# Death Row Dinners: starring The Mancunion
- Source: The Mancunion (https://staging.mancunion.com/food-drink/death-row-dinners-starring-the-mancunion)
- By: Elena Meritxell Bradley
- Published: 2019-11-21T19:08:11.000Z
- Section: Food & Drink
- Topics: mancunion, food, death row dinner, favourite food
**Introducing the Mancunion's Food and Drink section to a weekly segment, 'Death Row Dinners: Starring...' - Each week, we'll ask everyone and anyone what their last meal would be... What would yours be?**

As a Criminology student, self-professed crime enthusiast and food-lover, Death Row Dinners fascinate me.

A well-known concept, the Death Row Dinner was a convention in US death penalty prisoners in which, 24 hours before their demise they would be granted one last wish: a meal of their choice. Oklahoma City Bomber, *Timothy McVeigh* requested two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream, simple and concerning. On the other end of the spectrum, serial killer *John Wayne Gacy* chose 12 fried prawns (very specific), a bucket of KFC chicken, chips and a pound of strawberries. Murderer *Ronnie Lee Gardner* chose steak, a lobster tail and apple pie whilst watching Lord of the Rings (boujee).

The macabre curiosity of humanity means that when heinous crime is combined with a sit-down meal; so many of us are grossly intrigued. But for me anyway, this has become my opening gambit when meeting anyone: What would your death row dinner be? I want to know your favourite food!

So, here is a new weekly segment. I'm going to give you a weekly dosage of people's favourite dinners. Exhilarating I know, but I'm nosy. To kick things off, I asked some of *The Mancunion*'s Editorial Team. Here's what they said. Enjoy.

- ***Anja Samy,*** Editor-in-Chief:

 	Chicken satay with peanut Sauce
- A chicken roast with an additional Yorkshire pudding

Image: 'Johnny_automatic' @ publicdomainfiles.com
- Key lime pie

***Tobias Soar***, Film Editor:

- 'Choripan', an Argentinian sandwich of grilled chorizo and fresh bread.
- Argentinian steak cooked 'A Punto' (in-between rare and medium-rare) with fries and two fried eggs
- Tiramisu

***Josh Sandy***, Film Editor:

- Tomato soup with a whole baguette (he has an appetite)
- Two chicken-shop pizzas, specifically 'as greasy as possible' with chips and a can of lilt.

Image: Gerald G @ publicdomain
- Salted caramel pavlova.

***Jay Darcy,*** Theatre Editor:

- Vietnamese summer rolls
- Vietshack's 'quack loaded fries'
- Pavlova

***Sam Bronheim,*** Head of Marketing:

- Scallops with garlic butter
- A Five Guy's bacon burger
- Tiramisu

Let's not judge some of them too harshly. Stay tuned for next time for more, you guessed it, Death Row Dinners.