Originally Posted by
avcritic
The way special meal request and delivery is organized, I wouldn't rely on it. There are lot of reports on internet about missing (confirmed) special meals.
When your special vegan meal is MIA, FAs will try to assemble vegan meal with what they have going by the ingredients. Guess what that meal consists of, lettuce and dinner roll.
Actually, I was on a KLM segment in J once and DL neglected to send over my VGML request. When I mentioned to the purser that I had "a special", she looked mortified and said "let me see what I can do". She constructed a fantastic J dinner out of bits and pieces of Y meals, J meals and crew meals!