to be offended to be offered fish as a veggie?

[birdladyfromhomealone]

Just want an opinion if I should complain or not?
I ordered a veggie meal on a plane and they told me they didn't have one for me.
Showed them my confirmation which said Asia Vegetarian on my booking.
They blamed my travel agent and just shrugged, not their fault , nothing they can do.
I was offered fish or chicken instead.
This was a 10 hour flight!!
I ate bread rolls and cheese.
WWYD complain or not.?

MissMaisel
I think you slightly over-estimate the nutritional value and quality of airplane food

If they showed your the confirmation in writing than it is your travel agents fault not their’s. I have ceoliac disease and request gluten free meals which don’t always happen or sometimes are inedible. Usually travel 24hrs to australia so then request they look for something in a higher class!

don

You threshold for taking offence is very low, OP. Have you considered becoming Vegan?

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My friend calls herself a vegetarian...but eats fish.

I wouldn't be offended, but I'd be deeply pissed off.

The in-flight meal isn't just about curbing your hunger - it breaks up the boredom of the flight.

I wouldn’t be particularly offended at being offered fish but I would complain to the travel agent and ask for the cost of my food to be refunded or to be compensated if the food was supposed to be included/for anything I had to buy to eat as I wasn’t adequately fed.

asked them to remove the hot fish dish and the tuna Nicoise

I don’t understand this. That meal will have gone in the bin. The fish won’t come back to life. So I don’t get how you not eating it has helped to save any animals? It’s just a waste of the flesh for which a life has already been sacrificed.

I agree with not causing any more animals to be killed than necessary. But that fish was already dead and not going to be eaten by anyone else, so why waste it?

Bread, cheese, a fruit salad and a scone and jam over a 10 hour period is not 'no food', so don't put that in the complaint if you want to be taken seriously. It's not what you ordered, so just complain about that.

Personally speaking i couldn't be arsed with the complaining.

As for offended ... it was an administrative mistake in the same vein as a mix up with cinema tickets or receiving the wrong size from a catalogue, not a darstardly plot against your personal dietary choices.

donquixotedelamancha - I personally self-identify as a sloth, but I hate fruit. AIBU to live exclusively on Bounty Bars?

YANBU, but you have to eat it slowly, slowly, slowly.

I feel your pain. As someone veggie because of serious allergies (the fish would land me in hospital!) I have learned to always have a supply of my own just in case and in the unlikely event something edible turns up it's a bonus. I would complain (how else do things get better?) but avoid "offended"

By that logic all the meat in Tesco is already dead so the op might as well have a barbecue 😂

I find it REALLY REALLY weird that a flight out of India had no vegetarian meals on board. What airline was it?

Completely missing the point here, but do people actually eat aeroplane food? Last time I flew (9hrs) I ate the bread and dessert at lunch, and a packet of crisps I had in my bag for tea. Have never been served anything edible as the main meal.

In 10 hours I had 1 roll with cheese and a small fruit salad.
And at tea time a scone and jam as the sandwiches were ham or chicken.
I did say to the purser how would he feel to have no food for 10 hours. He just shrugged. I also told him it was really insulting that he thought I would eat fish as a vegetarian.

There is a difference between assuming that a vegetarian will eat fish and offering fish to someone whose vegetarian meal has not arrived. If you had ordered the veggie meal as a preference, you might have been happy with fish. And whilst you had less food than some others on the flight, you did eat during the 10 hours. That is around the amount I'd eat between breakfast and dinner and if you're sedentary, which you are on a plane, it's fine.

I'd complain but if you want to be taken seriously I'd drop the stuff about being offended and having had no food. They failed to deliver what you had ordered and paid for. Stick to telling them that.

Did you follow all of the steps for ordering a ‘special meal’? I travelled with my friend and she ordered a gluten free meal before we travelled. When the meals arrived they didn’t have her order. It was no big deal she ate the bits from both mine and her trays- cheese, salad and fruit that she could have. And then ate the snacks we had brought with us to see her through the 10 hour flight.
She emailed the airline when we arrived, mainly to check the same thing wouldn’t happen again on the way back. The airline responded saying the terms and conditions state that you book 24 hours in advance (check) tell the check in agent (nope) tell the pursar when boarding (nope) and lastly that it is a request for a service not a guarantee. They did bung her a few hundred miles as a sorry. We just had a meal before boarding on the way home and stocked up with plenty of snacks

Would anyone get on a 10 hour flight and not have any food with them?
What if the fridges or heating fails or they run out or don’t pack enough etc?
Or you really hate the meal they offer?
I’d never rely on the airline food to be all of my intake for a full day.
I’d have fruit and some cereal bars or something on me as a minimum.

Yeah I usually take stuff with me even for a 2 hour flight, for a 10 hour flight I'd take my own microwave!

It's difficult to import many types of food to california so good idea to Not get on those flights without any food.

not get on with food... get on without food... I'll master it one day

My husband always orders vegetarian, as he doesn't eat fish or poultry-which generally precludes most airline food. (Our first holiday abroad together, the starter was tuna salad, and the main course was chicken)

Plenty of vegetarians and vegans are fluid

Stupid statement, it a vegan is 'fluid' then they are not vegan, I would NOT eat fish or chicken and would not be happy to just eat around it!! I'd rather starve on the flight.

Stupid statement, it a vegan is 'fluid' then they are not vegan, I would NOT eat fish or chicken and would not be happy to just eat around it!! I'd rather starve on the flight.

Difficult to starve on a 10 hour flight unless you're, I dunno, a hummingbird or something.

I think you should complain to the airline as it is important that they get the meals right on such long flights.

However, if you are strictly vegetarian and definitely wouldn't eat something else if there was a problem, then you really should have taken some food with you. Most people with dietary requirements wouldn't take a long haul flight without some suitable snacks and supplements incase of issues with the meal. Maybe something to think about next time.