News and notes from around the interweb:
- They say it’s not an omelet, so I’m guessing chicken?
Take a guess what this is.. @AmericanAir served this on a flight.
If you guess what this is, you win a prize.
🤢🤢🤢🤢 pic.twitter.com/pWIyNRNETs
— Baller Alert 🚨 (@balleralert) June 21, 2023
- Cathay Pacific’s new Shekou Ferry Pier Lounge is part of the airline’s – and Hong Kong’s – turn towards mainland China.
- Frequent flyer who invites random passengers to be his guest in the lounge every time he flies
- The extreme winds in Houston were a surprise. (HT: Joe R)
- More than a decade ago a metal credit card was a status symbol. Now they’re a drug on the market. There are metal credit cards everywhere. Yet a simple Starbucks co-brand, which is being sunset in less than a month, can still impress? (HT: @crucker)
This morning he proudly introduced me to the manager, saying “he is from Starbucks America “. Or something like that.
I don’t know how to play this. I just want my
Coffee.— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) June 22, 2023
- Remember when we all thought that cleaning would be one legacy of the pandemic? We were wrong. (For hotels, too.)
This is absolutely unacceptable @united! First you change all of our seats we paid for to sit with one another (3 of us, w/o notice) and then we have this in our seat prior to our flight to Brussels! Finally after attendant got someone over to handle, they wanted us 2 grab it! 🤢 pic.twitter.com/EDZyG0UGyW
— Zachary Williams (@speedbumpwillly) June 22, 2023
AA – Going for gross.
I’ll guess Chicken Fried Steak (without the steak).
@ Gary — Jimmy Hoffa?
The cleaning post is quite timely given the earlier BA post.
And inviting people to the lounge in the US seems like a dicey proposition, especially in big cities where people are naturally on guard for scams.
See “Applebee’s of the Air: American Airlines First Class Dinner”
http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2014/140518/index.html
If everyone invites random strangers into the lounge with them the option will inevitably be dropped.
That’s Golden Chicken with Yukon potatoes.
Oh, and green beans too. As I say with all airline food, keep your expectations low and you will never be disappointed.
Big Mac and fries through a blender
I bet the meal tastes fine. The pic has poor lighting. AA sucks generally, but their food is very decent.
Big Mac and fries are loaded with chemicals that should be considered health hazards. And they are in the EU where the exact same items are healthier because several ingredients used in the US versions are banned by EU authorities.
If you have very low quality standards American food typically is edible on occasion.
Most of it sucks dried out rubbery and of poor culinary decision making
But to their credit they actually had a tasty healthy meal on board recently served with a side of chicken.
For the first time in 20 years the chicken was moist and the lemon parsley sauce for the grains was very good served with olive oil crackers.Lightening can strike if you get real lucky
Decades ago in the 90s AA/United transcons served excellent offerings by comparison to the new lower standards of this era
“guest passes – you don’t have to talk to me”
Welcome to The Dystopian Age of Travel, where hosts and guests don’t converse. Where everyone just starts at their screen with ear buds. Where the only conversation is of loud high-pitched babies and toddlers. Oh, dear me!
Looks fine, would eat. If I chose food solely based on appearance, I would have missed out on a lot of great dishes throughout my life. The best food in the world is traditionally working class / peasant food; not designed for the ‘gram!
A sammie from the airport Any day is better than most of their food
Chicken Francaise.
What I love about the picture is how the lemon was thrown on top. It’s like “Oh wait! You forgot the lemon. You can’t send out a meal without the lemon! That would be low class.”. Even first class isn’t what it used to be.
You fly on such an airline, you should expect this. I’m glad that the food on my Asian airlines fights to and from LAX is not only looks appealing but almost always tastes good.
it looks like vomlette to me lol
That JBF creation by Chef Ellie Krieger is one of the nastiest looking entrees that I have ever seen. Looks like a regurgitated omelet that appeared on a plate and I can only imagine what it takes like. I like chicken and never have I seen a breast of chicken look so foul (no pun intended). Food on all US Carriers is much to be desired and all the Food/Beverage Managers at these carriers need to be shown the door for piss poor menu planning and the respective Chef’s cooking the garbage need to find a new career.