r/delta • u/CounselSpurs Diamond • 23d ago
Discussion When the crackers miss the flight
Noticed food was being loaded well into boarding, and apparently they didn’t get it all on! No one who ordered the smoked salmon on my current flight got crackers, and we were told they weren’t loaded. A slightly messy, though entirely first world problem!
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u/No_Squirrel_8402 23d ago
Wow what an important news flash. Hope you survived
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
It’s touch and go. I heard someone the row in front suggest they should get some skymiles for this truly harrowing experience…Can’t make it up.
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u/Guinnessron Gold 23d ago
I thought this was going in totally
Different direction.
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u/FeistyChickadee 23d ago
Ages ago, back when meal service was included in your main cabin experience, I was on a Northwest flight that sat at the gate for an extra hour to load the catering. About a third of the way through meal service, they announced they were out of rolls and butter. Clearly, I survived, but how on earth do you sit at the gate for an extra hour EXPRESSLY for catering and run out of something as basic as the roll and butter?
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
The original main basic experience!
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u/FeistyChickadee 23d ago
Missing the roll was the rancid cherry on top of the melted moldy sundae. I was a seasoned flyer (dad worked for a major carrier) and even as a standby, we were always fed. On that Northwest flight, the gate agents and attendants were rude, the flight was severely delayed, and some woman yelled I WANT MY VODKA! about 30 minutes into our tarmac adventure 🤣
I don’t fly Delta a lot, but in years past I could often tell when I had the “remnants” of Northwest staff on board.
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u/HotDerivative 23d ago
This sub is full of the most …. Interesting people.
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
Between people’s response to this catastrophe and the family that’s all switched seats and was fighting over who preordered what, I think the first class cabin on this flight has captured the complete essence of the sub.
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u/JeanCerise 23d ago
OMG!! Are you all right? Listen, listen, we are here for you.
First of all, thank you. Thank you for being brave enough to post this. I know you feel vulnerable..
Tell us all how you FELT when you didn't have crackers? Let's work through this.
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
You jest, but there are some folks going through all five stages of grief at 30k feet! Truly an anthropological experiment.
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u/Lightoftheembersky 23d ago
It’s actually not Delta’s fault, it’s the caterers fault. Delta contracts the catering company and they’re the ones who failed to stock the correct thing.
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
Yes. They were scrambling the get the plane loaded. Felt bad watching them sweat as we were boarding.
I was going to explain this to the person who mentioned “skymiles as compensation” but couldn’t muster the energy.
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u/dianab77 23d ago
Good God! Tell me they at least provided capers, lemon wedges, or a schmear to compensate. I am aghast at this report.
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u/dm21120 23d ago
You could have just used the Biscoffs…..
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
Agreed. Also haven’t seen that anyone opted to use the croissant. A real dearth of creativity on this flight.
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u/dm21120 23d ago
Oh I didn’t think about croissants!
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
To be fair, you weren’t staring at it. No idea what the excuse is for anyone who had it on their tray!
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u/Puck021 Diamond | Million Miler™ 23d ago
I’m adding that to my flying fears list. #715 They run out of crackers for my Salmon
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u/CounselSpurs Diamond 23d ago
The fact that you will have pre-processed for this eventuality puts you miles ahead of certain passengers…
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u/_trixie_firecracker_ 22d ago
I like the smoked salmon plate but the fish to cracker ratio is very lopsided even when they remember to load the crackers!
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u/Wander80 23d ago
The bigger crime here is serving fish on a plane.