Noun
last meal (plural last meals)
A final meal that a prisoner may choose before being executed.
It tells you how to boil water. What expression to wear when you are eating eggs. How to starve. When to eat. What your first meal should be. What your last meal should be. It says more about death than eating and more about living than cooking. Peter Greenaway
In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts. Their last meal is sometimes preserved in peat or in ice, but their thoughts and feelings are gone. Jeanette Winterson
If I was on death row and given one last meal I would ask for a fortune cookie. "Come on 'long prosperous life!'" Mitch Hedberg
For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. Erin O'Connor
No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay. J.R. Ward
The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. Patrick MacGill