Lobster grilled over cherrywood coals, baked potato, grilled asparagus with hollandaise.

I wouldn't worry about fancy food, I'd try to find a way to make the 'last' not happen.

If it is going to be my last, it is going to be a big one! This would be a meal I recall that many times our family had when I was growing up at my Grandma's house. Start off with homemade chicken and noodles on mashed potatoes, fried chicken, home grown green beans cooked with bacon and onions, fresh from the corn patch sweet corn on the cob, big slices of fresh home grown tomatoes, candied sweet potatoes, creamy coleslaw, homemade yeast rolls as big as your fist slathered with fresh churned butter, homemade black raspberry pie with berries picked in the woods, my Grandma's Remy Cake which was a white coconut cake, and a big pint of fresh brewed iced tea. That is my very favorite meal.

Sue in Central Indiana

Pot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and fresh fruit salad of pineapple, strawberries, peaches, blueberries, white grapes, mangoes, red raspberries, and tangerines. And one of those strawberry-lemonade slushy things.

I think I'll eat my last meal with Marilyn Sue.

Turkey with all the trimmings and pizza, my 2 favourite meals.

I haven't been able to eat chocolate for several years, it upsets my stomach. But if it's my last meal I want every type of chocolate available for dessert! Chocolate cheesecake of course, truffles, etc. Mmmmmmmm

A huge tub of fried chicken from one of those places where I am not allowed to go now. I would eat every piece and if I get sick...so be it!

Rib eye steak or prime rib, side of spaghetti, Italian bread or potato rolls with butter, a salad with real, garden tomatoes, lemon meringue pie, and a bottle of 2045 Cabernet Sauvignon.

gyr falcon - "2045" LOL Very good.

medium rare steak, sliced beefsteak tomatoes with salt, yam fries with chipotle sauce dip, and profiteroles with dark chocolate sauce. OH and a glass of Pinot Gris and I think I might join gyr falcon and have the same vintage if that's ok.

I'm thinking along the lines of Lucille. Funny but I think there's something to be said for having whatever you choose when, in reality, one never knows what the last meal will be (unless they've found a way to come back and let us know) or they've been sentenced to death which comes with a 'last meal' of their choice.

Of course. Hope 2025 turns out to be a good year. Share your chipotle sauce?

If I refuse to eat it, do I get an extension?

If it's before dying, who needs to eat?

Prime Rib with a baked potato.

I'll take a huge platter of roasted vegetables, one bite of that rare Prime Rib, pumpkin pie (no cream) and a big piece of chocolate cake, with Fudge icing and maybe a bit of home made vanilla ice cream. A nice glass of red wine as well.

I would order in my favorite meal from a little restaurant we went to a lot while living in Michigan. First the crusty bread then the house salad with melon and a fruity dressing. Lastly the entrée of Pasta Artichoke Pullet. No dessert needed. Yep, a meal to die for.

Chicken Chesapeake from Hoopers in Ocean City, MD. Stuffing with gravy, roasted asparagus drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with montreal steak seasoning. Also venison roast done in the slow cooker then browned and sprinkled with garlic salt, again with gravy. Vanilla cake with home made chocolate peanut butter icing with a plop of ice cream. And bring on the wine!!

I read or heard that in prison they don't do that anymore. Regular fare or nada. Could have been just one particular prison they were talking about.

I would love a plate of fresh veggies like peas, potatoes, green beans, corn etc etc and maybe a big old fried porkchop...Oh and corn bread with ice tea or a big tall glass of ice cold buttermilk...

Perhaps it is just TX...

Texas, however,
doesn't want to be that dignified anymore. The Lone Star State ended its
last meal policy in 2011, after a convicted killer ordered a massive meal that he decided not to eat. Here's what he ordered, according to the Houston Chronicle.

two
chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese
omelet, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell
ice cream, and a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread.

I'd have a hard time choosing. Scallops, lobster, ribeye, prime rib, crab, fried chicken, so many choices! Veggie would be easier? Artichokes, asparagus, or those haricot vert from J Alexander. Starch? Maybe, maybe not. There would surely be chocolate, lots of that. And Prosecco.

Ruthie, All I could find was that Texas has abolished the last meal in prison, so not abolished, really? I do know in the US, inmates cannot have alcohol or cigarettes. Although, in looking around, KFC seems to be the choice in Asia?!

Big slug of Pepto-Bismol would be most likely for me if I was facing imminent death. Now...if there was a chance I could share the meal with people who could get me out of the situation, I'd have to ask what they wanted -- since I don't have millions in drug money to pay them.

Seen too many people who couldn't eat a last meal when they're dying and too sick to eat. Moot point to me. Not something I think about, nor want to. And if I were on death row awaiting execution, which I presume is the pretense to the question, I'm sure I'd have a lot of time to think about it!

I'll have what you're having, Snidely. Right down to the last sip! :-)

A little crab meat, one seafood crepe (homemade by me), some sashimi, two sushi Salmon roe pieces. A cup of steaming hot coffee with cream and sugar with a few fresh dark cherries and a juicy ripe peach for dessert.

I think I'm too literal minded. I keep reading your answers and thinking that if I were facing execution I wouldn't have an appetite. I'd be either innocent or the political prisoner of an extremely corrupt regime, and the injustice would make it even worse. Tea and toast?

So I came up with an alternate scenario--if I were going to have lifesaving surgery that was likely to destroy my sense of taste, these are the things I'd want to taste one last time:

Cheese borekes made with filo and gruyere (among other cheeses).
Eggplant in techinah salad with Syrian style scratchy hard pita.
Greek style salad with a large variety of vegetables, including peppers and cress, and feta.
My mother's arroz con pollo, full of dried fruit, mandarin slices, and guava jelly.
A friend's "Flablam!"--mostly cheese with some tomato sauce stuffed into a butter pastry shell.
Double cut rib lamb chops with salt and ketchup (childhood favorite).
Petits Pois (plain).
Sunbursts little yellow tomatoes, chilled.
Roasted eggplant spears with pepper and herbs.
Sliced cremini mushrooms braised in port with shallots.
French vanilla ice cream.
72% dark chocolate.
Perfectly ripe cantaloupe, strawberries, peaches, and cherries.
Aged gouda and triple cream brie with whole grain and seed bread.
Plain buttered white toast.

Plus a double double animal style + raw onion and the world's best crunchy street taco. :)

That's more than a meal, but it's interesting to think of living but not tasting. There are all kinds of foods that I love that aren't on the list. These are the ones I'd want to remember most. OTOH, I think I already remember them really well, so maybe I should ask for stuff I can't imagine?

I would request angel hair pasta with a fresh tomato and garlic sauce, topped with crumbled feta cheese and fresh chopped basil. A glass of white wine and homemade apple crisp with vanilla ice cream and a lemon shortbread square.

Street Tacos! Yummm!