Originally Posted by
emcampbe
India flights typically get an Indian-style veggie option in both Y and J - it’s the market - where a significant amount of population in India are vegetarian. Not sure if it’s the case anymore, but UA flights to FRA (at least in Y) always used to have an Indian-style veggie meal as one of the options - found this out when they screwed up my wife’s order for this, but it was a regular option so she ended up ok. Apparently this is due to the amount of connections via FRA to India. Not sure if this continued through COVID or not.
I flew ORD-FRA a couple of days ago. One of the 2 standard choices in Y was butter chicken (the other was some kind of vegetarian pasta).
Special meals on UA have never been anything better than mediocre. I gave up ordering special meals years ago since the meals I ordered were often worse than the standard offering on many counts: taste, nutrition, carb load, etc.