Originally Posted by
findark
The pre-selected PDB tray has been somewhat standard on UA for a while now, and you should be able to ask for something else if you want.
My pet peeve on FT: there's tons of posts in this and the
Trivial Gripe thread, with complaints about only being offered two (or three) choices for PDB.
This is only the FAs trying to be efficient and easily and expeditiously provide pax with what they believe the two or three most popular choices are.
If you ask for something else and then get denied, that's maybe when a complaint might be warranted, otherwise most FAs will be happy to go back and get your specific drink choice, IME.