"plane food" news and stories

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!

I miss good plane food. I remember once taking an American Airlines flight from NY to California and not only having the smoothest ride to ever be experienced, but also the best food. I can't recall what it was now, but I remember the feeling -- being completely surprised and happy at the state of the food served to me, and how very delicious it was.

These days, it's even harder to get good plane food with all the cutbacks, but as Serious Eats points out, lucky Heathrow visitors have the option of eating "Gordon Ramsay's Plane Food." Beyond eating a selection of gourmet dishes at the restaurant in Terminal 5, you can get "picnics" to take with you on the plane. We're talking delicious meals in small-serving amounts that aren't only well-packaged in an insulated picnic bag, but also big on flavor.

The picnic courses cost £11.95 each, but that's not bad for something that saves you from those wretchedly awful meals, and does so with style. Now if only every airport offered this ... holiday travel would be so much easier!

It's pretty much a given these days that you don't get much in the way of food on airplanes, especially when you fly in the continental United States. I was shocked to discover on my last flight out to Portland that I was actually served a meal (a microwaved mini pizza, an iceberg lettuce salad, a bag of potato chips and a package brownie). However, when you fly internationally, food is still part of the travel experience, and can range from terrible to excellent.

Over at Gastronomy, Cathy and her boyfriend, Vernon (aka the Astronomer), have spent the last few months in Vietnam. They did an amazing job of documenting all the amazing things they ate while they were there, and now have even gone so far as to photograph and report back on the meals they were served on EVA Airlines. Cathy requested a high fiber meal and was served an amazing assortment veggies, fruits and whole wheat breads. It seems that selecting high fiber is the way to go when flying EVA.

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