Airplane food is the butt of many jokes, and most celebrities and otherwise wealthy people scoff at the concept of eating it. So I really appreciate this unconventional take…
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“Chrissy Teigen never skips an airplane meal”
I don’t think she skips any meal.
She's a foodie, and likes to cook.
There is no food she wants to skip, good or bad.
Think of it this way @Lucky, as much you didn't like TAAG, or Frontier if you had the unfortunate opportunity to try them again, you'd still be looking forward to it (maybe not the Duc de Paris).
There is something fascinating about eating a meal - a proper, plated, hot meal, with utensils, etc, not snacks or sandwiches - at 35K feet and traveling at 500+ mph. I always find it special.
Last year I flew FRA-BAH on Gulf Air in J.
I thought the food was absolutely fantastic. It was literally perfect.
Wasn't surprised to find out that Do&Co does their catering out of FRA.
I have a hard time enjoying onboard meals (in business class). I eat on daytime flights to pass the time and avoid being hungry, but I seldom enjoy it, even on ”good” airlines in long-haul C. Something just tastes a bit off when you fly IMHO. I take a lot of late-night overnight flights in long-haul C and I can’t remember the last time I’ve not skipped both meals on those flights. I’d rather get the extra hours of sleep and eat on the ground.
It’s probably worth doing some research on who are the suppliers for the onboard catering as I don’t know any airline other than Emirates ( which owns Dnata catering) that has its own kitchen. DoCo seem to be the industry leader in providing consistently good meals, Virgin which uses Dnata are consistently bad.
Nah, Ben. Unfortunately this is just Chrissy Teigen trying to up her PR game after a lifetime of bullying. Now she wants to be seen as "one of the people".
I always eat airplane food specifically because it's airplane food. Regardless of the quality or whether I usually eat that type of food on the ground. I consider it sacred. And I ALWAYS finish it.
This bitch is just trying to get a spokesperson deal. Funny how she uses Twitter after she said she would stop/boycott lmao.
*Someone* has a bad case of the envies!
Calm down, sweetie, it’s just a blog post about food.
I like Chrissy Tiegen. She has been successful writing about food. And yeah probably will partner up with a celebrity chef deal. Girls gotta work, right!
I've been impressed with American's healthier offerings lately- they have golden roasted chicken and the grains + greens bowl offered on lunch/dinner meal flights (via pre-order only). Even on a longer AA flight in economy last month (PHL-PHX), the new buy on board options were quite good- had the Asian Chicken salad shaker. Even though I fly every other week, I still take pictures of my food as if it's a novelty for me- I appreciate what goes into having a meal at altitude and especially when the airline does it well.
I generally value food (also airplane food) highly. But then, I also limit myself the three meals a day. So if I have had breakfast at the hotel, I don't need another one on the plane. Same for midnight departures, no need for a meal at 1am. I would say I take about 85% of the meals, but skip the remaining 15% intentionally.
I know Delta has its own catering facility at ATL. I believe Qatar also has its own at DOH (named Qatar Aviation Catering Company - QACC). I don't know if it is a subsidiary of Qatar Airways, but it's likely a government company, meaning they have the same owners. So I don't know If that counts. But QR does have the control over its own catering at DOH.
I think airline food is vastly over-rated, even in international first class.
The extremely dry air on the plane adversely affects your ability to smell and taste. Also, what's often underappreciated is that humans cannot evaluate what they are getting from one sense in isolation. Your mind tricks you, there is a huge scientific literature on this. You should expect that the noise on aircraft as well as the constrained space will affect your experience.
So that's all on top of airlines serving convenience food that's re-heated in a convection oven.
So why do people care so much and love it? Many reasons. I think one is boredom on the plane. Another is sort of a zero-price effect. You already paid the ticket. The ticket price won't change if you skip the meal and the champagne. To the contrary, that stuff is free .
You're 100% right, but maybe consider the phrasing, man.
She's a horrific human being. Truly one of the worst bullies out there.
@Ben - when you say Teigen is "such a good vibe", do you agree with her threats against peoples families? Or is it the homophobia she has espoused that's "a good vibe?".
Is it accusing people on Twitter of being on drugs?
This is all well documented, and you may want to consider endorsing this person. Unless, of course, you too feel threats and harassment are okay. Because then you may find yourself without advertisers and affiliate links *very* quickly.
You forgot the 4th category, food that occasionally impresses you much, you think it's as good as anything you can have on the ground in a fancy restaurant (and you and other bloggers have made that claim every once in a while).
Chrissy is such a foodie. I think she should tour a facility with great F class catering as I imagine their process will be a bit more complex. There are quite a few videos about the preparation of planning a menu and food prep/fast chilling but nothing very detailed about first class from what I recall. Amazing she shouted out delta for what she ate on her return from Florida. Kudos to her (and Delta).
I would love to know too! Not spilling tea about their behaviour but just who was onboard. I've noticed on a few celeb accounts I follow that some of them are noticeably using PS at LAX as they are arriving on the tarmac to the plane - have you noticed much of this when at LAX as well?
"She’s such a good vibe"
ahahahaha
She is a very pretty, vapid, shallow person.
Not a thought in that pretty little head.
good vibe? entitled.
But she is a guilty pleasure... what silly thing will she say next.
There is dumb... really dumb... and Christy Teigen.
She is a known homophobe that threatens peoples families.
Good vibe? Not for LGBQT+ people.
She may not turn an inflight meal down--but she probably does not eat much of it!!!!
I think you make a valid point. But then for (long haul) return catering, it is often a dfferent caterer, in particular with Do&Co which only has limited number of stations.
Writing about food? She has 2 ghostwritten cookbooks that sold because of her influencer status/notoriety. Lets not get out of hand here.
Do you know her personally?
But glad to know you have a low bar for what is "super funny" humor.
I like that she posted this, and that paid social media posts are not a thing!