{"id":118785,"date":"2024-11-13T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/13\/elton-john-reveals-menu-for-his-last-ever-meal\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:01:56","slug":"elton-john-reveals-menu-for-his-last-ever-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/13\/elton-john-reveals-menu-for-his-last-ever-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John reveals menu for his last-ever meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-12\/Getty_elton%20film%20festival%20premiere_111224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images for Disney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Elton John<\/strong> can afford to eat at any restaurant in the world, but there&#8217;s one course he can&#8217;t eat: dessert. That&#8217;s why he says if he was on death row, his final meal would contain nothing but dessert.<\/p>\n<p>Elton and his husband,\u00a0<strong>David Furnish<\/strong>, are the guests on the latest episode of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-ruthies-table-4-86783836\/episode\/elton-john-and-david-furnish-237365558\/#transcription\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Ruthie&#8217;s Table 4<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> hosted by British chef <strong>Ruth Rogers<\/strong> of London&#8217;s Michelin-starred restaurant The River Cafe. During their discussion, Elton reveals that he&#8217;s &#8220;semi-diabetic,&#8221; so he&#8217;s sworn off sugar completely \u2014 he hasn&#8217;t eaten it &#8220;for a long time,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I crave is chocolate and ice cream, I can&#8217;t have any ice cream,&#8221; Elton says. &#8220;I love ice cream.&#8221; All that he&#8217;s allowed, he says, is &#8220;an apple&#8221; or &#8220;a bit of melon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Elton says, &#8220;If I had a death row meal, it wouldn&#8217;t contain anything<em> except<\/em> sweets, because I can&#8217;t eat them now. So I&#8217;d have ice cream, doughnuts, apple pie, rhubarb crumble, blah blah blah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elton and David also\u00a0talked about\u00a0their first date, which involved food. A lot of food.<\/p>\n<p>The two initially met at a dinner party at Elton&#8217;s house \u2014 he was a friend of a friend, David says. Elton asked for his number that night, called him the next day and invited him over for a dinner of takeout Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"podcast-transcription-text\">I arrived\u00a0at the house and there&#8217;s four giant cardboard boxes on\u00a0the kitchen counter and the table is set for two,&#8221; David recalls. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Who else is coming? What&#8217;s all this food for?&#8217;\u00a0Elton didn&#8217;t know\u00a0what I like, so he ordered the entire menu.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images for Disney Elton John can afford to eat at any restaurant in the world, but there&#8217;s one course he can&#8217;t eat: dessert. That&#8217;s why he says if he was on death row, his final meal would contain nothing but dessert. Elton and his husband,\u00a0David Furnish, are<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/13\/elton-john-reveals-menu-for-his-last-ever-meal\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}