I love good meatballs at a red gravy Italian restaurant. The problem is that a good meatball at a red gravy Italian restaurant requires, you know, red gravy.

The rant wasn't about meatballs generally (though a premium food the meatball is not) but rather that AA for some reason seems to think that:
A) "chicken" and "caramelized onion" belong in meatballs
B) meatballs belong in an an airport lounge

(To expand on the biggest problem with chicken meatballs - it's not that AA's version of those are salt bombs that come in an unappealing sauce that looks like slop - it's that the very attempt, as with most things AA, reflects cheap cheap cheapness. Rather than the pork/beef mixture (to say nothing of costly optional veal) that should go in a meatball, AA cheaps out and stuffs some sort of chicken like material in its sodium slop trough)