mmm fries and death
Meals to Die For is a memoir of a prison cook who prepared final meals for inmates. Apparently they didn’t always get what they wanted. (An appeal?) Filet mignon became t-bone steak… 24 hamburgers became 4.
On the Arizona Department of Corrections website, the state where the author worked, you can see what each prisoner requested.
They’re usually some combo of hamburger and fried eggs. For example, this guy got a little excited:
Six fried eggs, cooked over-easy, 16 strips of bacon, one large portion of hash-browns, one pint of pineapple sherbet ice cream, one “breakfast steak” well done. One 16 ounce cup filled with ice, one 7UP, 1 Dr. Pepper, 1 Coke, one portion of hot sauce, one cup of coffee, two packets of sugar and four Rolaids tablets.
I mean, who needs the Rolaids when you’re about to uh, DIE? I guess you don’t your last moments on earth ruined not only by the stony-faced executioner wielding a syringe but a bad case of acid reflux.
Anyway, read the interview with the chef.
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