Delta pasta

Please be more creative and stop counting the beans!

And please don't serve beans, either. 10.5 hours in the air is bad enough without suffering from bad air.

Like this...

-- Mike Beebe

10.5 hours in the air is bad enough without suffering from bad air.

Unfortunately, physics are working against you. A reduced air pressure in the cabin creates a greater pressure differential between your internal body pressure and the cabin, meaning any gas you have will try that much harder to get out.

Luckily cabin air is frequently turned over and not recirculated.

As for meals, I guess I never flew for the food choices. I sympathize with meal planners, come up with two options that is tolerable for a couple hundred people, of something that holds, and reheats well, plus has some flavor at altitude.

I usually skip the entree and just eat the other things on the tray as a light snack, then dream of all the things I can get once I land.

You could try finding something in the airport to bring on, lots more choices. You could also order a special diets meal at no additional cost, however that can be a bit like roulette. My wife used to always order one, had some great ones, had some real bland ones. Now she usually settles for the pasta.

Well, since on the way to Europe, your 10 hour flight is probably at night you could probably go 10 hours without a meal.

Or you can do what I do on any carrier, I bring on edible food. No I don’t think it’s any worse on Delta than it is on other carriers. I’m sorry I’ve had food on Air France and I would not describe it as yummy (although honestly I don’t know what yummy means but I’m assuming you meant it was edible) I was once on an Air France flight in business class, where the man across the aisle got up and apologized to the entire cabin on behalf of France for serving such inedible food

It’s all several day old TV dinners and there’s generally a better option in the airport that you can bring on that will taste better and you can eat at your convenience as opposed to when the airline wants to feed you. win-win in my opinion.

Agree 100% with Carol, and that is what I do too.

Agree 100% with Carol, and that is what I do too.

Yes, stand up and apologize for the American food.

We usually fly Delta and I always skip the meals - yes I skip the breakfast too. Especially when our flight leaves in the late evening. A Kind Bar or two is fine till I can get some real food.
The only time I had edible food on a plane was with Turkish Air. Both times we flew.

I don't agree 100% with Carol, I concur.

Cheers,
Pasta Pasta

There’s no law that says an airline has to offer a vegetarian meal option in the first place, but it is of course good customer service to do so. Given that limitation, pasta is the obvious choice. It’s filling, versatile, easy to reheat and serve, and most people like it. Also the airline wants a vegetarian meal that doesn’t ONLY appeal to vegetarians so they won’t run out of their other choices too quickly, and pasta is one that quite a few meat eaters may also choose. What other things might they serve instead, given that in economy class, it isn’t reasonable to try to serve more than one vegetarian entree choice? If it was a spicy veg curry some people would complain that they don’t like spicy food; or if it was a grilled vegetable plate, that that was not creative and insufficiently filling. There’s risotto, but that’s pretty similar to pasta and doesn’t have the same shelf life before it’s glutinous. Or perhaps some kind of a sandwich or wrap, but then people would complain that they aren’t getting a proper dinner compared to the carnivores.