I was watching one of those late night interview shows a few weeks back and the subject was, knowing your next meal would be your last supper, what would you have? I sort of scoffed at it at first, then I started thinking how difficult a decision that might be. Now, we know all the hollywood versions of the condemed prisioners last supper and all that, but this was a serious question and to watch some of the folks struggle with the question, I realized just how hard it would be.
Food has never been an enemy of mine and after I got past my picky eating stage (thanks to the mess halls of the US Army) I found that there were not that many different foods that I could not find a way to enjoy, but to narrow it down to the last meal I would ever have on the face of this earth ... wow, that is tough, but I finally figured it out. It really wasen't the food so much as it would be how it was served.
When I was a kid, growing up on a farm, we still had a few old country traditions that were still in play and I think I'd have to revert to my favorite breakfast. Scrambled eggs, bacon, fried chicken, and mashed potato's with green beans too. Yeah, when you get up at 4:30am and go spend your first two hours of the day in a barn, shoveling our manure, feeding cattle, getting the tractors and farm impliments hooked up and ready, the food becomes a point of focus and seems to make you work a lot faster and a lot harder.
So why such a simple combination? Well, only my grandmother could fry chicken the way we all loved it and only my mother could make those eggs and bacon just right. And my dad, he would go out and pick a bunch of greenbeans fresh out of the garden and find the best potato's we had in the cold storage bins; so you see, that meal really isn't so much about the food as it would be to see those three very special folks, all together, doing what they loved, that one last time. Yeah, I couldn't top that meal if I tried.
So, aside all the mushy stuff ... tell us all what YOUR last meal would be like ...
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Chickapea
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Mar 27 @ 2:59AM
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Just the same as you . Just different foods. My Grandmother would have a big pot of home made bean soup on her coal stove, And a pan of perogies sauted in fried onion and butter. Real Butter of course. Her home made bread pudding with rasins in it for desert. And a glass of her home made grape juice she made from her grapes in her yard. But after we drank it we were plastered out of our minds and be rolling on the floor laughing while my Mother would say , MOM THE KIDS ARE DRUNK LOL.
Her so called Grape juice would forment and she would never admit it as alcohol was not allowed in her house .
I,d want some plums from her plum tree , TOO
But if I couldn,t have all that Just give me a GOOD OLE PHILLY CHEESESTEAK LOL And a glass of Cherokie red soda poured over Vanilla ice cream.
NOW I,M HUNGRY ----------
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keeno
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Mar 27 @ 4:51AM
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seems to be a theme here, former army cook, but i have tried all my life to duplicate my grandmothers pancake recipe, nothing has ever come close to hers'
so a short stack and a couple of eggs over easy would be great in her kitchen.
darn that was easy, thanks for the hints and memories stirred. great blog for this time of the morning. 
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hereshannon
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Mar 27 @ 5:24AM
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Come on guys!! This is your LAST meal and all you want is some lousy pancakes and eggs?? Sorry, I never was much of a breakfast person. I would start out with oysters on the half shell with some fresh lime juice and hot sauce, followed by some deep fried oysters. Then I would have one of those pastrami sandwiches from the Carnagie Deli in Manhatten that are about 5 inches thick. After that I would have a grilled Porter House steak from Peter Lugers in Brooklin about 2 inches thick, and a pizza from a wood fired brick oven. For desert a large vanilla cone from a place called Abbotts up near lake Ontario, and a slice of cheesecake from the Princeton Grille in Nashville,TN. Please send the check to George Bush, Crawford Texas. 
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jelltex
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Mar 27 @ 5:51AM
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I'd want to share it with friends. That is just as important as what the food was. Friends could make any meal special.
Saying that, smoked salmon ceasar I had in Port Townsend, Wa, the salmon smoked at Cape Neah in the traditional way; just wonderful.
For dessert it would have to be either my homemade Vanilla Cheesecake or Limonchello and Grappa Tart.
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AttractedCentaur
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Mar 27 @ 9:19AM
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Guess I have simply tastes then ...
Fillet mignon, huge loaded baked potatoe, salad, fresh baked rolls (with honey and butter of course), lobster tail and five pounds of shrimp bbq'ed with the family recipe.
That should do it. BUT, have this with family and that would top it off.
By the time I polished all of this off, I would be ready to call it quits ... 
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swtldybikr
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Mar 27 @ 9:37AM
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Um.... anything with Mom's home made sauce and meatballs. Nothing compares to a nice Italian mama's cookin. I have still to this day never seen a jar of sauce from a store in mom's kitchen. YUMMMM Thanks Mom!
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redtigr
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Mar 27 @ 9:56AM
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Okay, I'll bite...
It's got to be breakfast for me too. Ironic because I rarely eat breakfast in the morning. But it's my favorite combination of foods. And I want some of all my favorites: scrambled eggs (not dry), bacon and a sausage link, a couple of crepe-like pancakes, and home fries. Mmm-mm - and a few strawberries or orange slices and fresh hot coffee... and it's perfect.
No wonder I rarely make it !
My Dad used to make sunny side eggs by first frying up the bacon and then tipping the frypan to one side and ladeling the grease over the yolks. No one told him about cholesterol and hard arteries back in the fifties... Those eggs sure were good, though!
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Cynbaby
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Mar 27 @ 10:10AM
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Jeez, lately I make every holiday supper as if it were my last 
Most definitely as someone else said LOBSTER...only thing is when I eat it now I just spritz lemon on it...if it were my last supper I would be drowning it in melted butter
add on the oysters, clams, mussels, yumm!!!
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JimNastics
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Mar 27 @ 11:31AM
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Something that would take a reaaaaaaaaallllly long time to eat 
and to finish it off a big cake....with a machine gun in the middle.
I'm not going down easy. "Say hello to my little friend" 
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JimNastics
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Mar 27 @ 11:39AM
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OK, seriously....
Appetizer - Clams & Oysters on the 1/2 shell
Garlic Bread
Entree - Lobster & butter sauce (several)
Veggie - Sugar snap pea pods, tomato, scallions & steamed aspagras
Dessert - homemade - strawberry, apple, peach & blueberry pie.
Drink - fresh mango juice
Dinner companion - my gf
cause of death - endless passion 
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mordru
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Mar 27 @ 12:00PM
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My last meal would be a couple of Taylor hot dogs my homemade fries,fried greenbeans,an A&W rootbeer float.But the last thing I want to taste on my lips would be my Angels kiss. 
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