"RichardBranson" news and stories

Remember that godawful Virgin food I showed you the other day, and the creative letter written to complain about it? Well, it looks like if you make something entertaining enough that it spreads like wildfire through the Internet, you may just get a response.

The Consumerist reports that Virgin Atlantic have invited the unhappy passenger to "come to the airline's catering house next month, to help select the food on future Virgin flights." As Consumerist says, this is definitely a publicity stunt and not the best "gift" for their passenger.

Think about it. People are choosing this food. I'd bet my bottom dollar that the food they pick isn't quite what what ends up on the passenger's tiny table, because who would pick slop that looked like that anyway? Now give him the option to help choose the dinners and police the airline every few months for quality control purposes? That would be a sweet gig.

We all know the horrors of plane food. Personally, I don't even know how many times I've ridden on a plane, but only once -- just once -- did I get a meal worth remembering. Even so, it never inspired me to do something about it. Like many others, I sucked it up, or stuffed my bag with bagels and tasty things pre-flight.

But not everyone can take it lying down, and there's an excellent new passenger letter swimming its way across the internet, which you can read over at the Telegraph. Basically, the anonymous writer calls Richard Branson out on the food served during Virgin flights. And I must say, it's pretty terrible-looking food (look up, that's mustard slopped over most of the middle). These pictures are so bad, they make those chewy, plasticy microwaved pizzas look delectable.

What a great advertisement for Gordon Ramsay's gourmet plane food!