I hate to talk about these things here, but I'm telling you right now that I have had success ordering from the back. I don't do it often but when it happens I don't get rejected.

Also, there was another time where I was in confirmed J and the red-scarf FA denied me my meal choice (coincidentally I have been denied by this same FA four times in five years on different flights Transcon and TATL flights), so in the end she let me have something of my choice from the Y BOB meal... so I guess AC deprived itself of revenue because of that.