Delta Ups the Meal Ante on Short Flights
Travel Blog • Terry Ward • 11.06.07 | 1:17 PM ET
I knew it spoke sadly for the state of in-flight food affairs last week when I found myself thrilled with the prospect of free Doritos and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee on a JetBlue flight from Orlando to New York (to the airline’s credit, it is one of the only domestic short haul carriers still offering free snacks—and, just my opinion, but I think Dunkin’ Donuts coffee rocks). The days of free food on short flights in America have been gone for a while. So I was pleased to read this AP story about Delta’s decision to enlist celebrity chef Todd English to create a new line of “upscale” in-flight meals that will be available for sale on all Delta flights of 90 minutes or longer by spring 2008.
The items will sell for $2-$10.
From the story:
The menu includes Mediterranean salad with grilled shrimp, roast beef Cobb sandwich, chilled black olive spaghetti salad, cheddar-turkey bacon-apple butter croissants and Nutter Butter sandwiches.
And while Nutter Butter sandwiches don’t exactly scream upscale to me, they’re bound to bring some childlike giddiness back to the un food-friendly skies.
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Photo by Drewski2112 via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Terry Ward is a Florida-based writer and a long-time contributor to World Hum.
TambourineMan 11.06.07 | 3:09 PM ET
I’ll skip the wilted salad, rubber roast beef and stale croissants. Just give me those Nutter Butters and a $5 beer. Mmmmm.
Woooosh 11.06.07 | 4:37 PM ET
OK I’ll bite (maybe twice). Is a Nutter Butter the same thing as a Fluffer Nutter (Marshmallow fluff and peanut butter)???
Terry Ward 11.06.07 | 8:05 PM ET
A Nutter Butter, if memory serves, is a peanut butter sandwich cookiewith a cool peanut shape and fun peanut shell pattern on the cookiepart. Fluffer Nutters, now you’re talking old school - fine American lunchbox cuisine, love those things!
CAJones 11.07.07 | 1:36 PM ET
I agree, in several blind taste tests I’ve seen, DD coffee beats $tarBuck$ (as if that’s the standard anyway).
Glad to see some real food options coming back. I still remember the first time I was told to ‘grab a bag from the cooler’ in the jetway when boarding a flight - “What the *#%! ... ?”.