That plane did not smell great an hour later.
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Wasn't this solely advertising
Nope! It's real! First-class seats, mind you, but real.
https://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-photos-of-plane-food-2016-5
On some flights, the airline's chef made an appearance to serve food to fliers, who were allowed to eat off china plates with metal knives and forks — which you certainly wouldn't be given on a flight today, unless you were in a private jet.
Funny, I had silverware and "real" plates (but probably just porcelain) around the time the article was written, and it was only business, not first class.
Anyhow, there's no way they'd allow staff to walk around the aisle with such a knife in flight today. Risk of accidentally stabbing a passenger during sudden turbulence...
Had a long flight this year (~10h) and got "real" silverware in a economy seat (but no real plates). The knife wasn't really sharp but it did it's job (edit: just checked my photos, it was a butter knife, can share the photo if requested)
International business class still comes with metal silverware and proper plates today. First class might have a mother of pearl spoon to go with your caviar, if it’s fancy enough.
No one is rolling around a ham to carve next to your seat but international first class can still be plenty fancy on the few airlines that still do it.
Plot twist: they're vegetarians enjoying traditional Scandinavian vegetarian fare of beer and shots followed by a cigarette.
A family friend once relayed a story about visiting his wife's family in either Sweden or Denmark (I'm pretty sure it was one of those two), wherein at a meal they were drinking hard liquor. He took a shot simply when everyone else did, not wanting to seem impolite or out of place. One of his in-laws commented afterwards that he was impressed that, for an American, he drank like a Swede/Dane (again, I don't remember which country it was)
The guy said he was barely keeping it together, and if he'd known keeping up with the rest of them was going to be impressive instead of polite, he'd've accepted being known as a lightweight American. XD
Together with some colleagues I was invited to the wedding of a Slovak friend. I think the father of the bride either tried to kill us, or wanted to test our German limits. So much slivovica 😵💫
I think he tested and approved us, the next day he gave each of us our own bottle and was a great guy. Slovakia is great, the people are, the slivovica is and the food was as well. If you ever get invited to a wedding there, don't hesitate! And try Kofola!
For a long time (in the US at least) it was illegal for airlines to compete on price, so they could only compete on services and amenities. While the downside is that flying no longer feels like a luxury experience, the upside is that it no longer has to cost a luxury prize. It was Jimmy Carter who deregulated the airlines.
From an environmental perspective, deregulating airlines was a mistake.
Is there even a single healthy item of food or drink amongst that menagerie?
I suppose the pterodactyl leg might be it?
It's jamon iberico.
Tis the dosage which makes the poison!
True enough, aye...
Got that Flintstones meat
It's pretty hilarious, honestly.
I can't even tell if it's one thinnish layer of white bird meat, or whether it also includes that marbled red section, which also looks like it could be something behind it.
It's a ham. The white and reddish areas are all part of it.
Is the white part... fat?
I've never seen a ham like that before in the States.
There are different varieties with differing amounts of fat. That's the kind of ham that prosciutto would come from.
Well, well.
What's up with this lady? Missing left hand, left forearm clipping through the front seat, fuzzy right arm bends in a weird angle, and left leg isn't quite jiving with the upper torso.
A giant piece of bread and a bunch of processed meat? This was considered luxurious food?
Those probably aren't the normal cured meat you get at any supermarket, if it's quality aged stuff, it's good stuff
That dried ham can get very expensive
To be fair, that meat tastes a hell of a lot better than "Hickory Smoked Ham & Water Product"
Absolutely. After I left my comment I realized I had just let everyone know I was a US citizen where we have shitty meat-like food which is entirely different than proper European cuisine.
Let that sink in. Even sausage is some ultraprocessed abomination over there.