Luigi Mangione Will Have 2 European Dishes to Choose Between for Dinner in Prison

Mar. 15, 2025

Luigi Mangione.Photo:PA Department of Corrections / Handout/Anadolu via Getty; Cavan Images/Getty

PA Department of Corrections / Handout/Anadolu via Getty; Cavan Images/Getty

Luigi Mangioneis being served chicken parmesan and a dish called pizza beans among his meal choices in prison.

Social media users have beenconfusedover what pizza beans are following the release of Mangione’s menu.

Mangione pictured on Facebook.Luigi Mangione/Facebook

Luigi Mangione/Facebook

The “Greece and American-style” meal consists of beans cooked with various pizza-flavored ingredients, including crushed tomatoes, a chopped onion, minced garlic, parmesan, and kale leaves, topped off with melted mozzarella and parmesan and served in a large dish.

“When I created this recipe for my second cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Every Day in 2017, I wouldn’t have in a million years expected it to land on a prison menu,” Perelman toldEaterfollowing the reports of Mangione’s prison menu.

“I have to make clear that the Smitten Kitchen doesn’t condone or endorse murder, however the memes are hilarious,” she added.

Pizza beans has risen considerably on Google Search following the menu release, according toGoogle Trends.

CNNreported that Mangione is eating his meals in his prison cell which is described as a 15 x 6 foot space including a bed, sink, toilet and desk. He is “not interacting with his inmates,” according to the outlet.

Homemade Chicken parmesan, stock pictured.vm2002/Getty

vm2002/Getty

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson, Maria Bivens, told CNN, “All inmates are afforded time outside their cells even if they are a higher custody level,” referring to Mangione.

Mangione’s other meal choices in prison so far have included tacos or bean wrap filling, barbecue chicken or brown rice with vegetables, chicken tetrazzini, a hamburger, porcupine meatball, and mashed potatoes, perTMZ.

Fruit and cereal have been kept as breakfast menu staples, but occasionally swapped with foods such as grits, cinnamon apples or scrambled eggs.

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Mangione has been charged with one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document, and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a firearm, PEOPLE confirmed on Dec. 9.

He is accused of fatally shooting Thompson, 50, on Dec. 4 in front of the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan, where he and other UnitedHealthcare executives were set to gather for an investor meeting.

source: people.com