It’s possible to survive eating airline food
By Maria Godoy, NPR
When you think about a scrumptious meal, airline food does not come to mind.
There are plenty of challenges to tasty airline meals, like the fact that many airlines now charge you for anything more than a tiny bag of chips and a plastic cup of non-alcoholic drink, at least on domestic flights. Plus, you can’t cook on an airplane, so anything you’re served has probably been chilled, then reheated. And flight delays certainly don’t help with the freshness factor.
But the bigger obstacles to palatable fare in the air are biological: Our senses are scrambled at high altitudes.
In the good old days prior to airline deregulation, the airlines served good food. For instance, American Airlines would toss the salad right there in the galley, and they would ask you what cut of the Prime Rib you wanted.
There was always china and silver in First Class….
And the fact that only 5% of the country could afford to fly was fine, you could, so thats all that matters right?
Hazard, that’s not simply a matter of regulation vs deregulation. Technology improvements make things cheaper. Your cell phone has more computing capacity than the old mainframe computers of the 50’s. And you surely wouldn’t have been able to afford one of those, either!