Well, you knew ths comment was coming: I'm not surprised that it takes a lot of people to clean up the toxic wastes created by the remains of Gate Gourmet.

What I don't understand is how so many can work so hard to create food that's so bad. I think maybe my outlook is slanted from having lived in Louisiana so long, but I know that it's possible to make delicious food cheaply because I do it in my own kitchen with no resources to speak of at all.

It's admirable that Gate Gourmet wants to dispose of toxic remains safely. I wished they put the same care into thinking about the taste and healthfulness of what they expect people to put into their mouths. If the food must be unhealthy, then why can't it taste good? Any fast food place can do it. If the food must taste bad to appeal to the most uneducated Midwestern palate afraid of every spice, then why can't it be healthy? Example: Don't cut up fresh fruit to maximize its exposure to every passing sneeze, is a pretty basic thing, that they get wrong on NW domestic first over and over again.

I realize that a new hire doesn't have any control over these matters. I guess I'm just venting. But it makes me a little sad that people are really working very, very hard, and spending so much time and money, to so little human pleasure and health.