Originally Posted by
jspatchwork
more than once I have been given a snarky or downright rude response (today's was ... it's chicken or pasta. it's airline food).
Sounds like a truthful answer...it is airline food. You only eat it because otherwise you'll be hungry. If you have brought food with you, definitely eat that. If you have not, I doubt that it makes much difference whether they say "chicken cacciatore" or "chicken kiev" (both will be lies). They have very helpfully informed you of whether it is chicken or pasta; given what you are paying, they may have felt they didn't even have to do that. Think of it as an ingredient list, except limited to just the main ingredient.