SCs and on board meals aren't really supposed to be fine dining (but D1 and FC meals should be of high quality). IMO airlines should provide food that isn't likely to cause problems: no spicy food, no foods associated with elevated risk of food poisoning under realistic temperature conditions (shrimp on a hot day), things that perish quickly when left out on a buffet table, no cabbage, no dishes based on beans, no stinky food such as lamb, etc. I'd be tempted to include most fish and a lot of seafood under the stinky food clause, but it's an appealing choice for people who don't eat meat or want a light meal.

I knew someone would get their feelings hurt over a pan of runny spinach....gotta love the flytalk forum. That stuff was 100% pure gross....I bet you $100 bucks that when Delta caters meetings internally Saag Runny Spinach is not on the menu.....

@MSPeconomist...I truly believe they know what people want and what they do not want....what better than putting out one pan of Saag Spinach at 3pm and not having to replace it until you clean up at 11pm...bingo...money saved.

What is interesting to me....there was a SC chief dressed up in her white chief coat who was watching the food area...she was standing against the wall....was she proud of her Saag Spinach?

Just give normal usa airline club food options because it is well america. When Im in new dehli give me normal indian club food options. You could say well dont eat the indian food but why not instead give an option that more people would choose.

1) Normal club food is snack mix and potato chips.

2) I'm American. I like Indian food. I'm sure I'm not alone.

3) I think we can all agree that Mexican food is "normal", even for the most provincial Americans.

How hard is it to put out a plate of cheese/salami rolls?

An assortment of bread with the pimento cheese, a bowl of soup...bingo

Please not the tubs of Pimento/Palmetto cheese. It's an unnatural color, even for fake cheese. Let's bring back the real fake cheese.

Mmmmm... boiled peanuts.

Georgia variety, or China variety... they're both good.

You should have stuck around for the Durian Salad.

I thought boiled peanuts are a southern delicacy, didn't know there exists a Chinese variety. I suppose a future episode of Ancient Aliens explains how boiled peanuts showed up in Georgia and China same time.

I think this thread proves the point that you can't possibly make everyone happy.

Try something new: WHERE ARE THE CLASSICS!

Leave the classics: THE MENU IS STALE BRING IN SOMETHING NEW!

Agree with you to an extent. As to point #2 you are in the minority.

bolding mine...

Yup. it got replaced by Chicken Tikka Masala around 2 decades ago.
Pronounced as chicken teeka masaala and BTW invented in GB not in India!

so lovely to see this much of excitement on saag paneer. we should have more food related threads on this forum :)

Thank you SSF556!

You've excluded a lot of options. If you just wanted meat and potatoes, why not just say you only want meat and potatoes?

1) Most orange-ish cheese is colored with annatto or even paprika, both of which are perfectly natural.
2) The color of most pimento cheese (palmetto is a brand, it is not the general name) comes from the underlying cheese. Would you consider Red Leicester to be "fake cheese"?
3) "Fake" cheese is really not that "fake" and are usually made from some combination of cheese and milk products, with some emulsifiers (often sodium citrate), maybe some annatto, and GRAS preservatives. If you actually read the label and bother to understand what the various ingredients are, you might find yourself less alarmed.

I saw that over the weekend in F as well. Didn't try it as I had a long intl flight coming up. It didn't bother me any, since I thought they were trying to put out some different foods based on the chicpea thing and moroccan spiced soup.

Anyway it was a lot less crowded there vs the zoo in E and the manner-less pax fighting over the bbq chicken strips.

I like them both. My first introduction was with the Southern version (my family is from the South and I was born in Atlanta), but I increasingly gravitate to Asian flavors, so I'd probably choose a Chinese-style preparation if you put a gun to my head.

No aliens involved. It was all part of the Columbian Exchange. Peanuts are native to the Americas (South and Central) and were introduced to China by the Portuguese. The Portuguese also brought the peanut to West Africa, from where the tradition of boiled peanuts (really, peanut consumption of any sort) was brought back to the US by African slaves. Kind of a full circle sort of thing...

FWIW, much of what we consider "Southern" food owes a great deal to the influence of African slaves and it is a bit of a shame that this heritage doesn't get the due that it should. Indeed, there has even been something of a whitewashing of the history of Southern food at times.