Originally Posted by ermdjdsj
I can understand running out of normal entrees by the time you get to the last row, but to be out at row 3 (and we were the first served in 3)?? It must mean they loaded at least half their entrees as vegetarian (and bad vegetarian to boot), where <10% of travelers are vegetarian.
Well hey, at least you got something you COULD eat, even if you didn't like it. When I'm on a long haul flight they OFTEN run out of vegetarian options before they get to me.
And yes, I always order vegetarian when I know there will be a meal for sure (like over the Pond). And a large fraction of the time (15%-20% maybe) they don't have my special meal and I go without.
As an analogy, think about when they used to have smoking on planes. Being a non-smoker, I could scarely survive whereas smokers just had to abstain for a couple hours. (Of course one can see this from a different angle - non-smokers just had to put up with some bad-smelling air, but smokers were deprived of a drug they were addicted to. This is kind of how I see the flipping of the "vegetarian inconvenence" above)