amolkold

FA didn’t know where to put bread. Thought it’d be naan but it was 2 pita slices. Salad was okay, bell pepper looked good but didn’t bother to eat it.


Don’t know what to call those 2 things in the middle but they were good. Chickpea and spinach had a good amount of spice for an Indian meal and rice was cooked to a good amount.


GULAB JAMUN on AA! The mixed berries were swimming in the syrup that the indian dessert is served in, but it made all of them taste better.

MrAndy1369

I had no idea AA served special meals on PHL-LAX. Thought only JFK-LAX/SFO, Hawaii, and international flights got special meals?

BWISkyGuy

There must be a distance threshold of some kind on them, because my LAX-IAD (and vice versa) meal flights have had special meal options as well.

amolkold

MrAndy1369

JDiver

SMF-DFW AA 1209 (lunch) last week offered Saffron Orzo Salad with baby squash, haricots verts, piquillo peppers and a side of chilled shrimp.

The orzo salad was devoid of genuine saffron aroma or flavor (it was colored yellow), the pieces of baby zucchini and yellow summer squash were pretty good, the green beans negligible and three chilled shrimp were firm but completely undressed. Not bad, in all - but the shrimp needed some dressing. Or little coats .

The enchilada option was garishly red and didn’t look appetizing.

DFW-SMF AA 1485 last night offered Herbes de Provence Chicken Breast with mushroom risotto and haricots verts.

What was on the plate: a huge, somewhat flattened chicken breast smothered in a gray gravy. The chicken was somewhat mushy, with weeds perhaps but certainly not herbes de Provence. I actually tried a couple of bites before quitting.

The mushroom risotto had a recognizable mushroom bit, but it really resembled something my dog makes when it vomits occasionally.

The half dozen skinny green beans were the best part of the offering.

Perfectly gross. Making American Passengers Gag Again.

And someone ate asparagus, because the lav... well, asparagucic acid.

And I have no idea what calling green or string beans “haricots verts” is supposed to imply: French cuisine? Gourmetise? Someone working for LSG - Sky Chefs is certainly impressed with their semester of French.

BWISkyGuy

lds89

I'm in total agreement with you. This is easily the worst dish on the rotation, and it's been on offer FOREVER. Seriously, I must have had this as a choice on 10-15 segments this year. You usually get a 2.5 oz piece of dried chicken barely dusted in herbs and a gummy, mushy mushroom risotto with a few green beans. I avoid this dish like the plague.

Contrast to the huckleberry bbq chicken dish I had last night on the transcon from SFO - absolutely delicious - moist; great sauce; good portion; and some nice quinoa to go with it. Better than some international J entrees I've had this year. And the cold grilled chicken salads can be decent too (with the dressing).

Chiro1979

Flying PHL-FLL my choices are:

CHOPCHOP767

I'd go with the ravioli; presentation can be a bit of a mess, but it's a pretty good meal as far as AA catering goes these days. Then again, I might just be biased against the grilled chicken. As others have pointed out, the chicken is rarely very good and it has been on rotation FOREVER.

Stripe

Omelet on the outbound. I would go for the chicken on the return. I know it is the butt of many complaints here but I have had good luck with it. I find AA's pastas way too heavy and goopy.

FlightNurse

How are those drinks on the LGA-DCA flights?

AANYC1981

That's Republic, not Delta

GotCalcio4

I had the exact same options on SJC-DFW two nights ago. Having tried the saffron orzo salad a few months back, and while the ingredients were suprisingly fresh and the dish was on the whole unoffensive, I decided to go with the enchilada option. I was quite surprised. I, too, was alarmed by the red color (we're talking almost a neon red in the dish!), but it actually tasted pretty good. The quality of the dish and presentation, though, was really quite poor. We're talking about Taco Bell to-go here, folks. Even a similar dish at Chevy's would have a better appearance.

Ironically, I had the exact same experience on the outbound a few days prior, this time on ORD-SJC. I took one for the team and tried the stuffed peppers this time, having universally avoided them due to appearance alone. Of course, they came exploded on the dish and nearly unrecognizable, and the pepper itself was so destroyed by the reheating process that you could barely tell that's what it was from appearance. It was so flattened and dehydrated you wouldn't otherwise know that's what it was until you tried a bite, and the neon-orange sauce on that accompanied it was also strange looking. However, when I had a bite, it was, dare I say... tasty. It had a nice kick to it, the poblano cheese had a great flavor, and it tasted substantial.

This may be a little bit of a TMI here, but it was one of those dishes that I ate and was fairly concerned that it would upset my stomach in some way. However, I was surprised, in that I felt fine after eating the peppers (and the enchiladas).

A nice idea for a meat-free dish, but per usual, poorly presented and executed.

Random side note. ORD-SJC flight was only the second flight I've been on in over two years that went out with empty first class seats (two of them, and one of them was next to me). The other was a DFW-PVR flight earlier this year, which went out with four empty. Which, ironically, is an upgrade that as an EXP I've missed twice this year (yes, I go down there a lot :-) ).

Alhara

@ amolkod I just might order a Hindu meal for an upcoming flight -- galub jaman! I'll keep my expectations in check, but my other choices are a chicken couscous dish that gets terrible reviews on here (both AA's chicken and couscous in general do), the squash lasagna which I hear can be terrible or dry, or yet another fruit and cheese plate (which I've already chosen for the earlier leg).