BA to Add Pulled Pork Sandwich to First-Class Menu
Aug 27, 2014, 10:45 am
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Aug 27, 2014, 11:01 am
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The Boeing 797 will have a smoker in the galley. Meat will be put in on a plane, sometime on the flight prior to which it will be served- depending on previous flight length.
In all seriousness, I don't expect it's well executed. However, if it is, great. FIRST or not.
Proper, slow cooked pork requires skill and is delicious when done correctly.
The "white trash" implications are from ignorance. I imagine the notion of a burger making an an appearance, caused similar offence to a previous generation of flyers
If it's dry and grim, that speak to execution (and conceptualization) and not the food, itself, in the abstract
In all seriousness, I don't expect it's well executed. However, if it is, great. FIRST or not.
Proper, slow cooked pork requires skill and is delicious when done correctly.
The "white trash" implications are from ignorance. I imagine the notion of a burger making an an appearance, caused similar offence to a previous generation of flyers
If it's dry and grim, that speak to execution (and conceptualization) and not the food, itself, in the abstract
Aug 27, 2014, 11:25 am
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I just don't see this as a good execution of a Pulled Pork sandwich, based on visual evidence - happy to be proved wrong. And I am surprised to see it, and its distinctive odour, offered in the multi-ethnic environment of BA F.
Aug 27, 2014, 11:26 am
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Aug 27, 2014, 11:27 am
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I do agree in theory though. If it tastes good and works well I'd like to see it on the menu. Basic and tasty beats trying to badly copy a top class restaurant.
Although the chefs must be very slow if it took them that long to develop it. I'm currently on my second year trying to perfect beans on toast, I'm hoping I'll crack it for the 2014 summer timetable.
Aug 27, 2014, 11:33 am
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Totally different environment that will be working with in the air.
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Aug 27, 2014, 11:52 am
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Why is I that I have the feeling that some senior people on FT would even defend BA if they actually would serve dog food in First?
Aug 27, 2014, 11:53 am
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Well as a good old northerner I'm looking forward to trying it in two weeks time with a glass of bitter. I'll leave the Champagne for you southerners 
Aug 27, 2014, 11:57 am
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Co-incidence? I think not... Asda in first...
Aug 27, 2014, 12:02 pm
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It's not a great idea for several reasons, not least the number of people who don't eat pork, and it's certainly not a great idea for F.
