What Food Gets Served on a 14-Hour Direct Flight

Where: Tokyo-Narita International Airport, Tokyo, Japan

October 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM | by JetSetCD | Comments (2)

Where are we right now? Tokyo, Japan because we felt like it...or rather, because back in April, we bought a flight when the price dropped so low it was too good to be true. And yet, it was true.

If you're reading this in the States right now, you're maybe just waking up. Since Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of New York, we're already sitting here preparing for bed, while looking out over the only dark expanse in Tokyo's sea of lights: the Imperial Palace and gardens. After properly filling up on katsudon while elbow to elbow with salarymen at a lunch counter earlier, we reflected on the meals a traveler eats on a travel day, and it's no wonder that an upset stomach is often the byproduct of a long flight.

Let's take a look at just what we ate on our 14-hour, New York-JFK to Tokyo-Narita direct flight on Delta 173:

"Dinner" came not too shortly after takeoff, around 2pm EST. The choices were chicken or beef, both boasting generic Asian sauces and shrimp salads. Mind you, this is economy class, so there were exactly three shrimp per person and the cocktail sauce came in a little packet.

"Lunch" was more like a midnight snack, arriving around 10pm EST when we had been flying for quite some time. Many who spent the first hours of the flight talking excitedly about trip plans (yea, we're talking about you loudmouthed teenagers in row 21) were finally calming down, and this cheese sandwich, apple and Milano cookie set finally filled up tummies enough to send everyone into dreamland.

"Breakfast" arrived around 2am EST, or 3pm Tokyo time. Eggs or rice were the choices, and we figured since we'd be consuming plenty rice while in Tokyo, that we'd enjoy the plane's artfully omelet-shaped egg patty. Luckily it wasn't until this meal that we remembered that whole report about how in-flight meals are constantly ripe for food poisoning. Just like they always say not to watch movies about airplane crashes before taking a trip, it's also wise to ignore FDA warnings...unless you plan to pack your own in-flight lunch.

Check out Part 2 of this story, the food from the 14-hour return flight

[Photos: Jaunted]

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I am a Platinum on Delta,, and have had that "Egg Omelet" type thing plenty of times,,, I actually look forward to it when they serve it as a Cheese Omelet in First Class.. The worst meal i've ever had was a Quesadilla on Northwest,, which promptly turned into food poisoning on my connecting flight and gave me a 3.5 hour flight of hell. Funny thing is, I became friends with the first class flight attendant on that flight, and am still friends with her to this day.

That's a good friendship story! You had food poisoning from an in-flight quesadilla. Yea, the omelet thing would have been tastier with some cheese, but then after this long of a flight, I'm not sure if I could have handled that. The cheese sandwich was great, however!

Jaunted

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