the chance.

That would probably be foie gras and truffles topped with turkey gravy. Then wrapped in bacon. And deep-fried.