Airline food… Am I right?

timbear50timbear50
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“Airline food… Am I Right?”

Nearly every time my son endures one of my dad jokes, he says this in an over-the-top voice, like he’s the resident comedian at the Holiday Inn on Tuesday night. He’s teasing me - totally good natured and we both laugh. Or at least I do.

People of the cuddlesphere I need your help. I need a good retort. Or several.

Any suggestions?

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  • _marC_marC 
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  • TxTomTxTom

    I fondly remember domestic air travel during the glorious years of my youth when we were served full course meals with actual metal utensils. Afterwards, I got to go see the cockpit and talk to the captain and I would receive a lapel pin. Friends and relatives were always there to greet us at the gate.

    Today's youth have been robbed of ever having such memories.

  • KatotaKatota

  • JubalJubal
    edited March 2025

    one possible retort from the repertoire of Red Forman ... "Let me tell you about a book that my foot wrote, called 'On the road to your ass'"

    I mean, it's worth trying at least once, right?

  • AdragayleAdragayle
    edited March 2025

    I found that the best course of action for me is to just go with the flow and admit that I am a goofball. My grand and sometimes even my daughter will call me out with "That g-ma, am i right?" To which I reply, "soooo right" and then we all laugh. Good times!

  • CuddleDuncanCuddleDuncan Mod

    "Ah ..... I see you are one of these people who travels Economy class. My sympathies."

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    I fondly remember domestic air travel during the glorious years of my youth when we were served full course meals with actual metal utensils. Afterwards, I got to go see the cockpit and talk to the captain and I would receive a lapel pin. Friends and relatives were always there to greet us at the gate.

    Today's youth have been robbed of ever having such memories.

    I remember that too but you forgot the part about everyone smoking on the plane. And the food was never that good to begin with.

  • IronicMaidenIronicMaiden

    You: You know what's worse than airline food?
    Him: What?
    You: The Holocaust..

  • disneysamuraidisneysamurai

    I feel like you have to fly first class these days to really enjoy a flight.

  • Mike403Mike403

    @TxTom - It also used to cost the equivalent of $1,000 and up for a plane ticket. I remember being a kid when my mom took a flight to visit my grandparents once a year. She couldn't afford to take both me and my sister so we took turns going.

  • TxTomTxTom

    The glass is always half empty around here.

  • GuyverGordonGuyverGordon

    Turn to make sure he is on the right side of you and say "Yeah ... you are right"

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited March 2025

    The glass is always half empty around here.

    Actually it’s full now that all the facts were added instead of just the romanticized ones. Unless you have a positive spin on inhaling the smoke of 60 Marlboros.

    The glass was actually always half full prior to that, you just didn’t have the courage to list the cons with the pros of the past. Cherry picking does that.

  • _marC_marC

    I do remeber a lot of those special memories Txtom... thank you for the nostalgia 🥲

  • JubalJubal
    edited March 2025

    You: You know what's worse than airline food?
    Him: What?
    You: The Holocaust..

    What's remotely funny about that? The paternal side of my family was mostly exterminated during the Holocaust, it's nothing to joke about so casually.

  • pmvinespmvines
    edited March 2025

    I don't remember smoking on planes but I do recall the ashtrays still being there. And the airport did have a smoking section. Back then it's crazy how much you were used to it that the smell wasn't even that noticable. When I was a kid and my mom bought be cigarettes and we smoked in the house, it was just how it was supposed to smell to me. Now that I quit and have been since I was 21, and you can't smoke anywhere anymore, I'm so sensitive to it.

  • Will17Will17

    Lean into it. Next time he says that go into a full 2 minute bit about airline food from the 90s.

  • JubalJubal

    @pmvines What I remember most about the smoking section of airplanes was that there was nothing to block airflow from the smoking section to the rest of the plane - no doors, no curtains, nothing. As a kid, I vividly remember being stuck on flights only one or two rows in front of the fumes ... yuck.

    Now to be fair to smokers, it does seem like airports should give them someplace to smoke once they're inside the TSA area. I mean, there's airports with indoor places for your dog to poop (SEATAC comes to mind), so how hard would it be secure a little outdoor area for smokers?

  • pmvinespmvines

    @Jubal
    Do they even allow you to bring lighters or matches through and security check anymore ?

  • JubalJubal
    edited March 2025

    @pmvines Some types of matches & lighters, yes in your carry-on.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @Jubal That was the thing. There was a smoking section but they seemed to think that the smoke was sentient and would know not to drift into the non-smoking section. Looking back there was a lot of magical thinking by the airlines regarding smoking sections.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Do they even allow you to bring lighters or matches through and security check anymore ?

    As @Jubal said you can in your carry-on. But you are far more likely to be busted with a non-authorized lighter than you will weed unless you have bricks of weed in your carry-on. It’s because TSA isn’t looking for it and they are too busy to worry about a couple of joints or cartridges.

    My how times have changed.

  • Carrie_AnneCarrie_Anne

    Since I thought this thread was about airline food…nearly all my flights are 14 hours overseas on AA and the food has been excellent. Is it because of the long flight? There’s always been a choice of an American meal or whatever food is native to whichever country I’m flying to. That’s usually what I choose, I always enjoy it. There’s also small meals in addition. Something is served every 4 hours at minimum.
    No complaints here.

  • SideonSideon

    Coast to coast travel, and you're not in business or first class? Take a meal with you. Breakfast burritos travel well. If I'm doing a 4+ hour flight, I'll take something I can easily get at the airport. SF and Oakland both have decent food options. Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, even Denver has some decent food options. My brain cell isn't remembering Baltimore or the DC area (probably because I'd rather have surgery than ever think of flying into or out of Dulles again). Orlando... it's a small world after all, dontcha know. My perspective is this: I'm not going to wait to be disappointed by airplane food. I'll get what I want beforehand and maybe, just maybe, order one drink instead.

  • IronicMaidenIronicMaiden

    @Jubal The "humor" is that nothing can top it. (And imo anyone who tries needs a metaphorical ass-beating)

    I also think dark humor is a way to keep things in people's awareness. These days there's far too many people who think the Holocaust didn't happen, or worse, was a good idea. If even just one person gets more aware of the Holocaust, of its horrors and how it happened, as a result, it's worthwhile.

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