The British flag next to the ‘traditional Italian tiramisu’ is a particular highlight.

Once again BA is being inconsistent as always. Why not putting the British flag next to the panna cotta? I mean both desserts are from the same country right? It makes no sense....

Traditional Italian tiramisu 🇬🇧 (signature British dish) - really?!

Yeah. Also the Black Forest dessert has a British flag too

Of course it is ! Every bit as British signature as ‘traditional tikka masala’, which was also given the Union Flag …….maybe on the basis that it involved a bit of British chicken …… ?

I guess the tiramisu involves British cream.

The descriptions are clearly not to be taken seriously : just the new interns having some fun amongst themselves in the office as they write the menus 😁

Chicken tikka masala is at least a British ‘favourite’, even a national dish of sorts. Tiramisu is really not, any more than creme brűlée is. Both are popular desserts but you definitely wouldn’t describe them as British.

That reminds me of a conversation I overheard between crew and a passenger on a QR flight to BKK when the option the chap wanted had run out “but I don’t like curry, I like English food like pizza or Chinese”. 😁😂

A little bit of food history if you're being generous, tiramisu is basically a kind of Zuppa Inglese, which as the name suggests is an Italian dessert that was likely originally copied from English trifle, so Tiramisu is definitely easier for BA to annex than other Italian desserts. Then again, the likelihood this is what BA means is minimal and I'm probably just overthinking it...

Well of course crčme anglaise is ubiquitous in French pastries but it would still be odd to call a dish ‘tarte aux fraises’ and label it a signature British dish just as it would with crčme brűlée or tiramisu. There are plenty of English variants and names for the same/similar things that would make the concept work though!

A ‘tikka masala’ is about as ‘Indian’ as a Vindaloo and actually originates from the Bangladeshi restaurant-owning community in Glasgow!

I suspect on my LHR-SIN menu, the flag is meant to be adjacent to the cheese. Pretty hilarious though.

I just don’t understand how a Red Leicester and Cheddar ‘cheeseboard’ is not the British dessert whilst the ‘Italian’ tiramisu is. I get that all of these are found on menus in Britain. A few years ago they had ‘British Airways Classics’ (maybe that was in First) but things like fish pie and curry would qualify!

As a Brummie - the home of the Balti and more miles of canals than Venice and a denizen of the city centre I am all for and love global foods; I just don’t really understand the logic. I expect it’s more that somebody typing this out in Word, using last month’s template, forgot to move the flag / didn’t engage brain.

Much like the ‘vegetarian biryani’ or whatever it was a few months ago, when I expect what was meant was ‘vegetable biryani (v)’. (v) suitable for vegetarians. I doubt any vegetarians were harmed in the assembly of the biryani.

Had a little laugh at the Club world menu from LHR to MIA yesterday

Selection of 1 dessert?

Well, maybe it's the British version of the dish?