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

[MugglesandLuna]

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

Ooh yes, wouldnt that be great.

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

heston had a go didnt he?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

YABU

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

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

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!

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.

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!

The letter to Richard Branson

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

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 . 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

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....

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.

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.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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