This is sort of an open forum but not really. What would be your last meal if you could choose it?
For me I am torn between the two things I live on in Paris. I pick a fairly nice hotel and am pretty cheap on the food budget. It’s a bit sad to be in a fancy Parisian restaurant alone. I think I did fondue for one one time but that was the only time I ever felt like it was “date food” and felt a bit uncomfortable. But the regular bistro on the street has tons of people eating alone and I love it.
My go to order is croque monsieur. It’s a basically a ham a cheese sandwich. But it’s more like a grilled cheese (Gruyere) with ham (fancypants kind). It’s incredible and cheap and different at every cafe you stop at. It probably my first choice. Because fat chicks from Georgia love a good ham and cheese.
A very, very, very close runner up would also be from Paris. In Libya, we called it schwarma. In the US we call it a Gyro. I find it kind of sweet that the Jewish quarter is where the Marais is, aka the gay neighborhood. It’s also where you get the best schwarma at L’As du Falafel. Arabs, Jews, and gays living in harmony is just the best. And just like in Philly where two sites fight for who has the best cheesesteak, there is such a fight over schwarma, I mean gyros. I’ve never tried the competition. I only eat at L’As du Falafel.
I Love Paris
I can get there by heart no matter where you drop me off in the city. I know my way around the 7th arrondissement of Paris better than Atlanta. When ever I am down my good friend suggests I go there. I don’t know the street. I just know the metro stop for the gyro place. It’s in the fourth arrondissement. I had a hot NYE date who took me to gay bars one year. There may or may not be a good story about that here somewhere. The metro shut down for NYE and the hot skinny gay guy had to pedal my fat drunk ass on one bicycle long after the sidewalks closed up. It was the best/worst NYE of my life.
Anyway. What is your final meal if you could choose it?
Mandatory Note: If you are in fact dying or any other depressing as fuck thing is going on in your life. Godspeed. But this is A FUCKING FUN AND HAPPY POST!
Chicken Broccoli & Ziti in reduced heavy cream lemon sauce.Planning a trip to Florence Italy late 2019 early 2020 ! I love ART & Italian food. Great idea for an open forum. I have always dreamed of going to Paris ! & Greece .& Spain. # homebody # musesareheard # longs to be a world traveler.
My husband makes the best food. Scallops and pan fried noodles. I can’t order scallops at restaurants anymore because they are never as good as his.
Oh I love this response. And yet it makes me a bit sad I didn’t marry your husband. 🙂
Something I learned by total chance as I grew up in rural Michigan; Hawaiian men make the best husbands because they are great cooks. I just happened upon one to fall in love with. Then I ended up in Vegas where every Hawaiian man I met was the same. It is a cultural tradition that men cook. Works the best for me because I should be banned from the kitchen.
My favorite meal would be crab legs, oysters and crawfish etouffee. I’ve never been to Paris. When I was younger I spent a lot of time with a gay friend and lots of time in gay bars. We are still friends 40 years later. Lots of good times! He is the one who taught me how to put on makeup.
Appetizer: buffalo mozzarella, fresh pesto and tomatoes. Main course, bangers & mash. Dessert: chocolate mousse. Beverage throughout: Veuve Clicquot. Dinner date: Sean Connery, with a side of Harrison Ford.
Sean Connery Darby O’Gill or James Bond? Or another era?
Not Darby O’Gill, dearest Nanette. But definitely James Bond, Dr. Robert Campbell, or Professor Henry Jones. Except, wait. That would potentially put Indiana Jones and his father at the same table. Ah, what the hell, I’ll take it!
I’ll take Darby. He is a dear, darlin’ one.
Yes. My first real human crush (after Mighty Mouse)!
Oh thank God someone broke down this question for me! I was over here in the WWWest thinking about all the food I cannot have and want when this was a trick question all along, no?
My hallpass has changed many times over the years…currently (I’m in love with) James Norton. I find it hard to believe we wouldn’t “connect” on all levels immediately but one level is all that’s needed if it is in fact the last…”supper”.
I’ll keep thinking about food too…I must say “real” pita bread is amazing, my mouth is watering right now.
Caprese just doesn’t taste quite the same here in the states vs. Italy. I really NEED to find a source of buffalo mozzarella here!
Starter: Big, fat, honking steamers. None of them petite little fucks. Large and in charge clams only! Then filet mignon with lobster with at least a gallon of real butter for the lobster. Ideally to both swim and dunk the lobster in. Dessert: chocolate lava cake that better be freakin MOLTEN lava. Sigh.
Gosh, It seems like I don’t go anywhere except the grocery store or a thrift store (lol). But my last meal would be a salad with homemade blue cheese dressing, steamed lobster, scallops, fresh grouper, mashed potatoes, some killer rolls, and some sort of desert from the Honeymoon Bakery in Rome Ga. or a cake from Gabriel’s Bakery here in Marietta.
…oh and a lot of Diet Coke!
A bottle of Pinot Grigio and a bag of Tate’s chocolate chip cookies
Tate’s Macedonia nuts are better!
Tate’s gluten free chocolate chip! I don’t give a crap about the glutin, but these are just the best.
Tate’s gluten free ginger cookies! I don’t care about gluten either, but l LOVE those cookies! And sea scallops from Maine.
And creme brulee for dessert.
Baked Alaska for dessert. We could share ? I love creme brulee !
This is the best question ever! I would need to start with the deep fried goodness of crab rangoon followed by fried chicken. Then lobster thermidor and finally gooey chocolate brownies. I’m getting fatter as I type this…
Oh and I’m picking the same drink as DalaiMama- Veuve Clicquot
I was in Rome in last March (jealous??? you should be!!) stumbled into a tourist restaurant near the Pantheon that accepted Amex and had homemade wine………ate the finest Spaghetti Carbonara. Returned 2 days later to confirm, it was better the second time……… (want to start a GoFundMe to return) http://www.erfaciolaro.it/en/home.html……. salivating thinking of the meals.
I don’t drink, but for my last supper, I would.
I worked in a French restaurant for a French chef, Rene Canabuo. It was small, no walk-in, everything fresh. He made basic sauces, then changed them with ingredients to order. I thought he didn’t like me or respect my work; then he cried when I left.
I would start out with a Picon punch or Dubonet and soda. Some olives and manchego cheese. Then … Rene’s escargot, followed by his French onion soup. For my next course: Rene’s frog legs and Brussels Sprouts with pancetta and basalmic. Spinach salad flambé with bacon (I know bacon and pancetta are redundant) and brandy from Bon Vivant, another French restaurant I worked. Some freshly picked sliced tomatoes with good salt. All accompanied by Napa Valley Domaine Chandon Brut de Rose and Schramsberg Brut sparkling wines. For dessert, I would choose panna cotta with sour cherry sauce and marzipan crumble. With a Peet’s Major Dickinson quad espresso with a heavy cream float along with some really wonderful Port. IN PARIS. Where I’ve never been, in this life. In a little bistro, nothing fancy, just good food and good people watching and listening to people speaking French. I would die happy.
I’m a Georgia girl so; fried green tomatoes, fried chicken, pinto beans, mashed potatoes, fried okra, pole beans, fried corn, carrot cake and sweet tea. All cooked like my Mother use to make.
Southern girl, too. Actually, any meal my mama would cook would be a favorite of mine. Sadly, she doesn’t cook anymore but we have long talks about my mama’s cooking. Her chocolate pie would be a a fabulous finisher.
Totally agree on the fried green tomatoes. Have thought about this question for years, & the answer is always the same. My great-grandmother lived with us for a long period when I was growing up, & she made platters full of fried green tomatoes almost every summer night for dinner. There was a pitcher of iced tea on the table & all the fried green tomatoes we could all eat. That was it, & it was heavenly to me. I’d choose homemade peach ice cream if I had any room for it. I still have the family recipe. My dad would rent a trailer every August & we’d all drive to Southern Illinois (Carbondale) to fill it with bushels of fresh peaches, which my great-grandmother would can & freeze to get us through the year. She also made fresh peach cobbler. We had a canned goods locker & a big freezer in the basement, & in my mind’s eye I can still see the mason jars of peaches lined up on the shelves. As an adult I taught myself to can, & even canned hamburger to take when my late husband, Rocket Man, & I went cruising on our sailboat. I haven’t canned in years, but I still have a large collection of pressure cookers, one of which I still use for pot roasts & corned beef roasts. Fly Boy & I are beginning to boat shop, & there will definitely be a pressure cooker on board as soon we finally make our purchase.
Nanette, Id like to share your last meal right down to the drink choices!! I’m salivating!! Your description was food porn. Can we add escargot please? 🙂
Escargot is on there!
I got too excited and passed right over it!! Perfect meal though. Like sent from the gods perfection! I love it!
I love me a good croque monsieur, and those who prefer a croque madame are crazy. It is perfect as is; it definitely does not need an egg on top.
I don’t know if I could pick one last meal. A roadside clam shack with a water view ranks pretty high up there, though. Lobster with an ocean breeze is pretty awesome. I wish I could be one of those “eat to live” people, but I LOVE food. I am a live to eat kind of girl. Hence my need to follow the “lentil” post!
I leave Monday for Europe. I hope to get some new favorites. Fancy pastries here I come!
ENJOY !st Timer, really enjoy yourself
How nice! Have a great, relaxing vacation. Enjoy all the beautiful scenery and of course the food.
I was told to journal and foolishly thought I would remember everything … even a few lines each night. And how fortunate you are going when we digital camera… have the best time.
Thank you, Calipatti and Laila. I will!
Prime rib, gravy, mashed potato,
Yorkshire pudding, green beans with butter, horseradish. Homemade ice cream for dessert
A meal I can relate to.
That sounds fabulous! I’m one of those blasphemous people who like the end cut of the prime rib. If I could have that, I’d be in heaven. Lots of gravy on the Yorkshire pudding and English roasted potatoes, and fresh raspberries with fresh English cream on top for dessert. I’d really like to have a ton of Brussels sprouts also, but they appear to have turned into my mortal enemy since I developed some irritating tummy problems. What am I saying? If it were my last meal, what harm could they do? I’d eat each and every one of them, and enjoy every tasty little bite. Also I’m giving the dessert second thoughts. Why have just raspberries and cream when you can have English trifle, with raspberries, cream and a bunch of other yummy stuff.
I also like the end cut of prime rib too. I think it’s the most tender and tastiest.
I also like bearnaise sauce, but prime rib is just too good on it’s own. Bearnaise sauce is good on different types of steak, like a porterhouse.
Yes! But I would add some fresh-picked English peas with butter, chocolate mousse, rhubarb crisp with custard sauce. An appetizer of dry-packed, scallops would not go amiss. I am a huge bangers and mash fan too, but not for my last and besides, you can’t get that same sausage in the US.
Yum! I’m sitting here drooling on my phone. English peas! Rhubarb crisp with custard! Such memories of delicious Sunday dinners with my family when I was growing up in England. It probably would have been regular roast beef though, not prime rib. That came in later years.
I just remembered something else I’d have to have, but my last meal would probably have to be in the early autumn, as that’s when the huge English Field mushrooms were harvested. My aunt’s husband managed a beautiful farm in Dorset, and they’d grow in the meadows where cows had grazed. I know, I don’t want to think too deeply about that part. My mum and dad would drive down as soon as we got word that they were there and, little peasant children that we were, we’d go out and pick dozens of them. They were bigger than portobello mushrooms by far, many were about 10 inches across, and had a strong, deep, earthy, delicious flavor. My Aunty Kit used to wash them well, and cook them in farm-fresh butter, with big, lean pieces of Danish bacon, salt and pepper, and topped off with thick, soft slices of homemade bread, which were also slathered in fresh butter.They weren’t a main meal, just a delicious, cholesterol-laden treat, which we knew we’d only be able to get on that one trip. I’d love a plate of those in front of me right now, along with all the family members who are gone but not forgotten. Wonderful memories!
We all need a reprieve after out last meals so we can taste some of the things on the other last meals. Those mushrooms … and homemade ice cream made with Oh Henry peaches.
As Audrey Hepburn is quoted as saying, “Paris is always a good idea.”
For my last meal, I would have something with a lot of fresh ingredients that isn’t overdone. At a brunch in some restaurant last summer, I had a meal that was kind of a spin on eggs benedict and avocado toast. There were poached eggs, crusty French bread, greens, fresh tomatoes, and avocado. Oh, and there was a balsamic reduction in there too. Not a lot of seasoning – the ingredients spoke for themselves. It was wonderful. Or either I would have a mix of good cheeses and meats, some really good bread, some sort of seasonal produce, and wine, eaten outdoors in perfect weather with a group of friends.
Hot buttered pulled lobster, Mexican corn on the cob, maple glazed Brussels sprouts, sweet potato fries, Barqs Root Beer, Bellinis, made with Proseco and fresh peach purée reduction, German chocolate cake and tiramisu and Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream. This is more calories than I eat in a week now while I am losing weight, But, if I am apparently going to die screw the calories. Also, I want to eat it wearing my usual sleeping clothes (cotton camisole and sensible cotton undies) while I am at the beach with my feet in the water.
oh wow I am so hungry now, everything sounds wonderful. Years ago I made up my “death row” meals. Breakfast: Sesame bagel lightly toasted with a few slices of muenster cheese, just perfect. Lunch: Feta cheese and tomato omelette with crispy home fries and wheat toast. Dinner: Indian food, particularly biryani. and there has to be good cake with real frosting, not bullshit frosting.
I can think of a thousand other things I would love to eat, and I will probably have to change this when I move out of NY but I can still stick by these choices. I will happily go to the chair after a day like that.
Lobsters, lobsters and more lobsters. Washed down by a great year Champagne. Only 2 glasses though otherwise I’d fall asleep and miss my lobsters.
I am going to pretend I have advanced notice and, therefore, am able to pick breakfast lunch and dinner. Thanks to Terry I also need a snack.
Breakfast has to be the lobster Benedict at Blue Heaven in Key West.
Lunch can only be brisket sandwich from 4th street deli in Philly (tied with fish and chips from Cricketers at Beaches TCI).
My snack would be cold leftover Yorkshire puddings, yum!
And dinner is Ruth’s Chris filet, shoestring potatoes and Crabtini (you can still get it if you request a day in advance).
Dessert is tough, I’m going to go with a phyllo dough wrapped strawberry and brie concoction with a side of homemade brownie.
Now I’m beyond hungry!
I’m not sure what I would want, but I attended a story-telling event tonight and one of the stories was actually about this. The last meal the speaker saw her father request was a tongue sandwich on rye with a dill pickle. As she pointed out, in the history of this question, no one has ever answered thusly.
I love shawarma, especially the chicken, it has to have an amazing garlic sauce and french fries. My last meal would be kabsa, Saudi version of spiced rice and chicken. My kids say I make the best, even better than their Saudi aunties!
Oh hellooo fellow khaleejiya (by association) ! 🙂
Everyone’s post is “ooh, I’ll have that as I read.” I’m more of a meatloaf and mashed potatoes person. The last meal will include cheesecake.
A big big shellfish tower! Champagne!
I want a bite of all the above stuff plus crab claws and shucky beans . Oh and a bite of carrot cake and a snack of fruit salad.
I have just last week tracked down the best authentic Lebanese baklava in my home town. My previous go to place closed down. I’d have their sujuk pizza ($AUD10 for a large) then roll over to the daily made display window of Lebanese sweets. Mostly I’d have different iterations of baklava. And buy it by the kilo. They’d wrap it beautifully on a fancy faux glass (plastic but decorative ) plate with clear cellophane and ribbon. The new place has every variety of baklava, and each one in pistachio, Walnut and sometimes almond and coconut. I saw Mamoul made on the Great British Bake Off and bought a box of date mamoul immediately. I found this particular store whilst trying to find a Middle Eastern grocery to buy the moulds for this amazing sweet plus the ground dried cherry pit spice that also goes into it. I also bought the semolina sweet that comes in pistachio, almond and walnut. Soaked in rosewater and orange blossom water. I imagine that a last meal would probably involve something from this cuisine. I’ve been back already to reup on the baklava and I’ve bought a kilo and a half in a week! I don’t want to think about the consequences. Weighed against crunching into syrup soaked filo pastry with crushed roasted nuts and honey. ..? I’m going back for more and I don’t care! !! The Lebanese women behind the counter are so generous, handing over bits of anything i ask about. The only downside is they only do sweets and they’re open (way out in the suburbs) til 10 every night . But yesterday i found a bakery 9 minutes from this place that has been opened by Syrian refugees that features sujuk and labne and m’noushy platters. I will attend this week sometime and the thought of it gives me life! Can’t wait to start making my own.
Lucky person to live where the people and foods are diverse. This country needs more diversity spread out to my town. I want to eat the foods so many of you talk about, the real food.
Fun post TT !! I have too many final meals, but here is a few…
1. Jamaican jerk chicken, spicy creole shrimp and rice, apple pork tenderloin. Sides would be corn pudding, collard greens, mac and cheese. Dessert would be coconut cake or pumpkin bread pudding.
2. Prime rib or rib eye, crab legs. Sides would be brussels sprouts, breaded artichoke hearts and garlic mashed potatoes. Dessert would be prune butter cookies or toasted almond cheesecake.. I has this cheesecake from a restaurant and it was delicious.
There is also this Mexican food truck that makes the best tacos that I ever had. It is shrimp and spring veggie tacos with this sauce that is divine. It’s extremely expensive. She keeps moving her truck around and I keep stalking her. She used to keep her truck right in my neighborhood all summer, but she got popular and moved on to catering and special events, like festivals and wineries.
I would love to go to Paris or any country with good food and eat my way to my last meal.
I also need to say that I prefer cake over pie. Anyone else?
Since I can’t stop watching pizza reviews from Dave Portnoy, I am going to say pizza from New Haven, CT. Who knew they had so many great pizza places!!! I am far away in Las Vegas, but I told my husband it might be worth a trip!
This is probably NOT the post I should be reading right now as I joined Weight Watchers (online) last week, and tonight is the first one I’ve really got the munchies!!!
However, I can’t help it. Fun thread! I just had schwarma for dinner on Thursday… the owner of the place doesn’t call it gyros and it is different tasting than the gyros I’ve had. The owner is also an Assyrian Jew, TT! Absolutely delish, and I’ve decided to make it a regular stop when I am in the area and need for a great, fast meal (that is not bad for WW points)
But last meal implies I don’t need to worry about calories or stomach upset.
I can’t eat eggs anymore because of a food intolerance.
Which is difficult still because fried egg sandwiches were my comfort food! My maternal grandmother, “Nanny” made them for me often.
So I would have one like she would made. We had options, and this is how I would have it.
Two white pieces of bread. Probably Franz buttermilk. Thick butter on one side (Nanny never met a butter pat she didn’t love – she didn’t really spread it. Her bread and butter was more butter than anything!). Lots of Best Foods mayo on the other. Sprinkle pepper on the mayo, lightly.
On the mayo side, I would put a very thin layer of cheddar cheese. I’m a Tillamook cheese girl. For this, probably sharp cheddar, but not their white cheddar. Yellow all the way. Then thin to medium slice of tomato. The tomato layer cannot be as thick as the egg however. Perhaps salt the tomato lightly if it isn’t quite in season.
Then you fry the egg, preferably in a cast iron skillet. Salt, pepper. OK to get the white edges crispy, but yolk middle should still be a little runny.
Place egg on top of tomato, then if you worry about the integrity of the buttered bread, a single layer of lettus. But if you buttered it as thick as I do, it isn’t really needed. Smoosh a little.
Serve with sliced pickles… only the pickles are not sliced the long way. My Nanny used to serve ours with little pickle “coins” if that makes sense. Chips from tart dill pickles that were small enough that the center was not soft at all. Yum.
Tall glass of milk.
Oh, and because I still have the munchies… I’d also probably want my Christmas Eve clam chowder (I have a KICK ASS recipe) and lots of wine. I’m not a sweets person, but if I had to pick a dessert, chocolate cake with my Nanny’s cream cheese frosting.
Out of respect for my first love – food love – I must say my first choice would be an extra well-done Pizza Hut pepperoni pan pizza. Whole thing. No starter or dessert needed.
If I could time travel, I would go back to my favorite now-defunct restaurant in Paris run by a husband & wife team (no help no matter how crowded they were) in Montparnasse. We walked on egg shells so we didn’t piss off the surly wife & you didn’t look at her chef husband’s dirty nails so it didn’t distract you from your food. My co-workers & I affectionately, truly, called it the “bitch-place”. Salad frisée with lardons, potato Gratin Dauphinois, beef bourguignon, followed by their profiteroles. The husband was a magician- best food ever. I think the beef bourguignon never left the stove. I think he just added ingredients. Bit like a sour dough starter. They retired. Sigh.
I’m currently in Bimini and had fried lobster for dinner last night. Fried lobster. I’d like to eat that ever day for forever.
Ohhh Tamara! Your post reminded me of the times I spent in Paris! L’As du Falafel was so memorable and I recommend it to everyone and their mothers whenever someone informs me they’re going to Paris.
However… the BESTTT shawarma I ever had was in a teeny tiny country (Kuwait), from a place called Kurdo.. If you ever happen to be there… take a shwarma from Kurdo on the go.
If I did have to have 1 last meal… It would probably be a mix Lebanese platter… some kebabs, chicken, hummus, and a whole lot of…. those are the stuff I can never get sick of.
After reading this post – I am having a falafel for breakfast. Thanks TT!
For me, it’s a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich. It has to be grilled in butter in an iron skillet and has to have loads of Duke’s mayonnaise. Can you tell I’m from the South?
That’s a Georgian Croque Monsieur!
I just finished lunch but all the comments have made me hungry again..
I’m now dreaming of an amazing lobster and brie pizza I had 17 years ago. I miss cheese 😢
My last meal would be with John Hamm in the Blues owners box tonight watching game 6. We’d share a pepperoni and pineapple pizza from Union Loafers, drink icy cold Busch beer and have Prairie Farms Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl ice cream. We’d also drink champagne from the STANLEY CUP!!!!!! Go Blues!!!!
By the way, did y’all know the St. Louis Blues are going to win the STANLEY CUP tonight? So, of course John and I will be in heaven because it will be the first time in the 49 year history of the Blues to win the STANLEY CUP!
Go Blues! I believe we are going to win also and when we do this city is going to be lit up!
💙We Bleed Blue!!!💙
So excited for tonight!! No joke, I’ve got the Dom Perignon ready to chill. Too superstitious to chill it right now. Lol. Thomas is back. Dunn being back really put pep in our skates. Now if Tarasenko and Schwartz would just start clicking! Another Schwartzy hat trick would be AMAZING!!
Totally agree Amanda & Dainty Feets. I haven’t bought my champagne yet. I don’t want to jinx anything!
Stanley & Gloria are going to make a terrific couple! Maybe we can check back in during tonight’s game. I know Kathy D’s from these parts too. GO BLUES!
I’m a Masshole and rooting for my Bruins. However, I want to say that if we lose tonight it couldn’t be to a more deserving team or fans. It’s been a jaw dropping series (toughest guy ever Chara!!) and so fun to watch. I’ll be sad for us but happy for y’all if the Blues take it tonight 🙂
💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
2:10 left.
We we’re entirely outplayed. Binnington was amazing. Congratulations!!!!! I hope you’re partying like it’s 1999, but a Wednesday with work the next day 😂
Thanks PopCultureKelly!! We popped the Dom and split it between three of us so not much partying. Feels good to finally have a Stanley Cup though! Binnington was out of this world. Unbelievable to think he’s a rookie. I’m gonna try to settle down with some Southern Charm. Andy Cohen was on the pregame show. I’ve always admired his undying love for St. Louis sports. Everyone has a redeeming quality. Lol. Goodnight all!
Haha doin it Right!!!! Y’all have never experienced this so savor every moment. It’s a beautiful feeling!! If we have to lose I’m just glad it’s to a deserving team and fans. Enjoy thissssss!!!
Goooo Sharks, lol someday
I am a beach girl so give me lots of fried shrimp, fried oysters, fried scallops and some crab stuffed flounder with a side of creamy grits and hushpuppies with lots of tauter sauce and some really, really cold beer. home churned peach ice cream to finish.
Have you noticed that it is about impossible to find peach ice cream in a store? Peach ice cream IS SUMMER IN A BOWL. They all seem to have replaced it with Salted Caramel. Boo.
Oooooo……I appreciate the ambiance of a five star restaurant but have the palate of a five year old so I’ll go with a well-seasoned grilled ribeye, dark crispy hash browns, fresh corn on the cob swimming in butter and my Mom’s chocolate chip cookies.
Love this subject…..start with deep fried cheese curds, I am a Wisconsin girl 🙂 Homemade pierogi with a side of scallop potatoes. Dessert would be hawaiian rolls with butter and chocolate chip cookies.
Carne asada tacos with salsa and Pico di mio. Avocados.
Former chef here, my death row meal has been the same for 20 years. Roasted beet salad with stinky blue cheese, walnuts, and good sherry vinegar. Steamed mussels with saffron & butter. Good bread! Duck confit, lentils and leeks. For dessert, I’ll take a really good cheese plate. And will wash it all down with a delicious Sancerre and Cote du Rhone.
Oh man. I have been on a total beet salad kick. Roast beets about an hour. Plate full of arugula, goat cheese, walnuts. Add beets and drizzle of balsamic vinaigrette. Few slices of pork tenderloin on the side. Perfect.
Yes, I am in on that! The sweet caramelized beets, earthy cheese, and peppery arugula has always been perfection to my palate!
My sister made Schwarma for dinner last night! Delicious
Totally torn between a meal of Southern delights like only my grandmother could make and a full blown Persian buffet of everything they have to offer. Please bring me fresh, hot flatbread with lots of herbs. Doogh. Followed by my own lemon icebox pie, because you can’t beat it.
Who am I kidding? Fresh sliced tomato, dollop of Duke’s. Fresh creamed corn. Field corn, not sweet. Pole beans with lots o’bacon. Baked macaroni and cheese. Zipper creams. Fried chicken, but only the pulley bone. Collards with lots of pepper sauce. Slice of cornbread, maybe a splash of buttermilk. The pie. Or a giant slice of coconut cake with 7 minute icing. Oh god.
I would want to start off with turtle soup from Commanders Palace in New Orleans, La. then a dozen fried crisp oysters, fries & hush puppies from Acme Bar & Grill in New Orleans then for dessert praline leidenheimer bread pudding (rye whiskey anglaise, chantilly cream) from Brennens in NOLA THEN 3 shots of Crown Royal. (Maybe I’ll be knocked out after that & ready to be go)
Everyone’s last meal should be at Commander’s Palace!
For some reason I think of this question often, and while it changes frequently, the one thing that always pops up is a huge bowl of banana bread batter. I always eat too much of it and get a tummy ache, but if I’m on death row I’d eat the whole bowl. Fuck it, I’ll be dead in an hour!
There is a BBQ restaurant in Miami, Florida called Shortys. I would start with an ear of corn on the cob dripping with butter. Then their hamburger plain, only ketchup and mustard with a half order if thick crinkle cut French fries and half a baked potato plain and to wash it down a Coke flavored Slurpee from 7-11. Finally for dessert a side of LL Cool J, Justin Hartley and Shemar Moore.
That’s a hard question. I’m like Oprah as in I LOVE BREAD! Give me a thick piece of bread, fresh out of the oven, with butter and crunchy peanut butter and I’d be happy. Mine as well eat the whole loaf seeing as it’s my last meal lol
Royal reds with lots of butter and new potatoes, a medium ribeye, mushroom ravioli, crawfish pie, bread pudding, a pecan praline king cake from Paul’s.
I get my comments via email and I logged on today and there wasn’t an email about this post. Or maybe I deleted it as I went through weeding them out accidentally. I thought,”Wow, I thought that was a good idea for a weekend post!. I guess not.!”
Then I saw us all talking about food and getting along and being happy. I so appreciated all the comments.
I feel dumb for just wanting a sandwich or two from Paris. The first time I went to Paris I walked to what would become my favorite restaurant. It was in the afternoon. I was a dumb tourist. I didn’t really even know I was looking at the side of the Louvre. I ordered a croissant. BECAUSE, PARIS. And was informed that was a breakfast food. He suggested some kind of lemon pie instead. It was delicious. I love all the waiters in Paris who tolerate American tourists. Most of us don’t know how dumb we are no matter how many times we go there.
Don’t feel dumb. I actually went to Le Cordon Bleu and said I would like a loaf of bread with peanut butter as my final meal. We like what we like.
Mine is a fried egg sandwich!
Last time I was in Paris my best friend & I took a chocolate tour–no dinner for us!
My favorite meal that I would want as my last meal would be my own gumbo recipe (chicken breast meat, a good Cajun sausage, fresh shrimp and crab are my meat choices for my recipe) served over rice and for dessert – hmmmm, there’s a restaurant just over the river in Illinois that makes the most incredible fried banana pudding I’ve ever had in my life and one serving easily could feed a family of four, but hands off, I’m eating it all – ha ha. It sounds a bit gross, but it is incredibly delicious!
I love Paris, too. It’s been too long since I’ve been.
Hamburgers, Yodels and bubblegum. I’m a Philistine, lol.
OMG. Yodels. Never Hohos.
Does anyone remember Sizzler? Their cheese toast was amazing! A big thick slice of bread with butter and shredded parm grilled on a flat top grill. Crunchy edges and soft, buttery, chessey center. It’s super easy to make. Just take soft butter and mix in shredded parm, spread it on one side of the slice of bread and toast until golden brown in a frying pan under medium heat. Yummy !
YES! Loved Sizzler. My first experience with a Buffet lol
In Montreal, there is a Polish restaurant called Stash Cafe. I would get the meat pierogis from there, and then a pork cutlet that they serve with gravy. They don’t serve it with rice, but I think I’d add rice… let’s make it the rice from Longhorn Steakhouse because I love their rice. I think if I were eating the food from Stash Cafe and someone said this is it, this is your last meal, I could die happy. It’s a very satisfying and rich plate of food! If you find yourself in Montreal, I highly recommend it. Get the meat pierogi appetizer… don’t question whether you need all that food… just do it.
Ok TT you asked I’ll answer!
Prime rib about an inch thick done medium
mashed red potatoes
corn on the cob
green bean casserole
Dutch apple pie
Coal Cola to drink
Coca Cola
Omg I literally just read an article on the DM about a guy in Texas getting put to death, but they don’t do “last meals” anymore there. Then I go here and the subject is last meals!!
Now the meal would be cool, but I’d love a last beverage. Have that final buzz
A bit off topic because food is not my thing these days- but food choice would be a big ass lobster with butter…but holy heck- everyone get out to see Rocketman in a theater! Saw it today and it was amazing if you are an Elton John fan and loved through the days of his albums being put out!!! I recall lying on my childhood bed listening to the Good Bye Yellowbrick Road album and reading all the words from the trifold album cover…memories…the movie rocks.go go go to it!
I saw Rocketman. It was good, but I found it depressing. Elton John needs a hug.
Pimento Mac and cheese & fried chicken
Oh, I may need to add Thai food! It would be the one time I wasnt hungry again 3 hours after eating Asian food.
I’ve contemplated flying to France for a good croque monsieur more than once. My favorite thing to eat in France is probably the pistachio soft serve that was really popular in the town where we went every summer as a child. A new gelato shop that opened near me has a pistachio gelato that is pretty much identical and I couldn’t be happier.
I would also fly to Sicily for the pizza alla Norma from this tiny little village near Catania, it’s just eggplants and ricotta salata on a pizza and it’s amazing. Or to Greece for just one more authentic Greek salad from the roadside cafe.
Dessert – macarons from LaDurée. The Paris store, not the New York one.
I would want two hoe cakes smothered in butter with a thick slice of country ham in between.
Cake. From my local bakery with roots from the Netherlands. Four layers of vanilla cake with bavarian cream filling and vanilla frosting. Decorated in the most beautiful pastel flowers.
I’m from philly so I would have to have a little piece of cheese steak ..a little roast pork, broccolini and cheese from the reading station..an authentic Italian hoagie..a Philly soft pretzel..crab legs..lobster with butter..and a slice of new york pizza..Cheese cake..tiramisu.. Can somebody explain the recent fascination with huge crab legs dipped and different sauces… That people are taping or YouTubeing? It’s the weirdest most disgusting thing I’ve seen… Some look like soft porn ..some lool just disgusting with slapping the lips..licking fingers And butter or whatever kind of sauce running down their face… It’s highly disturbing.. I can only imagine there being paid in crab legs to promote ..but you couldn’t pay me enough.
Sorry I’m late to the game but, can a bitch PLEASE get the BUFFET!!! lol
But seriously…..
Appetizer:
This Mushroom Brie soup I had at Sequella Cafe in Boca. It was AMAZING.
Main:
A nice grilled Wahoo fish sandwich on a FRESH kaiser roll and side salad with GINGER dressing from Calypso Restaurant in Pompano Beach, FL
Dessert:
Creme brulee and fresh fruit.
Items made by family:
A pot of my grandpa’s pasta sauce with a nice fresh loaf of Italian bread for dipping.
My grandma’s potato salad and mashed potatoes. Although last time I made some they came out just like hers.
Ramen, Korean Galbi, Pho Ga, Pad Kee Mao, Hamburger and a slice of pizza.
Breakfast eggs benedict with hash browns
Lunch gyro and fries
Supper medium rare prime rib with garlic mashed potatoes
Dessert chocolate anything, pie, torte, or brownies
Drink Jim Beam Red Stag
What a diverse and interesting group of wonderful people we have on this site. I’m fascinated by the different backgrounds we all have and, thanks to Tamra’s no-nonsense guidance, the comments are humorous, articulate and even educational. Love it!
This was such a fun post. Except I want just about everything. Our Anti-Lentil Season pigout!
Roasted corn and tarragon risotto with sauteed scallops. Yum!!!
A meal from Rome; freshly made meat tortellini in a light cream sauce with baby peas and lavish gratings of fresh Parmigiano Regianno, scallopini alla Marsala and for dessert a fabulous chocolate torte with a thin layer of dark chocolate in the crust. A glass of well chilled Moet et Chandon with the dessert, please.