I frequently see tweets or blog posts from Ben (OneMileAtATime) about the meals he’s enjoying in first class. I’m wondering…why don’t my meals ever look like the ones he gets? Okay, it may be because I fly US Air and their domestic first class meals are awful. But that begs another question. Why can US Air do a great job on International Envoy Class Meals and provide such junk domestically?
So here I am, sitting onboard my flight (using GoGo which is a story for another day!) and I’m grateful for being in row 1 because after eating ½ the chicken and two spoons or rice I feel like I could puke. Obviously this is not really one of life’s major issues, but I really do wonder why an airline would serve crap. I mean, that’s actually what it tasted like today.
The meal was described as “chicken with rice” so I selected it. It came with green beans, a few carrots, rice and the chicken in what I think may have been a teriyaki style sauce. I’m not sure about the sauce and the flight attendant didn’t have a description of it on her paperwork.
The consistency of the chicken was like rubber. The rice, well…I’ve been sitting here trying to think of how to describe the consistency of the rice and said to the guy next to me, “how would you describe it?” He said “other than disgusting?” So I think the best way to describe the consistency was mush covered with some sauce. The green beans were decent.
I think US Airways should seriously reconsider what it serves domestically. I’d rather be served a ham & cheese sandwich than a hot meal that really is inedible. I jokingly said to the flight attendant who was about to serve the pilots, “do they eat this slop too?” and she said, “oh, no. They have special meals.” So if the pilots won’t eat it, why would they server it to the guests?
I think the airline get’s in the way of you seeing better onboard meals…
switch to American Airlines stacey!!
Switch with a person in coach if it really is that bad. I would bet you anyone in coach without status would gladly switch with you and would not have any complaints at all!
@Jamison & @LHFlyer – yes, I think I’m due for a switch!
Looks like you could use some KFC on board
@TravelSummary – you know, that would have been better!
JL just annouced they’re doing KFC haha & that does look quite horrible :-/. But I think most the Pics that Ben posts on F are from intl flights not domestic?
@Vince, yes, I think Ben’s are international mostly. I hardly ever fly domestic anymore so I was surprised today
AA has fantastic on-board catering. I hear DL is good too so you should switch to either one of them. I’d recommend AA but DL has flies to a lot more destinations if you want to stick with DL metal.
haha firstworldproblems indeed. I think it’s time for me to try out AA fine cuisine as well.
Sadly, most Ummmmmmerikans think airline slop is decent – they eat at Denny’s and McD’s – most are such huge a$$holes, they “special” order their food in the drive thru (“I want the double burger, but extra cheese, extra mayo, hold the pickle but put it on the side, with one bun toasted and the other plain, with curly fries and a two-flavor milkshake with extra cherries on top – and then don’t have enough cash so have to scrounge for change…) They are the ones who allow airlines to continue to serve slop…