Buddha's Last Meal...

Siddhattha Gotama (b: 563 BC, d: 483 BC), the Lord Buddha. Buddha's last meal sort of reminds me of the joke about how did Buddha order his hot dog?

Answer: Make me one with everything.

Unfortunately for Buddha, he died shortly after eating a special meal that was made in his honor. The meal is called "sukaramaddava" which translates to "soft pork". Many scholars debate on what soft pork could be but accient text shows that the meal itself was

Mushrooms.

Now, Buddha died shortly after the meal. Before he died he suffered from an attack of the dysentery. It's uncertain that he was suffereing from an illness that the mushrooms only escalated or if the mushrooms themselves were poisoned. We'll never know.