If It Were Your Last Meal on Earth

[Lord Michael Lewis]

Much as I love posh food. I wouldn't feel comfortable about meeting my makers with my tripes galvanized by the culinary vanguard.

For me it would have to be the British soul food:

Roast rib of Angus, deep pink and well, well hung (like Shiva).

My Gran's dear departed Yorkshires.

Roast potatoes & parsnips, crispy mind.

Brussels sprouts (I'm going to hell, so who cares about wind).

Elsenham's horseradish.

And a lot of gravy made from the rest of the steer.

To finish perhaps an apple crumble, with a good egg custard (also know as creme Anglaise [Plitonki are reading this?])

If my goalers permitted it I'd wash the whole lot down with two or three botts of Absinthe.

[anil]

Much as I love posh food. I wouldn't feel comfortable about meeting my makers with my tripes galvanized by the culinary vanguard.

...............

If my goalers permitted it I'd wash the whole lot down with two or three botts of Absinthe.

What is posh food ?  As in Port-off-starboard-home food ?

three botts of Absinthe     and you want to do this at dawn  

[Gavin Jones]

On the UK board Matthew Grant instanced this morbid catalogue.

I wonder how members would choose to celebrate their final hours gastronomically.

I, you may recall, volunteered to autotrepan & eat my cerebellum (for critical dining purposes) which I think is probably rather conclusive.

What would you opt for?

[StephenT]

If I was in Texas I'd probably opt for one (or possibly all) of T-bone steak, cheeseburger, fried chicken or Mexican as it appears that that is all that's usually on the menu!

[torakris]

Oh, this is really easy!

Yuke (not sure of the exact romanization) a korean dish of raw beef with a sesame oil and soy marinade, topped with a raw egg

and

Raw oysters with grated daikon and a kind of ponzu sauce

[Rachel Perlow]

How about fugu?

[Gavin Jones]

Since the daturatoxin of fugu is identical to that used in the creation of zombies I think this approaches execution in bad faith.

Of course should you choose to exist as a revenant....

But I refer you to the current avatar of one Jason Perlow.

[nightscotsman]

I, you may recall, volunteered to autotrepan & eat my cerebellum (for critical dining purposes) which I think is probably rather conclusive.

Article on self trapanation: Drill here.

Warning: Certain icky bits are NOT for the squeamish. You have been warned.

[Basildog]

I need that link like i need a hole in my head

sorry.i have cold and feeling sorry for myself, and thats the best i got

[Rachel Perlow]

I, you may recall, volunteered to autotrepan & eat my cerebellum (for critical dining purposes) which I think is probably rather conclusive.

Is this similar to a certain scene in the movie Hannibal? I don't want to click that link.

[bigbear]

sorry.i have cold .....

Have you tried holistic medicine for your cold?

[Basildog]

I'm taking paracetamol, hot lemon drinks and smoking alot.I,m also taking tonight off.Thanks for you concern Big Bear

[bushey]

Basildog, get lots of rest and drink plenty of fluids. I'm not sure how the smoking figures into the equation.....nope, better not go there. I will feel sorry for you, too, if it will make your recovery speedier.

[Basildog]

Thanks...i,m feeling a bit better after a nap.Will be fine in the morning, i know it.Positive thoughts and all that

[Gavin Jones]

Of course a cigarette is compulsory on these occasions.

[hollywood]

For my "last" meal, I'd barbecue the executioner.

[yvonne johnson]

An article in today's NYTimes describes the last meal of a 5,300 year old preserved human (he was found in a glacier in the Alps). Sounds quite good. This chap (before he died of arrow wounds) had red deer, preceded by ibex, grains and plants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/17OBSE.html

But back to last meals in jail.

Has to be a white mealy pudding, deep fried with chips. Has to be warm though. If they brought it to my cell cold or tepid, I'd scream. What a death sentence.

Edit: I meant to add that I wouldn'd order posh food for my last meal either. Does this have serious implications? (In terms of posh food's importance, overall. Ho.)

[Shiva]

...and well, well hung (like Shiva).

Thank you, M'lud.

[yvonne johnson]

Wouldn't know from the avatar though, right? (Cool (coolest?) though the avatar might be.)

[Shiva]

Oh, and I'd have some knotty, bony, gristle-y cut of meat braised slowly for a long time. Osso buco, lamb shanks, oxtails, etc. Risotto, a salad and Bombay martinis would help too.

My avatar

[Suzanne F]

A nice slab of rare prime rib sounds lovely, but are you sure you don't mean your dear departed Gran's Yorkshire's? After all, how long has she been gone? Surely long enough for the Yorkshires to lose their appeal, no? Even if it was only yesterday.

Beyond that, except for a few bottle of good Burgundy, who cares? After all, veg and salads assume next-day excretion, and would that matter? NAAH.

[yvonne johnson]

All of that sounds very nice. I will need considerable time to get through all of these bottons (options?).

[Shermar]

The Times article said cheeseburgers head the list of "last meal" requests here in the good ole U.S. of A. No surprise!

[Stone]

All you can eat buffet, and an endless glass of beer.

[Wilfrid]

I suspect my appetite would be spoilt, but I would try to force down a few oysters, a slice of pate with a fresh baguette, some boudin noir with fried apples, perhaps some grilled sole, a roast grouse, pommes allumettes, a nice offal entree - probably tripe - followed by cheddar, stilton and a piece of raw milk camembert. Burgundies, of course, and a bottle of Calvados to follow. I suppose it's a bit posh.