Qantas Frequent Flyer - What's your worst ever Y meal on QF??

Lots to choose from:-

my current one is a meat rissole that was served up at the weekend, VILE. I thought I had trodden on something and it had been heated up. Could also have been one of the 1001 dishes involving chicken thighs (stir fry, stew, in sauce with vinegar, curry etc etc) that I have been served up over the last few months or perhaps the 3 grisini and a tea spoon full of dip that I was once served. Cremated bacon & egg muffin?

Some people would argue that at least you get some food. However, I think that they are now just going through the motions of serving ANYTHING so long as it costs them less than about $2.50 per head & can be warmed up.

Surely a reasonablly good sandwich would be better value, less hassle and more palatable that some of the hot slop you get served? NZ have far better meal options even in Y.

I like myself too much to eat ANY food in Y on QF:D:mad:

Lots to choose from:-

my current one is a meat rissole that was served up at the weekend, VILE.

That is amazing. My favourite meal in Y is the rissoles. Have generally had stacks of flavour, the gravy has always been nice and hearty.

I've had them 4 or 5 times - been great!

Worst meal would probably be the chicken curries and/or fish - I just can't bring myself to eat fish thats not super fresh.

Hmmm... there are so many to choose from!

The absolute worst meal was economy MEL-PER where i chose the stir-fried noodles with beef. Meal was delivered with noodles and one (yes one) postage stamp sized piece of beef. Wafer thin. (I guess I lucked out with the meat serving guy.)

Unfortunately just about every other economy meal i have had has been equally bad in terms of the meat content - fatty and at least one or two pieces of gristle.

Marked contrast with premium economy meals where all the meat has been 'real' meat and much much better.

I always eat in the business lounge and never on domestic in Y. The lamb and rosemary meat pies are divine!

being a vast improvement than the road kill they serve in Economy.

If you choose a vegetarian option would the food any better?

The so called "Refreshemnts" on the morning/afternoon short haul Y flights.
Some of these would fail to refresh church mice or even a millipede.
The last muffin I had was smaller than my thumb. Just give the pax nothing if you are going to cut your costs this badly. :p

They still serve food back in Y? :D ;)

I always eat in the business lounge and never on domestic in Y. The lamb and rosemary meat pies are divine!


+1

Those are the business - had an obscene amount of those in the BNE J lounge a few months ago, accompanied by an obscene amount of Shiraz. Made the CRASH-8 flight back to NTL quite bearable.

And I appreciate all of you who refrain from eating on CityFlyer services when seated next to me. I don't know who you are, but thank you.

A few flights during school holidays made me realise how grateful I should be...

If you choose a vegetarian option would the food any better?

I'm too terrified to order a vegetarian meal in case I miss an upgrade :D

That is amazing. My favourite meal in Y is the rissoles. Have generally had stacks of flavour, the gravy has always been nice and hearty.

I've had them 4 or 5 times - been great!

Worst meal would probably be the chicken curries and/or fish - I just can't bring myself to eat fish thats not super fresh.

+1 for the rissole! I tend to avoid any pasta dish.

I've had plenty of uninspiring dishes on QF in Y, but only one I can think of that was inedible (and I cannot recall what it was).

I tend to avoid the meals in Y - they're uniformly awful.
Have taken to eating prior to the flight in the lounge where I can.

I enjoy most of the economy meals. They aren't gourmet but they are generally decent (at least domestic ones, intl can be a bit more inconsistent)

Most bizarre food I've ever had on QF was last week - Fetta cheese and olives in oil with odd-shaped crackers. Really oily and not what I was expecting at all..

They still serve food back in Y? :D ;)

That seems to be the problem - hardly anyone sane can call that 'food'...:D

A dish on MNL-SYD. Can't really recall whether it was supposed to be chicken which tasted like fish or fish with the texture of chicken .... whatever, by the time the trolley had worked itself all the way back as far as row 25 this was all that was available (which makes me think it was supposed to be fish)

Disgusting.

BD

Most bizarre food I've ever had on QF was last week - Fetta cheese and olives in oil with odd-shaped crackers. Really oily and not what I was expecting at all..

I thought they were an odd choice too! Trying to balance the oily fetta and olives on the tiny crackers was not easy...and as the first piece of crumbly fetta fell onto the carpet I was thinking, I bet the cleaners just love these!

The jatz and cheese on the DASH-8s between NTL and BNE go down pretty well - along with a few packets of nuts and some SSB. Thank God for those Lamb & Rosemary pies.....


Best whY meal I ever had was a steak & veg number on NZ AKL-LAX many moons ago. Worst would be on Delta LAX-ATL - a chocolate brownie. Inedible, too.

Thank God for those Lamb & Rosemary pies.....

I don't touch meat pies. The LAW only requires 25% of the total content to be "meat", guess what the rest is? Offal, veins, blood + who knows what else?



http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/newsroom/factsheets/factsheets1999/meatpies.cfm


At the moment, only pies 70g or more, are required to have a minimum of 25 per cent meat.



I was rather surpised with the rissole l got a few months back. Wasn't what l was expecting, but it did the trick and filled me up. I have to laugh because when l travelled in Europe on BA, eg, LHR to BUD, all we got was a ham croissant and on Malev, even less. So, all in all, Qantas does deserve some credit.
On another flight, BUD to LHR with Malev, very early morning departure. They came around with the drinks trolley and had wine in whY on offer. I couldn't believe my eyes, people drinking wine at 7am. That didn't go down to well with my hangover and all.

oily fetta and olives on the tiny crackers

I think 2 of the total sum of 4 olives in the packet ended up on the aircraft floor on Saturday too. The crew seemed to be enjoying them down the back in the galley though.

+1 for the rissole! Ahh but what EXACTLY is in that rissole. Probably worse than the pie... at least it's homogenously compacted and stuck together. Frankly, when I looked at the tray I thought someone had eaten it already once.

The so called "Refreshemnts" on the morning/afternoon short haul Y flights.
Some of these would fail to refresh church mice or even a millipede.

Yes I agree! what's the point? Just going through the motions of providing something. Isn't the packaging gonna cost more than the contents. Unless it's some marketing/advertising/promo cheap deal provided by the suppliers.

IMHO There's only 1 step lower ... pretzels a la UA inflite snack! Apart from removing the 'food' all together like many airlines such as now have.

I don't touch meat pies. The LAW only requires 25% of the total content to be "meat", guess what the rest is? Offal, veins, blood + who knows what else?


There are pies and then there are pies. With some pies it is easily to discern by sight, taste and texture that they are made up of what is considered (at least by most westerners) to be "real" meat - those being the ones of chunky meat with relatively small amount of sloppy gravy ... IIRC the lamb and rosemary pies served up in the QF J Lge seem to be of this chunkier type.

There are pies and then there are pies. ...

My generic name for a pie is "maggot bag"

the teriyaki chicken that's appeared on all of my latest Trans-Tasman flights is godawful!
I got it the first time it was offered as I love teriyaki chicken, but it was my first ever experience of a truly horrid rubber chicken airline meal anywhere!

I don't touch meat pies.

You're missing out - plenty of pies exceed that minimum standard by a long shot, the Lamb & Rosemary offerings in the J lounge included. I come from a long line of butchers and cattle farmers - they make the grade.

You're missing out - plenty of pies exceed that minimum standard by a long shot, the Lamb & Rosemary offerings in the J lounge included. I come from a long line of butchers and cattle farmers - they make the grade.

And ever since the 'minimum standards' were made rather public, it's very obvious manufacturers have tried to improve the humble meat pie moreso.

As mentioned by shillard and various others, the J lounge pies are *very* good. Plenty of large chunks of meat in them, and of course, without the "feeding time at the zoo" fun of getting to them :)

A while ago I had some awful sandwich with frozen bread, full of cucumber and not much else :o

Also the breast cancer patty cakes were pretty ordinary and about 110% sugar.

You're missing out - plenty of pies exceed that minimum standard by a long shot, the Lamb & Rosemary offerings in the J lounge included. I come from a long line of butchers and cattle farmers - they make the grade.

Okie dokie shillard. I concede defeat. If anyone with J lounge access will be in Sydney T3, on Friday 13th, around 1pm 'ish, l would appreciate a guest in. I'm heading down to Hobart for a mates wedding on QF1019. Only have QP and am Silver, so no entry.
Please PM me if your in T3 around that time. l'll have a quck check on AFF too.

Lots to choose from:-
my current one is a meat rissole that was served up at the weekend, VILE.

Would that be this one?
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/robrl626/default/qf-meal-domestic-flight--large-msg-12577462529.jpg

Here in the US we call it Meatloaf, unfortunately, I had this on a MEL-SYD flight and the texture was freaky and mouth-feel (as those of us in the Food industry say it) was really weird. Everything else on the tray was better than you would get on for economy (even some INT economy I might add).

Although slightly off-topic, my most disappointing meal experience on QF would have to have been when on a GLT-BNE-MEL routing, due to IRROPS, the BNE-MEL flight got changed and the departure time of the replacement flight no. got pushed back several hours. Even with 3+hours notice, they couldn't transfer my wife's preordered special meal across to the new flight. I could have understood if the change was short notice or if a special meal hadn't been ordered in the first place.

Would that be this one?
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/robrl626/default/qf-meal-domestic-flight--large-msg-12577462529.jpg

Here in the US we call it Meatloaf, unfortunately, I had this on a MEL-SYD flight and the texture was freaky and mouth-feel (as those of us in the Food industry say it) was really weird. Everything else on the tray was better than you would get on for economy (even some INT economy I might add).

Meatloaf and Rissoles are very different. Rissoles are just round balls of mince, with some egg and spices/salt/pepper and squished to be flat round objects a bit like a hamburger patty but smaller and thicker. When done nicely, they're good. They're much nicer than meatloaf IMHO too.

Back to the topic though, I'm sick of the random chicken curries on QF that I seem to get every trans con flight I take. It's even worse if you do a succession of flights in a short period. You inevitably end up with the same meals every time.

Meatloaf and Rissoles are very different. Rissoles are just round balls of mince, with some egg and spices/salt/pepper and squished to be flat round objects a bit like a hamburger patty but smaller and thicker. When done nicely, they're good. They're much nicer than meatloaf IMHO too.

Back to the topic though, I'm sick of the random chicken curries on QF that I seem to get every trans con flight I take. It's even worse if you do a succession of flights in a short period. You inevitably end up with the same meals every time.

Hmmm, I must have mis-understood, I thought they announced the meal as beef risole when I asked.

That's the rissole! Pic makes it look a lot better than the one I was served. Both Meatloaf & rissoles have fillers added to stretch out the low-grade meat.

I think you have to hand it to QF. It's amazing how ingenious they have been at turning chicken thighs into 1001 different meals. Looks like it's mince they're now working with. They need to reduce costs & maximise profits, but still have to serve something. Wonder if the wine or beer costs more than the meal now?

Unfortunately, yes, IMHO bread on QF too is quite often awful.

Could be even worse, I flew with Tiger once to Mackay. People took cold maccas on there to eat. YUK! They had a trolley service with an advert for 'gourmet' soup. I watched a staff member just add boiling water to a sachet of powder and charge for the honour. DJ were recently found out to be serving some meals that had given their passengers food poisioning & the coffee that they serve is gross. U have to pay extra for all of it too!

Could be even worse, I flew with Tiger once to Mackay. People took cold maccas on there to eat. YUK! They had a trolley service with an advert for 'gourmet' soup. I watched a staff member just add boiling water to a sachet of powder and charge for the honour. DJ were recently found out to be serving some meals that had given their passengers food poisioning & the coffee that they serve is gross. U have to pay extra for all of it too!

Various thoughts come to mind:

you don't have to pay for or consume the offerings
you only get what you pay for
LCC says it all (regarding TT and DJ)
meals will be better if there is a curtain behind you (but only if there is one)
good coffee is available in F class (on QF)
DJ most probably didn't intend to give their pax food poisoning
how many people have a cuppa-soup for lunch in the office (ie powder, noodles & water)