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Same issue HND-LHR. Flight was at 0950 or so. Served breakfast 30 minutes in - then no more food until 1:30 before landing, ie around 2030 'body clock'. This was in WTP. I was in starving. Raided the (Y) galley and found a few tiny chocolate bars and pretzels.
When I took that flight, there was an ice-cream run in the middle, and a full bar service with the meal. Has that changed?
At least with HND—LHR, BA has the excuse that they're serving an early lunch by UK standards, and their passengers' body clocks are (or are about to be) in various stages of disarray. What's fairly unique about JNB is that, although it's more 11 hours in the air, you're only moving across one or two time zones, in both of which lunch is eaten whilst the aircraft is still traversing Africa.