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2/10

Soeren Krumrey

Australia (BNE) to Australia (SYD), 02 Oct 2017

Business Class

Dinner , Special meal: no
fter such an amazing flight on the outbound, of course I would have to get hit by Qantas' worst on the way back. Part of the crew grumpy, the other one disengaged but at least trying, this flight was off to a bad start. As mentioned before, I am intolerant to fish and seafood and have one proper food allergy which is Walnuts. I pretty much eat everything else but Qantas has a remarkable ability to make my life hell on for me on every third or so flight. My mood went downhill when I realized that the hot choice as ever so often was fish. Not even nice fish- it was just called simply 'White Fish' and when the guest in the row in front of me asked what fish it was exactly, the steward couldn't answer. It turned out to be a big plock of white fish meat that came with a cold salsa of some sort and steamed spinach. Yikes, even if I could eat fish! And, to make matters worse, the salad was a Cesar salad though at least the steward confirmed it didn't have anchovies in it. That was because it wasn't really a proper Cesar salad in that it came with a blue cheese dressing and had, you might have guessed it, walnuts in it. I almost suffocated by accidentally swallowing a tiny sliver of it but luckily it must have been a really small piece. The salad was further spoilt with two other unnecessary ingredients, namely far too many parsley leaves and, Qantas' favorite, half a kilo of celery. Now, I use both the latter in my own cooking but in tiny amounts and see both as ingredients to use rather sparingly so not to overbear the taste of the meal. Qantas seems to not think much of those subtleties and it was not the first time that an innocent salad turned out as a 'Celery-Parsley-Rocket' salad which didn't have any of these in its name.

A rather boring Cab Sav followed by a double shot of Scotch

Terrible, in every possible way

Date added: 2017-10-02   //   Flight: 1:10   //   Aircraft: Boeing 737-800