When Did Having a Prisoner's Last Meal Be Anything They Want Start?
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If you happen to ever find yourself slated to have society as a whole decide it would be best if they killed you, the silver lining is that in many parts of the world where this is still a thing, the last meal you ever eat is likely to be significantly better than the ones you’ve been consuming up to that point in prison. So how did this rather odd meal tradition come about and is it actually true death row inmates can get anything they want to eat?
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Today I Found Out I’m my opinion, it’s to give them the last ounce of human decency they’ll ever see
Speaking of death, why are dead people referred to as "late" and/or as having "passed away?"
(Dis)honorable mention - Thomas J. Grasso's last statement before execution: "I did not get my SpaghettiO;s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."
😱
When will the injustice end?
WE NEED VINDICATION
If only he went into comedy instead of murder.
Allan Tidgwell who tf asks for such a shitty food on their last meal? I would ask for like filet mignon, pizza from some really Italian place, and like hundreds of sides of drinks and fries with burgers and expensive caviar
I think I once read somewhere that one guy's last meal was a bag of peanuts because he was allergic to them. I always found that smart.
I heard that too. I wonder if it’s true🤔. It smacks of urban legend.
It may have happened at one point, but in modern times they surely have full access to that individual’s medical history and would know of their peanut allergy by that point.
Having been the victim of a near fatal allergic reaction, I might actually choose the death sentence depending on the mode.
Man that's nuts.
I heard about that too
"A severe case of gas"
oh man. I have to applaud that kind of humor and dedication. That is an outstanding sense of humor about your situation.
That is the dadest joke I’ve ever heard.
Im sure he spent his whole time on deathrow thinking of it and when he did finally come up with it, he was probably so pleased with himself, he couldnt wait for his time
I would have beaten him to death for that joke.
It reminds me of the joke _"When did Hitler commit suicide? When he saw his gas bill."_
Just behind "French Fries" for best last words of an inmate!
Philip Wokeman was executed in Nashville TN in 2007. His last meal request was for a large vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person. The prison officials refused citing a policy against donating to charities. This news angered and motivated many locals who took it on themselves to carry out Wokeman's request on the day of his execution and vegetarian pizza topped the menu at all Nashville's homeless shelters that night. Supposedly this became a tradition for a few years every May 10 but it's likely died out now. If only they had facebook and UA-cam, it could have spread beyond Tennessee and may still be going today. x
Both Facebook and UA-cam were already in existence prior to 2007.
@@richardkraus9159 they existed, but weren't popular yet. I think.
damn that's crazy may 10 is the day my mom died back in 2019 not of execution it was cancer
And he had a particularly apt surname.
How do we resurrect (if that’s not too inappropriate a pun) this vegetarian pizza thing?
Woah that’s today
There's a certain sense of irony in people requesting lobster as a final meal in prison. There was once a point in time when no one would touch lobster, and it was only ever used for feeding prisoners.
A lot pf the poor man's food of yesterday's are high end food today..
Bacon too.... not that bacon is expensive, but they used to only give it to the pigs. Now it’s like manna or something🤷♀️
@@mangot589 not where i live.. that's always been cured smoked and eaten... It hang the whole Winter in a basement, or elsewhere with 0-10°c.
Wow when was this
Salmon... a poor man meal in the Middle ages... today is quite a good buck to buy a few slices( filles.. idk... pieces)
Ask for Olive Garden’s endless breadsticks. Last meal never ends. Never get executed. Profit.
@@briancrawford8751 what about hands
@@briancrawford8751 human hands
After enough breadsticks, the prisoner will be saying "kill me PLEASE!"
@@briancrawford8751 now what are you to say there isnt human flesh on those fridges? could very well be one murdered inmate stuffed in there.
Brian Crawford you’re taking shit to seriously
My last meal request: McRib and Shamrock shake. They almost never occur at the same time.
That just means you will die without having them....
@@MrKWiley918 He might at least get one of them...
David Harshman if they can never get both, he’ll live forever
A popular Court Jester was sentenced to be executed, and was actually given the opportunity to choose his manner of death, of which he promptly chose "Old Age"! That loop-hole has been closed for a long time now, so if they do not have ready access to grant your request, you are most likely to be S.O.L.
That would just create a Raising Hope.
For years, I’ve thought that if I were getting the chair, I’d want that meal to be raw popcorn. As much as I could choke down.
Underrated response
You Norwegian?
"raw popcorn" aka corn, just corn
Corn you mean?
Uncooked corn, maybe?
But raw popcorn is the wildest way to call corn lol
Reminds me of the famous last words of a certain murderer called John French executed with an electric chair:
"How's this for your headline: French fries!"
That's Animal Crossing-level cheesy right there.
George Appel before being executed in the chair:
"Gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel"
"I cook what ever they want, providing they ask for sausages. Otherwise they tend to get a bit disappointed, sausages is all Ive got"
I searched comments for someone quoting this.
where's that from?
@@auril615 Blackadder. Season 2 Episode 2 "Head" Timestamp 6:45
‘Ello, my name is Tom and I’ll be your executioner this evening. Can I start you off with a drink?
That just sounds like a scam
Bruh servers wish they'd be so lucky
I’d get drunk as hell
There was an inmate in Oklahoma that when asked what he wanted for his last meal. His answer was a bit unusual, he said that he wanted a nap because he wouldn't have an appetite. So in the holding cell they used to hold the prisoner before the execution they put in a cot . He and some of the other prisoners on death row had been saving their medications for him so he could overdose himself. So they put him in the holding cell to take his nap. He took all the pills and laid down to die. Unfortunately for him when they came to get him to take him to get executed he was almost dead. So they did CPR on him and called an ambulance to take him to the hospital. After the doctors got him stabilized they took him back to the prison and executed him. Seriously, this really happened.
danny harbour Ouch! I have had the misfortune of being on the receiving end of CPR, I'm grateful it was done and I survived thanks in part to it, but oh boy does it hurt, ribs break from the compressions very often as did mine, and you feel like you were run over by a herd of hippos.
dang, that kinda sucks. if someone gave me the only two options of being strapped to a table and killed by someone else, or ODing by my own hand, I'd chose the OD.
Damn that’s efed up
Hermann Goring managed to take a cyanide capsule and avoided his sentence as well. The Commandant of the prison got so mad that he cheated the hangman, that he had a stroke and had to be replaced. Another Nuremberg prisoner had also managed to kill himself before the trial had even begun. It is not totally uncommon for death row inmates to kill themselves to deprive the state of their justice, so death watches are generally assigned to them, so the sentences of the courts are carried out, and suicide does not count as having fulfilled the requirements of said sentence.
what's the difference between this and torcher
Saving the pie for later doesn’t seem so crazy. He had something left to look forward to even tho it would never come
Honestly it really does make sense and makes me pretty sad
I'd like to see a Gordon Ramsay show where he visits death row chefs preparing last meals.
Its RAUGHHHGH!!!!
There actually are a few documentaries about final meals, including one, where the chef (a former convict, of course) was cooking up "final meals". And, yes, he found it regrettable, that most final meals may have been consumed, but never digested properly, by the time that they hauled the carcasses off to the dissection table...
NSixtyFour lol
I can hear Gordon Ramsay now -
"THIS FOOD IS F--KING DISGUSTING!! YOU'D BE LUCKY NOT TO KILL SOMEONE!!"
NSixtyFour lol
*orders lobster, gets fish instead*
"you're killing me over here!"
i felt illiterate after reading that title 10 times
It's a bit of a mind-bender. At the very least it needs a comma.
Same
Me too. I even used translator, thinking my English had failed me!
😂😂😂 yep
why don't be read best always immediately?
Since I have a gluten allergy, I know _exactly_ what I'd ask for:
*A dozen Krispy Kreme donuts.*
Imagine getting dunkin donuts in a Krispy kreme box.
I did a sunset foster (basically a hospice foster for fur babies) a few years ago. The cat was dying of stomach cancer. When the day came that she couldn’t eat without immediately getting sick, I had her put down. But heavy cream was her favorite treat, so I took a cup with me. She drank it as the sedative was administered, so she was asleep before she could get sick. She seemed pretty damn happy about that cup of cream.
@Aggressive Tubesock _Damn intestines. Always demanding attention if I eat gluten. Pathetic._
@Aggressive Tubesock You do realize you're full of shit, right? I have friends who have had lifelong digestion problems and had no idea why, but when suggested they may have a gluten allergy and they cut it out of their diet, suddenly their problems went away. Yes, that's totally attention-seeking. Just because SOME people claim it for attention, doesn't mean it's not real. At one point in time some people denied people allergies existed. Would you make that claim today?
I doubt you'd get them though.
My personal question is:
Somebody has once requested to watch the LOTR trilogy with his meal, and it was granted
Can we actually request a movie to go along with the last meal?
Highly unlikely....
Request the entrie mcu increase life span by like 3 days
If that's true I'd want to watch a really lengthy anime with hundreds of episodes if ever I turned psycho and be sentenced to death.
Yeah but if you request the Star Wars Disney Trilogy, they couldn’t hop on the electric chair fast enough.
Ofcourse you could request anything, if its going to happen is another thing
"They can have anything they like, as long as it's sausages" - Mrs Ploppy - Blackadder II
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"Make 2020 your year" - preCOVID sentiment 😂😅😭
"I want a steak that has been dry-aged for 100 years"
"what would you like for your last meal"
"ethics"
"we're fresh out of that, im afraid..."
My last words would be: “The five million Dollars are under the...”
Gol D. Roger, is that you?
DemonFox369 No it’s not.
@@DemonFox369
No his last words were a smile cause One piece is the friendships and journey the treasure Hunter had on the way. Also a huge box of haki infused feces.
There's a book in the Texas Prison Museum, detailing years of final meal requests.
"A bad case of gas" - quite literal gallows humour, except that he was going to a gas chamber.
When your last meal and last words are a fart joke.
So much this, I laughed and said aloud "well played good sir, err, bad sir"
Could you talk about how in Korea, their age is 1 year or two years older than western age? My korean friends always give two different numbers when asked their age
Hello! As a fellow Korean here's a simple answer :)
1. In Korea we consider the time spent in the womb as life lived which means that when the baby comes out of the womb s/he will be one year old!
2. Also unlike other countries we don't "gain a year" on our birthday but rather on new years day (usually on 1/1)
So if a baby was born on december then s/he is 1 year old but as soon as it's january that child is "technically" two years old. Furthermore that's why students of the same grade all have the same age regardless of their birthday 😁
@@sylviapark129 guess I understand why it happens now and why I gained 2 years when I visited korea since I was born on november lol. Would still like a video as to the history of such a practice tho!
You only spend 9 months in the womb... Less for premature births.
@@sylviapark129 That is highly inaccurate as far as chronological age goes...
"Dead but I'm lovin' it." Brilliant!
Most that have been sentenced to death have lived in solitary confinement with a severe restriction of everyday niceties that most enjoy ! Not they dont deserve such treatment ! So I think they should be given a last meal of their choice up to $150. Think about how many Innocent People have been Excuted !
It is better to let a Guilty Man go Free !
Than sentence an Innocent Man to Prison !
Yep but many rather see the opposite
I'd order a Big Mac meal, a large Dr. Pepper, and a recreation of fruit and mushroom mix from Breath of the Wild.
"I'd like a swan. A whole swan, cleaned and roasted. And a barrel of french fries."
You would probably get some fried chicken and fries...
I would like to try swan one of these days though.
In early Jewish law the judges who sentenced one to death actually fasted
You mean judges who were good and cranky because they were fasting would usually sentence everyone to death?
The problem with those Judges was, they were Ruthless.
@@slaphappyduplenty2436 more accurately they wanted to reflect the somberness of deciding to take someone's life away. Standards of evidence were VERY high in the talmudic legal system. To the extent that a court executing someone every seven years was considered "bloodthirsty." Essentially, the presumption in every case is that the accused weren't right in the head at the time of the crime, so imprisonment or corporal punishment was preferable to execution whenever there is a modicum of doubt.
@Jay Bee
So what?! You sound like someone who is always looking to blame the Jews for something. One of first slave owners in the American colonies was a black guy named Anthony Johnson. SO WHAT!? Should that make me feel ill will or that blacks are sinister as a group? The slave owners were scumbags no matter their ethnicity or righteous preference. Drop your prejudice shroud of self righteousness.
@Jay Bee why not provide the information if it's true. The burden of proof is on you, not those you think you are "educating"
That's the weirdest way I've ever heard someone say "taco(s)."
Tack-o's and pee-kahn pie
Indigestion tablets for the upcoming severe case of gas! I love it.
The heart of the judge who sentenced me, stewed in a red wine gravy.
"it's nothing personal"
Missed a massive meme potential there
"I'll be sawing it for later." Really cracked me up
@HellGod67 Who said that - Leatherface?
_'Alright, Mr Dahmer, have you decided what you'd like for your last meal?'_
_'Yes, Sir. You.'_
Dahmers last meal was literally a dumbbell. Reest in piss
@@HeilRay Hey, at least he got to hit the bar one last time! ...Well, technically, the bar hit _him,_ but there you are.
prisoner: hey executor, make sure its a clean cut!
exectuor: haha sure thing
prisoner: cheers!
Mrs. Ploppy, "They can order anything they want, provided it's sausage."
"Except Texas" lol
I have brittle bone disease and have broken bones dozens of times, but where did signing cast come from how did it become a thing? I'd love to see an episode about this!
Ackee and Saltfish, Callaloo, Fried Sweet Plantain, Fried Dumplings, Festival, ground Hot Cocoa, Fried Sausages, 2 Spicy Beef Patties, and Coco Bread.
I could die happy.
I feel like this is an extremely elaborate way to diss Texas
And in this case they deserve the diss.
He thought 2020 was a year to be creative and prodactive. LOL.
i mean you could have been creative at home...
Ad skip >>> 1:53
Sometimes they ask to save part of it for later (Ricky Ray Rector)
edit: nice to see you included this.
Funfact: Margaretha Brandt was the inspiration for Gretchen in Göthe's most famous Book; Faust
I'd go with 2 dozen pickled eggs so I could attack back with my own gas
_‘When the time comes to ride the lightning, one must fight fire with fire.’_
Why not century eggs? They smell worse.
urgh
The part where he wanted to save the pie for later got me a bit. It was sad
Fun fact: The doctor pointing at the X Ray at 14:48 is Walter Freeman, the pioneer of the icepick lobotomy.
Makes sense. Calms the prisoner down , instead of nothing to look forward do, you have a good meal to look forward to
"So I 'corrected them.' (...) And then I 'corrected' her too."
11:53
BRITS: Is that actually how ya'll pronounce "taco"?
And okra not ahkra.
"Brits" are people from four different countries. Simon is English. And I didn't hear him wrongly pronounce either word. Tell me something, why do Americans say "y'all" instead of "you all". Can't speak properly? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Rebecca Whyte very true........
@@deathbycheese850 according to the original pronunciations, he did. Tah-coh and Oh-krah
SL Barbieri it's because Simon is British and British people speak English fluently...... Lol....... (I'm trying to be funny, let me know if it landed please?)......
The way he says tacos 🌮🌮
If i had to choose and it was possible to get this being as its not too unreasonable. I'd go with a bottle of Glenfiddich 21 or 12 year whisky, a cigar and a filet mignon, i'm not a fancy type exactly but those are my favorites.
I was wondering where the belief that if a criminals execution fails he then gets set free comes from and has it ever been used?
I don’t know the whole history of it, but I believe the entire basis was essentially a loophole stating that the sentence only condemns the prisoner to death once, so they already completed their sentence.
The only time I’ve heard of it actually being utilized was a case where the attorney was in the process of proving the man was falsely accused, and they tried to act upon that loophole to at least give their client more time. I don’t recall where I read this, though, and I don’t have time to track down sources at the moment, so I’ll go ahead and like your comment in hopes that Simon sees it and is able to better elaborate than I am 😂
Because it’s a sign from God that they’re innocent.
I think it was someone in Scotland who used the loophole that scottish law only said that the punishment was to ‘be hung’. After he used the loophole the law was changed to add ‘to death’.
The simple answer is that they served their sentence. Some sailors condemned to keel hauling survived, and were then free of their crime. It's just assumed that the survival rate is not high enough to actually adjust the verbage in most executions. The green mile was an example of how an attempt to successfully execute someone who would have clearly survived the ordeal was unreasonable. He served his sentence and survived longer than anyone else, but they kept frying until he literally caught on fire, and his own blood finally conducted the electricity through his body to kill him. (The evil dude didn't wet the sponge because he wanted the man to suffer more.)
Generally speaking, I think that gas chambers and lethal injections were invented because the success rate is nearly 100%, compared to hanging, firing squad, and electricity.
There is two that I know of - Joseph Samuels in Austraila, who due to a damaged windpipe was almost invulnerable to hanging, and John Lee, whose trapdoor didn't open a total of three seperate times. This was famously proven to have been due to jiggery-pokery by inmates who had been detailed to repair the gallows. Interestingly, Lee when he was released became a model citzen after he emmigrated to the USA.
I really would have thought there might be more requests for food heavy in beans, spices, things that cause indigestion, just to make the end a particularly unpleasant mess to clean up.
I would lol
thank you for the great professional clean videos
Speaking of death, why are dead people referred to as "late," and/or as having "passed away?"
Jaden Tapscott ~ the phrase passed away concerns the spirit passing away from this life to the next.
Because after they bought the farm they kicked the bucket and pushed up some daisies.
Cause boomers don't want to think about death.
Richard Meunster ~ Boomers? Those phrases have been around way before boomers were around. I just googled it and pass away is from the 15 th century so, kind of a while ago.
Less final, more polite. People have always had a ceremonial and distant relationship with death, although the connotation seems to change depending on how they died. I've never heard someone refer to somebody blown to pieces as having passed away, for example.
Two ways I can see to make this work for me.
First is to make a request for the most expensive mean I can think of. I've heard about several dishes that start at several thousand dollars for a small slice. Think of the Taco Bell servings in Demolition Man.
Second is a way to say "Screw You!" to the man. Order something you might be allergic to and die the night before. If that doesn't work you may just get a postponement on your execution as you are suddenly ill and unable to attend.
And yes as I finish this Simon got to the part about the 100 tacos and only got 4.
6:23 love how you say "something to smoke" 😄
Fascinating, Simon. Well done...
Wasn't there some crazy guy with tattoos on his face who ordered a bible for his last meal?
If I was in the position of requesting a last meal, I would ask for 18 boiled blue crabs, one liter of drawn butter, a tin of Old Bay seasoning, a bottle of Knob Creek bourbon and a pack of camel wide cigarettes.
And yes, I would be able to consume it all (Depending on the size of the tin of Old Bay seasoning).
I probably wouldn't get the last two in an American prison, but what the hell, the worst they can do is say no.
I endorse this comment
Now that's a proper Maryland last meal
That’s a nice last meal.
I can imagine the autopsy report after the execution: "Stomach content: 8 boiled blue crabs, one liter of drawn butter, a tin of Old Bay seasoning..."
But there are legends of hispanic delinquents, who ordered Mexican (final) meals, in hope that they would blow up on the electric chair, just to make a mess and piss off the officials...
Since the people who would have to get these fast food meals like McDonald’s would buy them from the actual restaurant, this means any employee at a fast food chain in states that still have the death penalty could have at any time made a Big Mac for a serial killer, rapist, mass murderer etc. for their last meal. Weird to think about
11:02. Yep that was the guy I read about that got all that food and took 1 bite. lol
Did they have cool rope pulley anchors around buildings and castles in the middle ages...???
What exactly do you mean? Sounds interesting but I don't really understand...
I would request beef Wellington and a side of risotto cooked to perfection by Gordon Ramsay
Every time your videos start now it makes me I'm watching a top 25 video haha
I toured Maryland's death row facility back in 1999 or so. It was housed in the Old Baltimore City Penitentiary, right smack dab in the middle of Baltimore. It was hell on earth. All the inmates were screaming at us from three tiers of cells. We finally got to death row and a man who had been condemned to death spoke to the students in the group. I was not a student, but my gf was, and that's how I got there. As soon as I figured out that the guy was a lying self-serving psychopath, I was no longer interested in his story, but rather the process. They did get last meals, but it had to be something from the prison kitchen.
Living in Texas, I’ve heard the Kill em all and let God sort em out, many times. 😒🤨
Take all the rope in texas and find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys and hang them high in the streets.
"As long as it's sausages!"
In Texas a man asked for a whole ton of food and when he got it all, he takes one bite and said he was finished. Texas said no more. You get a stake and a potato in the way you want, mashed, baked, or fries. And what ever you wish to drink in a paper cup.
Watching this and the video about racing the executioner for a pardon makes me wonder if the last meal began as a tactic to make things less competitive for the executioner.
I want my last meal to be a Sig P226 with enough magazines for it - filled with the proper ammo - to fill a pillowcase. Don't judge my dietary needs.
If it doesn’t matter, it’s energy.
I feel like I remember the background music in these videos from Mass Effect
Thanks Johnny Pope, it was a great topic
No they can't , and what depends on where there are .
There's usually a limited dollar amount .
Do you know what the dollar amount is by any chance?
@@graeme3023 No , I don't , but it's not very
high . In the US , it will vary from prison
to prison . Probably $20 - $30 . It's to
prevent them from asking for something
absurd . It has to be something available
locally .
If you do a web search , you maybe able
to find better details .
@@Obeijin I'm sure he mentioned the figure of $15 somewhere in the video after I had typed my question but I think that was specific to one particular state. Thanks for the reply anyway bro. 👍
@@graeme3023 Texas. He mentioned other states had higher limits.
@@graeme3023 Our prisoners have it made compared to other countries . There are
videos on this here .
Honestly I don't have a problem with a last meal being made to order. Everyone should have something nice before they die, especially if they're going to the bad place afterwards
I don't know, I'm mixed on it. I personally think execution or life in prison is mercy considering some of the things these people do to their victims.
We not gonna talk about the person that ordered a cup of coffee?
That was Aileen Wuornos, first documented woman serial killer.
I'd ask for mom's Crazy Cake. Then I'd ask mom to add '1 nail file' to the recipe card.
Ask for the executioner’s liver…problem solved
Got a Dominos ad during this....and they were my first employer...
Idk Google ad - you tell me on this one
Brown stew fish and Johnny cake from Ma Ruby on Harbour island, Bahamas. Now I'm ready warden
That last note WAS funny IMHO, considering the circumstances :-)
I think I'd opt to go down fighting than being executed. Seeing as I'll never do anything that would justify execution, my scheduled execution would be an unjust one, and my death while resisting an unjust execution would be an honorable death. If there's an afterlife, such a death and the life I've lived would surely get me into heaven. I'd also gett a pretty good laugh if it turns out Valhalla is real, and I end up there having died honorably in battle with my enemy, lol! And if there's no afterlife, well, I'll be remembered as that one badass prisoner who never gave up the good fight.
You'd be disarmed and surrounded by armed guards, all you'd manage to do is get yourself knocked out and still executed.
For my main course I’ll take let me out of this jail with a side of freedom
The real question is why did that Texas governor cancel the last meal program? A budget of say $20-30 per meal would be absolutely nothing compared to the actual cost of the long term death row housing and the legal cost of an execution, it’s a couple million.
Because Texans are nothing if not small, petty people.
In 1994 I lived in Joliet Illinois where is Stateville prison is located. That was where John Wayne Gacy was executed. His last meal which included fried shrimp came primarily from a Kitchen located in a local bar. I was at that bar when they came to pick up his meal. I was still at that bar when he was executed. And, yes, the lights did dim when they flipped the switch on him.
What about the guy I heard about who requested a simple peanut butter sandwich? It turned out he had a sever nut allergy, and he died as a result. Apparently he did this so he could die on his own terms? I'm really curious why you didn't mention this at all.
'nut allergy' lol, most men have that..
Because it completely sounds like an urban legend?
Goddamit it’s always Texas! Lol
Yeeyee
It's because someone refused to eat their last meal after it being extremely expensive
You should do the "The Mountain Meadows massacre "
imagine being innocent and receiving that, it would almost feel as a joke
If I'm to die by electric chair, I insist my last meal be 10 pounds of un-popped popcorn kernels I will swallow whole so that I die looking like a popcorn machine. If it's by lethal injection, I want my last meal to be a double dose of the antidote.
I also saw cyanide and happiness.
What luck, I work in corrections and it’s my job to provide everyone’s last meal, I’ve been looking for an online skill sharing site where I could learn to improve lily cooking abilities... maybe give it a Cajun flair?
Although I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway, it’s not like I ever hear them complaint afterwards...
I mean, if your cooking's bad enough that dead before the executioner gets to them, you _might_ want to look into the Skillshare thing anyways.
Simon looks like everyone's favourite geography or history teacher. Actually that's pretty accurate 😂
My last meal would be 30 boxes of Pizza Hut pizzas, all with extra cheese, extra pepperoni, and all with stuffed crust. But that's not all, I want it with breadsticks, 16 cans of coke, 16 cans of pepsi, 16 cans of dr. pepper, 16 cans of red bull, 16 cans of monster energy drinks, 15 plates of spagetti, and 20 large fries each from McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and Rally's (some places, it's called Checker's). I would also want a giant, chocolate cake with extra chocolate icing, chocolate sprinkles, and it would come with all of my favorite flavors of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, cookies and cream, mint chocolate, rocky road, and sundae). Don't forget 50 apple pies, 35 bags of pretzels, 70 packs of m&m's, 100 bowls of popcorn, 100 double chocolate chip cookies, and 250 mozzerella sticks with 250 curly fries.