and besides, if i have to fly i think i am entitled to a last meal that is
more than a bag of nuts, Lee


"Goomba" > wrote in message
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> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> Goomba wrote:
>>
>>> I peel and seed them, then cube them to add to potato salad. Wonderful
>>> addition, IMO. Way better than gaggy hard boiled eggs in potato salad
>>> <pfttttuey!>
>>
>> Almost exactly a year ago I recommended using cucumbers in a salad with
>> chayote and Asian pear. I'm not fond of cucumbers in potato salad, but I
>> *do* sometimes add cucumber to egg salad.
>>
>> Bob
>
> When waxing poetic about airline food (funny, no?) I often rave about a
> KLM flight I took between Amsterdam and London. It was such a short
> flight, US air carriers wouldn't even have had time to snarl at you while
> tossing out a bag of nuts or pretzels. Yet those gorgeous well coiffed and
> dressed KLM goddesses (no other way to describe those 6' tall blond
> beauties) passed out a soda/water and a small paper wrapped tray with your
> choice of either egg salad or a seafood salad sandwich. That egg salad
> possibly contained small minced bits of cucumber and chives or something
> in a creamy dressing. I don't eat much egg salad but this stuff was
> wonderful!
> How KLM managed it when Delta can't is beyond me?
> <recalls that sf will snarl that no one ever needs to eat while on a
> flight, but knows that is unrealistic as well as often unpleasant>