Pesto potato & prawn starter from Qatar Airways, not because it tasted delicious, but because it's the first time I've seen slightly pretentious food on an airline.

I paid extra for a meal last time I flew. Never again. I believe it was meant to be steak pie. What I got was a teaspoon of brown gel, a sausage the size of a pinky, damp and squidgy pale thing that was probably pastry and three small brown chunks that were possibly steak. I was not happy. Paid about £15 for this meal. Dessert was as bad.

>>3014
Yuck. Probably prepared by a Paki who used a bottle of water and their hand to clean themselves after visiting the loo.

Like all budget airlines, Ryan Air's inflight food is particularly vile - If I'm ever flying with them (or Easy Jet), I generally get the meal deal from Boots at the airport instead.

I flew long haul with Continental once, and some blubbery beast of a bird was sat next to me. (We almost missed our first connection by a whisker, so didn't have time to specify that we wanted particular seats on the final leg, so they squashed me in the middle of a widebody. Not good.)

She was a hellishly rough bird from Yorkshire and she was vegetarian, so I can only assume she'd been on a diet of deep-fried vegetables and cheese. The normal meal was a pretty decent penne pasta with no meat in it anyway, but blubberchops had ordered a veggy meal. It turned up and it's two squares of tofu on a bed of vegetables. She's clearly never seen tofu before in her life. Nor vegetables.

"What's this? Looks like rubber. Eeeeh mum, look at it wobble it's just like a big piece of rubber. Could've had the pasta, but I got rubber instead. Can I swap with you?"

I laughed inwardly.

ive only flown 4 return trips, but the food has always been decent, or...not bad enough to complain about.
yet everyone seems to hate airline food

the best ive had was just some simple chicken in a spicy/tomato sauce, with some potato in a seperate part of the tray and a toffee yogurt
all tasted like reasonably good microwave meal though

virgin premium economy.

>>3016

Hahaha, Love the imagery.
+1

Best food i encountered on an airline is Air Canada. the meals are normally rather nice.. plus you get these awesome pasty things for the snack meal.. they are sooo nice.

I only ever eat the biscuits and have the shot of milk

The rest of the time I indulge in Duty Free Milka, which is only on sale in Duty Free it would seem. Along with Toblerone

>>3021

They sell multiple varieties of Milka at basically every supermarket in Nottingham. I can't imagine we're the only place in the country with a Milka supply outside of the duty free.

I've never been on a flight long enough that I felt compelled to eat the food. It never looks particularly appealing.

>>3022
Shithole that it is, I found both the QSC Tesco, the Asda, and the Sainsbury's are exceedingly well stocked with random nice stuff. Must be the students, since I've not found the same sort of varied selection anywhere else so far.

>>3021

ASDA sell Milka for 50p. It's very nice. It is the hazelnut paste that does it for me.

British Airways' idea of a vegetarian option is a ham sandwich. Next time I'm going to tick the Hindu box.

>>3026

If I had a restaurat the vegetarian option would be

"please don't fuck off disappointed - just fuck off'

Someone else once paid for me to fly Virgin Upper Class. It was far and away the best food I have ever had in the air. Also, you get something like one trolley-dolley per four people in the front. The speed with which courses are served, your glass is refilled, has to be experienced to be believed. Turning left when you get on a plane fucking rocks.

I love airline food and everything about it. Never had a bad experience, even with meals that I've never heard of.

I really don't think I've had a bad one, though I do have rather poor taste. Even the worst airline meal I've had was better than the average microwave meal (which I do enjoy). Maybe it was the altitude.

Although when I fly to Dublin, all BA give me is a ham sandwich and some crisps, but then I suppose it's only a 40 minute flight so it's not that bad.

Everytime I think of Airline food, I'm reminded in a scene of Dexter's Laboratory or something similar in which he is on a plane, receives his food and below the plastic there is a barely-alive owl (which still has it's feathers) stuffed in there, hootling feebly.

It's silly, but I never trusted plane food ever since then, and this was in about 1998 or something.