Not one of your better moments? That’s an understatement. Sorry that you don’t like the smell of curry but if airlines aren’t going to include meals in the ticket price anymore you can’t blame anyone who wants to bring their own meal aboard. There is no food worth eating that is universally loved by all. I could understand your reaction if they had spilled it in your lap, or asked you to stand up so they could change a baby in your seat.
Church’s!
I had no idea you could bring food on a plane. Actually that’s not true… I had pastries from Paris in my carry-on once, but in my mind it was a smuggling operation. I would never have thought to eat it whilst in the air.
As a father, I would have been glad to assist changing a stinky diaper. That smell dissipates and is nowhere near as bad as fucking curry.
There are foods that smell and foods that don’t smell. When you’re entering a pressurized tube with hundreds of other people, it’s obvious that manners dictates one not to bring stink-assed food on a plane.
In my area, Church’s ranges from mediocre to “why does the Health Department allow this place to remain open?”. I prefer Popeye’s. If you’ll accept chicken in non-fried format, I like El Pollo Loco.
It would be OK-ish if you opened the can groundside and transferred the fish bits to a jar of clean water. But with airline food the number one rule is ‘mass-market appeal’ so your chances of getting anything other than semi-international bland-a-thon is effectively zero.
Note how when you book there is never a ‘Meal Option’ for Spicy. Or Tasty. But there is one for Bland - presumably that gets you a tub of thickened water.
But you can choose fairly innocuous food that isn’t going to bleed over into other people’s space. Curry is pretty notorious as being an extremely smelly food.
Not that I’m condoning his actual behaviour. But they did start the rudeness.
I don’t know, part of what I would want to know is did the family take offense to JohnT’s reaction? If they recognized the error of their ways, perhaps I could bend a bit. But if they got holier than thou on him, with a side of “you are being racist”, then JohnT has my full support.
I understand that one person’s normal is not another person’s normal, but curry in an enclosed space is not a tough call. It’s not like he took a seat in a curry restaurant then got upset, or the plane was in an airspace where curry might have been a higher probability of food choice.
Knee jerk reaction - maybe not the kindest reaction, but absolutely understandable to me. After all, when you are trying to hold down puke it’s unlikely you are going to smile.
Never fly Malaysia Airlines then. I got curry for breakfast off those guys last time I went, though I did pick the ‘Asian Vegetarian’ food option.
Had an awesome flight too- I love curry, and one of the stewardesses seemed to have a mission to get me to accept as much free stuff as possible; peanuts, ice cream, beer… Plus I had three seats to myself.
John T, I’m with you and applauding your directness on the curry issue … but hoping you really weren’t using profanity in front of young children.
Lost4Life is sipping gin whilst eating White Castle sliders … bwahahaha!
I carried a whole box of Krispy Creme donuts back from Arizona back when they were “hot” and Twin Cities MN didn’t have one. Repetition all the way down the aisle, “Are you sharing those?” NO!
I wish people would stop bringing McDonald’s food on the bus and metro (subway.) I don’t know what I’d do if I were on a plane near someone eating McDonald’s food. I’d probably throw up, because flying makes me nauseous anyway. Heh.
Not completely on topic, but being fairly food adventurous I decided to see what the durian fuss was about. I had smelled a cracked durian before and it is…unique, but so is aged cheese and most of them are pretty tasty once you get over the sweaty sock smell; that’s right I’m talking to you, Stilton. I bought some durian flavoured wafers figuring that the added sweetness and blander flavour wouldn’t be as intense. I was wrong. The link pretty much parallels my experience. I choked one down; confectionery vomit is the only way I can describe the flavour. I’m in no hurry to eat the real thing, besides if Andrew Zimmern can’t eat it why the hell would I?
Maybe not where you’re from, but around here it tends to be about the best fast food fried chicken you can get. Maybe it has something to do with the headquarters being here.
Really.
It’s too bad you can’t roll down the windows on an airliner.
You can get just that, minus the reasonable price. We flew out of Minneapolis summer before last. At the airport, we bought our airplane lunch – a sandwich each for my husband and I and a Lunchable for each child. I don’t remember the price of the sandwiches. The Lunchables cost eight dollars each.
Never go to a chain restaurant for good fried chicken. You want the nastiest hole-in-the-wall you can find. Trust the hot grease to kill any germs and you will get fried chicken like you wished your mawmaw made.
Southeast Louisiana and I ain’t dead yet.
You look up places that get the best health scores and that change the oil in the deep fryer regularly…AND NEVER GO THERE! And the older the person cooking the better.
Yes, but who wants warm nuts when you get a Quarter dark and Cajun Fries?
And now I want Bojangles.
Yup.
Fuck, at least once a week here in Chicago my Metra train home has at least one person chowing down on some Taco Bell. I love Taco Bell, but I don’t love being forced to smell it in an enclosed space.