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Note: research indicates that some of the stories below are apocryphal rather than factual.
LAST MEAL OF FRANCOIS MITTERAND
Francois Mitterand (1916-1996) was the 21st President of the French Republic. His last meal consisted of: oysters, foie gras, capons and roasted ortolan. Ortolan is a small brownish songbird that has a greyish head, a yellow throat, and an orange-brown body. Usually, ortolans are netted. Once caught they are blinded or kept in a lightless cage and overfed for a month then drowned in a snifter of Armagnac. Gourmands eat roasted and stuffed ortolans in one mouthful with the fingers, and with a napkin over the head to capture the intense aroma and to hide from God the sight of such barbarousness.
LAST MEAL OF RICKY RAY RECTOR (LAST MEAL SERIES)
On death row and about to die in the electric chair for murdering two men, Ricky Ray Rector—without a frontal lobe from a failed suicide attempt—having had a last meal of steak, fried chicken and Cherry KoolAid, was asked by prison guards why he had not eaten the slice of pecan pie he had ordered. Ricky Ray replied that he was saving it for later.
LAST MEAL OF BUDDHA (LAST MEALS SERIES)
Buddha died after eating pork, and possibly mushrooms/truffles—cooked by Cunda, a blacksmith—from which Buddha became violently ill and died.
LAST MEAL OF CALIGULA (LAST MEALS SERIES)
Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated by eating poisoned mushrooms prepared by his wife Agrippina so that her son Nero could take the throne.
GOURMOND HAVING FINISHED DEVOURING ORTOLAN BUNTING
