I did not say it was OK. The CSM and crew obviously felt that it was safe to provide meal service without the carts. Should I have told them to stop and look out for their safety instead?
Perhaps not. If they had spilled the whole tray on you, despite they might've comp'ed you your laundry bill and then some, you might've had a different response.
FWIW the CSM and the crew "felt safe" only because they would have had some directive from flight deck. Unless the flight deck is comprised of complete idiots, to say that the crew / CSM know better than the flight deck is presumptuous and idiotic. In any case, you are not there to tell them unless you strongly believe it compromises your personal safety, unless you so see fit to intervene for some other humane reason.
It is all about the attitude and nothing to do with safety. Most Qantas cabin crew do not want to be doing what they are doing at the best of times. Sometimes I walk down to the back of a 767 to ask for an extra beer as they have not bothered to clear the meal trays and I get dirty looks. Other times it is OK.
In which case this is the basis of your point and the example you gave about SQ serving during a "turbulence period" when everyone should be seated is a pretty bad one for illustration. (Either that or the example is incomplete.)
It may not be the right thing to say, and I am not trying to be cruel, but the Qantas cabin crew with attitude should find another career for themselves as they are clearly not suited for the service industry. Work is not a place to come and socialise....
If you haven't realised already, this point would apply to any cabin crew from any airline. Or for any service industry for that matter.
The Asian airlines are the closest in the world to flawless, but if one should get the freak "crew with attitude" as you say, then we'd be equally ready to tell that person to shove off and find another career, too...
Anyway, I'm just as guilty as a lot of people for diverting the course of this thread off the OP. But as I've said before a few times, it is
not acceptable what happened and I hope you did make a complaint through the appropriate channel, especially if you bought this J ticket and you are a DJ Gold member. And, once again, I've said that if the breakfast was the only thing that went wrong during the flight, then it is unfortunate that it was that alone which soured the experience.