Airline Meals, anyone?

What’s more depressing than that old question “chicken or beef”? Start talking about airline food and someone’s bound to roll their eyes and start groaning. It’s rare to have a good culinary experience in the sky – partly because catering at 35,000ft is difficult but also because our taste buds aren’t as receptive at that altitude.

The site www.airlinemeals.net is a somewhat impartial gallery of airline food snapped by savvy travellers. Spot the difference between Air Lingus “lobster omlette” and some of the less palatable offerings from other airlines.

It’s pretty interesting, but leaves me thinking that the big advantage of sitting up front (i.e. business or first) is that you get proper crockery and cutlery. It’s not the food that I find so objectionable about eating in the cheap seats at the back, it’s the fact that there’s depressingly little space to manoeuver your cutlery.

Anyway, check it out – it’s interesting to compare different airlines.