In-flight food - devil on a tray?
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008, 9:14 PM by Lonely Planet
In this age of food snobbery, airline food is looked down upon as the toothless, penniless guttersnipe of the gourmet world. Many travellers abhor it, although there are a number (me included) who actually dig the stuff - the anticipation, the surprise/shock/horror, the little containers, the comedy bread bun that is impossible to bite. I had my first crab stick on a flight to Hawaii as a fourteen-year-old and it felt like the height of glamour.
If you have an in-flight food fascination, airlinemeals.net covers all bases, even taking you behind the scenes of airline catering or showing you what the crew eats. Travellers the world over send in photos of their meals. Get depressed by a miserly vegan breakfast! Long for the campy delights TWA were serving up in the 50s! Mourn the loss of a post-dinner Baileys on Swiss Air!
So what's been your worst in-flight meal?
Labels: airline food, in-flight meals
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malaysia airline has hard bun, such as rock!
china domestic airline serves buns without butter (my first unbelievable encounter) but with dried raddish!
singapore airline's food is good. and i particularly like the buns served by austrian airline! :)
well how about-sunny side up which they forgot to cook-with bread which they probably found buried in the volcanic ash of Pompei-now i dont know whether i missed some episode of "Hell's Kitchen"...but i'm PRETTY sure i will never develop a taste for it.
On a flight to Vegas we were served a cold cut sandwich and stale chips. Best part of the deal is that it came in a brown bag. Classy!
The greatest meal I ever ate was on a Dutch airline company called Dutch Bird. I got chicken nuggets and slices of potatoes (shaped like letters) with mayonese. Of course this was the childrens meal (even came with a colouring booklet) but it tasted great. Never had anything better before or after that. Unfortunately they have gone bankrupt, so it's back to tasteless pasta again.
I gave up on airline food and bring my own. Here's what I pack: http://beatofhawaii.com/how-to-eat-well-at-30000-feet/
Aloha, Jeff
Flew from Manaus to Salvador on TAM Brasil. The flight was split up into 1hr legs with the plane stopping at various airports. Each leg I was served a cheese and ham(?)roll, made out of ridiculously sweet bread and what I hope was mayonaisse. My friend, despite informing them beforehand that she was a vegetarian was served the same thing.
the greatest--coming from Cuba to Toronto. A cold salad made of canned carrots and potatoes in mayo, and a sandwich of mystery ham and cheese on a roll, no mayo. Another beer, please!
Of course this only works as long as no terrorist puts some bomb into his sandwich and then nobody will be allowed to bring any food on board. Sorry to be miserable but I fly in and out of Heathrow, the world's worst airport and am mentally preparing myself for another ridiculous rule (like the 100mil liquid rule) ;-)
I think it's very unfortunate that my one year old daughter was not given a meal on a 10 hour flight from Christchurch to Singapore on a Singapore Airlines Flight, because the Airlines charged us only for the seat.
Food that does not taste good is one thing, but denial of a meal to a child? I thought that's disgusting!
/Arin Basu
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