Mile high ugh: What you should
know before you eat airplane food
NBC News,
by
Adiel Kaplan
,
Lindsey Bomnin
,
Vicky Nguyen
,
Julianna Rennie
&
Erin Williams
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/28/2019 4:47:24 AM
Jason Alderman was hungry. It was the beginning of his regular Sunday night commute from San Francisco to Boston, but unlike most weeks, he hadn't grabbed food before boarding his plane. So that June 2018 evening, the public relations executive did something he'd sworn he'd never do again: He ate the in-flight meal.
Sitting in business class, he ordered the duck ravioli after he says the flight attendant assured him it was "very good." But a few hours later, Alderman knew something was wrong.
"About three-quarters of the way through the flight, I start feeling really bad. Really, really bad," he recalled.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 12/28/2019 5:28:39 AM (No. 272821)
Food poisoning is the worst. I have been knocked down by it several times, it takes a week to get over, if you survive the initial onslaught.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/28/2019 7:21:06 AM (No. 272871)
About the last thing I’d order on a plane would be duck ravioli. On a plane, the simpler, more straightforward the meal ingredients, the better. A little steak, anything simple. No fish or poultry.
And then there is this:
Some states, like California, do send health inspectors to airline catering facilities. But state and local inspection agencies in multiple states — including those that oversee the cities and counties where both Chicago airports, the Dallas-Fort Worth airport and the Atlanta airport are located — told NBC News that airline caterers were outside their jurisdiction, and only inspected by the FDA.
Health inspectors are a pain, but they do help with food safety. More than just cleanliness and things like rodents, they check for temperatures. Is cold cold enough? Is hot food kept hot?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/28/2019 7:47:17 AM (No. 272896)
When I fly I'm lucky to get a bag of pretzels.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/28/2019 8:23:05 AM (No. 272927)
Soon as I'm seated, I do a complete wipe down using a wet towel or napkin. The touch screen, meal tray, arm rest, seat belt buckle, remote control or every and anyplace a hand or fingers the previous passengers could've touched. And that's where most of the poisoning comes from! In the hotels, the dirtiest is the REMOTE CONTROL. Fecal matters and other bacterias found! Good luck.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 12/28/2019 8:38:49 AM (No. 272943)
#1 Doubt it was food poisoning. A couple of hours isn't enough time. Maybe a rhinovirus (depending what party he was with)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/28/2019 8:46:46 AM (No. 272954)
When I fly overseas, I always pre-order a vegetarian meal. You get served before anyone else and there’s no danger of getting spoiled meat or fish. It’s usually some form of pasta - pretty harmless.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 12/28/2019 10:03:01 AM (No. 273024)
What flight was this guy on? In flight meal? I've flown from west coast to east coast many times in the last decade, and I was lucky to get a small bag of pretzels and a cup of soda let alone a meal that includes duck ravioli. Besides, ordering duck ravioli on a plane is a sure sign of mental illness. This continues to confirm that those in higher positions are some of the dumbest people on earth.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/28/2019 10:29:00 AM (No. 273048)
It took SIX people to write this Weekly Readeresque article?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/28/2019 10:30:01 AM (No. 273049)
Over the span of a 45-year career as an IT Consultant I have eaten hundreds of airplane-served meals and never had a problem. Most of the food wasn't good but it wasn't poisonous either. That low quality meal, however, is a big portion of the price of a ticket. Meals aside, I no longer fly due to the extreme hassle and discomfort it is to get on an airplane and the total lack of customer service etiquette now displayed by both ground and flight personnel, not to mention the growing lack of manners in fellow passengers. It's just not worth the time saved.
Duck Ravioli sounds gag-inducing even it hadn't gone bad,
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 12/28/2019 11:20:09 AM (No. 273090)
So NBC is still in the news manufacturing business. One guy gets sick, blames (dubiously) the food he ate a couple of hours earlier, and NBC extrapolates it into an industry-wide scandal. With all the journalistic resources they threw into this piece, you'd think they could have found a few more victims.
Come to think of it, this did happen to me once, after a flight home from Brazil. It was my own stupid fault for ordering a drink with ice in it. (Somehow, I always felt safe after boarding the Varig flight.) Didn't occur to me to complain to anybody.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Gallo3 12/28/2019 11:37:21 AM (No. 273102)
Like the old joke from years ago when the airlines actually served 'meals':
Why do Protestants like to fly so much? For the food.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 12/28/2019 9:17:19 PM (No. 273391)
I carry a pack of Jerky.
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Seems like he got better quickly. Several years ago I got violently ill for three days. Everything I ate came from the same German based grocery store. I couldn't eat for about a year and lost 30 pounds. Tried to report it but "unless I could tell them exactly which food made me sick, they couldn't go anything" Doctor wanted to know why I didn't go to ER. I said I couldn't go to bed, never mind the hospital. Probably Listeria.
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