I am posting this for a friend of mine. She is quite a "foodie" and can be brutal when grading her dining choices. I asked her to make me a review of her FC upgrade. For some reason, she bats a near 90% upgrade as a FO!
Note: she has no idea that I posted this on here:
Cancun (CAN) to Detroit (DTW) February 2012
2 options
1) turkey sandwich, on wheat/grain bread w bag of chips, fruit salad and chocolate cake square
2) pasta salad w fruit salad and chocolate cake, pictured below
I had option #2
The pasta was standard moderate grade penne (just past al dente as one would expect in air) dressed in a light vinaigrette w a few slivers of not fully ripe tomato and a few scattered standard black olives over green leaf lettuce leaf. Fine parsley was in the vinaigrette or tossed w the pasta for some speckling of green but not added taste. On the side of the pasta is likely par poached then grilled for line aesthetic few slices of chicken breast. This was surprisingly not overcooked unlike the pasta. C+
The highlight of the meal was actually the fruit salad which was composed of a few grapes w seeds but a lot of character, a slice of white pineapple and half a strawberry and a piece of wonderful and appropriately ripened mango (which I would guess is champagne mango, my preferred variety, if given a bowl of just this would have earned an A). A-
Dessert consisted of what appeared to be brownie by density and shape but in actuality was a bar slice of very dense chocolate cake w a top layer of chocolate icing ganache w small chopped unidentifiable (by
taste) nut de jour likely walnut by tradition I imagine. Thankfully not too sweet. However, not too moist either. C-
Not pictured: Beverage of spicy tomato juice. Very nice body and spice w additional serving of vegetable one would hope. If sipped slowly w pasta salad, this added some flavor depth to C level pasta raising it to a final grade of C + (see above for final pasta grade).
I completed my meal w afternoon tea service curtesy my flight attendant who graciously offered from her own private collection decaffinated earl grey tea (after I made a face at the standard Delta black tea offering) which I embellished w half and half and a touch of sugar. A- (warranting high praise for effort)
Since we are returning to US territories, these grades are curved against other inflight meals. Please note an A- is yet still an Asian F.
