Originally Posted by
happiest_at_40000
I wish i got to experience some of these better food days. I may just be a little too young. Although it really was more the 80's when soft product, or at least the food, was supposed to be the best no? I have seen some pics......Although the hard product looks horrible back then.
At least in the late 80s and 90s, the food was pretty much the same as it is now.
Airlines had more of it and you got fed on shorter flights but to me, its always been the same reheated "meh" food its always been.
Only difference I see now is the flying public and the airlines are all finally getting smarter and going with food that reheats well. I'll never understand the point of loving stuff like "prime rib cut at your seat" when it was still the reheated over cooked shoe leather you get now. Give me some like a braised short rib or lamb shank or some kind of pork or a chicken thigh over the "fancy" .... that can't be reheated.
Only thing I miss is having things like hot sauce on the plane, but I might be misremembering that.
Originally Posted by
FlightNurse
In the 70's Coach really did get a wonder meal, even on an hour flight. F meals were usually plated by the galley FA and was fresh. In the 80's things got turned up, still in F things were plated at the seat, AA had roast beef, that was carved at your seat, in F and J a salad cart where you could choose what you wanted on your salad. In Y meals got smaller, in the 90's more meals in F were still plated for the most part at your seat, and meals again in Y got smaller. AA had this burrito that was served in Y, it was excellent, a nice fatty one. CO had a wonderful BBQ sandwich. This is when flight times determined meals, I still remember US Airways serving breakfast on their SAN-PHX flight, UA served a plated snack on their SAN-SFO flight as well as AS.
This is the kind of stuff I'll never understand on this web site. This and looking up the price of food/wine before even trying it. I also don't understand needing food on a 45 minute flight.
and again, the biggest theme from your post "we ate more food and FAs put my food on a plate" that doesn't make it
better, IMO.