Normally get the opposite reaction from you - lucky you, wise choice, way better than what we have to offer - especially during the period of the fun sized insult that was the second service in WT+ to the East Coast.

The Plane Food and Fortnum hampers always get the most jealous reactions!

I do like your style, I am very tempted to try that myself next time I fly BA F. I already take a caviar spoon in my standard carry on, I was caught short once on a Malaysian flight, ended up scooping it onto the back of my hand: the stainless steel teaspoon provided is just so very wrong!

As well as the caviar spoon, I also sometimes take a decent wine glass on board. Before the liquids ban, I would often take own wine on board. Occasionally I still do, particularly if I can find a decent bottle of dessert wine in duty free on airlines that don’t serve it, (I remember being tempted by a bottle of 1900 Ch d’Yquem in Berry Bros and Rudd at T3 when they were there a decade or so ago).

The difference is that they are a chain that actually makes their sandwiches on the premises, so they are almost always pretty fresh: sometimes late afternoon you might get unlucky and come across a slightly stale one.

Regrettably there are very few “proper” independent sandwich shops left in London anymore, where they make you a decent sarny on demand, many pushed out by Pret I shouldn’t wonder.

I go hot and cold on them, I have five of them within five minutes of my desk. I rate their filter coffee very highly as filter coffee goes, 99p for a decent sized cup, or 49p if you supply your own receptacle, either way hardly a luxury item. On the other hand, recently they have stopped providing plastic stoppers at some outlets, so they end up spilling everywhere, making any paper bag it’s in disintegrate as you walk back to your desk. It’s a weak sustainability effort to box tick greenwash credentials, akin to bailing out the Titanic with a teaspoon.

I have taken my own bread rolls on a couple of BA F flights - not because of any special dietary requirements, but because the bread basket on my first F flight was so disappointing. No choice, just crumbly white rolls. I got funny looks when I once asked for just bacon for breakfast, but I made my own bacon sandwich with a big sunflower seed roll (from BreadTalk in Singapore) and it was delicious!