Originally Posted by
droopydog
Most of the discussion in this thread has been Polaris/International meals. Most of my flights are domestic and I have seen a significant decline in the domestic first meals. I am really not that picky, but the recent meals are awful. The kale/egg pastry thing: tasteless, horrible texture, ghastly tomato sauce - like eating shredded cardboard; the egg panini with bread so hard you need an axe to cut into it (but not having an axe, you bite into it and because it is so hard everything inside shoots out the sides); the buffalo chicken disaster. I am now just asking, can I have a hamburger from the back, or eating before I board. Or, I flew Delta and was surprised at how much better the domestic first meal was.
Was just subjected to this breakfast choice SEA > ORD on 12/31. In addition to the above, the other option was a "protein plate". Cut fruit and yogurt were as expected (OK for me), but the "protein plate" component of the meal was outright bizarre for breakfast in the US: one cold hard boiled egg, 20 cold almonds, triangle of cheap orange cheddar (or American Cheese product, couldn't be sure...), a couple of slices of cold, salty turkey, and two dozen grapes (not the first food I think of when thinking about protein), all served on a couple of leaves of lettuce (also cold).
While I appreciated catering a hot breakfast on a US airline is a lost art, at least the previous breakfast of cold cereal was edible.