As many as 12 per cent of Australians are vegetarian or eat little meat. So, why aren’t airlines doing better?
Last month, a traveller posted a photo to Reddit of his girlfriend’s vegetarian meal for a 12-hour flight. It wasn’t pretty.. On the top half of the dry roll, faint oval imprints of the filling resembled cupping therapy marks. If the flight attendants had tried to revive the meal, they failed.As a vegan, I could relate.
“They’re not quite getting it,” said Zeigfinger, a longtime vegan. “They’re still not understanding.” Surveys estimate as many as 12 per cent of Australians are vegetarian or at least eat little meat. So, why aren’t airlines doing better? And can they please cheer up that sad cucumber with a little dressing?In general, a catering company or in-house culinary team plans the in-flight menus and prepares thousands of meals and snacks in an industrial kitchen on the airport grounds. The airlines assume that all of the passengers will eat the standard meals unless they are otherwise informed.
Grace Philips, a Vegetarian Society member, knew exactly what happened to her veg meal on a recent flight: another passenger didn’t “fancy the meat option” and asked for the vegetarian option instead. When the flight attendant reached her seat, all of the veg meals were gone. “I was hungry,” she shared on the group’s Facebook page.
“The flight attendant was really angry,” Zeigfinger said. “She acknowledged that this was a serious thing.”In the 1990s, many travellers who identified as carnivores on the ground became temporary vegetarians when flying. The meatless meal seemed like the tastier and less enigmatic option. vegetarian Malay meal on Malaysian Airlines and an Indian-style vegetarian dish on Emirates. However, this rule doesn’t always apply.
In a Vegetarian Society Facebook post about plane food, more airlines were panned than praised. Patricia Thompson called Irish carrier Aer Lingus “woeful” for serving dry veggie pasta for dinner and canapés with chicken bits that the flight attendants offered to pick off.Since 2009, Swiss has partnered with Hiltl, which claims to be the world’s oldest vegetarian restaurant .
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