Plane food.

Stupot · Sun 01/02/2009 00:10:19

Has anyone read this yet?
Brought a smile to my face.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html

ThreeOhFour · Sun 01/02/2009 00:50:59

I guess it could be kinda funny... but:

QuoteI was the hungriest I’d been in my adult life and I had a splitting headache from squinting at a crackling screen.

Far out man, toughen up a bit. Unless this was meant to be a joke, it's a pretty lame thing to say. "Hungriest I'd been in my adult life"? Because you missed a single meal? Forgive me if I don't feel any sympathy for this person.

Sorry to be the party pooper.

Stupot · Sun 01/02/2009 00:54:23

Haha. Yeh... and it kind of suggests his parents didn't feed him when he was young.

I think he had his tongue firmly in his cheek, though.

Ghost · Sun 01/02/2009 01:21:42

Quote from: Stupot on Sun 01/02/2009 00:54:23
I think he had his tongue firmly in his cheek, though.

Probably as a chewing gum substitute

Man that really is a hilarious read.

When I grow up, I want to be able to describe food in such a verbatim way.
And boobs.

IndieBoy · Sun 01/02/2009 02:52:15

If he was so scared to eat dessert before his main meal he should of mushed it all together.. It might of tasted better, and solved his problems.

ThreeOhFour · Sun 01/02/2009 02:59:49

Quote from: IndieBoy on Sun 01/02/2009 02:52:15
If he was so scared to eat dessert before his main meal he should of mushed it all together.. It might of tasted better, and solved his problems.

This is adventure gamer's instinct at work:

Having problems with something? Try combining all your items until you find the solution.

m0ds · Sun 01/02/2009 14:23:18

Read that in the Sun, quite disgusting! Not far from the in flight meal we had on the way to NY 2004

Andail · Sun 01/02/2009 17:36:22

Jesus, it's a plane, has he never flown before? Just eat the freaking food and stop whining.

Layabout · Mon 02/02/2009 02:42:06

I've never seen plane food look that unappetizing.

I like the fact that he whinges about it in his letter in a very sarcastic and funny way. Only a Brit could do that. If an american had food like this they would yell in their obnoxious voices, " Hey what the hell is this shit? I'm gunna sue you." Then throw the so-called meal at the flight attendant.

Personally, if I was so upset at my so-called food, I would have called over the flight attendant, and said, "Um, excuse me, this food does not seem to be fit for human consumption." And get it changed. Silly man for not complaining on the spot.

Meowster · Mon 02/02/2009 04:52:24

What a fucker that guy is! It would be funny except that I am somewhat retarded and don't see the joke.

If I was him I would have packed my own dinner to take on the plane, probably consisting of some kind of sandwich and a flask of tea. I don't feel sorry for this man at all; in fact I think he should have been forced to eat his food AND some of Richard Branson's excrement by one of the flight attendants. Then he'd have something to complain about. Meanwhile, children in Africa are starving to death and this man is writing a "comedic" complaint about food. What is the world coming to? A child in Zimbabwee would probably literally explode if he ate that cookie. I can't even express my rage adequately. I'm going to go downstairs, sit in my armchair and pretend to understand things so that I can write about them on internet forums.

Haddas · Mon 02/02/2009 06:05:46

So how about that airplane food huh?

Makeout Patrol · Mon 02/02/2009 06:16:30

Incidentally, the corn chips they give you on Air Canada are the only reason to fly Air Canada. Those things are delicious.

Stupot · Mon 02/02/2009 08:40:28

I can vouch for both Swiss Air and Malaysia Airlines.
They kept me very well fed and watered and I greedily wolfed down everything they put in front of me.

mmmmmmmmm

limeTree · Mon 02/02/2009 12:29:25

I traveled with Korean airline 4 times,each lasted 10 hours.
They always offered two things.
(Note that the flight atendance don't speak english very well)
KoreanGirl:" Wo wu yu liaaa,tadiÅ¡ioooonn o Biiiiiiiip!!?"

Due to experince i came to a certain translation of what might they have said.

KoreanGirl: "What would you like,traditional or beef?"

Traditional is raw sea weed mixed with more raw something,all colour of green and a soup with water and leftovers.
Beef is beef covered with whatever the very same thing(whatever that was) that i mentioned above.
At lest cookies were good. Relatively...
So after many flights i learned how to react-each food had it's YES and NO!!!!!!! and third -NOT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS!!!
So,each of that,i compiled in a special corner and just ate the ones i marked YES.
Until on the fourth flight i was stunned,shocked amazed and sickened at the same creepy time when the women said: FISH OR CHCHCHICKAAAAAN!!!?

(Note that the airplane was filled with koreans,they all ate the traditional so i was sick every time they opened the cooked pacage spreading the smell.)

(Since then,i haven't been picky when it comes to food.)

Paper Carnival · Mon 02/02/2009 17:44:45

Heh, plane food is even worse than army food, and I tried both to compare. When I'm about to travel I always have something in the airport restaurants so that I won't have to depend on ~~army~~ plane food. Of course, when you have to travel for like 10 hours, it becomes a problem....

Pumaman · Mon 02/02/2009 22:57:53

Quote from: Stupot on Sun 01/02/2009 00:10:19
Has anyone read this yet?
Brought a smile to my face.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html

He could have just reworded that letter as: "I am an arrogant cock and because I think so highly of myself I expect my in-flight meal to have been hand-crafted by Gordon Ramsay himself. I work in the city as a very important banker don't you know, but don't blame me for the credit crunch because I was too busy spending my ridiculous bonuses on cars and women to notice the bad investments I was making."

LimpingFish · Tue 03/02/2009 00:51:34

Cock or not, everybody is entitled to complain when served inedible twank.

The fact that the rest of us are largely resigned to the fact that airline food is usually rancid mammal flop doesn't mean we can't occasionally call attention to it. It shouldn't be too difficult for an airline, any airline, to at least serve something that doesn't look like it was squeezed from betwixt someone's buttocks.

A packet of cream crackers on standby at least. And some peperami.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 03/02/2009 13:21:19

QuoteI work in the city as a very important banker don't you know, but don't blame me for the credit crunch because I was too busy spending my ridiculous bonuses on cars and women to notice the bad investments I was making."

Correction:

"I work in the city as a very important banker don't you know, but don't blame me for the credit crunch because I'm too busy spending all that bailout...ahem...'rescue' money you poor slobs were forced to give to me. Oh, and I have two private jets so I don't need to worry about this issue."

His comments seemed more like a poor attempt at being smarmy than actually sarcastic, to be honest. [

]If that's supposed to be a good example of British sarcasm then, as an American, I think England should be sued for sucking![/

]

The meal looks like it was more a case of catering to the Indian crowd rather than a general audience. I mean, did you see the tiny triangle of meat they gave him with that heap of mustard? A rat would eat that and be starving afterward!

Also, what exactly were those sponges? They looked like something someone dug out of a greasy diner sink and dipped into a drain pipe in the alley.

Plane food.

Ghost

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