Originally Posted by
EdmFlyBoi
I had the lamb coming back from London just this past Sunday and it was a bit of a brown puck. It was also three bones from a rack that would have been better presented (and more easily cut) if they had been pre cut into 3. It would also be nice if they took the ice cream out of the dry ice a bit earlier so it's a little less solid when they serve it to you from the trolley.
There was a period where the meals were quite good - both fish and meat - about the time of the Hawksworth duck entree. The quality has more recently dropped off. I had both a chicken dish and a salmon dish that were really almost inedible.
Actually coming back from SYD I had some lamb that was still a bit pink inside. But rather tough, not a rack either. As to rack, having it cut would make it worse, even more overcooked. But yes, in years pre-2000 or so, they still had good meals, and your steak could still be reasonably rare. But that's before they cut crewing so FAs still had the time to care for your meal, rather than to fill up the oven, and then grab and serve, and the longer the better.