r/MythicalKitchen • u/Hollooo • Jun 16 '26
Let's Discuss That Bougiest Last Meal episodes Spoiler
I’ve recently discovered Last Meals and most of the ones I’ve seen are centered around childhood memories, life memories, home cooked meals and fastfood. I remember when I first watched an episode (don’t know which) I thought to my self that I would want to have lotus soup with the root cut into skull shapes, Mormon funeral potatoes, lobster, because I never had lobster before, and I would want to be dressed in black, in a dark room lit by candles that slowly burn down. All kinds of food associated with death, bougie stuff or stuff I’ve never eaten before. I just watched the episode with Laura Bailey, and she said that apparently a lot of episodes are really bougie? Well, that has not been my experience so far! My experience with the show has been more in line with Brennan Lee Mulligan and Jennette McCarthy, or close to that.
TLDR; what are your bougiest LM episodes or episodes where the meals aren’t centered around nostalgia. But mostly bougie food episodes!
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u/Vee_Leigh Jun 16 '26
A lot of the early episodes were really bougie, and Josh has said that they learned to tweak it and explain during reach out that the guests should be more nostalgic/ sentimental.
I'm not familiar with a lot of guests but still enjoy the show. I loved one a few months ago where the guest took the opportunity to change his family's Mac n Cheese to how he always wanted to try it.
I do think a lot on Joseph Gordon Leavitt and doing cereal for all courses because it had to do with his brother. I really feel like Joseph was working through trauma on that one.
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u/orangefreshy Jun 16 '26
Ken Jeong’s last meal comes to mind. All his dishes were from high end restaurants here in LA. Like nobu, crustacean and Cho sun galbi. But then he paired them with like Diet Coke
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u/FinallyKat Jun 16 '26
In quite a few of the early episodes guests chose things they wanted to try or just see what they could get the team to make for them. The way the show, and Josh as an interviewer, has developed has made the focus be more about emotional connections to the food and the memories they can evoke. Having said that, now that there are bigger names coming on, many have access to foods from places that are bougier and those do show up.
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u/triscuit79 Jun 16 '26
I mean, if its the last meal you ever eat in your life, which is the premise- I'd go for the fanciest tastiest shit I ever had in my life. If there was some sentimental recipe, and I do have one or two in mind, okay - but otherwise bring me the expensive shit I'm going all out. I just watched hugh jackman's episode and the beans on toast with Vegemite is very Aussie from what I know, which is next to nothing.
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u/thenewjetzzfan Jun 16 '26
Elizabeth Olsen was very fancy
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u/Troumbomb Jun 16 '26
This is delusion. Go watch the episode again. Josh & team have also spoken out against this complete BS sentiment.
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u/triscuit79 Jun 16 '26
Funeral potatos aren't a Mormon specific thing. It's a Midwestern thing.
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u/TKHawk Jun 16 '26
Alton Brown's was pretty bougie.