"What, no 3 course meal?"

[AirHostess]

Ok so this guy wasn't really awful....

It was a 1hr and 10 min flight. As it was off peak so we just serve (free) drinks-tea/coffee/juice/soft drinks/alcohol and either 'birdseed' or a cookie.

This elderly, well spoken man said in a very shocked and surprised tone "Is this all I'm getting? At one time you would have served a 3 course meal on china plates!"

I felt like saying "was that before BEA and BOAC merged and the 'stewardessess' wore white gloves as they served you."

But I didn't.

[PepperElf]

and ... all that extra food adds to the weight of the plane
which means more gas
higher prices

so who's up for a "free" lunch?

[JoitheArtist]

I, for one, never feel like eating during a flight anyway. Snacky stuff, sure, but no real food, even when i'm at an airport between flights.

BTW, I don't know which airline you work for, but your sisters-in-arms at Southwest were all wonderful on my flight home on Saturday.

[Nurian]

I still remember the advice my father gave me when we went trans-Atlantic once:
"Son, when we're up there and you see the world in all its majesty and you're not sure what your place is, remember: Always get the kosher meal."

[rerant]

This is slightly off topic but the mention of the word "stewardesses" made me think of it.
A friend of mine is a flight attendant and is also gay. One day he was talking about work and someone asked what it's like being a flight attendant and he corrected them by saying, "Honey, I ain't no flight attendant! I'm a stewardess!"



Just a note: he hates that word as much as the next flight attendant - he was just being silly. :P

[iradney]

I'm surprised he didn't ask you to tuck him and read him a bed time story. I've flown since I was 6 years old, and even then, with 2 hour flights, we didn't get "3 course meals" on "china" with "silverware". We got TV Dinners in plastic trays with plastic ware and WE LIKED IT.

[strawbabies]

This elderly, well spoken man said in a very shocked and surprised tone "Is this all I'm getting? At one time you would have served a 3 course meal on china plates!"

Yeah, that was 50 years ago. Those days are long gone.

[RetailSlave]

Yep, the one time I flew we got the meal on the real china. It would have been in the late 60s on either Frontier or TWA on a flight from Denver to St. Louis. Lovely meal...roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans almondine..there was dessert but I forget what it was. Flying was a whole different experience then.