Appropriate Compensation: Coackroach in food in F on CO
Aug 29, 2010, 8:05 pm
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Appropriate Compensation: Coackroach in food in F on CO
Flying LAS-EWR on the morning flight, sitting in F, and found a dead (cooked) coackroach in the breakfast platter under the omlette. The flight attendant was suitably aghast and apologetic.
Sent a letter to We-Care; what do you think one should expect in return from CO? Apology? U/g cert? Voucher? A little Tabasco sauce to help get it down?
Sent a letter to We-Care; what do you think one should expect in return from CO? Apology? U/g cert? Voucher? A little Tabasco sauce to help get it down?
Aug 29, 2010, 8:11 pm
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It's refreshing to read someone post with a sense of humor.
A little Tabasco does go a long way.
I use to find flies in my salad all the time when I flew from HNL to the West Coast. Since I lived in Hawaii it was a common thing to find bugs in your food. I would just flip the fly out and continue eating.
A little Tabasco does go a long way.
I use to find flies in my salad all the time when I flew from HNL to the West Coast. Since I lived in Hawaii it was a common thing to find bugs in your food. I would just flip the fly out and continue eating.
Aug 29, 2010, 8:38 pm
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It's refreshing to read someone post with a sense of humor.
A little Tabasco does go a long way.
I use to find flies in my salad all the time when I flew from HNL to the West Coast. Since I lived in Hawaii it was a common thing to find bugs in your food. I would just flip the fly out and continue eating.
A little Tabasco does go a long way.
I use to find flies in my salad all the time when I flew from HNL to the West Coast. Since I lived in Hawaii it was a common thing to find bugs in your food. I would just flip the fly out and continue eating.
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I might have added that it is extra protein, but I remembered that my son found a corn borer in his ear of corn a few days ago and was grossed out no matter how much I tried to make light of it.
Co should give the guy a few thousand miles to assuage the palate.
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Aug 29, 2010, 8:48 pm
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Aug 29, 2010, 9:09 pm
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Aug 29, 2010, 9:31 pm
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I suppose most would have eaten it and be none the wiser - maybe reminds us that airline food is airline food - dont matter where in the plane you sitting.
Aug 29, 2010, 9:36 pm
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There was a movie Victor/Victoria where Julie Andrews puts a roach in the food and then expects a free meal; if I am not mistaken she was kicked out of the restaurant. You are lucky they did not open the door and let you down the slide (with a couple of beers of course)
Aug 29, 2010, 9:37 pm
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did you take a photo to post it on airlinemeals.net?
Aug 29, 2010, 9:49 pm
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with some meals it might have been the best part of the meal. could be CO will send U a bill for the extra and better food you were served
Aug 29, 2010, 9:59 pm
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I was in business class to Japan on United some years ago, and passed on the veal-stuffed-in-pastry (there's a fancy name for this but it escapes me). My neighbor chose this, got the most unimaginable gristle ball in soggy dough. I didn't track the entire negotiation, but the first offering was a box of duty-free chocolates, the second offering was an SWU.
Everyone rags on United, but I can't see CO doing this. Yet an upgrade comparable to the flight in question does seem appropriate compensation.
Or a ticket to Thailand, where I was able to eat bugs intended for human consumption?
Everyone rags on United, but I can't see CO doing this. Yet an upgrade comparable to the flight in question does seem appropriate compensation.
Or a ticket to Thailand, where I was able to eat bugs intended for human consumption?
Aug 29, 2010, 10:10 pm
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Aug 30, 2010, 4:13 am
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Aug 30, 2010, 6:48 am
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While I guess that's possible, I personally would've used a severed finger or dead mouse, had I wanted to plant something. Folks were doing that a few years ago with Wendy's chili, in the hopes of scoring some big pay-days.
Aug 30, 2010, 6:51 am
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Health department?
Do you think I'm under an obligation to report this to the Clark County Health Department? Do you think that CO already has reported it, since I alerted the FA to the problem while on board? In other words, do you think that there is some sort of report that she's required to fill-out, at the conclusion of each flight, listing things like, "Passenger in 1F found a dead bug in her food."