Restaurant: Continental Airlines
Location: Somewhere above the Atlantic
Date: June 30, 2011
Cuisine: Inedible
Rating: Barftastic
So after an epic four weeks of eating in Italy — where the worst meal was merely mediocre — we boarded the first of our planes for home, specifically the Milan to Newark flight on Continental. And so, our final meal of the trip:
A lovely 2011 Ginger Ale, Seagrams.
Bread with softener and additives, served with pastic wrap.
A fine salad of wilted iceberg lettuces.
Soaked in packaged milk and emmulsifiers, it becomes… slightly more edible — and sadly the best item on the menu.
Chicken Parmesan with scalloped potatoes, mushy peas, and nitrate sausage. This was actually a kid’s meal (served to my son). As it was considerably more edible than mine (below) I picked at it.
Dry frozen rock hard chicken “breast” with teeth breaking noodles, soggy asparagus and canned tomato sauce.
Seriously Continental (and sadly they aren’t alone, really all the American airlines are just as bad) you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. This stuff is completely pathetic and was actually literaly inedible. You would have had to pay me more than $100 to try a second bite of that rock hard chicken. It’s not just a matter of cost, it’s a matter of giving a shit about all aspects of the product you offer. I think airline executives ought to be required to eat coach airline meals 100% of the time while on the job! That’d shake things up fast.