The current poll is inspired by a similar poll at Accidental Hedonist.
The first comment there is mine. Michael tells me I'm wrong and that Delta did actually serve us a sandwich on one of our outbound flights to Hawaii. No confusion about the "gluten-free" meals---we have photo evidence of at least one of those memorable meals.
Have you had memorable plane food?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Food! On a Plane! Who put that ....
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One very tasty airplane meal:
Croissants from a proper french bakery on Greek Street in London slathered with Wigmore cheese. We didn't think that we would be allowed to bring the soft cheese into the states so we had to finish it all. Such horror!
My mother insists that cheese wedges -- of the Laughing Cow variety, more or less -- are an absolute necessity of airplane travel, and not only will not travel without them but will remind her children about bringing them any time any of the children travel. Not just remind the one who is traveling, but all the children any time any one of them travels.
As for me, I think I'm on the no-fly list. Or at least that's my excuse for never going anywhere.
Thanks,
-V.
Funny, I just read an article on cnn.com titled "5 things airlines won't tell you about their food." It's not terribly enlightening, but I did think this part was interesting:
Have a look at the latest Zagat airline survey (http://www.zagat.com/airline), and you'll see that with few exceptions, the food really is terrible. As a group, the major airlines are bottom-feeders, scoring 5 out of a possible 20 points (US Airways, Northwest Airlines, American Airlines) or 6 (Southwest, United). Delta got a 7, which is about 35 percent -- still an "F."
My most recent airplane meal consisted primarily of 4 or 5 different varieties of fresh heirloom grape tomatoes that we had picked up in bulk at the Marylebone Farmer’s Market, along with an assortment of English cheeses from Neal’s Dairy Yard, leftover Lebanese sausage from the amazing late-night during-Ramadan feast the night before at one of the Maroush restaurants, and a marzipan fig from the French bakery on Greek Street that let us bring by the 5 pounds we owed them the next day when we were running out of cash and late on our way to the theater. Oh, and pretzels.
We don’t go to London to eat. We go to London to get food to eat on the plane on the way back from London.
Poll results, with 6 people voting:
The best option for food on a plane is...
Bringing home-cooked food along (4)
Buying food before you go to the airport (2)
Buying food in the airport (0)
Eating before you leave (0)
Embracing Ramadan (0)
A clear winner! And a solid rejection for airport food options. I used to love the baguette sandwiches from Upper Crust in Heathrow, but they just aren’t all that good any more.
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