You should get a meal, it will just come out straight after take off.
I had a beautiful vegetarian ravioli last week on a SYD-MEL flight at 6:00pm last week.
I was in the MEL VAd the lounge a few weeks ago, a Sat evening, 6pm for a 7.10pm dep, yep, you guessed it, toasted sangers, and my prediction is that it will be it again.
Thats (DIY toasted sangers) is the cert, other things are a hit and miss.
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