We haven't flown in a long time until recently and we've taken 2 trips,
4K miles + each, in the past 2 months, one on America West and the other
Delta. What happened to the food!? We got a few peanuts on one flight
and some cheese and crackers on the other! Apparently airline meals, as
bad as they were, are a thing of the past.

Beaker wrote:

>On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:45:19 -0500, jmcquown quoth:
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>>Northwest doesn't, but I'll be on the plane anyway on June 1st
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> Northwest once had the best airline food for a short while in
>the late 1990's - they were handing out lavosh (sp?) wrap-sandwiches
>that were quite good, and full of fresh veggies. It was a no-brainer -
>these simple, tasty, crispy, fresh things were exactly what airlines
>should serve.
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> Eventually for some unfathomable reason they went back to the
>stupid TV-dinner style hot dinners and the vending machine style
>stale-roll-and-lunchmeat lunches that mades airline food such a joke to
>begin with. Perhaps their laywers were afraid fresh food might cause
>food poisoning, and made them switch back to the preservative-laden stuff
>that bacteria couldn't grow in. Frankly, I don't miss those much,
>except for the little cookie or chocolate packets. Warm bagels and
>yogurt would be nice on the red-eye flights, though.
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> I'll be flying on Northwest for the next 3 days...woo, more FF miles!
>I will be bringing my own trail mix.
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>bkr
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