Seafood meals on Continental are usually a better way to go than the glop everyone else gets. often, it's some variation of shrimp, usually cold. But the helpings are ample and you usually get envious stares from the guy across the aisle as he gets splattered as his fork digs into his watery Chicken Kiev.

Alas, seafood meals are becoming an endangered species aloft. AA no longer offers them (at least they didn't to LHR) and NW long ago banished them to memory. I'm flying Air Pacific next week. I have seafood meal reserved, though it's not listed as a choice on the website the agent said it was available. We'll see.