Para got me thinking about this.

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... If I had a last meal request, it would be half a fried chicken (breast, thigh, wing, drumstick) cathead biscuits with fresh creamery butter and strawberry preserves, cole slaw, and onion rings. Apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert. Oh, and a sprinkle of chopped pecans on that ice cream, please and thank you.

I'd pick a prime ribeye cooked medium rare with some creamed spinach and a baked spud. A bit of Häagen-Dazs pistachio ice cream for dessert.

How about you?

Last meal? I'd go straight for dessert.
Key lime pie, chocolate cake with chocolate icing, cheese cake, chocolate peanut butter ripple ice cream......

Some off-menu heat level Nashville Hot Chicken. I'd escape the second burn! Then maybe a giant strawberry cheesecake shake from Sonic for dessert.

My Mom's beef stroganoff with fluffy white rice, fresh crescent rolls, and white chocolate/raspberry heaven cake, which I've had for most birthdays since 1992. But my Mom passed in 2019 so...not happening. Barring that, maybe beef fajitas from Uncle Julio's (which my wife and I just had for our wedding anniversary last weekend).

Creamed tomatoes, sausage gravy, biscuits and fried potatoes.

Coffee and orange juice.

Carpaccio with pan fried capers, parmesan, arugula and lemon aioli. A nice Chianti. A 16oz prime NY strip, chargrilled med rare. Flash fried brussels sprouts. Throw in some sautéed shrooms for good measure. And a snifter of Grand Marnier neat for dessert

One of those hundred year old eggs. You can start aging it now.

I'd start with a bowl of lobster bisque then a lobster and scallop po boy and my wifes potato salad. For a veggie, I'd have green beans with bacon and for dessert I'd have huckleberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream.

Jim

My Grandmothers Chicken and Noodles. The chicken only knew he was participating about 2 hours before dinner!

A prime ribeye steak grilled to med-rare. Fried okra(in bacon drippins) with sausage gravy and biscuits. Green beans cooked with bacon and new potatoes. Blackberry cobbler with 'neller ice cream for dessert. That should about cover it.

Red beans and cornbread with a liberal sprinkling of vinegar hot sauce with lots of sweet tea made with real sugar. Right now I'm on a low carb diet and I miss this meal something terrible.

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... If I had a last meal request

I don't think I would have much of an apatite if I knew it was my last.

Now ... if you change it it "what is your favorite meal" then I that would be easier to answer.

Most likely a nice steak.

The chick that lived 3 houses down the side street. She was really a stunner. If you've gotta go, it'd be best to be totally exhausted with a smile on your face. You might not know or care if you were being "ended". Pity the poor undertaker who was supposed to remove the smile on your face.

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Country-fried (NOT chicken-fried) steak; pan-fried potatoes, biscuits (not buttermilk), and green beans or mixed greens. Skillet gravy on the steak, potatoes, and biscuits. Chocolate meringue pie for dessert.

My mom would make that for my birthday each year I was home.

For those not in the know, "country-fried" steak is thin round steak that has been rolled in flour, which is then beaten into it with a special mallet (or the edge of a heavy saucer), and then fried in a cast-iron skillet until crusty and brown. The leavings in the skillet are mixed with milk and flour to make the gravy. (My arteries are hardening even as I type this.) That steak is good hot or cold, eaten from a plate or in a sandwich, or just hand-held. Yumm!

flashguy

Just like Johnny in the Tom T Hall song, A lot of fried chicken, pole beans and baby squash

This may be something that will change over time for me. But today I would want one of these two courses (it's been consistent for the past 10 years or so when this question is posed; Italian and Japanese are my favorite cuisines; and as much as I like steak and BBQ, I think I would prefer seafood for my last meal):

1) appetizer: hon-maguro o-toro sashimi (bluefin tuna belly sashimi); soup: asari sakamushi (clams simmered in sake based broth); entree: mentaiko onigiri made with toyama rice and katsuo tataki (bonito seared with straw); dessert: shaved ice with fresh japanese mango.

2) appetizer: fritto misto calamari; soup: clam chowder; entree: cioppino (heavy on shelled crab, clams, mussels, prawns, light on fish) with a freshly made, soft rosemary baguette; dessert: souffle with a dark choco hazelnut drizzle.

Lobster bisque, caprese salad, reverse seared ribeye, king crab, grilled asparagus (skinny spears not those awful thick ones), and creme brulee

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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... If I had a last meal request

I don't think I would have much of an apatite if I knew it was my last.

Now ... if you change it it "what is your favorite meal" then I that would be easier to answer.

Most likely a nice steak.

Maybe if you have been living under the sword of Damocles for a while you get used to it, at least some, but I always thought that, too.

Who could eat?

Poorly prepared gas station fugu.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Country-fried (NOT chicken-fried) steak; pan-fried potatoes, biscuits (not buttermilk), and green beans or mixed greens. Skillet gravy on the steak, potatoes, and biscuits. Chocolate meringue pie for dessert.

My mom would make that for my birthday each year I was home.

For those not in the know, "country-fried" steak is thin round steak that has been rolled in flour, which is then beaten into it with a special mallet (or the edge of a heavy saucer), and then fried in a cast-iron skillet until crusty and brown. The leavings in the skillet are mixed with milk and flour to make the gravy. (My arteries are hardening even as I type this.) That steak is good hot or cold, eaten from a plate or in a sandwich, or just hand-held. Yumm!

flashguy

that's how we cook Cubed Steak in these parts,

add some sautee'ed onions, little black pepper, a dash of A1 sauce, some Fordhook Lima's and a soft roll,