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| Would you miss free plane food? Discuss the week's news – live | Would you miss free plane food? Discuss the week's news – live |
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| How about the environmental impact of airline food? | |
| Plane food is not free, the cost is included in the ticket. I know it's ironic to talk about environmental impact when you are on a plane, but airline food must cause a huge amount of waste. How much can be recycled? Taking your own food on-board is also quite complicated flying long haul to places like Australia and NZ which have very strict bio-security laws concerning bringing any food item into the country. | |
| And here’s another reason to welcome it ... the distraction. | |
| Flying long haul I enjoy the distraction, the expectation, the examination, the tasting, and the rejection wanting rid of it so you can do something else such as read your book or play solitaire until something else occurs if anything breaks up the long hours spent in an ever warming thin tube while you and others share viruses and bacteria. I always think that getting there is half the holiday! | |
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| Airline meals often get a bad rep, but you’re highlighting their popularity – there’s even websites devoted to them: | |
| Your'e not alone, airline food is great, not necessarily the quality of course, but as you say the ritual of it | |
| If you're truly obsessed, you should check out airlinemeals.net the most comprehensive site dedicated to the sometimes dubious delights of inflight meals and airline catering | |
| http://www.airlinemeals.net/ | |
| Anyway, talking of food, have you regulated your erratic lunchtimes since last week? Remember, lack of proper luncheon leads to lack of proper function! | |
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| 'I love plane food. Please British Airways, don’t take away my foil-wrapped fun' | |
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| Everyone went wild for this article, which explores British Airways plan to cut plane meals, below the line. Here are some choice comments. What’s your view? | |
| Meezles79 | |
| I love airplane food! I love the little compartments and the ice cold bread rolls. I love the water with the peel-back lid. I love the regional fare you get with different airlines - Aero Mexico is one of my favourites. I love it because as someone who hates flying it provides something to temporarily concentrate on rather than blind panic throughout the flight. | |
| Bobsworth44 | |
| I used to work for an incredible snob and tiresome foodie. When we were both sent on a business trip to a major European city, he turned his nose up at the inflight meal offered him by the cabin crew. I of course tucked in, and when my boss asked why on earth I was voluntarily eating such poor-quality processed food, managed to completely silence him with what to me was the blindingly-obvious answer: “Well it’s free!”. | |
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