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.

[pointydog]

Not a pressing issue though, is it. I mean, most people have aeroplane meals once a year at most. And they have other food options. It's not affecting their whole diet.

[adamschic]

Oh we love them, it not gourmet and we don't expect that. Even pay for them as extras if they are not in the ticket price. Feel ever so sorry for the misers who haven't paid the extra.

I don't want someone making them healthy, they always serve a pud and a white bread roll.

[InfestationofLannisters]

Food for the elderly would be a great campaign but alas, not sexy

I have only been on a flight once - Easyjet to Spain. It was interesting to see a school exercise book balanced on the nose of the plane as we traipsed along to board. My friend kindly pointed it out how very professional it looked while I freaked out in terror.

Thankfully they did serve alcohol. Even at ten in the morning.

[choclatelickurs]

upgrade, then you at least get a menu

[DizzyKipper]

I don't know LWITW, I think the British people in general quite liking getting enraged about things - and the food they serve can be very enraging! I may actually write him/his agent/whoever an email to suggest this as if nothing else he did do really well at making more people aware of the shocking standards of food in schools.

Jackie got to agree with you, I've never even been on a plane before! Not been on holiday anywhere since I was 13 (unless we include going to Kent to see the future FIL, which I don't quite see as them same). [mopey sigh]

[JackieBauer]

I would be so happy to be able to afford a holiday that I wouldn't care what the food was like :)

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

Amen to that, DizzyKipper, but I get the feeling that the elderly are just not 'sexy viewing', probably not his decision but I'd like to see a wider spread of action rather than the same old format time and again.

[FreudianSlipper]

my friend always orders a kosher meal. he is jewish but other times quite happy to eat a bacon butty, when i have travelled with him his food is always much nicer than mine (though i am not a huge fan of kosher food) i may opt for vegetarian next time

[DizzyKipper]

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

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

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

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

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

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!

[LolaRennt]

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

[LolaRennt]

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

[FakePlasticTrees]

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.

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

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.

[TheFlyingOnion]

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....

[oldraver]

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

[LolaRennt]

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

[hocuspontas]

The letter to Richard Branson

[hocuspontas]

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!

[givemushypeasachance]

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.

[steamedtreaclesponge]

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!

[Highlander]

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

[DontGoCurly]

YABU

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

[biddysmama]

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