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TIL Texas abolished last meal requests after a prisoner ordered 2 chicken-fried steaks, a triple cheeseburger, a beef & cheese omelet , a pound of barbecued meat, a half loaf of bread, 3 fajitas, a meat-lover’s pizza, fried okra, a pint of Blue Bell, and peanut-butter fudge, and then did not eat it.

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