Last Meals Delivery Service

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks on September 18, 2008 at 11:44 pm



Last Meals Delivery Service in Toronto will bring you a last meal (but only if you live in Toronto). Not your last meal, but the meal someone on Death Row chose as their last. They all cost $20 and must be ordered a couple of days ahead of delivery. You don’t get to pick it out, but when it’s delivered it comes with a DVD to watch and a paper mask of the convict who selected it. Frank at BlogTO tried it out and wrote up the experience.

I don’t know what I was expecting. Possibly someone dressed as a grim reaper or in a prison guard uniform or something equally dramatic opening up a thermal bag with a puff of yellow sulfur-y smoke and handing me a styrofoam container that was eerily cool to the touch. Ideally, I’d've left my $20 (sorry, cash only folks) in an envelope at my front door and after a brief wait the doorbell would ring and the food would appear without any human agency to puncture the veil.

It wasn’t quite like that.

By now i’m sure you’re all just frothy with anticipation as to which lucky (or unlucky) dead-guy I drew. His name was James Hudson Bryant (prisoner #924), convicted of killing 3 people in a dispute over a shared driveway. His last meal included a cheeseburger, a tossed salad, large fries with ketchup, a pile of saltines, an apple turnover and for some reason I can’t really fathom, a pair of brand-new white tube socks. Everything tasted okay; it wasn’t exactly home-made.

Link -Thanks, Jerrold!


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21 comments to "Last Meals Delivery Service"

  1. PianoBlack
    September 19th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    Good lord. Thats the gruesome thing i ever heard. What kind o freak eats a last mans dinner with a carbon mask watching a dvd of his death?? I hope for the LHC suck us all in a black hole or something, theres no hope for humanity.

  2. Tim Giachetti
    September 19th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    Yeah Piano, this is pretty fucked up.

  3. CelticCatEyes
    September 19th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    The tube-socks got me! Wow, the guy who set this service up is really into pushing buttons.

  4. matty b
    September 19th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! AWESOME!

    i would order from these guys every week if i lived in toronto.

  5. Larfin Jackarse
    September 19th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Ummm...what if they are one of the innocent deathrowers?

  6. JingerCat
    September 19th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    I think Timothy McVeigh's last meal was two pints of Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. That would be a total rip-off for $20.00.

  7. Scot
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    Laffin Jackass, there are no "innocent Deathrowers" as you idiot liberals like to spew. They all deserve it and we should get on with business yesterday. I'd eat a meal every day if I could.

  8. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    This is pretty morbid and disrespectful. Especially with the dvd and face mask. It would take a really wretched human being to actually derive joy from the death of another human being like this.

  9. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Scot- That's interesting because in the last 35 years 129 prisoners were found INNOCENT and released from death row.

  10. Scot
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Mattie, you moron. These are not human beings. Ever heard of death row inmate Charles Ing? He would tie up young mothers and before he killed them, would videotape them as he killed their children in front of them. This is a human being to you? Please give me your dumbass liberal response.

  11. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    I'm not a liberal. I just happen to know the facts. Not everyone on death row or in prison is actually guilty. It's happened before. This is disrespectful. Stop being antagonistic and rude.

  12. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    I never referred to Charles Ng who I know a lot about. I'm referring to 129 people who were wrongfully imprisoned and put on death row and then found to be innocent. Those people deserve to die? They were found innocent, as in they did NOT commit a terrible crime. So why are they "subhuman" to you? I never engaged in any ad hominem attacks, so don't sling any at me. They don't help your argument.

  13. Geekazoid
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Scot, you are treading a fine line here. There's no need to chest thump and insult others for their political viewpoints. What does political affiliation have to do with whether one finds this morbid and tasteless or not?

  14. BJN
    September 19th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    The food itself, obviously, is tasteless in keeping with the whole concept.

  15. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    BJN - hahaha. Wow.

    I think this whole concept would seem a lot less tasteless without the face mask and the dvd. At least then it could just be chocked up to the morbid curiosity of what someone who knows they will die soon chooses to eat. The face mask and the dvd seem to mock the deceased. I tend to have a reverence for the dead as a lot of people do.

  16. Miss Cellania
    September 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Just to be clear, the DVD was NOT footage of the execution.

  17. Mattie
    September 19th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    What was the DVD of then? The making of the meal? Or was it a DVD of Bambi?

  18. ted
    September 19th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    According to the article, the DVD "was scratched, didn't really play, and was just a jittery youtube burn of some CBN near-death experience stuff that really didn't enhance the meal much"

    Read the article next time.

    Seems like a dumb idea - not disrespectful, just stupid.

  19. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    September 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    "Everything tasted okay..."

    Even the socks?

  20. Pol x
    September 22nd, 2008 at 5:51 am

    If you were to have your last meal, would you want Ice cream? or a burger or any of that crap?

    I'd ask for soemthing exotic that I'd never had before but always fancied the idea of, like Unicorn au Poivre.

    Do you get a stay of execution until they can find your meal?

    Also, capital punishment is a bad idea, even Chales Ng.

    I have no romantic notion about the sanctity of human life, just a realistic understanding of the fallability of human judicial process.

    Many in the UK wanted to bring back hanging before the Birmingham Six and The Guildford Four went to trial in the 1970s, so they could be hung when convicted.

    Convicted they were.... quite illegally convivted of things none of them did, nd if the more reactionary amongst us had had their way they'd have swung for them too.

    Incidentally despite all the convictions having been over turned and the people set free, the govt has yet to pay a single penny of the compensation that was awarded.

  21. Michelle
    May 26th, 2009 at 4:56 am

    There are alot of innocent people on death row. Therefore, I would only eat a dinner from an inmate who confessed to the killings and said he was sorry. Bon Appetite! Problem solved!


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