What would your final meal be?

It’s a question you’ve probably pondered at least once in your life, but for those on death row, this isn’t a fun hypothetical, it’s a grim reality. While most people facing execution will choose their favorite food or beverage, some inmates choose to go the less conventional route. In fact, some don’t even ask for food and request something else altogether.

Here are seven of the weirdest death row requests, including a pile of dirt and SpaghettiOs…

A Cigarette

Nicholas Lee Ingram’s request wasn’t strange. If anything, it was incredibly ordinary. In 1995, he was set to be executed for the murder of 55-year-old J.C. Sawyer, and Ingram asked for a cigarette instead of a final meal. The request was denied because it was “harmful to health,” according to Clive Stafford Smith, who was Ingram’s lawyer.

Smith obviously pointed out the absurdity of worrying about the health of someone who will be dead within the hour, and he was eventually able to secure a final smoke for Ingram.

“I say, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me, you’re planning to kill this poor guy.’ So I went out and told the media, and they were humiliated by that. So they gave him a last cigarette, but then they shaved his head and shaved his leg and put 2,400 volts through him. It’s just disgusting,” Smith explained.

Dirt

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by execution after murdering Larry Don Rohus while robbing an office in Houston. During his trial, Smith said he had also committed six “ritualistic” deaths, and his mother testified he practiced black magic and voodoo, though the other deaths were never proven.

Once Smith was placed on death row, he opted out of food and instead requested rhaeakunda dirt. Apparently, he told prison officials he planned to use the dirt in a voodoo ritual, and experts believe he wanted to try to use it to help him reincarnate. The request was denied, and he was given plain yogurt instead.

A Single Olive with the Pit Still Inside

In 1960, Victor Feguer kidnapped and killed Dr. Edward Bartels in Illinois, seemingly because he wanted to use the drugs Bartels was supposed to give to his patients. When he was sentenced to death, Feguer’s last meal request was a single olive that still had the pit in it, reportedly because he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his grave as “a sign of peace.” However, the prison guards found the pit in Feguer’s pocket, so he may just been fucking around.

A Spiritual Advisor

While awaiting his execution for the murder of Pan Sayakhoummane, Donald Wackerly converted to Buddhism, and rather than a meal, he requested that his spiritual advisor be with him in the execution chamber. But the request was denied, as the Corrections Department banned it years earlier.

“If you are able to die with compassion in your heart for all beings, your next rebirth will be in good circumstances,” Wackerly said in a statement filed with the court documents. “I want to die with the thought in mind that I want to become fully enlightened so that I can return to the world to benefit all beings."

An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet

Even by death row standards, Lawrence Russell Brewer was a piece of shit. The proud white supremacist was sentenced to execution for the brutal and appalling murder of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, which included being dragged several miles by the ankles after being chained to the back of a pickup truck.

For his final meal, Brewer made an outrageous request that would feed a family of 40: two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions; a triple bacon cheeseburger with fixings on the side; a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, peppers and jalapenos; a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbeque meat with half a loaf of white bread; three fajitas with all the trimmings; a Meat Lovers pizza; one pint of vanilla ice cream; a slab of peanut butter fudge; and three root beers.

Amazingly, the prison staff did their best to meet every single one of Brewer’s unreasonable requests, yet when the time came to eat, Brewer declined and went to his death with an empty stomach. The stunt resulted in Texas no longer honoring final meal requests, as Senator John Whitmire told the Texas Criminal Justice Division that “enough is enough.”

SpaghettiOs

After murdering 87-year-old Hilda Johnson, Thomas J. Grasso was sentenced to death by the state of Oklahoma. For his last meal, Grasso went to the extreme, ordering two dozen steamed mussels, two dozen steamed clams (flavored by a wedge of lemon), a double cheeseburger from Burger King, a half-dozen barbecued spare ribs, two strawberry milkshakes, one-half of a pumpkin pie with whipped cream, diced strawberries and a can of SpaghettiOs with meatballs.

But apparently, he got spaghetti instead of SpaghettiOs, and this greatly upset Grasso, to the extent that his iconic last words were: “I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”

Jolly Ranchers

A run-of-the-mill drug deal turned into an attempted killing spree when Gerald Lee Mitchell shot and killed Charles Marino and nearly murdered Kenneth Fleming, who managed to survive by feigning death. When Mitchell faced execution for his crimes, he asked for Jolly Ranchers.