Originally Posted by
18sas
Agreed with many of the sentiments above.
One of the joys of traveling places is trying new foods and restaurants. Whatever they serve on the plane won't match what I'm hoping to get at my destination, so I don't see the need for them to try to compete.
One of my favorite meals that I had on DL was back in the Michelle Bernstein days (I know, I know), and it was basically pasta with red sauce.
The food on defunct version of AZ was pretty good as well, and it was served from a cart. Again just simple pasta and/or meat dishes.
And a perennial favorite DL dessert was the ice cream sundae. Just vanilla ice cream, hot fudge or hot caramel, whipped cream and a cherry, and people loved it.
My all-time favorite on DL was, IIRC, the pre-pandemic Meatballs with Ricotta.
On the other hand, Virgin America did "weird" but made it work without it feeling odd. The fact that they had a very...California...schtick helped (I remember one time being asked if I was in the military because I was wearing digital camo pants...when I said no, the guy
immediately said "Ah, you're in tech"), but I could also ask for
milk with my tea and not get looked at funny (credit to SRB's influence there).