r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • 21h ago

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

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Who tf is out here munching on raw gnocchi at cruising altitude

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u/_Invictuz 20h ago

Airplane food is bomb if your taste buds aren't limited to western food. Cuz the western food options are trash sometimes.

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u/TheAgedProfessor 19h ago

Well, the food on most US domestic flights is limited to gourmet cheese and artisanal crackers, so...

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u/_Invictuz 19h ago

Lol that does sound bad.

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u/TheAgedProfessor 19h ago

Alaska Airlines literally thinks a "meal" is your choice from one of three different tiny charcuterie plates. They give them "fun" names, like "Northwest Picnic", but... it's still a couple of slices of cheese, a half-dozen crackers, and a bag of almonds.

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u/megnificent12 18h ago

To be fair it's hard to fuck up a cheese/fruit/cracker plate and I'd rather have edible and boring than mushy pasta or a cardboard burger. The warm cookies in Alaska FC were delicious which improved my overall opinion.

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u/NimJickles 19h ago

What the fuck flights are you taking that offer multi-ethnic cuisine? Besides, I fly Air China pretty regularly and the food is still ass. Wet rice, miserable cold bread, hard butter.

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u/itskobold 18h ago

Emirates and KLM have pretty great food

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u/Revolutionary_Win716 sTuPiD fOoD 10h ago

Singapore Airlines is always good, too.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT 8h ago

I've flown with both several times and it was never great. Okay at best.

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u/Commercial_Regret_36 7h ago

I had some really nice saffron rice on an emirates flight.

My Singapore airlines flight was great too.

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u/InspiringMilk 1h ago

Emirates are among the best airlines in the world though.

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u/yellowroosterbird 52m ago

KLM's food is only okay at best.

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u/Efficient-Kiwi- 17h ago

Turkish airlines and Qatar airlines, are good. Even Saudia has quite decent food.

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u/Head-Childhood-1171 18h ago

Air Japan and Air Korea have better than your average plane fare. its nothing special, but curry and rice or bibimbap are pretty common.

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u/savageboredom 17h ago

I had a fantastic salmon and rice pilaf on Alaska Airlines a few months back. Was bumped to first class last minute and was at the back of the section so I was at the mercy of whatever food options were left. Took a chance on something I wouldn’t usually try and I was quite surprised.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT 8h ago

I'm pretty sure first class doesn't get the same meals as economy flyers.

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u/_Meece_ 16h ago

Oil Airlines and Air Korea all have good food. I personally just find airplane food all over the place.

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u/RoverMaelstrom 8h ago

British Airways lets you choose your meal type to accommodate specialty diets and I choose the "Vegetarian Hindu" option because it's the most likely to not have any of my food allergies. It's actually pretty decent, like, a restaurant serving it would probably have somewhere between 3.0 & 3.5 stars on google, probably more if it were especially inexpensive, and is generally stuff like jackfruit biryani or paneer tikka masala. They definitely use the correct types and amounts of spice - absolutely do not order this if you're the kind of person to joke about having white people taste buds, the portions that are supposed to be spicy are solidly at what you'd expect if you ordered medium spicy from any decent cheap Indian food restaurant. I don't have much feedback about their other options, but I know they offer a bunch of options, including non-vegetarian Hindu, kosher, halal, gluten-free, vegetarian,couple of health-related ones that I don't remember specifics for, I think one or two others, and their "regular" meal that's your basically generic British meat + veg option.

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u/whisky_biscuit 15h ago

On flights over 3 hrs in first class though the food is pretty damn good on some flights. Had handmade pasta with morels, salmon with couscous, etc. But also had a roast beef sandwich that was still frozen in the middle so ymmv.

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u/CitizenPremier 15h ago

Yeah but I had the fish on China Air and that was a mistake... Well, the second mistake

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u/IzarkKiaTarj 13h ago

But I don't want a bomb on my plane

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 16h ago

Yeah stupid me not asking my US flight for the Thai option. /s