I would give the airline the benefit of the doubt. The caterer was scheduled to load the plane at 8 am and they were thinking "breakfast" at that hour. Anyway, 9:30 local time at the departure point is within the breakfast time frame.
At one place where I used to work I would get there early to beat the traffic and on some occasions got ice cream or microwaveable spaghetti from a vending machine for breakfast. Got curious looks from co-workers.
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