last supper

"Your girlfriend's pretty clever. For her last meal she asked for a McRib and a Shamrock Shake. That should buy her a few months. Those two are almost never available at the same limited time."

i've been attempting too trim the dvr fat this week in my spare time and i've been catching up on some of the many random shows that i attend to. the quote above came from the pilot of "raising hope" and i thought it was pretty funny considering the chaos that ensues every time the mcrib chooses to grace us with it's presence.

because i'm a huge nerd and love research...i took to the internet for the origins of the last supper. while it's history is hard to trace, it does have greek, roman, aztec, and japanese origins. most governments that choose to execute prisoners offer it and many believed it to be a symbolic act of forgiveness on the part of the prisoner regarding their executioner. most recently, the ritual of the last supper made it into the "top chef" challenges thanks to the book published above.

while a generous ritual to say the least, one's final meal is not without it's restrictions. alcohol and tobacco requests are usually denied. unusual requests are generally met with substitutions. in tejas, prisoners are limited to foods that can be found within the "prison system" and in other states a monetary budget often limits selections.

oddly enough, there's tons of info. on various notable's last meals.

• Allen Lee Davis: 350-pound "Tiny" Davis had one lobster tail, fried potatoes, a half-pound of fried shrimp, six ounces of fried clams, half a loaf of garlic bread, and 32 ounces of A&W root beer.
• Gary Lee Davis: Chocolate and vanilla ice cream cups, shared with the prison superintendent and a manager.
• James Edward Smith requested a lump of dirt, which was denied. He settled for a small cup of yogurt.
• Philip Workman: He declined a special meal for himself, but he asked for a large vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person in Nashville, Tennessee. This request was denied by the prison, but carried out by others across the country.
• Ricky Ray Rector: Steak, fried chicken, cherry Kool-Aid, and a pecan pie — which he did not eat, because he said he was saving it for later.
• Saddam Hussein: The Times states that "he refused their offers of cigarettes and a last meal of chicken."

i absolutely LOVE food which has recently, in my thirties, become my downfall. so choosing my last supper might be a particularly challenging task for me. so now its got me thinking, what would be my last supper? i love mexican food and generally have to have it at least three times a week but i'm also pretty adventurous with other genres as well. i don't typically eat the same thing on recurring visits and if i'm with my parentals and not paying, i will partake in the "specials". all that to say, i don't think i would ever be able to come to a final decision. on second thought, my not being able to come to a decision on said meal could give me a little more time to hold out for that appeal. i think i'll just choose a big heaping helping of "indecisiveness with a side of apprehension".

what about you? what's on your last supper menu?