Thread 21478418

Hey /ck/, what are your experiences with airline food? It can be the best and worst of them.

My personal best was eating a pasta dish on a flight in the Caribbean.

>>21478418 (OP)
My company sent me to the US for boring shit. I arrived at the airport, they'd put me in business class. I was baffled. Basically I could drink in the associated lounge for free before the flight. I had my fill. On the plane, got a glass of champagne upon being seated. Had as many snacks and drinks as I requested. Had a 4 course meal: had a good chicken caesar to start, a blade of beef for main with accompaniments, a panna cotta for dessert, then a cheeseboard. A "speciality" coffee after that. I had cocktails, pints of lager, straight whisky. I got my money's worth. Luckily I didn't have to meet people until the next day

>>21478418 (OP)
How long of a flight do you need to have, or how high of a class or airline in order to have actual meals?

>>21478418 (OP)
i fly at least twice per year. at this point i will rather go hungry for 12+ hours than eat that shit ever again. sometimes ill pack two bags of jerky with me if it is a long flight and eat that instead.

>>21478437
Do you know how much it was?

intermittent fasting
i dont get on airplanes but if the meals are paid for as part of the ticket, do they give you to-go bags? can you just order the meals you've paid for with the ticket and effectively treat it like takeout?
otherwise there's no way i would ever eat like that, especially in front of other people. you don't need to be shoveling food into yourself like an animal

I usually enjoy the airline food I get. I find it weird that some people hate it so much. I prefer the simpler ones you can eat with your hands like brie cheese, bread with butter, chocolate pieces for dessert. One thing I didn't like was a side salad with its own tiny dressing cup. bit annoying fussing with that on an airplane

>>21478444
About 950, cheapest was 400 apparently. Whilst I loved freeloading, it wouldn't be worth it on my money. I'm tall, so economy is an inconvenience, but the extra room didn't help the fact I was in a tin can for hours

>>21478418 (OP)
I've never been on a flight long enough that they served anything except drinks and snacks

>>21478418 (OP)
once took Iran Air a long time ago and the meal they served was def the best meal on an airplane I ever had

I have to fly long haul a few times a year because of work, so I've learned my way around airplane food.

My notes:

- long haul means open bar. nice to have but keep in mind you get dehydrated real quick on planes, so stick to 1-2 cocktails or 2 beers. avoid sparkling or gassy drinks because you'll feel like shit after.

- Bring snacks that are fresh, like bananas or even dried apricot, because they never have anything like that, it's all dry and packaged which means you'll get constipated by the end.

- Another tip: if you're doing long haul, always get the direct flight and always pick the aisle seat in the middle column, as far forward as possible - you'll get your food faster and you'll get off the plane faster at the end.

- best food selection in my experience so far has been with Singapore airlines and Cathay: you get a menu with 2-3 options, usually one eastern, one western, one vegetarian. Stewardesses always walking around with snacks and drinks and a good selection at the bar. They seem like they give a shit. Of the American airlines, i was pleasantly surprised by Alaskan even though they're not Big 3. Otherwise Delta. United can suck it.

- worst food experience BY FAR was with Finnair - cheap mac and cheese in a small portion on a 12 hour flight and you had to pay for drinks, they can fuck off.

For short haul and if you are flying business, British Airways is pretty comfy, you get your full english breakfasts in the morning, good teas and coffees, nice pasta for lunch etc, good airline for actual work trips, at least in Europe.

>>21478440
Depends on the airline and flight duration, even time of day.

>>21478440
If polite then even if not in first class then moght bring you good stuff

Best: flying NZ to Melb, 3 passengers on the flight. Once we took off they let us sit in first class.

Worst: Syd to LA on United, a few years after 9-11 when they were cutting costs.
A/C barely working on 40c day sitting on Sydney tarmac.
Old, rattly plane.
Shittiest pasta and tomato sauce you could imagine.

>>21478418 (OP)
I've had pretty good experiences.
There's a chicken dish in sauce that Emirates has that's actually incredible.
A surprising number of pasta dishes are quality as well.
Pretty much any kind of dessert bakery has tasted like shit. Especially Turkish airlines (and hotels) constantly try and fail to make brownies/cupcakes taste or feel good. On that note, don't eat their attempts at western style cheese or bread. Turkish cuisine is generally amazing but they'll fuck up even very basic things like Gouda or bread rolls when coloring outside the lines.


Btw it's fucked how stingy airlines are with soda. Especially considering how there's multiple times where they gave you two cups of alcohol for free back in the pleb row.

>>21478418 (OP)
first class meal on delta

ANA F was probably the best I've had.

>>21478418 (OP)
Best was on north korean airline, it was a cold roast chicken leg, fucking love chicken leg hot or cold.
In the 90s when I was a kid I remember a United Airlines flight from LA to Auckland gave us mcdonalds, which blew my mind.

>>21478418 (OP)
I've been flying economy in the US since 2004 and I've never seen a flight where anything other than like a sandwich was available for purchase onboard. Snacks and beverages only. So I always brought my own stuff from the airport.

>>21478668
Even most international is pretty bad now, unless you’re spending $10k for some leg room and a mid tier restaurant meal.
I just usually just grab a big deli sandwich and negotiate with the stewardess for extra snacks and booze and no meal.

The only thing I really remember about plane food from when I used to fly international were the ‘bagels’ you’d get at breakfast

These are no bagels, these are satan’s bunghole. Somehow sweet and also incredibly acrid. I don’t know how, but somehow every airline had sources the worst bagels possible.

>>21478668
yeah this is the way. I just bring a sandwich or whatever. downside is it might stimulate my digestive system into making me want to poop and I hate pooping in airplane bathrooms

>>21479990
>I hate pooping in airplane bathrooms
have you? i've made it my whole life without doing so (including 2 separate trips to europe) and i hope i never have to

>>21480091
Artie Lange's second book he has the most disgusting story ever about shitting on a plane.

It's at the 2 hour mark of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaucHkXNVTY

>>21480121
grim

>>21480121
Fucking nasty, lol

>>21478440
I fly domestic several times a year and have never once been offered anything more than peanus and drinks, even for cross country flights. I think it's only for long haul overseas flights.

>>21480164
first class i'll get meal offers usually around 3.5 to 4 hour + flights, if the flight is during breakfast or lunch or whatever
domestic last time i remember food was back in like the late 90s early 2000s (this might have been pre-9/11 only now that i think about it) where they'd have huge refrigerated coolers right outside the plane door with bags you could grab, had like a shitty sandwich some chips and a cookie or whatever
oddly enough i tried googling this to get a picture to add to my post but i can't find any. i wonder if i hallucinated this whole thing

>>21480179
I remember the bags a few times. There was always a mealy apple that nobody ate.

>>21478418 (OP)
Airlines in the US tend to be pretty nasty about food, like they have no pride in their country and hate their customers.
Elsewhere it's mostly better.

>>21478418 (OP)
you couldnt pay me to get on an airplane. your basically asking what would you like your last meal to be since they;re literal death traps. hurr durr crashes like never happen ok but when they do guess what your fucking dying. you think those people on that air india flight were thinking about that no because people that use airplanes are fucking retarded. i would eat a nice meal on the ground watcing your metal death tube

>>21481393
pussy ass bitch afraid to die

>>21481393
How do you plan on travelling overseas?

Lifetime status and many million mile flyer. Have received global elite a few years.

The food is shite. A few long leg flights in First "try" to fool pax they are served gourmet but the ingredients are grocery store level, the recipes cheap and easy for beginning cooks, and the presentation looks like airline and not restaurant food. Service is whenever and however the crew feel like delivering a meal.

1995-2007 were premium. Today if it's more than a six hour flight I'll consider a lie-flat seat but the edibles are zero consideration. Even the Europeans, Japs, Kiwis, and MENAs devolved into crap. The Air New Zealand lounge in Sydney used to offer private chef service; now, they literally feature a make your own hot dog cart.

You who sit in back haven't been missing out on the food for years. Video streaming killed the need to fly for very lucrative business.

>>21478643
Never heard of Banner butter until now, but it seems based, and redpilled even.

>>21481537
Widen your vocabulary, parrot.

>>21481545
Pfff

because china airline doesn’t have a first class, its premium business class seats are equivalent to first class seats for most other airlines

this means that you can actually get some pretty decent meals. the first meal is routinely served about an hour or so after take off (because most long haul flights are late), and then breakfast is usually served 4 hours before landing.

dinner is a 3-4 course meal including appetizer, salad, soup, entree, and then dessert which is either a cake of some kind or ice cream with a cheese & fruit platter.

>>21482293
first course

>>21482365
second course, soup

>>21482367
third course, steak with potatoes au gratin, gravy, and veggies

>>21482371
dessert

>>21482447
and breakfast. this is from the western set menu alone, as they also have a chinese one too.

I had chicken & waffles flying Japan Airlines from Chicago to Tokyo. I thought it was breddy good

>>21478643
this looks worse than what theyd give you in economy in the 90s

used to be better because they pretty much gave you unlimited drinks in regular seats on air canada but now it's only one if you aren't first class. i've never really had an issue with food from any carrier that i've flown. air canada, lufthansa, ANA, american airlines, westjet, LOT

>>21478437
What airline? I took emirates business class to Chennai and it was fucking awesome. It's a good thing too because that was a 24 trip each way and I cannot sleep on planes (except the one time I bought a couple of Valium in Thailand). The DFW to Dubai leg had four scheduled meals plus a little lounge for self serve snacks. I didn't drink so much on the way there but got nicely buzzed the whole way back on Manhattans.

>>21482478
I flew JAL four legs in 2007 and their food (and free whiskey) were great for economy class. They had better seats than American economy (which got me to Narita) as well.

>>21482640
Mine was British Airways. Yeah I'm like you, I can't sleep when in transport, never been able to. I don't envy your flight being that long, I get fidgety enough as it is

>>21482672
Nah, it was fine. The silver lining for such a long trip is that at the time I was the highest pay grade for hourly pay at the company and our company travel policy stated that we got paid for transit time. Imagine getting 24 hours of ot pay while eating well, drinking liquor and watching films.

>>21482691
Yeah good point, come to think of it, I didn't get paid for travel!

>>21478418 (OP)
Most of the first class meals I've had were really good. Short rib with mojo sauce and mac & cheese. Scrambled eggs with hash browns fruit and sausage. Vegetable lasagna. All great. The first time I had the short rib it was a perfect medium rare inside. There was one time the side salad had a vegetable I had never seen before and haven't been able to find it since. Something like a peruvian pearl pepper but inside it was more like a turks cap fruit.

There was one time they served us glorified lunchables which was ass.

>>21478643
Looks shit.

>>21482478
Strange combo. Chickin looks good though. Is it quite as small a portion as it appears?

>>21480164
Yea I bet you love getting peanus on a plane

EVA has great food in all classes.

>>21478668
>So I always brought my own stuff from the airport.
Save some money (unless your company will reimburse you) and bring your own food from home.

>>21480164
>I fly domestic several times a year and have never once been offered anything more than peanus and drinks, even for cross country flights. I think it's only for long haul overseas flights.
You need be flying for 3+ hours and have a first class seat to get a meal on an airplane in the US.

>>21484205
>bring your own food from home.
the last time I tried that, a TSA agent literally opened up my sandwich and picked apart the ingredients with his rubber-gloved hands, so, gonna pass on that option

>>21484211
wtf? they're not supposed to do that!

>>21484211
So he was more hygenic than you were when you made it

>>21484259
Back to school with you, so you can learn basic logic

>>21484266
Explain specifically how "basic logic" means the guy wearing rubber gloves wasnt wearing rubber gloves and how you not wearing rubber gloves means you were wearing rubber gloves. Go ahead. Take a few paragraphs. Thoroughly apply your "basic logic".

Then look up "joke" in the dictionary.

Fucking retarded idiotic moron.

>>21484270
You aren't the brightest

>>21484281
Yeah calling me dumb sure absolves you of not understanding an obvious joke

Fuck you, you're just a nasty cunt with a shitty attitude

No wonder that tsa guy fingered your sandwich, you were probably just an asshole to him like you are to everyone

>>21484270
seek therapy

>>21484259
that tsa agent probably didn’t change his gloves, which means that for however long before he fingered that anon’s sandwich he was probably fingering dirty suitcases, people, and ungodly things.

>>21478418 (OP)
how mentally weak and stupid are average humans? I would never eat on a plane, and frankly, I see no reason to offer food on one. At worst youve got a 12 hour flight, and if you cant fast for 12 hours you should already not be allowed to have kids.

>>21484401
Ooh that's so intense, you're giving me a terror boner, big boy

>>21478418 (OP)
Lufthansa and KLM meals are usually pretty good

>>21484401
>how mentally weak and stupid are average humans? I would never eat on a plane, and frankly, I see no reason to offer food on one. At worst youve got a 12 hour flight, and if you cant fast for 12 hours you should already not be allowed to have kids.
So are we supposed to sleep for the 12 hours before the flight and the 12 hours during the flight?

>>21483887
It wasquite a bit smaller than what you’d find in a diner, but you have to consider that you’re pigging out the entire flight

>Sandwich, Japan

>>21484914
It's a sando, gaijin

>>21478418 (OP)
Just give me the biscoff cookies for the whole row thank you attendant.

>>21478418 (OP)
Short hop food sucks dick because all the airlines cost cut it into non-existance.

Long haul food is tolerable.

You basically have to BYOF anymore. Or you pay the airline literal car prices to get some $100 at BEST quality meal. It's crazy you can get an airline premium ticket, or a new fucking car.

>>21479990
It's harder to avoid when on long haul flights that are like 15 hours. Odds are high you are gonna shit. Only way to guarantee not to is enema yourself before hand and fast the whole way.

It's not that bad on the bigger aircraft. WAY more room in their bathrooms. Like enough room to comfortably join the mile high club.

Doing a shit in anything 737 or smaller is a pain the ass because of how tight and cramped that little ass room is.

If you're flying domestic coach/economy in the US, I don't think you even get offered anything free other than little snacks, and you might get the option of buying a sandwich or something on longer flights. If it's first class and more than like 4 hours you usually get a hot meal (free) that's a tier above microwave dinners but that's about the ceiling. At least in first class you get all the free booze you want.