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[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not shown: the rest of the plane smoking cigarettes.

[–] JustZ 3 points 8 hours ago

They're already running a giant meat smoker up there.

[–] Thcdenton 8 points 23 hours ago

This is some monster hunter shit

[–] Tillman 7 points 23 hours ago

Ignoring the food for a second, is that a young willam Defoe?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uhh there are pretty good reasons we don't do this today. Can you imagine if they suddenly hit turbulence? This seems like it was almost certainly photographed for advertising purposes too.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s an in between and we shot past it. Last time I was on a plane they tossed me a microwaved sandwich with lettuce and mayo in it. Do they even give out food anymore?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. But you have to pay. Through the nose. No cash. Card only. And your "meal" may still be frozen in the centre. Ahhh, modern comforts

[–] KoalaUnknown 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Just flew back from Japan this past weekend. In economy class, I received two good meals and (alcoholic) drinks. Paying for shit food is just an American thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

shit food is something americans tend to insist on.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As a Spaniard who comes from a place where that kind of ham is a typical food (like THE typical food), it hurts me to see how they are butchering that ham cutting it that way. I feel personally attacked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm portuguese and I feel undecided between blind rage or ugly crying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As an ignorant person who has only seen a ham like this in pictures, how are you supposed to cut it?

[–] LowtierComputer 11 points 1 day ago

Long thin cuts along with the length of the bone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I've never seen anyone cutting ham this way either

[–] PugJesus 11 points 1 day ago

Common Nordic food L?

[–] idiomaddict 4 points 1 day ago

No, no, no, it was butchered much earlier.

[–] dinckelman 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The way that jamón is cut makes me wanna cry a little

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Came to say this. The way they cut that ham is a punishable by jail crime in Spain.

[–] Th3D3k0y 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

unrelated to the cut, but I got myself a small pre-sliced kit of Iberico ham, wholly holy hell I think I may have ruined myself on my discount charcuterie. Now I am having internal debates of the worthiness of buying a whole leg and having the arguments of justifying the costs to my wife.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Presunto/jámon will cure over time and become harder and denser in flavour. Cutting it straight from the leg is also a learned skill and a good knife to do it is also advisable. But you get a bone from which you can make an awsome feijoada.

[–] FMT99 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Now I didn't fly much before I was born, I'll admit, but my first guess would be that this is a photo taken for an ad, not an actual flight in progress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I've been watching the MIT 14.01 and 14.41 courses. John Gruber at one point talked about prices for flights were set by the government, so the airlines could only differentiate themselves by providing luxury.

Once the market was "freed" (or whatever you'd call it), people kept choosing for the cheaper flights, over the luxurious ones, so the luxurious ones disappeared, and now we only have "cheap" ones.

Also, because the airports were the ones with the power to force the airplane owners to pay whatever they were setting for the parking spots, it ended up the airports being the ones to set the price of a flight (indirectly). Like, if you're an airplane owner, where else are you going to park? Pay up, bucko!

[–] PugJesus 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This article suggests that it's from actual flights in progress.

[–] FMT99 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well hats off to the flight attendants I must say

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They were probably suppressing their coughing caused by the gentlemen smoking havanas one row further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

no they were annoyed they had to put their cigarettes down to serve these people, because they needed both hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the windows have curtain, how convenient you cant see if they are actually flying or not. The ceiling height is also suspicously to high, it seems fake. And calling that buzzfeed gallery as an "article" hmm...

[–] cosmicrookie 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Here's a Danish article about servings at SAS flights through it's history. You can translate it yourself

https://insideflyer.dk/sas-mad-drikke-gennem-gennem-tiden/

Also you can visit the official SAS museum website at the link bellow

https://www.sasmuseet.com/en

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Where it mentions the exact model of the plane? I never questioned whether you could buy food like that, but none of those photos were taken on an airplane. Ceiling is too high. Overhead storage has no doors. Separator wall has a gap below the ceiling, things you won't see on an actual plane.

[–] cosmicrookie 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I am sure that this is a studio photo in a recreated aircraft cabinet.

It just sounded like you were doubting the fact that this was a thing

[–] magiccupcake 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like a staged photo, the corner where the wall meets the ceiling makes a hard right angle, which makes me think it's a building and not a plane.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Flying was a much different experience before deregulation.

Back then, there were stringent price floors on tickets, so airlines couldn't lower prices to compete with each other. Instead, they had to compete on service, which typically included lavish meals.

That said, all airline tickets were typically priced as first class tickets today, so a lot of people didn't fly regularly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

What was the inflation adjusted cost of that flight?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An original Spanish person would be very angry with this picture

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A portuguese would be very much pissed at it as well...

[–] cosmicrookie 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How many beers do they need?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

If you think that's a lot, you should see how many beers the pilots have got!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As one can see two different bottles (at least to me they look slightly different) on the plate, they may contain different grades, e.g. one may be light beer, lättöl, and the other regular beer, folköl, or strong beer, starköl.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

“In what form would you like your pork?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I will say, one of the best in flight meals I ever had was in business class on SAS. Looks like it’s a long tradition.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not enough cheese and imma pass on meats cut barehanded by people that work next to the pisser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

some of you really mad at this?! 🤣