That's It. Its over. No more Air Canada. No more Aeroplan. No more MLL. No more Executive First. No more EnRoute magazine.

I can put up with long lines at the check-in counter. The long wait to speak to a reservation agent. The impossibly long wait to book an Aeroplan reward ticket. Crowded lounges. Oversold flights. Cancelled flights. Flight delays. Lost baggage. Delayed baggage coming out the carousel. Rude flight attendants.

I can put up with all that.

But not this. No way. No how. No sir.

This takes the cake. This has no equal. Nothing I have read on Flyertalk even comes close. Not even barely.

This morning.

Breakfast flight.

YOW-YYZ.

Breakfast flight (oh, I already mentioned that).

Gambled on the "cold" breakfast.

What did I find? To my shock? Dismay? Terror (OK, terror is a bit of an overstatement....)

Mixed in with the fruit? The fruit plate that was promised to me by the Flight Attendant? The fruit plate that was SUPPOSED to tide me over for another, say, 20 minutes until we landed?

Mixed in with the sweet watermelon? The fragrant canteloupe? The green honeydew? (what's a good adjective for honeydew?).

Wait for it.

Cottage cheese.

(now please pause to let it sink in)

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Cottage cheese.

You know - that oooey yucky stuff that somehow they call "cheese".

Oh it was awful. It ruined the whole fruit plate. Everything smelled of cottage cheese! It even touched the honeydew - rendering that entire slice of fruit entirely inedible. And the remainder of the fruit on the plate had this terrible malodourous scent - of yes, you guessed it - Cottage cheese.

I had to work very hard to control my disgust. And then to control the rage that came over me. I must be frank in admitting that I was almost an air rage statistic.

Luckily the yogurt was raspberry flavoured - thereby saving what could have been a very ugly incident mid-air.

But nevertheless, I refuse to fly on any airline that would serve cottage cheese to its passengers.

To be frank, I didn't taste it. Thinking back, it sort of looked like oatmeal. It could have been oatmeal. Maybe it was oatmeal. Maybe I was too quick to judge. Maybe I should give the airline another chance.

No, it was cottage cheese.