Why do so many travelers/bloggers brag about eating food on airplanes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of fun on international flights unpacking the tray. There's just stuff and more stuff and my tweens love it. Packets of cheese, packets of butter, an interesting dessert, packets of cookies and crackers, salad, dressing, yogurt, etc. We don't take pictures though. That's just pathetic.

What? You get excited about unwrapping butter and opening packets of salad dressing on flights? So weird

DP. Have you met a child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:???? I’ve never heard anybody “brag” about eating on an airplane. If I got in United Polaris and got their ice cream sundae, I wouldn’t brag, but that would be pretty cool.

That ice cream in Polaris is pretty bad. You’re not missing anything, I promise you.

I buy sandwiches at the airport if I fly economy or premium economy. Food in business on United and Air Canada is middling at best but I eat it.

[Anonymous]

Had a delayed flight from Dulles to London last year and like 90% of the plane was wolfing down trays of gross airplane food at like 1:30 AM. I would like to be able to pay extra for them to cancel meal service on my flights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of fun on international flights unpacking the tray. There's just stuff and more stuff and my tweens love it. Packets of cheese, packets of butter, an interesting dessert, packets of cookies and crackers, salad, dressing, yogurt, etc. We don't take pictures though. That's just pathetic.

What? You get excited about unwrapping butter and opening packets of salad dressing on flights? So weird

DP. Have you met a child?

+1
Emirates or Etihad- have you flown PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:???? I’ve never heard anybody “brag” about eating on an airplane. If I got in United Polaris and got their ice cream sundae, I wouldn’t brag, but that would be pretty cool.

Serious? Instagram, TikTok and travel blogs are full of people posting photos and reviews of in-flight food. It’s a way to brag you’re in first or business and they pretend the food is amazing. It’s so weird.

Maybe it's just that they are bored in a seat for a few hours, and have time to set up lighting and stuff

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been fascinated with airline meals since childhood. I don’t care which class it’s from!

They remind me of the old fashioned tv dinners when I was a kid. My family only ate them as a special treat (or probably last resort to my mom).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:???? I’ve never heard anybody “brag” about eating on an airplane. If I got in United Polaris and got their ice cream sundae, I wouldn’t brag, but that would be pretty cool.

Serious? Instagram, TikTok and travel blogs are full of people posting photos and reviews of in-flight food. It’s a way to brag you’re in first or business and they pretend the food is amazing. It’s so weird.

Never seen this. Not even once.

It must be your algorithms.

Tone down the social media. It is distorting your world view!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a delayed flight from Dulles to London last year and like 90% of the plane was wolfing down trays of gross airplane food at like 1:30 AM. I would like to be able to pay extra for them to cancel meal service on my flights.

That is easy to do. Say, “no thank you. “

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of fun on international flights unpacking the tray. There's just stuff and more stuff and my tweens love it. Packets of cheese, packets of butter, an interesting dessert, packets of cookies and crackers, salad, dressing, yogurt, etc. We don't take pictures though. That's just pathetic.

Your family sounds fun!

I would love to travel with such a sense of discovery 😀

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who never understood this? I don't care what class you're in, free or not, the food has always been nasty! Not only does the food look gross (hospital food, at best), why would you ever think the food is safely handled by bozos at the airport and lowest bidder vendors? And apparently even worse since Covid with safety protocols ignored, so in-flight food poisoning is super common. A flight last night from Michigan to Europe emergency landed at JFK after about 30 crew and passengers out of 277 began vomiting uncontrollably from food poisoning, creating a biohazard on the plane.

Detroit Delta flight to the Netherlands diverted due to spoiled food
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-delta-flight-netherlands-diverted-due-spoiled-food

CBS reports over 70 passengers became violently sick due to black mold on spoiled food. Nasty stuff.

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/delta-flight-detroit-to-amsterdam-diverted-passengers-served-spoiled-food/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a delayed flight from Dulles to London last year and like 90% of the plane was wolfing down trays of gross airplane food at like 1:30 AM. I would like to be able to pay extra for them to cancel meal service on my flights.

People wolfing down airplane food has always grossed me out, whether in the back in my 20s or up front with my husband. I could see maybe if it’s a private jet, but eating on a filthy commercial plane surrounded by 200 or 300 slobs is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a lot of fun on international flights unpacking the tray. There's just stuff and more stuff and my tweens love it. Packets of cheese, packets of butter, an interesting dessert, packets of cookies and crackers, salad, dressing, yogurt, etc. We don't take pictures though. That's just pathetic.

What? You get excited about unwrapping butter and opening packets of salad dressing on flights? So weird

The most popular travel blogs do detailed video or photo play by plays of this crap. It’s very weird.

It is all business. Many such blogs make money for their authors.