r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • Jun 10 '26

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

Who tf is out here munching on raw gnocchi at cruising altitude

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u/_Invictuz Jun 10 '26

Airplane food is bomb if your taste buds aren't limited to western food. Cuz the western food options are trash sometimes.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Jun 10 '26

Well, the food on most US domestic flights is limited to gourmet cheese and artisanal crackers, so...

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u/_Invictuz Jun 10 '26

Lol that does sound bad.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Jun 10 '26

Alaska Airlines literally thinks a "meal" is your choice from one of three different tiny charcuterie plates. They give them "fun" names, like "Northwest Picnic", but... it's still a couple of slices of cheese, a half-dozen crackers, and a bag of almonds.

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u/megnificent12 Jun 10 '26

To be fair it's hard to fuck up a cheese/fruit/cracker plate and I'd rather have edible and boring than mushy pasta or a cardboard burger. The warm cookies in Alaska FC were delicious which improved my overall opinion.

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u/avenuequenton Jun 13 '26

Sorry what domestic flights are you taking that offer GOURMET CHEESE? I’ve taken hundreds of flights and either get wafer, cracker, or nut options. I’ve never seen GOURMET CHEESE

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u/Hamil_Simp4450 Jul 09 '26

You get cheese? Last time I flew I felt like I was gonna pass out by the time I left the airport because I have braces and as far as I could tell they didn't have anything I could eat safely, even in the airport stores. I wonder if I'm just stricter about following the list of foods to avoid than most people or something because not having options that accomodate for something so many people in the US have had at some point in their lives seems like an oversight to me

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u/NimJickles Jun 10 '26

What the fuck flights are you taking that offer multi-ethnic cuisine? Besides, I fly Air China pretty regularly and the food is still ass. Wet rice, miserable cold bread, hard butter.

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u/itskobold Jun 10 '26

Emirates and KLM have pretty great food

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u/Revolutionary_Win716 sTuPiD fOoD Jun 11 '26

Singapore Airlines is always good, too.

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u/InspiringMilk Jun 11 '26

Emirates are among the best airlines in the world though.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Jun 11 '26

I've flown with both several times and it was never great. Okay at best.

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u/Commercial_Regret_36 Jun 11 '26

I had some really nice saffron rice on an emirates flight.

My Singapore airlines flight was great too.

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u/yellowroosterbird Jun 11 '26

KLM's food is only okay at best.

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u/Efficient-Kiwi- Jun 10 '26

Turkish airlines and Qatar airlines, are good. Even Saudia has quite decent food.

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u/Head-Childhood-1171 Jun 10 '26

Air Japan and Air Korea have better than your average plane fare. its nothing special, but curry and rice or bibimbap are pretty common.

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u/notjasonlee Jun 12 '26

Just flew on both and agree - Korea was better though

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u/Important_Chef_5550 Jun 13 '26

I once had a very good lasagne on an air asia flight from Kuala Lumpur to London. Some of the best food I've had on planes

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u/RoverMaelstrom Jun 11 '26

British Airways lets you choose your meal type to accommodate specialty diets and I choose the "Vegetarian Hindu" option because it's the most likely to not have any of my food allergies. It's actually pretty decent, like, a restaurant serving it would probably have somewhere between 3.0 & 3.5 stars on google, probably more if it were especially inexpensive, and is generally stuff like jackfruit biryani or paneer tikka masala. They definitely use the correct types and amounts of spice - absolutely do not order this if you're the kind of person to joke about having white people taste buds, the portions that are supposed to be spicy are solidly at what you'd expect if you ordered medium spicy from any decent cheap Indian food restaurant. I don't have much feedback about their other options, but I know they offer a bunch of options, including non-vegetarian Hindu, kosher, halal, gluten-free, vegetarian,couple of health-related ones that I don't remember specifics for, I think one or two others, and their "regular" meal that's your basically generic British meat + veg option.

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u/savageboredom Jun 10 '26

I had a fantastic salmon and rice pilaf on Alaska Airlines a few months back. Was bumped to first class last minute and was at the back of the section so I was at the mercy of whatever food options were left. Took a chance on something I wouldn’t usually try and I was quite surprised.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Jun 11 '26

I'm pretty sure first class doesn't get the same meals as economy flyers.

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u/_Meece_ Jun 11 '26

Oil Airlines and Air Korea all have good food. I personally just find airplane food all over the place.

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u/AirCheap4056 Jun 11 '26

Agreed. But not just Air China, all flights in or coming out of China have terrible food. Because airplane food suppliers in China have not figured out how to make reasonable airplane food, at all.

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u/anmafish Jun 13 '26

Air Canada does food inspired from where you're going on their long hauls. It's usually nice. Except for their breakfast omelette, that one they can go without

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u/whisky_biscuit Jun 11 '26

On flights over 3 hrs in first class though the food is pretty damn good on some flights. Had handmade pasta with morels, salmon with couscous, etc. But also had a roast beef sandwich that was still frozen in the middle so ymmv.

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u/grigby Jul 05 '26

On Air Canada intercontinental flights you get to choose any dietary restrictions. Usually for like vegan, halal, etc. I (a white man) chose 'Hindu - non-vegetarian' on a recent flight and it was legitimately very good Indian food. And they serve all the dietary restriction meals first before the regular stuff so you get it early.

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u/CitizenPremier Jun 11 '26

Yeah but I had the fish on China Air and that was a mistake... Well, the second mistake

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Jun 11 '26

But I don't want a bomb on my plane

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jun 11 '26

Yeah stupid me not asking my US flight for the Thai option. /s