Are you into both true crime and the culinary arts? Then boy oh boy, do I have a New Year's resolution for you!
23-year-old Josh Slavin of Virginia is on a mission to recreate all of the last meals of notorious criminals on death row. In the process, he learns about their heinous crimes, background, and their odd food requests, before remaking their last meal for a taste test.
It's basically the plot of Julie and Julia but with death row meals instead of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Slavin started the morbid cooking series in September with the last meal chosen by Ricky Ray Rector who chose to eat steak, fried chicken, pecan pie, and cherry Koolaid. Not a bad choice if you ask me, but according to Slavin, Rector chose not to eat the pie, saying he was saving it for later. He was then executed by lethal injection.
In the last three months, Slavin has already tackled the last meals of other notorious criminals from Ted Bundy to King Louis XVI (whose meal looked excellent, by the way) ranking each meal on a five-tiered scale.
If you want to see all of Josh's meals so far you have to go to his Instagram page.
While many commenters find the videos distasteful and glorifying of heinous criminals. Slavin sees it a different way, telling Fox News,
Not every story from our history is going to be sunshine and rainbows, but I don't think that's a reason to not share them.
Death is something that comes to everyone, but there are so few situations where you know exactly when you are going to die, and choose exactly what you're going to eat before you die. So rarely do these hypotheticals translate into reality. This one just happens to be a reality of our history, and a reality of our present.
Slavin also said that he thinks his content mostly appeals to True Crime aficionados like himself.
But he understands that the whole concept of last meals may be less than appetizing for some, saying,
If my content is not for you, I am sorry, and feel free to keep scrolling.
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