Contest: Can you tell the difference between an army meal and an airline meal?
Apr 28, 2009, 2:39 pm
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Contest: Can you tell the difference between an army meal and an airline meal?
This isn't AA specific, but I fly AA almost exclusively, so I though this was a good place to post. Moderator, please reroute to a different site if necessary.
My wife just e-mailed this contest to me:
http://www.gadling.com/2009/04/28/ta...-airline-meal/
I got 13 right out of 20 (not much better than a 50/50 chance). It's surprising how many of the meals looked familiar (unfortunately).
It takes about three minutes to evaluate your ability to distinguish.
Enjoy!
My wife just e-mailed this contest to me:
http://www.gadling.com/2009/04/28/ta...-airline-meal/
I got 13 right out of 20 (not much better than a 50/50 chance). It's surprising how many of the meals looked familiar (unfortunately).
It takes about three minutes to evaluate your ability to distinguish.
Enjoy!
Apr 28, 2009, 2:47 pm
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I scored 1400 out of 2000, but to be fair a buddy of mine gave me a case of MREs (what the weblink called “army food”.
Apr 28, 2009, 3:21 pm
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As the OP stated this is not AA-specific. Therefore we will forward to TravelBuzz so that everyone on FlyertTalk will have the opportunity to play.
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Apr 28, 2009, 3:47 pm
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Well, in 1965 in Vietnam, I was still eating World War II C Rations, and you never saw anything as gross as the pork. But I only got about half right on this quiz.
Apr 28, 2009, 4:08 pm
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Apr 28, 2009, 4:34 pm
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Actually, I feel that this thread is more appropriate in the Dining Buzz Forum.
Please continue to follow the discussion in Dining Buzz.
Thanks..
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Please continue to follow the discussion in Dining Buzz.
Thanks..
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Apr 28, 2009, 4:35 pm
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These photos are obviously cropped to try to mask the differences. But I think a real difference is that although army food might be well designed and well intentioned, it is often cooked by mixing it all in the same tin - starter, main and sweet - and serving it as slop. In a previous job, we had fork buffet catering at the Christmas party courtesy of the (British) Army and it was jolly nice too.
Apr 28, 2009, 8:55 pm
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I scored 1600/2000. I rarely see rice in an airline meal so used that as a partial guide. I also thought the shepherds pie was a cheese pizza. 
I was really upset about not differentiating between the Lufthansa meal and the army meal.
Apr 28, 2009, 10:58 pm
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I scored 1600 but I have an ex who was in the army and who used to bring things home from his rat-packs from time to time.
(I used to be quite fond of the tubes of sweetened condensed milk but I don't know why I feel the urge to share that
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The main thing airline food and army food have in common is that they're just there to satisfy the requirement that there be food. Many items of both are just things that would make me happy not to eat.
(I used to be quite fond of the tubes of sweetened condensed milk but I don't know why I feel the urge to share that
)The main thing airline food and army food have in common is that they're just there to satisfy the requirement that there be food. Many items of both are just things that would make me happy not to eat.
Apr 29, 2009, 6:12 am
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hey JDiver, any fond memories of the chipped beef dish commonly referred to as SOS?
PS to JDiver: thanks for your service, even if it was 40 years ago
Apr 29, 2009, 10:43 am
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Apr 30, 2009, 12:27 pm
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I got 1400 of 2000 ( but some of the pictures were quite bad and I could not discern the main ingredients), not so bad for somebody who mainly flies Ryanair and thus misses the chance to eat on a plane (not much a loss but still). My father often brought MRE´s home and I have to admit some of the stuff tasted quite good.
Fun quiz!
Fun quiz!
May 2, 2009, 1:14 am
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