8 Nov 2013

Last meals

5:19 pm on 8 November 2013

The last meals of famous people, charted in an infographic. Abraham Lincoln’s includes mock turtle soup, which as anyone who has caught the BBC’s Supersizers knows, is actually made from a calf’s head.

“And for someone associated with the excess of Graceland, it's no wonder that Elvis kicked the bucket after polishing off four scoops of ice cream and four cookies.”

Of course, last meals are usually associated with prisoners. Here's a couple of examples, one, an Amnesty International campaign looking at the last meals of wrongfully executed prisoners, and one from the state of Florida