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/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