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2/10

S. Midtun

Netherlands (AMS) to Brazil (SBJ), 23 Mar 2006

Economy Class

(Menu Card)
Lunch - Uncle Bens Chicken Szechuan with rice. Smoked salmon with celeriac salad. Dutch, matured, yellow Beemster cheese. Bread. Low-fat margarine spread.

Selection of two wines, soft drinks or beer. I had a white Solaris Chenin-Blanc 2004.

A pretty standard KLM meal, and not very good. The smoked salmon was practically unedible. On previous flights it has been better, althoug never top. The celeriac salad has been really good, but this time took on the flavours of the bad salmon. The Szechuan sauce was actually spicy, but in a bland way. Npt horrible, bot definately nothing remarkable, either. The portion was small. The chocolate cake tasted of plastic, and I guess what is a number of artificial flavourings. The cheese was the only good news about this lunch; too bad that I was served margerine instead of butter to go with the bread. The wine, which I take it is standard KLM Economy-white) Solaris Chenin-Bland 2004 was not good. The nose was alright, altough not immensly pleasing with its hints of unripe honey-melon and gooseberrys, but when sipping in the liquid one realized that it was more or less biting into a lemon, with unpleasant, yeasty undertones that grew in your mouth before the dry, bitter finish. Not enjoyable.

Date added: 2008-05-21   //   Flight: 11:50   //   Aircraft: 777-200