Service immediately started with the main meal- no snack mix or something beforehand? Is that a service cut or a mess up by the crew? They had snack mix to hand out during the flight so I’m not sure what that was about.

Anyways, the two options were “chicken” or “pasta”. Was hoping for butter chicken which was great on my last transatlantic, but alas. The FA provided more in depth descriptions of the meals only when asked, which were “BBQ chicken with green beans and mac and cheese” or what I think was just “Mac and cheese”. Didn’t get a look at the vegetarian Mac and cheese.


BBQ chicken with Mac and cheese and green beans

Tasted pretty average to be honest. Mac and cheese reminded me of Chili’s, chicken reminded me of a grocery store food court with an overly sweet sauce that tastes like it came from some sort of bag. Green beans looked frozen (nothing wrong with frozen veggies). Roll was industrial and cheesecake brownie was fine. Overall, a relatively average meal to boot, except for the salad. United needs to get rid of this couscous and raisin thing.

Cabin crew were good with providing water to anyone who was awake about every hour, and they also came through a couple times with the aforementioned snack mix.

For breakfast, there was a “turkey sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich” or an “egg, tomato, and cheese” sandwich. This was more filling than what I had last year (yogurt and biscotto) and reminded me of a Dunkin breakfast sandwich. Not too bad for an 8 hour flight, and I resisted the urge to request another leftover sandwich (hey I was hungry).

Sausage, egg, and cheese on english muffin. Make it more Jersey by doing a pork roll from EWR?

Unrelated, but pretty funny that I connected in DC just to spot EWR on my way back up.

Overall, very friendly DC crew and I guess an average meal service. I hear nightmare stories about Polaris food; wish I could have tasted and compared.