The Last Meal Game: What would your final meal be like?

[Kipper is King]

I was reading one of Anthony Bourdain's books (he's a chef if you don't know who he is) and he frequently mentions playing the "Last Meal Game" with other chefs. The surprising thing is that these world class chefs almost never say they want "seared fois gras with peach chutney", or something fancy. Instead, something simple often comes up.

So let's play the game:

If you knew you were going to die soon, and you had one last chance to taste food, what would your last meal be? (drink/appetizer/main course/dessert)

Stating what it is isn't good enough, though. Why? Would you cook it yourself or have someone else do it? (It could be anything cooked by anyone anywhere on earth!) Would you eat it with friends or family or by yourself? Would you want music playing (even a live band), or silence? Anything else?

Here's mine:

It would be on the coast of Amalfi in Italy (a place I've never been to but always wanted to go). All my friends, and my parents would be there. The Tragically Hip (my favourite band) would be playing live, as well.

I'd be drinking Guinness (my first pint of beer ever was one)and I'd start with a good steak Caesar (Alberta beef, of course), because I love a truly good Caesar salad.I'd prepare that myself, because I love to cook. Then my parents would take over.The main course would be my dad's cabbage rolls, which we always have on holidays. Those are pure happiness for me. Lastly, I'd finish off with some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made by my mom, because that was the ultimate dish of my childhood.

That's mine.

[FlamesAddiction]

Here are what some people actual did choose as their last meal:

http://www.deadmaneating.com/dmearch.html

I always find it interesting for some reason.

For me, I would get a KFC chicken bowl. If you're going to die anyway....

[Sparks]

Last meal: Smith had a final meal request of nine tacos, nine enchiladas, french fries, a salad with ranch dressing, beef fajitas, a bowl of picante sauce, a bowl of shredded cheese, six jalapeno peppers, a strawberry cake with strawberry frosting and 16 Pepsi's.

Wow.

[foofighter15]

jessica alba

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by foofighter15

jessica alba

Yeah, you'd like her with chocolate sauce and whipped cream I'd bet! lol

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by foofighter15

jessica alba

i'd have seconds

[OILFAN #81]

Originally Posted by Kipper is King

Yeah, you'd like her with chocolate sauce and whipped cream I'd bet! lol

In the same position as my avatar!

[Kipper is King]

OK, new rule- cannibalism is not an option! (regardless of how smoking hot your main course is!)

[Ford Prefect]

I'll play.

For an appetizer I'd have a triple Rusty Nail ... Johnny Walker Red & Drambouie. The meal would start with a spinach salad I used to get at a place down in Kensington, made by whoever their chef was ... it had scallops, slivered almonds and mandarin wedges, with a hot Cointreau dressing. The meat would be either a barbecued steak (grass and grain fed Alberta Angus beef) which I'd barbecue, or if I didn't feel like barbecuing then I'd want my wife's sweet and sour meat balls. For veggies, pretty much anything as long as they're fresh and uncooked. Dessert would be a glass of cognac and my favourite cigar, followed by enough Cuba Libres to float an armada (hey, if it's my last meal I'm going to end it by putting three sheets to the wind!).

Joining me would be my wife and kids, and we'd be on a deserted stretch of beach somewhere on the Riviera Maya.

[4X4]

Appetizer would have to be peeled shrimp with cocktail sauce, with some bruschetta. Next up would be the seafood medley I used to eat in Rome. Don't even know what it's called, but it has mussels, oysters, clams, spaghettini noodles in a garlic/tomato/cayenne sauce...
After that, lasagna made by my stepmom. Unbeatable, even in Italy (and she's dutch).

Some stracotto di manzo (a kind of roast beef with a bolognese sauce on it) for a main course, and of course a garden salad with oil and balsamic vinegar.

Red wine throughout (preferably Valpolicella) (and don't bother mentioning that white wine goes better with seafood). A shot of tequila before and afterward, and all the beer they'll feed me until they throw the switch. Stella will do.


Why are we talking about this? Now I'm hungry.

[Kipper is King]

4x4 and Ford Prefect, those are some good meals!

[SportsJunky]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Here are what some people actual did choose as their last meal:

http://www.deadmaneating.com/dmearch.html

I always find it interesting for some reason.

What an interesting website. I've been reading forever it seems.

[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, I'd start my meal with a glass of Brown Bear blood, then an starter salad made up of Munz Onions, San Diego Ambrosia, Star Cactus and Fragrant Prickly Apple. I'd then get a plate of deep fried Virgin Island Boa Constrictor, The main course would be lightly breaded Nekogigi stuffed with scaleshell mussels, a sliver of brown eared pheasant, with a side of brown rice. For Dessert, it would be a bowl of jellied phygmy Rabbit Eyeballs sauted in sherry. I would have an after dinner drink of scotch and ice stirred with a single feather from Ivory Billed Wood. Then I would have an after dinner cigar wrapped with the paper from a California Red Wood.

Then after dinner, I would sit on the porch and spray fluorocarbons into the air while I watched the endangered species that I ate exterminated so that nobody else could have this kind of a meal.

[flylock shox]

2 kilograms of unpopped popcorn kernels and a pint of molten butter to wash it down with. This assumes I'm getting the electric chair, of course.

Otherwise I think I'd have nothing, just so's I could wallow in complete self-pity on my way out of this world.

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Then after dinner, I would sit on the porch and spray fluorocarbons into the air while I watched the endangered species that I ate exterminated so that nobody else could have this kind of a meal.

Captain Crunch must be Al Gore's screen name! Whatever floats your boat!

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

2 kilograms of unpopped popcorn kernels and a pint of molten butter to wash it down with. This assumes I'm getting the electric chair, of course.

And would you have the logo for "Kernels" popcorn tattooed on you? That execution would be almost...funny. POP! POP! POP!

[Aeneas]

Breaded schnitzel with mushroom sauce, spetzle, pasta with bolognese sauce, mashed potatoes and stuffing (also doused with gravy), and some white rice with butter salt and pepper.
For desert: chocolate chip banana bread covered with custard with sliced bananas.
To drink: Four pitchers, one with milk, one beer, one water and one coke. The beer, hmm best make that 2-3 pitchers of beer. Grolsch, Stella, Konig Ludwig Weisbier, Canadian, whatever.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Kipper is King

Captain Crunch must be Al Gore's screen name! Whatever floats your boat!

Actually, he's being a bit of greenie spraying fluorocarbons. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the nasty ones.

[prarieboy]

That's easy,

I'd start with an Endive Salad with shrimp followed with a dozen hotwings from Earl's. I'd follow that with a couple of Ice Cold Becks and then crack a bottle of Tinhorn Creek Cabernet Franc. The next course would be broiled lamb chops (eight or so) and some lightly steamed esparagaus in melted butter and salt and pepper. After that's done I'm pretty much suffed so i'd wait a while and finish off with my mom's cherry cheese cake and start drinking Crown Royal and Coke till I got surley and faced the chair with a hearty screw you!!!

[Sainters7]

For dinner I'd have a big, juicy prime rib, medium rare, with a loaded baked potato, caesar salad and a few gin Caesars to wash it down with(with a bunch of those spicy beans you get with em at BP's). Then for dessert I'd have a big cake with a file and a shank in it.