Quoting the Austin-American Statesman this morning:

"Want to know what the food might look like on your next flight? Airlinemeals.net posts photos taken by passengers in flight, along with their ratings and comments. More than 300 airlines are represented.

"The site features inflight menus, vintage airline meal photos, and even a peek at the meals provided for the flight crews."

It makes me even more determined than ever to buy that sandwich at the deli counter before boarding.

Happy travels!

I think part of the "problem" with this might be with the "photos taken by passengers in flight"..if they are anything close to the quality of some of the "Oh, come look at the pictures from our vacation" "opportunities" we sometimes receive from friends I'm not sure anyone would even venture onto the plane, much less eat on it.

SOAP BOX:

Travel is a luxury and I say "fix" the parts that do not work for you.

Order take-out from your favorite restaurant before you take your flight.

Bring your favorite indulgences on the plane with you such as caviar, imported cheeses, your favorite wines or beverages.

Do a Trader Joe's or Cost Plus "run" as a part of your travel planning and packing and then see:

HOW GOOD YOUR NEXT AIRPLANE MEAL WILL BE!

Happy Travels,
Oaktown Traveler

OaktownTraveler, everything but bring your own wine. The FCC will frown upon that.

Do they actually let you drink in coach ? Do you have to pay ?
I liked meals on that web.
It is NOT a restaurant, you know.
Their job to get you from A to B safe.
I can have snack and not to be picky.

Whilst aeroplane food is not the standard (regardless of class) of good restaurant food, it can be better than nothing at all. When travelling, if you take the inflight meal into consideration you should really grow up.

Why anyone would take a picture of an airline meal is beyond me, surely you have better things to do with your time?

I have often opened my own bottle in coach but now that we must put the corkscreww in pre boarded luggage is a problem if you don't open it before hand and put tinfoil and elastc around the neck of bottle.

I think you can now take cork screws in your carry-on luggage.

In today's climate, I wouldn't want to take the chance to bring on and consume my own alcohol. I've done it in the past.

I may be very wrong here:

but aren't the companies that supply airline meals some of the same companies that supply school lunches?

and the companies that supply school lunches once took meat rejected by MacDonald's and packaged that meat into school lunches!!!

You really can't expect too much of airline food.

That said, the worst meals I've ever had were on intraIndia and intraChina airlines. Yuk! Double yuk!

A couple of years ago my hubby and I took a tour to Italy. I had read that "one can't get a bad meal in Rome." Obviously the people who wrote this didn't take this tour and stay at those hotels.
By the time we'd had our 4th meal in Rome we were recapping with fondness our last meal on Luftansa.

i love that site!! thanks for sharing

If you look at the meals on Alaska Airlines on that site you'll frequently see the little sheet with a prayer on it that is included with your meal. Nice, eh? O God, may thy vectors be true.

[Reference to recent story about an American AL Captain who asked all Christians in the passenger cabin to raise their hands and to spread the good Word to those who didn't, who he described as crazy. Really.]

As far as I know I don't think you can now take corkscrews in your hand luggage?
Cigalechanta, whenever I buy one of the airline small wine bottles they offer with meals or from the drinks trolley, I always take them home,wash them and save them for my next trip.
The night before we travel, I fill them with nice wine at a fraction of the cost and pack it in our hand luggage.
The same can be done with spirits - anything you can mix with coke or whatever can be put into a plastic coke/pepsi bottle and it saves a bit of money on the flight

Hi, I have friends who buy the small bottles of liquor before their trip. They pack wonderful in a carry-on. They have their soda and ice and add their own booze. They would rather spend their money on their trip. Whatever floats your boat I say.

Check out this interesting website:

http://www.airlinemeals.net/

Oh, ding ding ding....didn't see that the OP had mentioned the same website already. I either need to go back to bed, or I need glasses! LOL

Good website. i enjoyed seeing what I will be served on Virgin-Atlantic to London in April.

But I do not care about the food served on airplanes, just as I do not care what they serve me in the hospital. In both cases, I care only that I come out alive.

Great site! sandykins great comment I feel the same way!!!

Don't know about the rest of you but my most recent "airline" meal was fabulous because I brought my own food aboard!

Technically all liquor consumed on board must be provided to you by a Flight Attendant. It is their job to ensure you do not become a drunk and distrub the plane and to ensure you comply with the drinking age limits (In other words, no giving your 6 year old wine to make him sleep!)

Should you violate that rule and the FA or pilot be in a nasty mood, things could get nasty for you. As far as I am concerned, the savings from bringing my own on board are NOT worth the risk of meeting a local cop.

Also, you have possibly violated you local open container law by driving to the airport with you open booze.