Delta Airlines - Cattle Class Meals

Delta Airlines, home of the bullet hard Gnocchi!

Chicken with gnocchi and sauteed spinach

Apologies for the delay in posting. Life has been pretty full on lately! Here is the first of many food reviews from my recent trip to the states.

Airplane food is at best tolerable. Synonymous with all the other standard meals that we are forced to eat out of pure necessity as the events in our lives unfold, such as going to hospital or even plastering a polite smile as you forcefully swallow a mouthful of your relative’s signature dish.

In my time travelling I have had the opportunity to sample the food on board Qantas and Thai airways. Qantas’ food was very standard and unseasoned although it filled a hole for the duration of my 17 hour flight. Thai airways were surprisingly decent; their food represented the western adaptation of Thai cuisine. If I was American I would hazard to name the food Tex Thai!

Their unashamedly well spiced food dances oh so closely with the demon of chilli and fussy traveller palates.

Onto my experience with Delta airlines, the experience left a lot to be desired to put it bluntly.

If gnocchi was cooked like steak, this would have been the well done version of it. Chewing into a flavourless starchy hard bullet of potato mess I wonder if a trip to the dentist is included after the meal.

The chicken was overcooked and very dry. The tomato based sauce was flavourless, although the sauteed spinach was passable.

Breakfast Omelet with Sausage

The omelet was flavourless. The eggs had a strange consistency, it wasn't like eating normal eggs. It had an almost uniform consistency with every bite that I took. I suspect they used powered eggs, or added some padding to the mixture to save money. I didn't try the sausage and instead choose to eat the croissant with jam, which was reminiscent of the type of ready made croissants that you can buy from Woolworths.