Tues, 14 June 2016, 6:53 pm: I think the other option was chicken (in the air as on the ground, the other option is always chicken), but here’s what we chose for dinner en route to the eastern seaboard, almost two hours in to our flight from Ft. Myers to Dusseldorf.
Here’s how the entire meal looked upon delivery.
A tip for AirBerlin’s art department: let’s add a splash of color to the logo on the thin plastic lid. What logo, you ask? Exactly. You can’t even see it. Here, squint more closely.
See there? The pasta pesto stays piping hot under that peel-away lid, but you can barely tell which airline is claiming credit for this high altitude achievement in culinary science.
Along with the roll and wedge of Brie (visible two pics up) the dinner included some manner of blueberry crumble and a side of potato salad. You can see I’m drinking a white wine and a glass of still water. Always accept multiple beverages. Passengers who don’t say yes to the water in addition to their main dinner drink regret it when they get thirsty and the drink cart doesn’t return for two hours.
I’d rate this supper as pretty good, but then I’m generally happy with meals on Europe flights in the last ten years. There are plenty of sit-down restaurants in America where the food isn’t as fresh or as tasty as in the friendly skies.