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020
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: Paris CDG to San Francisco SFO, June 8, 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Snack - Some kind of poultry (chicken/turkey?) and mystery
cheese United micro-sandwich, served with a bag of potato chips.
The 'dessert' was a KitKat bar.
Comments: The micro-sandwich the Dijon mustard option, which I prefer,
but my wife could not tolerate; it was quite 'zippy' and did wake-up my
taste buds. Why UAL does not provide both a mustard or mayo package
is beyond me? I wonder why UAL doesn't both to identify the food?
It's probably for "security reasons" as that's their 'reason' for everything
these days
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I rate this meal a 3.
Source: email

019
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: Paris CDG to San Francisco SFO, June 8, 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Dinner - This is the chicken menu option that goes with the above lasagna style pasta dish. The chicken was served with mashed potatoes, a brown substance assumed to be gray and a few brightly colored green beans. The meal included a few red seeded grapes some crackers and Camembert cheese. The micro-salad was served with an Italian style salad dressing, a bagged roll and a pat of butter. Note the empty dessert serving tray, as mentioned above, the ice cream dessert was served after the meal.
Comments: "I was sorry I opted for the lasagna rather than the chicken, but as always this is something of a Hobbes' Choice."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): She rates this meal a 6, as she too liked the ice cream.
Source: email

018
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: Paris CDG to San Francisco SFO, June 8, 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Dinner - A lasagna style pasta dish stuffed with ricotta cheese and with a hint of tomato sauce with a pair of black olives and what I believe where two shreds of bell pepper. The meal included a few red seeded grapes (apparently French kids are able to discern that the seeds need not be eaten), some crackers and Camembert cheese. The micro-salad was served with an Italian style salad dressing, a bagged roll and a pat of butter. Not shown is the caramel/chocolate sauce ice cream dessert; they served it after the meal in a rock hard form rather than with the meal with an allowance for it to soften a bit?
Comments: "I opted for the pasta as I had had the chicken option on the flight to CDG; my wife order the chicken which can be viewed in the next contribution; perhaps this can be a new category of photographing both menu options J?"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I rate this meal a 5. I liked the ice cream and this time there was no rotten grape
Source: email

017
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: San Francisco SFO to Paris CDG, May 31, 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Snack - Another smoked turkey and mystery cheese United micro-sandwich, served with a mixed fruit bowl; sorry I should have removed the lid from the fruit container as the reflected flash hides the contents. The dessert was a bagged slice of 'pound cake;' probably more correctly called a half-pound cake. A small container of orange juice included.
Comments: "The micro-sandwich was pre-basted with mayo, while I prefer the Dijon mustard option as it at least wakes-up my taste buds."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I rate this meal a 3. I can picture the United chefs suggesting to UAL Corporate a lovely snack menu, that the accounting people reduce to this low cost filler.
Source: email

016
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: San Francisco SFO to Paris CDG, May 31, 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Dinner- the standard chicken and rice fare with a slathering of tomato sauce and a few carrots added for color balance. The micro-salad was served with vinaigrette salad dressing, a bagged
roll and a pat of butter. The meal included a few red seedless grapes, some crackers and Camembert cheese . oh so French. The dessert was a caramel flavored creamy style cheesecake.
Comments: "What can you say about chicken & rice? There was a rotten grape included in my serving; you can see it in the left-center of the fruit-and-cheese serving tray. I found the wrapped cracker package impossible to open. I liked the Camembert cheese and the dessert."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I rate this meal a solid 4, as the Camembert cheese and rotten grape cancel each other on the plus and minus sides.
Source: email

014
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: San Francisco to Denver, May 28, 2002
Class: Business Class
Meal type: Lunch - A warm sliced turkey/chicken(?) breast sandwich served on a foccocia like bread with a very few grilled/cooked red onions. Served with a generous side of mayo and included a dill pickle spear, cherry pepper with a slice of tomato. Had this very tasty sandwich been served in a restaurant I would deduct a bit for the soggy layer of bread next to the meat, but hey this IS airline food. A cold salad of mixed color pasta with pine nuts. Mixed fruit bowl included two types of melon, pineapple, a strawberry, and a few seedless red grapes. All fruit was ripe and nicely sweet. Dessert was a light (cake style versus creamy) cheesecake with a chocolate (cookie?) crust and a chocolate topping drizzled with caramel and a few walnuts.
Comments: "Flawless meal and easily rates a perfect 10. Kudos to the chef who planned the meal and the ground food provider who prepared this excellent meal. The service upstairs on this 747 was also excellent and the ladies providing the service are to be complimented. Is it any wonder frequent fliers seek upgrades; one can only shudder at the thought of what the common folk in 'cattle' class were offered on this short 2 hour flight; I hope their peanuts were at least salted."
Source: email

013
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: Denver to San Francisco, May 29, 2002
Class: Business Class
Meal type: Dinner - A large pair of cheese filled ravioli served with a meatless tomato sauce. Although the ravioli were attractively decorated with colorful stripes, the edges were dried and more than just a bit chewy. A more liberal serving of the tomato sauce would have been a plus as the ricotta cheese filling alone is not a moving taste experience. The mixed green salad was crisp and the serving size adequate; served with French dressing. The dessert was a chocolate crusted light cheesecake, I think; no menu description was provided.
Comments: "I rate this meal a 6. The meal might deserve a 7, but the cancellation of my earlier 6:45 PM flight, combined with a 20 minute at-gate delay, affected my normally generous mood."
Source: email

012
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: San Francisco to Toronto, Dec 2000
Class: Business Class
Comments: "I greatly enjoyed this, my very first business class meal. Or was it the copious amount of legroom? the comfortable seats? the attentive service? the real salt and pepper shakers???"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8 (would have been higher if not for the somewhat shoddy presentation)
Source: email / www.troyland.com

011
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: San Francisco to London LHR [3], April 2001
Class: Economy
Comments: "The great mile-high peanut famine strikes again."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5 "(This for all the flight attendants who gracefully wheel those cumbersome drinks carts down crowded aisles, expertly manoeuvring around errant elbows and legs)."
Source: email / www.troyland.com

010
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: San Francisco to London LHR [2], April 2001
Class: Economy
Comments: "Quite a nicely designed mug. Clean simple shape, elegant lines... shame about the coffee, though."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4
Source: email / www.troyland.com

009
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: San Francisco to somewhere in the US, a few years ago "(I've banished the memory of this meal)"
Class: Economy
Comments: "Chilli dogs: by nature, not very visually appetising. Somebody in food, meal, catering should have know better."
Source: email / www.troyland.com

008
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: San Francisco to Amsterdam AMS, March 2000
Class: Economy
Comments: "There's something about warm green food that just doesn't work for me. I think those tubular things were some sort of pasta concoction. Don't get me started about the mushy broccoli."
Source: email / www.troyland.com

007
Photo taken by: Troy M. Litten
Flying from: London LHR to San Francisco, April 2001
Class: Economy
Comments: "I was very impressed with the white/wheat bread roll combo, and the apple/orange/kiwi fruit salad was a pleasingly fresh complement to the predominantly earth-toned entree."
Rating: 4 for edibility, 10 for color coordination
Source: email / www.troyland.com

006
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: Chicago ORD to San Francisco SFO, 22 May 2002
Class: Economy
Comments: "This 5 PM flight snack included a smoked ham and
Swiss micro-sandwich; this time UAL was bold and ID'ed the cheese
type. The cole slaw was too sweet for my taste. The M&M's for
dessert were colorful. I enjoyed the additional read material UAL
supplied inside the meal box, but I would have preferred another
pack of dijon mustard to spice up even more the micro-sandwich."
Rating: "On a scale of 1-10 (worst - best) it was a 2; I rated the meal
lower because effective 1 May 02 UAL switched from Coke to Pepsi,
someone should tell UAL that the 'Pepsi Generation' are NOT
members of their frequent flyer clientele."
Source: email

005
Photo taken by: Len Schwer
Flying from: San Francisco SFO to Chicago ORD, 18 May 2002
Class: Economy
Comments: "Time was when a 4 hour flight included a hot meal, now
if you are lucky you get a snack. This 11 AM flight snack included a
honey roasted turkey & cheese micro-sandwich; no idea what type of
cheese it was other than 'white.' The carrots and dressing made a
most wonderful 'salad,' and I was able to use the excess salad
dressing to add some much needed moisture to the turkey & cheese.
I found the chocolate/vanilla layered pudding dessert to be quite
good... thank you Swiss-Miss!"
Rating: "On a scale of 1-10 (worst - best) it was a 4; saved by
Swiss-Miss."
Source: email

004
Photo taken by: Johnny Jet
Flying from: Denver to Los Angeles, 5 July 2001
Class: Business class
Source: www.johnnyjet.com

003
Photo taken by: Johnny Jet
Flying from: Chicago to New York, 9 February 2001
Class: Coach
Source: www.johnnyjet.com

002
Photo taken by: Johnny Jet
Flying from: Los Angeles to Chicago, 28 November 2001
Class: Business class
Source: www.johnnyjet.com

001
Photo taken by: Mieko Nagano
Flying from: Washington to Frankfurt on 8 October, 2001
Meal type: -
Class: economy

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