This menu from Alcatraz Prison for a week in September of 1946 doesn’t look that bad. There are three solid meals a day, mostly different from the day before.
This 1946 weekly menu from the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary list some surprisingly tasty-sounding options, including roast pork shoulder, layer cake, and breaded rock cod. The menu was posted by San Francisco Chronicle restaurant blog Inside Scoop SF. The San Francisco Hyatt Regency is currently hosting an exhibition about Alcatraz—“Alcatraz: Life on the Rock”—and is serving a special Alcatraz menu in the hotel restaurant until September 9, 2013, when the exhibition closes.
Two men, sentenced to die in the electric chair on the same day, were led down to the room in which they would meet their maker. The priest had given them last rites, the formal speech had been given by the warden, and a final prayer had been said among the participants. The Warden, turning to the first man, solemnly asked, “Son, do you have a last request?”
To which the man replied, “Yes sir, I do. I love dance music. Could you please play The Macarena for me one last time?”
“Certainly,” replied the warden. He turned to the other man and asked, “Well, what about you, son? What is your final request?”
“Please,” said the condemned man, “kill me first.”