QF Boxed Dinners

[TomVexille]

....What next? Rice & Dahl served on a banana leaf?..

Yes please

 

[BD1959]

Was it served (steaming) hot? When BA also started serving fish and chips I recall reading comments on another forum about the possibility of the smell of fried fish and wedges filling up the cabin.

I don't think HS&E allow anything to be served "Steaming hot" these days, do they?

"Warmed" would be a better description.

Regards,

BD

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Whats next on boxed food menu... Mini burgers next? Or is that too much to expect?
Is fruit still an option? Got apples once! On flights where it's announced that domestic quarantine is in operation... must eat fruit on plane.
Ice cream on trans Au flights now gone?
Do I still get decanted from 1l litre box of orange juice?
Or drinking water?

 

[eminere]

I don't think HS&E allow anything to be served "Steaming hot" these days, do they?

"Warmed" would be a better description.

Regards,

BD

Use whatever descriptor you like so long as the smell isn't pervasive throughout the cabin.

 

[grussellt]

If we are going to try quintessential British food then, of course, mushy peas will need to accompany the beer-battered flathead and then we might look forward to pork pie (served cold) and delicious black pudding. But maybe not jellied eels!

 

[UP4014]

Red Roo has just posted that it should have been served with cutlery (a few posts up).

Edit: post 23

What I would say, don't tell me show me.

Stick to chicken or beef with some rice, my experience was that of the OP and not interested in trying it again.

But it's all about $$'s I guess. Not being sour it's just a fact.

Matt

 

[burrco]

Don't carp about the carp!

 

[JohnK]

Fish and chips sounds great. Fingers are just fine.

Don't need cutlery either. Just like knife and fork is not needed to eat lettuce salad either. I cry every time I see someone cutting up the lettuce as if it was a piece of steak.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

I cry every time I see someone cutting up the lettuce as if it was a piece of steak.

I do the same when I see people cutting up pasta.

 

[Buzzard]

If we are going to try quintessential British food then, of course, mushy peas will need to accompany the beer-battered flathead and then we might look forward to pork pie (served cold) and delicious black pudding. But maybe not jellied eels!

Pork Pie, don't torture me. I've eaten pork pie from the Pork Pie shop in the UK and loved it. A large one all by myself

 

[BD1959]

TRAPS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS

Whatever you do, don't open any boxed meal containing a sauce when the box is pointing towards you. Turn the box through 180 degrees and open it pointing toward the seat back in front ...

On the 696 tonight, choice is: butter chicken with rice and naan or prosciutto risoni salad. I opt for the butter chicken. Fortunately, cutlery is handed out.





As I lift the lid, the lip flicks forward and the curry sauce - which has coated the lid on that side of the box - splatters my shirt. Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up.

I try my best to wipe the sauce from my shirt and the FA on the second trolley, seeing my dilemma, offers me a wet towelette which I use as best I can.

Fortunately I have a regular taxi pick-up and so I'm able to laugh-off my predicament; my wife asks which Indian Restaurant I've stopped-off at on the way home.

The meal itself was tasty (there's obviously enough flavour in there such that a smattering lasts for hours!) - though you wouldn't class it as a classic butter chicken - plenty of rice and the naan was surprisingly OK. As previously, a second round by an FA handing out a Lindor ball. Great service on such a short flight.

I hope QF can get this right.

Oh .. and the shirt is in the laundry soaking in sards ...

Regards,

BD

 

[boomy]

I fell into the same trap BD1959
Thankfully my shirt survived the splash
But seriously, I'm very happy with the new menu so far. A choice of cold or hot meal plus alcohol and a Lindor ball is very generous for such short flights.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

The meal makes it worth it, ie, butter chicken, what I would expect in a QP lounge, but on a plane, butter chicken is hard to eat, even without you mentioning the flick.
But then, if you turn the box the other way around, and the time short outsourced cleaners that QF uses are not to be that particular, I pity the seat fabric!
I have found many a dirritus in the seat pocket, meaning the cleaners that are brought around by the van as each flight lands, and they come on, haven't been to particular in looking for "rubbish", or as some FA's are wont of saying, "Any rubbish, any rubbish" after the service of "food".
Food on planes are always a messy affair, to eat though.
Cookies leaves crumbs, ice cream leaves the tub/the ice cream cover and stick, or the little spoon, boxed curry (meat or fish and rice) leaves stains, soft drinks leaves spots on the tray, the little tub of milk is also hard to open neatly (they will splosh milk everywhere if not careful)... I have also succeeded in sploshing water on myself trying to open the sealed cup of water (not the bottle-but the water in the container where you have to peel off the soft lid)...

 

[grussellt]

Especially for BUZZARD.
Torture by Pork Pie:
Stanforth's

 

[TomVexille]

TRAPS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS

Whatever you do, don't open any boxed meal containing a sauce when the box is pointing towards you. Turn the box through 180 degrees and open it pointing toward the seat back in front ...

On the 696 tonight, choice is: butter chicken with rice and naan or prosciutto risoni salad. I opt for the butter chicken. Fortunately, cutlery is handed out.

As I lift the lid, the lip flicks forward and the curry sauce - which has coated the lid on that side of the box - splatters my shirt. Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up.

I try my best to wipe the sauce from my shirt and the FA on the second trolley, seeing my dilemma, offers me a wet towelette which I use as best I can.

Fortunately I have a regular taxi pick-up and so I'm able to laugh-off my predicament; my wife asks which Indian Restaurant I've stopped-off at on the way home.

The meal itself was tasty (there's obviously enough flavour in there such that a smattering lasts for hours!) - though you wouldn't class it as a classic butter chicken - plenty of rice and the naan was surprisingly OK. As previously, a second round by an FA handing out a Lindor ball. Great service on such a short flight.

I hope QF can get this right.

Oh .. and the shirt is in the laundry soaking in sards ...

Regards,

BD

Thanks for the heads up. Will definitely remember that

 

[UP4014]

TRAPS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS

Whatever you do, don't open any boxed meal containing a sauce when the box is pointing towards you. Turn the box through 180 degrees and open it pointing toward the seat back in front ...

On the 696 tonight, choice is: butter chicken with rice and naan or prosciutto risoni salad. I opt for the butter chicken. Fortunately, cutlery is handed out.

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As I lift the lid, the lip flicks forward and the curry sauce - which has coated the lid on that side of the box - splatters my shirt. Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up.

I try my best to wipe the sauce from my shirt and the FA on the second trolley, seeing my dilemma, offers me a wet towelette which I use as best I can.

Fortunately I have a regular taxi pick-up and so I'm able to laugh-off my predicament; my wife asks which Indian Restaurant I've stopped-off at on the way home.

The meal itself was tasty (there's obviously enough flavour in there such that a smattering lasts for hours!) - though you wouldn't class it as a classic butter chicken - plenty of rice and the naan was surprisingly OK. As previously, a second round by an FA handing out a Lindor ball. Great service on such a short flight.

I hope QF can get this right.

Oh .. and the shirt is in the laundry soaking in sards ...

Regards,

BD

Haven't had that happen to me yet, but sounds like it will sooner or later.

Matt

 

[blackcat20]

I can't even open the onboard milk without being splashed so I've got no hope against a boxed meal

 

[boomy]

I can't even open the onboard milk without being splashed so I've got no hope against a boxed meal

Yes, I hate the onboard milk! One time I opened it the wrong way and it splashed all over my missus shirt... I thought it was funny, she didn't!
I guess it falls under the category of economy class problems

 

[UP4014]

QANTAS - bibs are the answer.

 

[TomVexille]

QANTAS - bibs are the answer.

I can see it now