Famous last meals
Famous last meals. On death row, the last menu is up to you. In all other cases, it's up to fate. Let's look at some famous final repasts.
Ted Bundy declined to make a request for food before his execution, so he was offered a traditional breakfast.
Illinois prison officials asked a local restaurant to prepare the last meal for John Wayne Gacy. Gary Gilmore was served what with milk and coffee?
On the fictional end of death row, inmate John Coffey requests this comfort food in a famous book by Stephen King. And in one episode of "The Simpsons," Homer opts for beer, doughnuts and fried chicken.
Jesus took his last meal with his 12 Apostles, as famously depicted by a noted artist.
Lord Buddha's last meal was sukaramaddava, though just exactly what it consisted of is open to speculation.
While the doomed Titanic's first-class passengers had a book written about their extravagant final dinner, the second-class passengers' meal wasn't too shabby either.
Mahatma Gandhi ate a modest last meal before he was shot to death on the way to a prayer meeting in 1948.
President John F. Kennedy had an all-American breakfast at his hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, before flying on to Dallas just hours before his assassination in 1963.
Former French President François Mitterrand indulged in a now-legendary last meal in 1996.
According to legend, Cleopatra enjoyed some figs that concealed death for dessert.
One famous Japanese kabuki actor died after eating this poisonous fish.
Ernest Hemingway reportedly ate one of his favorite dinners the night before he committed suicide.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas apparently succumbed after a surplus of liquids.
Everyone knows where Elvis Presley was when he died, but you may not know these sweets were the last thing he ate.
Flamboyant entertainer Liberace's last dish was a little more mundane than you might expect.
Comedian John Belushi ate a nourishing light supper at this famous Hollywood restaurant the night he died.
Glamour icon Marilyn Monroe reportedly ate a not-so-glamorous meal before she died.
Several notable chefs shared their ideal farewell noshes in this book.Anthony Bourdain would forgo the ant eggs for this.
Not surprisingly, Mario Batali would postpone the inevitable with eight to 10 courses.
Lidia Bastianich would keep it simple, and Gordon Ramsay would opt for classic British fare.
