~ The hot breakfast foil tray may have been put in a china dish.
There used to be a proper china cup and cutlery too.
~There used to be proper china bowls for the salad (similar to the B1 salads you get today to places like Amsterdam) when they stopped the evening hot meal. Yep, hot meal on a domestic.
There was a time when the shuttle routes (MAN / BFS / GLA / EDI ) were badged as all business class; -service and crew numbers reflected this.
The only reminder of that now is that the boarding pass still shows class of travel as "C"