Airline food is weird

I’ve been on six planes in the last two days.

Quite a lot of flying.

It occurs to me:

Food on a plane is weird.

Maybe not as weird if you’re flying for eight hours across the country, but on a two-hour flight from Washington DC to Connecticut? Or a three-hour flight from Denver to Vancouver?

Do we really need to drag a drink cart down the aisle so flight attendants can serve a beverage and hand you a tiny bag of pretzels for these short flights? You walk by any number of stores, shops, newsstands, and restaurants before boarding a flight. If you want a snack or a beverage of almost any kind, hundreds of choices are available to you.

Most can be carried onto the plane with relative ease.

Pick something. Make an actual choice – a preferred choice – rather than settling for one of three small bags of baked carbohydrates.

Or maybe just go for two or three hours without food, which you do all the time without a problem.

Except, it would seem, on a plane.

I propose we eliminate the food and drink cart and dispel with this nonsense for flights of less than five hours.

If you need a drink, purchase one at the airport.

If you need a snack, pack one.

It’s weird for us to expect that be fed and hydrated during a few hours of flying by the same people who are trying to keep us safe.

End this insanity.