But don't you have a bit of a conundrum? The flights under two hours - the ones you're willing to ride it out in coach - don't serve much (if any) food anyway. And the FA's these days come by so infrequently in F that it's impossible to kill that many beers to begin with. At this point in time, it's really just the transcons that are an issue in terms of ability to throw down some serious calories.

If it were me, I'd continue to upgrade and just be choosy about my food and drink. I've never had anything on an airplane that was so irresistable I couldn't say no to it if I had to. Especially nothing that AA serves in the domestic F cabin... I mean, we aren't talking about upstairs on an LH 744 here...