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Ann Marie / July 13, 2006 5:57 AM

very long

Dawson / July 13, 2006 6:43 AM

Chipotle. Soft shell veggie tacos, chips and hot salsa with a Coke.

Speedy / July 13, 2006 7:17 AM

Bread & wine, with some of my closest friends.

m.k. / July 13, 2006 7:43 AM

guacamole spiked w/ some sort of psychedelic...

Oketo! / July 13, 2006 8:24 AM

The best sushi around, sake spiked with either Chambord or Midori and orange sherbert ice cream.

Mikey / July 13, 2006 8:29 AM

* assorted cheeses & wine
* grilled strip steak w/ a side of asparagus (also grilled)
* side dish of mostaccioli with my mother's homemade sauce
* a peanut butter & jelly sandwich w/ a glass of milk (for dessert)

mike / July 13, 2006 8:39 AM

Everlasting Gobstopper.

s / July 13, 2006 9:04 AM

Tecalitlan Carne Asada burrito with everything.

Pete / July 13, 2006 9:08 AM

PorterHouse - medium
brocolli w/oil & garlic
swiss chard
scalloped potatoes
calamari
pumpkin pie w/ whip cream

garbage lady / July 13, 2006 9:17 AM

Definitely 3 lbs. of Alaskan King Crablegs with melted butter & lemon over a small flame. And Saganaki (OPA!) from Roditi's in Greektown, the only place to go for Greek food. All with about 10 original recipe Veronica's. It's a kiddie cocktail with vodka and about 5 cherries.

I would die so happy!

Carrie / July 13, 2006 9:21 AM

*mashed potatoes with lots of butter

*corn

*carrot cake

*grilled cheese

*an apple with peanut butter

*a really fantastic bottle of wine

dan / July 13, 2006 9:26 AM

strychnine?

Paula / July 13, 2006 9:26 AM

Since I wouldn't have to be concerned about fat content or cholesterol:

Fried Chicken
Deep Fried Dill Pickle Chips
(Both from Linden St. Grill in Bloomington)
French Fries (McDonalds)
A couple of Jack in the Box tacos
Amish Cream Pie from the M&M cafe in Monticello, WI

gene / July 13, 2006 9:31 AM

Great crusty bread and soft butter
Greek salad
Mussels with wine sauce
Calamari
Vine tomatoes & Mozzarella
Baked lasagna
Rare T-bone
Creamed spinach
Ben & Jerry's Ice cream

Terminal Verbosity / July 13, 2006 9:34 AM

Two (2) Ricobenes steak sandwiches (with peppers)

Three (3) Heinekins

Two (2) servings of Italian Ice (watermelon flavor, recently discovered at the Taste)

One (1) cup of Intelligentsia coffee.

winediva / July 13, 2006 9:45 AM

Risotto with white truffles
a great older Barolo
a huge cheese plate with salumi
gelato - one scoop (or eight) of both sour cherry and coffee. Maybe the sabayon flavor from The Penguin too.

paul / July 13, 2006 9:49 AM

Questionable wild mushroom terrine.

Salad of mixed sativa greens, with roasted psilocybin and peyote buds

Whole fried fugu

Coca-hashish-cocaine custard.

Served with generous amounts of absinthe and betel nut wine.

Dave! / July 13, 2006 9:49 AM

My wife's chicken with 40 cloves of garlic and her grilled asparagus.

And a whole lotta wine.

printdude / July 13, 2006 9:56 AM

I would have a "Jimmy Feed Me" from Heaven on Seven.

'nuff said

mike / July 13, 2006 10:04 AM

A one gallon margarita.

Bill V / July 13, 2006 10:16 AM

Spam, spam and spam! And a Ho-Ho for dessert.

Chris / July 13, 2006 10:22 AM

Culver's butterburger, fries, and root beer.

Lauren / July 13, 2006 10:33 AM

garlic and goat cheese pizza from Brick's

a six pack of Stella

amyc / July 13, 2006 10:56 AM

All the great food I've developed allergies to over the years, since I wouldn't have to worry about hives or gastric distress. Honey-roasted peanuts, almonds, cashews (preferably in some sort of Indian dish, like paneer butter masala), roasted red peppers (ooo! with some balsamic, basil & mozzarella on fresh ciabatta), and finished off with a big ol' Margie's hot fudge sundae -- with real ice cream instead of fro-yo.

relis / July 13, 2006 11:32 AM

Tank sushi maki, vodka gimlets and gelato

Alice / July 13, 2006 11:44 AM

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits, artichokes with melted butter for dipping, chocolate chip cookies.

emyduck / July 13, 2006 12:03 PM

-a ridiculously large tray of fabulous cuts of sushi
-a rhubarb martini (or 3) from cafe lula
-a frenchie bloody mary (or 3) from trocadero in milwaukee
-smoked salmon eggs benedict from same place
-a 20" diameter creme brulee

Hmmm / July 13, 2006 12:05 PM

At this point, everyone has to be wondering what Blagg the Axman is going to say in response to this thread....

Y A J / July 13, 2006 12:05 PM

I'm with Printdude!
3 little words "Jimmy Feed me" = 7 amazing courses of cajun perfection.

Mikey / July 13, 2006 12:35 PM

I am sure that Blagg eats each and every one of his meals as if it were his last, because it very well could be...

NSH / July 13, 2006 12:51 PM

125 nathan's hot dogs.

Mikey / July 13, 2006 12:57 PM

NSH -

You proudly call yourself a Southsider and yet you're endorsing a New York dog? Shameful...

Strawberry / July 13, 2006 2:02 PM

SLIDERS

Marilyn / July 13, 2006 2:23 PM

The tongues of every lying, villian in our federal government.

Blagg the Axman / July 13, 2006 2:24 PM

I am one of the few able to say that I have been served my last meal and lived to tell about it. In the waning years of King Mandrake’s rule, I hired out as a mercenary to stem the advance of ogre tribes in the far west. The work was easy—flush out a cave here and there—and the wage was good. Too good, perhaps. The men took to gambles and sprees at the village grog-house, and in my younger years I was no exception. One night after a draught of mead too many, I fell asleep in a hay-pile and was captured by a band of rogue gnomes, who wasted no time selling me to the ogres.

Five days I was imprisoned deep in their base cavern, five days of beatings and interrogations in the foul creatures’ thick native tongue. On the fifth night their cook, a one-eyed halfling with a fevered, haunted look, asked me what I would like for my last meal. “An axman humbles himself as he prepares to face eternity,” said I, “so give me what you shall—bread and water.” The halfling shrugged and reappeared shortly thereafter, stale bread and tepid water in hand. Unbeknownst to him, and my vicious captors, I had spent the previous five nights quietly filing my front teeth against the cave’s rock floor; though chipped, they were now sharp enough to saw halfway through the bonds ’round my wrists.

When the halfling turned to leave me with my manna, I broke loose of the cords, snapped his neck and freed myself with his dagger. After slicing the throat of the ogre guard outside the cave that was my cell, I came upon their armory, which happened to contain an ax…

Later, after claiming my bounty for resolving the ogre problem, I bought a few rounds at the grog-house for the other mercenaries, whom I’d put out of a job.

missmolly / July 13, 2006 2:45 PM

blagg the axman makes my day.

winediva / July 13, 2006 2:59 PM

Stupid gnomes. They're always up to no good. Selling folks into slavery, lurking in gardens, stealing underwear. Can't trust em.

p / July 13, 2006 3:15 PM

one pre-meal shaken margarita with a mezcal cap, a buffet of popeye's, pollo campero, and harold's chicken presented nicely with all appropriate hot sauces, some Checker's cajun fries, elote loco, bottle of veuve click, post-dinner big-ass cognac and a long-cadillac cigarette. While wearing a brand new plush robe (w/ hood) and matching plush slippers. Kiss goodbye from rosie perez.

Anne / July 13, 2006 3:51 PM

Lobster tail drenched in butter
Twice baked au gratin potatoes
Bottle of champagne
Several Milky Way Bars

kate / July 13, 2006 3:56 PM

Jambalaya & banana pudding.

Followed by a belly rub, a nap, then... ya know, execution.

d. / July 13, 2006 6:37 PM

well, as im seeing into my crystal ball -- my last meal would probably be whatever rat-poisoned meal my someday-wife-that-i-have-yet-to-meet feeds to me as revenge for that one time that i forgot our anniversary or something. i get the feeling it'll probably meatloaf. blech.

if i had my choice, it'd be (rat-poisoned) deep fried foie gras covered in entire truffles, wrapped in kobe beef tenderloin, garnished with a boatload of beluga caviar. it'll be served on a giant diamond pulled by a twelve-midget sleigh.

yeah, bitches. i imagine with style.

mish / July 14, 2006 8:33 AM

a bowl of homemade macaroni and cheese, a piece of lou malnati's pizza with pepperoni, green peppers and black olives, grilled zucchini and cherry tomatoes with fresh mozarella, a glass of riesling and a bowl of chocolate hazelnut gelatto.

sky / July 14, 2006 9:41 AM

start off with these mushroom rolls my mom makes...then a fabulous bone in filet with blue cheese and mushrooms. A side of mac&cheese and cheesey garlic mashed potatoes with green onions. Perhaps another side of truffle rissoto. Lots and lots of white wine. Then for dessert, this amazing Chocolate Souffle that I had at Ambria once. Dear God it was good. I will be so full that I will be high and have no idea what is happening to me.

aeb / July 14, 2006 10:09 AM

wow a lot of people like steak. i'm also surprised at the amount of cajun lovers.

ceaser salad, a perfectly-cooked medium rare filet mignon, a lobster tail, creamed spinach, baked potato with butter and sour cream, a bottle (or two) of a nice zinfindel, with by mom's french cheesecake for desert.

hopefully i would pass-out before i would feel the pain of my demise.

fluffy / July 14, 2006 11:07 AM

last meal.....well, if I knew that it was my last meal...I think I'd just have something simple that I love, like a veggieburger, made just how I like it. Of course, tater tots. I'm not sure what kind of beer I'd have....a weiss, but I'm not sure which one...
I think I'd rather experience something I've always wanted to, like skydiving, or having my way with benicio del toro, instead of eating.

this topic has made me think about whether I'll know when my last meal will be - most of us won't know. What if my death is "messy"? Who's going to clean up my guts/undigested food? will I smell like burnt tater tots when I'm cremated?

For my cat's last meal- I'd let him have Whiskas as a meal, instead of a treat. He wouldn't have to eat Iams.

Question for d.- are the midgets all male/female or a combination? and are they wearing any clothes?

Simplegal / July 14, 2006 11:15 AM

Pizza and PBR.

Emily / July 14, 2006 11:44 AM

Manchego cheese & Serano Ham with yummy bread
Sushi
Lobster
Freshly Baked Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae

spook / July 14, 2006 11:56 AM

Blagg the Axman, boooyyy, Blagg the Axman, like Old Dirty Bastard(RIP Old Dirty!), there is no father to his style!

clodius / July 14, 2006 1:21 PM

Same as my first: breastmilk

Lody / July 14, 2006 1:30 PM

Potato Pierogi's & Sour Cream from Halina's
Pepperoni Pizza from Lou's
Hot Dog and Fries from Super Dog
Beer Nuggets from Pizza Villa
Pepperoni Pizza from Barnaby's
Steak DeBurgo with broccoli & baked potato
An excellent bottle of Italian Merlot

and for dessert...
cookies & apriot filled yellow cake from Beil's

Toni Loftin / July 14, 2006 1:57 PM

-My mom's homemade tamales and a nice, cold Joya.

Bill V / July 14, 2006 2:06 PM

I've now realized that there probably are better things than Spam and Ho-Hos. I'm now going with a Hot Doug's Hot Dog, wash it down with a Sparks, while listening to that dirty gal Peaches!

Nicole / July 14, 2006 3:11 PM

Smothered Cheese Fries with Cheddar and Bacon. And a side of buttermilk ranch dressing (b/c the fries with the bacon and cheese aren't fattening enough alone). And maybe a Dos Equis Amber to wash it down. But if I were really on death row, I wouldn't be allowed to drink a beer, so maybe just a coke. Perhaps I will have a heart attack before they can get to me?

e_five / July 14, 2006 4:02 PM

A delicious variety of tapas (with an emphasis on seafood dishes) and a half gallon of sangria.

Adios!

MB / July 14, 2006 9:53 PM

We are not counting calories are we??? Too many to choose from but here's a start: My mom's homeade Lasagna, A Grilled Porterhouse medium rare, Garlic mashed potatoes, Grilled Asparagus, Grilled Shrimp,
Paidakai(thin cut lamb chops from Athena in Greektown),A full Irish Breakfast, A good case of Merlot, 1btl each, Inishowen, Greenspot and Jameson. All Irish Whiskeys. Last but not least
Cori's homeade truffles!
Of course I owuld share!!!

Leelah / July 15, 2006 12:31 AM

Maruca's Pizza.

mew / July 15, 2006 3:18 PM

PB & J, with a bowl of PB Cap'n Crunch on the side, and Reese PB Cups for dessert

Emerson Dameron / July 15, 2006 5:46 PM

Your still-beating heart, washed down with Bushmills on the rocks.

jeff / July 15, 2006 9:58 PM

5 Jelly donuts from Dunkin Donuts. May as well go out on a sweet note...

Kendall / July 18, 2006 5:19 PM

Starter - Sushi
Entree - Grilled Filet Mignon with a Cabernet reduction
Side - Roasted Veggies
Dessert - my wife's cheesecake with fresh strawberries

ChrisB / July 25, 2006 10:04 PM

Blagg the Axeman...seriously...you are awesome.

Mike / March 28, 2007 4:25 PM

* backfin crab/lobster cocktail
*Wedge salad with bluecheese
*Hot yeast rolls with honey butter
*skewered fruit with honey, vanila yogurt dipping sauce
*petite filet with compound lemon garlic butter-cooked medium rare
*grilled aspargus
*yukon potatoes with goat cheese, basil and garlic
*cheescake with raspberry sauce
*Iced tea
*sparkling water
*1 bottle opus one
*kosher salt
*5 pepper blend

country gal / June 8, 2007 10:18 PM

1big bowl of chicken enchalada soup, lobster tail drenched in butter, 1 hot artichoke w/ lots of melted butter, and a blond brownie w/ ice cream and butterscotch sauce

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