Originally Posted by
DoctorORD
This food all seems to be glorified TV dinners? Will be taking Polaris soon due to a better routing, but all of this food seems highly blah -- the food seems to be roughly unchanged over the years, and not as good as AA or Delta. Is this an overly harsh assessment? I don't see why anyone would take FRA-SFO or FRA-ORD in UA vs LH, for example, based off this food (assuming you had no one next to you on LH).
The food is quite good for its purpose- you don't go hungry in Polaris, and you get great sleep.
If "gourmet" food on an airplane is your thing, spring for one of the European carriers' three class First products.