Describe your worst AA in-flight meal ever
#31
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#32
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This thread reminds me of the dark days on US before the HP merger, when the F meals were boxed. This was circa late 2004/early 2005. We affectionately referred to them on the US forum as "Happy Meals."
#33
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US CLT-LAX on a 767 back in April 2001.
There were two choices of meals: a chicken with rice dish or some type of pasta. Both came with a salad, cheese, bread roll, and actual dessert (Rather than pre-packaged like today). The meals came on trays larger than today, with white melamine crockery with a blue trim on top. It made today's long haul meals long like a snack.
I was seated in the last row of Y and they happened to run out of meals one way or another. All they had left was a children's meal that I guess was accidently ordered or a child did not want to eat it. I was 15 at the time, so I took the meal out of hunger, and it contained the slimiest, scariest looking chicken fingers sitting over a bed of watery corn that looked like water balloons, complete with a side of hot strawberries and grapes, and hot chocolate pudding (I'm assuming the whole tray was placed into the oven). It was simply nasty.
There were two choices of meals: a chicken with rice dish or some type of pasta. Both came with a salad, cheese, bread roll, and actual dessert (Rather than pre-packaged like today). The meals came on trays larger than today, with white melamine crockery with a blue trim on top. It made today's long haul meals long like a snack.
I was seated in the last row of Y and they happened to run out of meals one way or another. All they had left was a children's meal that I guess was accidently ordered or a child did not want to eat it. I was 15 at the time, so I took the meal out of hunger, and it contained the slimiest, scariest looking chicken fingers sitting over a bed of watery corn that looked like water balloons, complete with a side of hot strawberries and grapes, and hot chocolate pudding (I'm assuming the whole tray was placed into the oven). It was simply nasty.
#34
Join Date: Sep 2016
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That looks marginally better than the filet I got on the same route last year (or maybe in 2016?). It look slightly overcooked on the outside, but was completely cold and raw on the inside. I might still have tried to eat it, but it was too fibrous to easily cut with the knife provided.
I wouldn't even know where to buy a filet that tough if I wanted to.
I wouldn't even know where to buy a filet that tough if I wanted to.
#36
Join Date: Sep 2014
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+1! I remember those meals on my flights in early 2005... At first they were just handing out the coach buy-onboard meals in F, and then LSG created special, even cheaper comps US earned for F (based on sales in Y) that were even worse than the coach boxes. Plus there were cities that weren't catered at all for a while, like morning flights out of SAN IIRC. Then US finally started buying snacks from airport concessions for the non-catered morning flights before catering eventually started to return with normal tray meals. Fun times.
#37
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I actually like the stuffed poblano (relatively speaking). In fact I just pre-ordered it for my Thursday evening RDU-DFW flight.