Occasionally we’ll see reports of bugs or glass being found in an inflight meal, but this is horrible on a whole different level. It might just be enough to get me to never eat another meal on a plane (which would probably be a blessing in disguise, come and think of it).
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Seeing that the meal is a spinach (or some green leaves) of sorts, it is plausible that the snake was in the green leaves before they were cooked and was hacked in the process. For the large amounts of food the catering company makes i'd think that the veg is cut by a machine and not by hand. Where's the rest of the snake?
I have 2 long haul flights this coming week and i know i won't touch any leafy veg placed infront of me and i'll probably only eat if i'm really really hungry. Horrible.
I am terrified of snakes, and routinely have run-ins with Copperheads and Timber Rattlesnakes, here in northern Georgia.
Nature, and airplane food, is scary.
Well, I think this one is easy - the snake was in the field where the spinach was growing, and where the spinach got mechanically whacked, including the snake.
Or the snake got picked up intact in the spinach (it does not appear to be especially big), gof refrigerated and died or incapacitated, as cold blooded animals do in the fridge do, and got sliced and diced with the spinach. In a world with industrial food delivery but natural sources, these things happen.
I once found a small snake in my cherry cobbler. Come to find out, it was a pie-thon.
Some ppl. are such a sissy! In some parts of the world ppl. are dying because they do not have food. Be priviledge, you get extra protein.
Really looks like the way its plated was deliberately put in by someone as a prank.
What do people dying in some parts of the world have to do with a contaminated airline meal?
Awesome. Make sure Sandy gets snake heads served on their flight meals. Come on, folks. It's gross, and we can acknowledge that without resorting to lame shame attempts.
Might have been more flavorful than the awful Polaris meal I just finished an hour ago. At least the snake gave it some character.
Some welcome protein. The only problem is, it’s random, it’s not Lufthansa worthy yet.
This is possibly the most awesome travel related news I have read in ages. Pure gold.
@Lucky..how can you live in FL and not routinely run into snakes (unless you're in a high-rise condo) and be pretty much used to them by now...like alligators?
With a little improvisation we can change the song sung by the once famous singer Rosemary Clooney from "If I knew you were coming I'd baked a cake" to "I'd a baked a snake " which apparently someone here did lol.
Sounds like someone with an axe to grind planting things too far fetched in their food, only problem is today people are morons and will believe anything.
My first reaction was what happened to the rest of the snake!
Snakes are eaten in some parts of the world, (as are eels~yuk!!) and I'm assured taste "just like chicken".
Given that airline dishes are often of indeterminate content anyway, who knows what you're really eating?
When you are asked "beef or chicken?" go for the beef, or better still, the salad platter.
I discovered a small rope in my inflight meal while flying with Qatar airways in Feb 2022, and I was told by the cabin crew that the staff will inform me the investigation result within 10days and I filed a complaint on the website. Guess what, since then, i didn’t receive any response from them, even I have been asking for the response from time to time. I guess airlines sometimes simply just doesn’t care that much.
This is absolutely unbelievable whether the meal was added later or not is irrelevant and this Airline should be censored and meals check at all times to prevent this from happening again and an investigation needs to find out who did it obviously a person had to do this
"Sancak Inflight Services is the catering company"
Should be renamed to SnakeCake catering. Kinda catchier
Sometimes meat and potato diet is the safest, well heated.
I was at the lounge of a long standing airport hotel at FRA and took some salad. Lo and behold there was a snake (actually) a slug in the salad. I actually phoned my MD in the States and he made note of this in my chart, just in case.
My diet includes only vegetables that have been heat cooked now. I did eat lettuce while visiting Israel because their stringent Hotel Rabbi laws allow no bugs to be eaten and their lettuce are grown in sealed hothouses. I figure e-coli is not as much of a risk.
What is a trouser Snake? Is it dangerous? Is it life threatening? Is it like a python? I have never heard of this type of snake. Where does it inhabit? Can someone please tell me more about what a trouser snake is I am familiar with pythons garden snakes etc etc but not trouser snakes thank you
Snakes are cool, stop being a baby.
Snakehead in the food is disgusting of course though.
Nearly impossible to believe either way:
1. That the Carering company would ruin its image and risk being completely out of business.
2. That a courier (transit person or company) or cree member would take such a risk.
Bottom line, inconceivable and irreconcilable with any right thinking person.
In conclusion, I'm scared stiff.
As I see this seems political with catering company, could I think another catering company is trying to ruin the previous and hence to bribe a staff to plant this ? Because there’s no way a snake can be sliced in the veges. This is planted after, I concluded by saying the catering company should investigate on the staff
I used to work in fast food years ago and saw small critters in the food from before the delivery was accepted. So yes, this stuff happens. Also, the government or should I say food safety allow a certain percentage of bugs and what not to get through as there is not way to remove all bugs.
It could have been put in to the meal by an overzealous employee to embrass the supplying firm's reputation due to reasons only be known to herself/himself.
This is absolutely confusing but I think the catering people the have questions to answer, how can snake head fund in one meal? Someone working there he/she did it. And my question is! That snake head it was cooked or row? If it was not cooked which means someone ended in the food, is something impossible, I think is supposed be the camera there in catering? Because fight meal is very important for the travelling people we pay a lot of money for our tickets including the meal, I think the have to research, this is my opinion though. Is make everything one scared to eat the meals in the fight now because is now published everybody knows about it.
It looks like the snake head was cooked with the same food. It's the same color as the broccoli or spinach, whatever is that green stuff!
Hmmm.You seem either very endearingly innocent or indulging in a bit of mischief, lol. But hey for your benefit, I'm assuming the former. Here goes.Trouser snake....just think about its natural habitat a bit more and then you'll be clued in. Remember, the pen is mightier than a pork sword. Or perhaps, quit while you're a head
But when the flight attendants served food, don't they see it and questions why snake heads are there before serve to people?
This is obviously aimed to sabotage the airline, no question about that! What needs to be found out is who and why??? No airline (BTW, I am an ex-Saudia FA) or in-flight catering service would conceive then execute such action unless someone is out to bring the airlines to its knees. This is revolting!!!
Pheew, where are snakes eaten? Probably a crew member carried a home cooked meal
The snake head appears to be fresh. Even if it's not fresh, the relative size will not go unnoticed by people preparing the foods. This must have been done by somebody who wants to discredit the caterer, so the one who orchestrated the task can replace the present caterer. Sabotaged by somebody interested to get the catering; investigate other caterers who once showed interest in the catering services of this airline. Also investigate some current personnel of the caterer who infiltrated the kitchen that was sent by rival caterers.
I've been living in Antalya for the last 3 years and buying spinach since then, the way the plant is harvested and sold in Turkey is by uprooting the plant and sold as a whole n the market which doesn't imply using sickles!! If the same mechanism is applicable in Ankara then it's easy to see that the plant isn't truncated, hence, it is unlikely for the snake head to have been cut and collected during the crop collection process!
Of course, there are many different ways for the snake head to sneak in while dead.
I think this snake head was added knowingly . to make trouble for thee Airline .I also think the member of the crew who found it should have kept quiet and only told the top management after the return flight . This event is revolting and I would now hesitate to eat a meal on that airline.This was done purposely.
No passengers were not served here.... It was a flight attendant eating his/her meal who discovered it.
Quoting the article: "A SunExpress crew member claims to have been served a meal with a snake head in it,"
This is horrifying. Bottom line, hold all involved accountable, from catering company, to airline crew. No guess work!
You can make a surprise audit! Regardless of their BRC, HACCP and other records, they have to check physically the process. It is not 1st incident, that means something bad is happening! From Goverment Health Officials to Food QA can lied about their records, equipment and building conditions! Many don't have the proper credentials to work in the Food Industry!
Makes no sense at all. The airline caterers will do this, someone is up to mischief. Where is the rest of the snake. The snake head doesn't look it is cooked.
I used to manage a McDonalds. Our salad lettuce and other lettuce comes package. Our prep lady scream after opening a package of salad lettuce finding a dead mouse. We put that open lettuce and mouse in a bag and notify the company and McDonald headquarters.
Very easy to find out, take the snake head and run some testing. If the ingredients or spice found inside it, the snake head was part of the cooking process.
I think that it most likely has been planted there by a disgruntled crew member. Likely the same person who discovered it.
I never eat meals on airplane ill ask for a bottle of water. Im sorry someone had that experience.
To get to the bottom of this very serious matter, the airline, health and airport authorities must work together to get on top of the situation. They should start by checking the place where it all started, ie the facility that prepares the food. Only from there then the truth may be known. No point finger pointing in every direction when passengers' welfare and hygienic well-being are concerned.
If the story about the snake head found in on flight airline crew meal is true then those persons or person who did this horrible act should be punished to the fullest extent of the law with out mercy
A trouser snake has one eye and are one of the contributing causes of 'climate change emergency'.
I will make sure on my next flight that I will bring my own food. That is so gross I'm at home about to throw up looking at that
This begs the question of how secure the carts are when they are transported from the catering facility, onto an aircraft. It seems like, maybe anything can be placed - if a snake head made it thru.
Just another incarnation of the “Snakes on a Plane” horror topic: . “ Snakes on a Plane and in your mouth”.
It's a turtle head that is always a special dish in cooking. Maybe it was sent to another customer by mistake
where is the rest of the snake. in some places, it is actually considered an aphrodisiac and a delicacy!
They just have to check if the head was cooked.. or fresh. if it was cooked with the meal, then it could have come from the kitchen.. if no, then someone is trying to be funny..
It's so horrifying really,both the caterers and crews on duty that day should explain it ....not all people are Chinese to eat scrawling animals.
So scary and weird things .. just wonder if the passenger so hungry not realise had eaten the snake head ♀️Or is it someone wanna sabotage the flight by doing this so that to loose more passengers on board.
Instead of a snake head in my Lunch, just add a glass of good tempranillo red spanish wine. I would love it.
Whatever the reason as to how the snake's head ended up in the in-flight meal, it is unacceptable & a thorough investigation must follow! It's a matter of analysing whether the snake's head had absorbed what traces of the meal's ingredients
to show when it was there? Such a mischievous &/or lackadaisical attitude practised by all sections in preparing the food/meal is unforgiveable & this mistake/attitude is glaringly obvious! If a child or visually handicapped person had been given this meal, the perceived horror cannot be erased from the mind!
No chance to find such thing may be some competitors done this with the help of airline staff to remove them from contract
The head of the snake must have been added by somebody who have grudge either to the catering company or to the airline company or to the person itself. The nearest is a grudge to the person who receives the pack meal.
That is a turtle head. Snakes don’t have eyelids(it’s eyes are obviously closed) and snakes don’t have ear flaps( the circles behind the eyes).
One thing for they didn't wash the veges otherwise they found bugs, insects and worst a sanke head...
The snake head was placed in the food after it was cooked. It is a garter snake commonly found in North to Central America in wet grassy or weedy areas. Had it been cooked with the food it would have been unrecognizable. This appears to be a case of an employee with a grudge. Any reasonable person would have notified their superiors and not posted that nonsense on social media. This is 100% Horse sxxx!
They should have checked to see if the snake head was fully cooked or raw then they would've solved the puzzle right there. Because if it's raw They would've known it was added.
Someone is trying to blackmail the catering service or airline itself. I believe not from the kitchen but it actually added to the meal on the way
Whao, how will I eat a thing now in the Delta Airline on my proposed long trip to Ameica.
The catering company will be responsible or the food vendors. I guess the food preparers may assume it to be a snake fish whatever, but it appears to be a snake head. Next time, order for meat not fish in the airplane. Anyway, I assume that it is a snake head. They use all kinds of meat inorder to save money. What a fuck.
This is horrifying. It may be a sabotage and the earlier they get to the bottom of it the better.
Where is the rest of the snake? Is this a local favorite? Spinach ala Snake or spinach and chopped snake in mushroom sauce?