Several weeks ago on
NPR I caught the tail end of a discussion with an artist who has painted around 350 last meals of death row inmates on china plates. The radio announcer mentioned that they would be on display at a college about 50 miles from my home so Mike and I decided to go. Please note that I am not an artist and I must admit here that I don't have a great understanding of art. HOWEVER, I do love food and I love knowing what people eat and what could be more fascinating than finding out what kind of meal a person about to die would request. So on Saturday we went with our traveling circus plus a friend and saw the exhibit.
Lots of steak, eggs, cake, hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken and pie. Several "no last meal requested". Some random ones including, a bag of jolly ranchers and another one for Spam. The saddest one of all was a plate that simply had the words "birthday cake was given because prisoner never had birthday cake". So very sad.
Sobering exhibit.
If I had to choose a last meal I think I would like king crab legs with butter, mango chicken from my favorite Indian restaurant, grapefruit and peanut butter and chocolate cookies. What would you choose?