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Photo taken by: Anthony Garcia
Route: NW1030 ONT-MSP, 16 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 3h18
Aircraft and Class: Airbus 320, Ship 3203, Coach seat 26A
Drink: Sierra Mist on ice
Meal: (from the menu) "Todays lunch offering included a choice of a roast beef, or turkey and swiss sandwich."
I chose the turkey and swiss. A small bag of Fritos, an apple, and a sealed cup of water came with it. The bun was a little soggy on one of the edges, however it beat pretzels and pop by leaps and bounds. Not extremely flavorful, but also better than some things I've had in flight on other airlines. Apple was edible along with the Fritos (duh pretty hard to screw up fritos)
Overall score: 6.5

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Photo taken by: FlyinHawaiian
Route: LAX - NRT, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $1598.90 USD (Actual trip was for LAX-HKG-PEK-LAX)
Flight duration: 12h30m
Aircraft type & class: B747-400 World Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
[135] Grilled scallop, smoked salmon w/ capers, mixed nuts
[136] Japanese meal - "Shokado" Steamed Vegetables, sweet black beans, shrimp, fuki, and tamago (egg), New York cuts of beef w/ teriyaki sauce (served cold), octopus and seaweed salad, accompanied with rice (in the green wrapping), pickles and soup.
[137] (Seatmate's Meal) Meditteranean Lasagna w/ eggplant, wild mushrooms and roasted vegetables
Drink: 200 King Estate (Oregon) Pinot Gris
Comments: Excellent service from the 2 FAs upstairs with us. They were very attentive and when the lead FA said there were no more Japanese meals available, our awesome FA from AZ went downstairs and scrounged up an extra meal. Great thanks to the two Arizona FAs.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Food rating 8. FA rating 12!

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Photo taken by: dlen111
Route: Jacksonville JAX - Memphis MEM, 1 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $268
Flight duration: 1.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: canada air regional jet - ALL coach
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: morning hang over relief
Drink: doulbe sky vodka and OJ
Comments: Perfect for what it was. This was the moring flight to Memphis after the annual U of FL vs. U of GA game in Jacksonille, FL. Had to do something about that headache.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: Glenn Goodman (GSPSPOT)
Route: MUC-DTW, 28 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $519.00 USD
Flight duration: 8h 55min
Aircraft type & class: A330-300, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Salad of chopped onions, peppers & olives with feta cheese, cucumber slices, potato salad & greens; Beef cooked in a savory sauce (tasted a bit like teriyaki), rice and green beans; Bread roll with margerine; Cream crackers with cream cheese; Very dry chocolate cake with apricots(?).
Drink: Argentinian Cabernet Sauvignon, Water
Comments: Most of meal was tasty. Good sauce on the beef. Dry cake. Actually, quite filling!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Wendy N
Route: Paris - Detroit, 10 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $392 RT (Houston - Paris)
Aircraft type & class: Coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: Snack (vegetarian) - apple, applesauce, orange
Drink: water
Comments: This is what qualifies as a vegetarian snack?? Just in case you didn't get enough apple eating the apple itself, they give you applesauce too. The FA handed out ice cream to the rest of the passengers and wouldn't give us any since we ordered vegetarian meals. !!! 15 minutes later she came back with some extras for us.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 2 for the fruit alone. 5 when you add in the ice cream

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Photo taken by: Wendy N
Route: Paris - Detroit, 10 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $392 RT (Houston - Paris)
Aircraft type & class: Coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Lunch (vegetarian) - saffron rice, peas, spicy cauliflower, crackers, cheese, bread, fruit, tomato & fennel salad
Drink: water, ginger ale, white wine
Comments: The rice & veggies were pretty good. I love fennel salads so I really enjoyed that. Cheese and crackers were great - usually vegetarians get the vegan meal which I don't like too much. Dessert could have been more substantial than fruit but at least you can't ruin fruit. The white wine was atrocious. Did not drink.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): -1 for the wine, 8 for everything else

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Photo taken by: Wendy N
Route: Detroit - Paris, 4 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $392 RT (Houston - Paris)
Aircraft type & class: Coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Breakfast (vegetarian) - packaged bagel, jam, strawberry yogurt
Drink: water
Comments: Please save this bagel. It was a packaged, gummy, jammy disaster. Where is the cream cheese? Where is the heating? At least there was yogurt... And at least I was landing in Paris in 30 minutes so I could binge on pastry.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 2 for the yogurt

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Photo taken by: Wendy N
Route: Detroit - Paris, 4 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $392 RT (Houston - Paris)
Aircraft type & class: Coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Dinner (vegetarian) - penne pasta in a creamy sauce topped with zucchini, packaged roll with margarine, vegan brownie, iceberg lettuce salad
Drink: water
Comments: the pasta (without the zucchini) was pretty good! I was surprised. It was nice to not be served an entirely vegan meal when ordering a vegetarian meal. The packaged roll was sad, as expected. The brownie was low-fat and therefore low-taste. Iceberg lettuce - why bother. Really, the main was decent enough to be much better than the vast majority of airline vegetarian meals.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: RJ Huang
Route: NRT-SIN, Dec 2003
Flight duration: 6hr 49min
Aircraft type & class: DC10-30 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Pre-arrival snack
Drink: Cola
Comments: Looked exactly like the after take-off beverage service pretzels to me!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: RJ Huang
Route: NRT-SIN, Dec 2003
Flight duration: 6hr 49min
Aircraft type & class: DC10-30 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Chicken (not pictured) or beef & rice. The other choice of chicken had run out before the meal cart reached my row. Steamed rice with '5' shreds of stir-fried beef with onion, legume and oriental sauce. Salad (with dressing) and mystery cake. Cold roll with butter spread.
Drink: Coffee and Orange Juice
Comments: This looks like a vegetarian meal but it isn't. The 5 shreds of beef were simply hidden under the onions and legumes.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.

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Photo taken by: RJ Huang
Route: SIN-NRT, Dec 2003
Meal type: Refreshment (Pre-arrival)
Contents of the meal: Sandwich with ham slices and lettuce. Dijon mustard on the side.
Drink: Orange Juice
Comments: Cold, wet sandwich.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: RJ Huang
Route: SIN-NRT, Dec 2003
Flight duration: 6hrs
Aircraft type & class: DC10-30 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Western selection consisted of the usual omelette, sausage and potato wedges. Oriental selection consisted of fried rice and a slice of egg. Meal came with a "warm" fruit yoghurt, a muffin and fresh fruits.
Drink: Orange Juice, Tea, Coffee, Apple Juice
Comments: Very ordinary in taste and presentation. No warm rolls were served so I really couldn't figure out what the butter was for....unless it is supposed to go with the muffin? I chose the fried rice....it was tasteless. I had to sprinkle a whole sachet of salt to give it some taste. Picked up a can of apple juice after the breakfast service.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Route: DTW-DEN, 17 Dec 2003
Aircraft: A320 Class: First
Meal: Dinner
Chicken, Stuffing, Green Beans, Salad, Chocolate Cake
Comments: Not at all bad for NW Domestic.
Rating: 8 of 10

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Photo taken by: E. Zeltzer
Route: AMS-DTW, 18 Dec 2003
Meal: Second service
Aircraft: A330
Class: Coach

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Photo taken by: E. Zeltzer
Route: AMS-DTW, 18 Dec 2003
Meal: Lunch
Aircraft: A330
Class: Coach

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: MSP-SEA, 8 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 3:30
Aircraft & class: 757-300 FC, Leisure trip
Meal type: Dinner
Smoked salmon with boiled potatoes, creme fraiche & fish roe; salad with dressing; chicken with bread dressing, green beans & squash(?), carrot cake with icing and walnut
Drink: Water & white wine (Pays d'Oc chardonnay)
Comments: Back to the uninspiring Minneapolis meals. NW adds an appetitiser (which was good because of the salmon and dollops of presumably imitaton caviar) for longer haul flights. Same identical dishes a few days earlier (see 3 Dec. MSP-BWI flight). Wine was quite good for NW but a litte bit too applely.
Rating: 8/10

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: EWR-MSP, 8 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 2:30
Aircraft & class: DC-9 FC, Leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Mixed Salad; chicken pasta salad; chocolate cake
Drink: White wine & water
Comments: Quite a nice meal for NW.Some variety in this salad. Olives, jalapeno, onions and tomatoes adding flavour to the salad (very good dressing). 4 colour pasta wit chicken was quite flavourful with the creamy cheese dressing. Chocolate cake was very chocolately and excellent.
Rating: 8.5/10

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroachess
Route: MSP-BWI, 3 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$1,100
Flight duration: 2:10
Aircraft & class: 757-200 FC, Business trip
Meal type: Dinner
Salad with dressing; chicken with bread stuffing, green beans and one other veg (squash?); carrot cake with icing and walnut
Drink: red wine and water
Comments: Another solid but uninspiring NW meal. Chicken and stuffing was actually quite good. Carrot cake a bit sweet but o.k

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroach
Route: SEA-MSP, 3 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 3:10
Aircraft & class: 757-300 FC, leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Belgian endives with curried crab filling, tomatoes and dip; chicken with mash potatoes, red peppers and green beans with gravy; salad with dressing; cheese cake
Drink: Some real cheap & awful California wine
Comments: Another solid but mostly uninspiring NW FC meal. The belgian endives with curried crab filling was actually quite good. Cheese cake was as usual too sweet. Wine tasted like home-made - too sweet and cloying. From one of the big California fermented grape juice refineries

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Photo taken by: Timothy Aanerud
Route: DFW - MSP, 14 Dec 2003, 1:15pm departure
Flight duration: 2:00 hours
Aircraft type & class: Airbus 319, domestic first
Meal type: Snack
(114) Multi colored pasta salad with chicken and dried cherries, dinner roll, green salad, flourless chocolate cake.
(115) Cold cut meat sandwich, and dill pickel slice, green salad, flourless chocolate cake

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Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Detroit to Orlando, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757-300 First Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Light Snack
One Fischer's Almonds bag, and one Spinzels bag.
Drink: Pepsi
Comments: The flight attendant was very courteous and offered multiple times if we needed anything, but I think Northwest could have served a light meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3 for the light snack, 10 for the courteous flight attendant

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Photo taken by: Phatfarmlines
Route: Waiting for the Detroit to Orlando flight, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Lounge Area: WorldClub lounge in Detroit
Meal type: Light Snack
Pepperidge Farm Milano and Brussels cookies, Walker's Pure Butter Shortbread, and Biscoff Biscuits
Drink: Coffee and Sahara Cranberry Juice
Comments: These items were part of a selection of items from the self-service bar in the central WorldClub lounge in Detroit. Some of the items, like Pepperidge Farms, are high-quality and not a cheap imitation. In between the coffee and the cranberry juice is a Citavo Hot Cocoa Mix. NW could have probably offered a slightly more variety of food items like AA and UA does at their lounges.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4 for the variety of selections
This picture will soon be moved to the new Lounge Food area

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Photo taken by: Phatfarmlines
Route: Raleigh/Durham to Detroit, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A319 First Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Light Snack
Two Fischer's Almonds bags, and a wet napkin.
Drink: Sierra Mist via a sticky aluminum can and a wet cup.
Comments: The flight attendant spilled my drink! Okay, we are humans, and we are not perfect, but what upsetted me was the oblivious attitude held by the flight attendant when he did not offer to bring extra napkins to clean up the mess.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 0 for the flight attendant attitude, 3 for the light snack

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroach
Route: MEM-LGA, 28 Nov 2003
Ticket price: C$335 YVR-NYC r/t
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft: A320 FC / Mileage run
Meal: Breakfast
Fruit plate (slice of orange, pineapple, cantaloupe, Chinese goosebery and a strawberry), swiss cheese omelette with potatoes and sausage, choice of bagel & creamcheese or coffee cake. Alternate meal choice was cereal with milk, yoghurt, bagel & creamcheese, and banana.
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: o.k. fare. Swiss cheese filling had almost no taste and was watery. Bit overcooked hot meal but o.k. otherwise. Bagel was a bit dry.
Rating: 6/10

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Photo taken by: Anthony Garcia, November 2003
Aircraft type & class: A320 Coach (Seat 26A)
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and mustard, A Mrs Fields Cookie, Large crisp salad with balsamic vinigarette dressing
Drink: Pepsi with ice
Comments: This is a new buy-on-board meal available for $10.00
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Thitipol H.
Route: Los Angeles (LAX) - Tokyo (NRT), 21 Oct 2003
Ticket Price: N/A
Flight Duration: 11 Hours
Aircraft Type & Class: B747-400, World Business Class
Business or Leisure Trip: Leisure
Meal Type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Japanese "Shokado" Dinner Set
Drink: Japanese Sake "Eisen" by Northwest Airlines
Comments: The meal was a little bland and the soup wasn't hot enough.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: HNL-SEA, 9 Jan 2003
Ticket price: USD 1,501 (SEA-BKK-SEA)
Flight duration: 5 hours
Aircraft, class: DC-10-30 First
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents: 4 shrimps with lemon and seafood sauce
- salad bowl with packaged dressing
- bowl of beef, potatoes and vegetables
- bread roll
- followed by ice cream sundae
Comments: O.K. food. Not very good compared to int'l BC (WBC) in terms of food and presentation. Typical NW N. American food. Beef tasted like it was cooked in a Crockpot. Ice cream sundae was the best part, followed by the shrimp/prawns which were rather fresh.
Rating: 6.5/10

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Photo taken by: Thitipol Habanananda
Route: Los Angeles (LAX) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT), 21 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 11:00 hours
Aircraft Type & Class: 747-400, World Business Class
Meal Type: Dinner - Japanese Dinner Set "Shokado"
Comments: Everything was o.k. Nothing special, except that the clear soup was warm not hot (the meal itself was cold).
Rating 1-10 (Worst-Best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: Eugene / AnimationLibrary.com
Route: MSP - SJC, 25 Oct 2003
Ticket price:
Flight duration: 3 hrs 30 min
Aircraft type & class: A320 First
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Appetizer: Garden Salad, Jumbo Shrimp. 2nd course: Grilled Chicken with vegetables and potatoes. Dessert: cheesecake . Roll
Drink: water, Pepsi
Comments: The salad was nice, due to great Rasberry dressing. The chicken however was dry and not very good. Cheesecake was as usual, but I am not a big fan of cheesecakes. The other main course choice was pasta. Note the metal knife in the picture!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Route: Chicago (ORD) - Detroit (DTW), 12 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 48 Min.
Aircraft Type & Class: DC-9-30, First Class
Meal Type Drinks
Contents: Bloody Mary & Nuts
Comments: Once again no Northwest Ground Service: an inconsistency seen often on Northwest Domestic service!

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Route: Detroit (DTW) Chicago (ORD), 11 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 45 Min.
Aircraft Type & Class: DC-9-30, First Class
Meal Type Drinks
Contents: Coffee & Nuts
Comments: At least the crew did a ground service in Detroit.

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Photo taken by: E. Zeltzer
Flying From: London (LGW) to Detroit
Aircraft DC-10-30, World Business Class
Meal Type: Lunch and Snack
096 - Shrimp appetizer with roasted nuts
097 - Salad with ranch dressing
098 - Spicy Chicken with potatoes
099 - Dessert
100 - Snack . Assorted meats with cheese and fresh fruit.
Rating: 7-10
Comments: Northwest has cut its service by reducing it's appetizers completely and serving smaller Hors D'oevre instead. The portions are smaller but the quality is better. A pretty standard service.

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Photo taken by: Craig Ochs
Flying from: MEM to PHX, 20 Sep 2003
Ticket price: 35,000 FF Miles
Flight duration: 2:26
Aircraft type & class: A319 FC
Meal type: Breakfast - Scrambled Eggs, Sausage Links, 4 potatoes, Orange slices, Cantalope, Strawberries & Apple Muffin.
Comments: Better than Spinzels!
Drink: Pepsi
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Flying from: DTW to LGW, 31 August 2003
Aircraft: DC-10-30/ World Business (3A)
Meal Type: Continental Breakfast
Comment: Pretty standard second meal for transatlantic Business Class
Rate: 6 of 10

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Flying from: MSP to BWI, 25 July 2003
Ticket price: CAD 524
Flight duration: 2:00
Aircraft type & class: 757 FC
Meal type: Dinner - Salad, beef main, chocolate cake.
Comments: Beef was o.k. but very small piece. Potatoes and onions were undercooked (same meal was served and similarly presented the next day. Chocolate cake was a bit too sweet.
Drink: cheap red wine
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Flying from: PDX to MSP, 25 July 2003
Ticket price: CAD 524
Flight duration: 2:40
Aircraft type & class: 757 FC
Meal type: Lunch - Appetiser of mozzarella, proscuitto and tomato, salad, chicken main, chocolate cake.
Comments: Appetiser was the best. Chicken main course was o.k. with a nice bread stuffing. Chocolate cake was a bit too sweet. What was most interesting is that the meal is served all at once. It's basically a fancily-presented economy meal one got years ago.
Drink: cheap red wine
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Kristen Carpenter
Flying from Minneapolis to Phoenix
Comments: The meal consisted of a lovely chicken pesto salad, a side greek salad with vinagrette dressing, NY cheesecake with raspberry drizzled underneath for presentation, and a warm roll. I have to say that overall the portions were nice, the meal was tasty.. and the dessert a real treat.

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Photo taken by: Karen Gail
Flying from Seattle to Honolulu, 8 August 2003. NWA 925
Flight Duration: 5 hours
Aircraft type: Airbus DC10, Business
Meal type: Breakfast - Southwest Omelet with Sausage and potatoes; Bagel; Banana/Strawberry Yogurt; Fruit plate.
Drink: Orange Juice and Chenin Blanc (Not shown)
Comments: Although I generally don't care for the usual western breakfast fare, this meal was not bad. The sausage was somewhat spicey and the omelet was firm but not dried out. Bagel was warmed. Prior to takeoff, we were offered a choice of a Mai Tai or orange juice and prior to landing we were given a warm cookie and milk. The FA's were friendly and attentive. (The picture is fuzzy as I used a PDA to take the photo).
Rating: 7

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Photo taken by: Do-Yeon Cho
Flying from: Tokyo NRT to Minneapolis/St.Paul, 29 April 2003
Flight duration: 12hr
Aircraft type & class: Business
Meal type: Breakfast - An egg omelet, Baked sweet potato, Sausage, Hot bread and Fruit salad
Drink: Organe Juice and Coffee
Comments: It is an usual business class breakfast. Nothing special!!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
From: ORD to DTW, 3 July 2003
Flight duration 40 Min.
Aircraft: Airbus A319, First class
Meal: Coffee and a Breakfast

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Photo taken by: Timothy Aanerud
Flying from: MSP to ANC, 16 July 2003
flight duration 5:14
Aircraft type & Class: Boeing 757-300
Meal type: Dinner/first - Cajun Chicken, smoked salmon, chocolate cake

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Photo taken by: cparisgirl
Flying from: Paris CDG to Detroit DTW, 1 January 2003
Flight duration: 8h 30min
Aircraft type & Class: 747, Economy/Coach class
Meal type: Lunch - Chicken with vegetables and potatoes, corn salad with tomatoes, bread&cheese, apple tart.
Drink: Red wine, can't remember what kind!
Rating: 6
Comments: The meal was much better than I thought it would be. The salad was actually very good, chicken was dry, and I'm not sure what kind of sauce was on in.

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Photo taken by: cyph0r
Flying from: Singapore to Tokyo NRT, 31 May 2003
Ticket price: $1500
Flight duration: 6hrs
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Meal type: Snack - Bread, ham, cucumbers and lettuce
Drink: water
Comments: the meat was thick and good however the bread was freezing cold and would have been better if it was warmer.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: cyph0r
Flying from: Singapore to Tokyo NRT, 31 May 2003
Ticket price: $1500
Flight duration: 6hrs
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Meal type: Breakfast - Scrambled eggs with spinach, hot dog, muffin, yogurt and fresh fruits
Drink: Fruit Juice
Comments: scrambled eggs and hot dog was pretty good. the muffin was dry and bland, the yogurt was normal but not very chilled. fruits were kept in the open for too long but they were pretty sweet.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Flying from: AMS to DTW
Flight duration: 8h 50min
Aircraft type & Class: DC-10-30, World Business Class
Description: Assorted meats and cheese with fresh bread and fruit
Rating: 7

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Flying from: AMS to DTW
Flight duration: 8h 50min
Aircraft type & Class: DC-10-30, World Business Class
Description: Grilled Chicken Breast in red wine sauce with pappardelle pasta and spring vegetables.
Comments: "The purser even asked if we wanted something else! We were very disappointed with the dinner from Amsterdam. Normally the food is better out of Europe, but this was really very bad."
Rating: 1