Quoting Michael Loo to All on 05-05-18 20:51 <=-

When I came to, they were serving the rather
meager lunches - a nasty-sounding veggie wrap
or a cheese plate of wedges of Brie and some
kind of Cheddarish substance, sided with water
crackers, a spray of grapes, and a strawberry.

That does sound rather meager...

What was interesting was that the flight
attendant came by with a cheese-and-crackers box
from coach (list price $7), sensible so far, but
then offered to make things righter by offering
miles as compensation for my inconvenience!
essentially paying me for falling asleep during
the food orders. The other flight attendant
(noting my scruffiness) and my seatmate (noting
my good fortune) were agape.

Indeed a change in fortune... ;)

The snack box contained the following:
from the Gilman Cheese Corporation (ominous name)
came "vintage cheddar" and "white cheddat," both
of which turned out to be that abomination
pasteurized process cheese, tinted different colors;
and a bean-yogurt-cheese dip that I'd tasted before,
and it tastes like vomit, and I did not care to
experience it again. Rye bread chips accompanied,
which tasted of salt (bad) and garlic (good) and
made the cheddarish things tolerable from the crunch,

So far mediocre to bad....

but what mde me the big winner (besides the miles)
was Everything Parm Crisps, which are 100% Parmesan,
baked into crunchy rounds that were similar to
something I've made for some of you, probably at
an echo picnic. Oh, yeah, the carb-free pizza
crust at Boyd Pond; possibly other things.

Right. And those sound quite a bit better than the rest... :)

Completing the package was a tiny tablet of dark
chocolate from California manufacturer Tcho; this
was a slightly vegetal but fairly nice 50-ish bite
that almost redeemed the red wine. Notes of brown
or unrefined sugar and coffee.

A nice enough ending... :)

BTW... Happy Brahms/Tchaikovsky's Birthday... ;)

ttyl neb

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