#Airplane Food

[paulpingminho]

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage United Air Lines Valentine’s Day menu - 1942.

[ryuucafe]

Dad got an insane voucher and decided to give me a once in a life time experience flying business class.

[shoku-and-awe]

My JAL flight last month had one each of the best and weirdest airline meals I've ever had! Also a bottle of wine featuring... Hannibal fanart I think?

No??? Am I the only one who sees it?

The great meal was street-food-style chicken over rice! I thought it was a risky choice because these are not flavors that are very familiar in Japan (where they tend to under-season Western food to begin with), but it was very flavorful and very satisfying! The steamed cabbage was a weird addition but I liked it.

Also had delicious sides: salad, miso soup, marinated carrots with mandarin slices and tuna (which should not have worked but did), pasta salad with edamame and broccoli and capers, and some kind of corn custard? I would say corn pudding but this was much creamier. They also offered me an ice cream, which I could not eat.

The weird meal had three containers that you were supposed to mix together. The first was pasta with chicken, kabocha squash, greens, and pieces of barley(?). The second was a carbonara-style sauce with slices of lotus root (weird?? but I like lotus root). The third was steamed broccoli, soy meat, and pickled cabbage??? Like, it's weird enough to put so many ingredients in a creamy, silky, carbonara sauce, but grainy loose barley(???) and PICKLES???? Of all things.

The meal was formulated by Tanita, an equipment manufacturer that is known for diet food because it makes scales, but health food does not have to be gross, and also I've had pleasant JAL meals from them before (I think). Anway, I did not mix the third container in, which was good because the soy meat had a sweet seasoning that was really offputting. Also I got a bite or two of an unidentifiable starchy vegetable that tasted like dirt and raw potato. It turned out to be the base of a baby corn??? I love baby corn, but it tasted wrong, maybe somewhat rotten.

Overall very bizarre experience. I kinda cannot wait to see what they have in store for me next week.

[cornerstorecandy]

[masteroffakesmiles]

I wanna go back to simpler times where airline breakfast actually meant something. Where’s the hot food? Why do we get snacks? I didn’t have time to eat at the airport…

[mydreamfeast]

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[goldennika]

i remember a while back how “what’s the deal with airplane food?” was a joke(?) being thrown around a lot

i thought i was in the minority who actually enjoyed airplane food until i realized that the people who popularized that joke probably flew a lot of western airlines and i’ve seen how bad their food options are

but as someone based in asia and therefore flies with asian carriers almost exclusively, i’ve always had a very different flying experience than someone on say, a US carrier

[paulpingminho]

[stone-cold-groove]

A United Air Lines in-flight menu circa 1951.

[gottauseanomdeplume]

*over plane intercom* so whats the deal with airplane food?

[magicmitch-eats]

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