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AIBU?

To wish Jamie would tackle Inflight meals like he did with school dinners!

33 replies

MugglesandLuna · 17/08/2011 11:22

Got back from holiday last night, the food was vile on the flight out and even worse on the way back.

Envy

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Bloodymary · 17/08/2011 11:26

Ooh yes, wouldnt that be great.

Although he probablys travels first/buisness class and has no idea what we are served Envy

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biddysmama · 17/08/2011 11:27

heston had a go didnt he?

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CMOTdibbler · 17/08/2011 11:28

Pre order the curry option - all the scheduled flights with a hoot meal do one, and its usually lovely

Mind, you haven't experienced vom airline meals till you've had a gluten free one. I get the most vile food ever

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TeacupTempest · 17/08/2011 11:28

I get overly excited about plane food, I really do. It all comes in little packages and its always a surprise. Some are better than others obviously. Dh feels the same so I am not alone in this madness.

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RunnerHasbeen · 17/08/2011 11:30

As long as he does hospital food first - you can easily take some of your own food on a plane and don't have to eat them very often. It isn't quite the same moral crusade as children or sick people.

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Bloodymary · 17/08/2011 11:35

RunnerHasbeen yes of course. I do not think that there is any doubt regarding that.

I am treating this as a semi/light hearted thread, as I believe the OP intended.

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notcitrus · 17/08/2011 12:16

YANBU.
Go for the Middle Eastern or curry option if there is one - casseroles and stews with couscous/rice heat up well.
Meat and two veg doesn't. Never has, never will. The Heston programme mentioned this and how they'd like to go for stews and so on but more people complain about 'wierd' food than crap traditional food, apparently.

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porcamiseria · 17/08/2011 12:17

what inflight meals? I get either: nothing or a cup of water and biscuit

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biddysmama · 17/08/2011 12:21

heston did hospital meals as well... and cinema :)

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DontGoCurly · 17/08/2011 12:30

YABU

The last thing we need to do is encourage the attention-hungry clown!

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Highlander · 17/08/2011 12:35

Heston has dumped his wife for some skinny glam USA 'Nigella'.

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steamedtreaclesponge · 17/08/2011 12:39

I'm with CMOT on this one - I always order a vegetarian meal and it's almost always curry. It's one of the few foods that isn't ruined by being packaged and reheated and I actively look forward to airplane meals because of that!

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givemushypeasachance · 17/08/2011 12:40

In-flight food is a logistical nightmare; they've got to make hundreds of thousands of meals and ship them all around the world, suiting a variety of cultural preferences and dietary requirements. Then bits of the meals have to be reheated on the plane while other bits are kept chilled, the pressurised aircraft cabins deaden your taste buds and the low humidity affects your ability to smell (which is where you get most of the taste from). Plus if you're in economy you get to eat it all with plastic cutlery from a plastic tray, squashed into a tiny seat while your get your neighbour's elbows jammed into your ribs.

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hocuspontas · 17/08/2011 12:41

You've just reminded me of that hilarious letter to Richard Branson from a disgruntled customer re the digusting airline food. It's an internet classic, I must find it!

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hocuspontas · 17/08/2011 12:45

The letter to Richard Branson Grin

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LolaRennt · 17/08/2011 12:48

curry is dangerous on a long flight,

anyway op yabu. They can't expand the galley in to a proper kitchen for cooking instead of reheating without raising prices. So bring your own food

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oldraver · 17/08/2011 12:49

DS needed a Dairy Free meal which had to be requested as it wasn't among the options despite there being some really obscure ones. On the outbound flight he got a rather ok meal of BBQ flavour chicken balls of potato and veg. Fruit was his starter, pudding, cracker accompaniment and fruit option Hmm. The chicken was quite nice but would of benefited form some sauce or gravy of some sort. I got the impression from Customer services that they didnt have a clue what a Dairy Free meal was, but all in all it was an acceptable if a little boring meal.

The return leg was a joke. I chose to forgo the starter as he doesn't like scallops and I thought soup would be a disaster with the amount of turbulence we had (dinner was delayed for an hour just after our tables had been set and the crew had to go and buckle up). When his main meal arrived the crew of rmember apologised as she gave it to DS. It consisted of half a plate of rice and the rest a green sludge that apparently was 'stewed green veg'. It was just a sloppy green tastless mush. We just stared at it thinking WTF. In the end they found a piece of chicken for him

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TheFlyingOnion · 17/08/2011 12:52

The school dinners round here are still inedible so tbh I think he's done bugger all to improve things in most schools....

don't see him having much more luck with inflight meals....

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 17/08/2011 12:54

Is Jamie Oliver the messiah of food or something? I can think of a long, long line of chefs I'd rather tackle the problem than him.

He'd be useless anyway, he wouldn't be able to sprinkle herbs from a great height because there wouldn't be the room in the galley. Hmm

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FakePlasticTrees · 17/08/2011 13:00

I remembered reading something about in flight meals years ago that something about the altitude/cabin pressure affects your taste buds so meals that taste good when tested on the ground (including re-heating) taste either bland or just horrid in the air. That's why the curries are usually a safe bet as they are highly flavoured so still taste good.

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LolaRennt · 17/08/2011 13:00

LWITW, no but he seems to geninely care about getting children to eat healthy and has worked hard o improve things. Unlike teaching celbrities to cook in restraunt like Gordon Ramsy. Or flambaying sheeps nipples in grape icecream like Heston Blumental.

I like fancy Jamie Oliver

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LolaRennt · 17/08/2011 13:01

Oh and forgot to mention the ridiculous inuendo from Nigella and her whipped mounds

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 17/08/2011 13:05

LolaRennt... I used to think he was quite good but then his tv persona took over and I think he became over-hyped and believed it himself.

Heston Blumental is just a fruit loop, I think. He's like a failed scientist desperate to get into a white coat.. Confused

No accounting for taste, you can have Jamie Oliver, I'd rather have Jean Christophe Novelli... divine! Grin

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 17/08/2011 13:06

I quite like Nigella, even though I wish she'd tone it down a lot.

I also like Nigel Slater... really courtly and gentlemanly.

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DizzyKipper · 17/08/2011 13:24

I'm actually hoping that he's going to tackle care and nursing home meals at some point - the quality of ingredients some of them use to maximise profits is truly appalling, particularly when you consider the serious illnesses that some or perhaps many of the clients will have (and the relationship that food plays in health!). But I think it's fair that we all let him know our concerns and wait for him to get to them one by one Wink

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