Airplane Food that Blew my Mind

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I was astonished when I took my first ever flight on a Dutch airline from Amsterdam to Berlin…because of the food. Fly with me for a moment here.

I was handed a neatly constructed cardboard box containing a minimally packaged chicken salad sandwich. This would certainly not have inspired my excitement in any other familiar context, but let me tell you, I was like a five-year-old on Christmas morning!

You see, the package invited me, “Know what you are eating!” And proceeded to inform me with such care and respect for food, the environment, the animals involved and my body that I was completely enamored with this sandwich before I even took a bite.

I looked Carl up. He's for real.

I was provided with the name of the local baker that supplied the bread, the name and webcam site to see the chickens where the eggs and the poultry come from, and the name and contact information for the “friendly food company” that put my sandwich together by hand. Holy Mother Nature! Let me stop here to remind us that THIS WAS AIRPLANE FOOD!

Whoever is in charge of coordinating the food service for this airline respected my health and intelligence enough to assume that I would crave real food and knowledge of its sources. In return, I respected that chicken sandwich like no tomorrow and savored every single crumb. And let me be clear…it was delicious, but even better…it was an experience.

I love these chickens!

Bonus: I am able to visit the poultry site and spy on Dutch chickens in the middle of the night (Their night. I’m not so much of a food nerd that I would lose sleep just to watch chickens halfway around the world. No way.)

Conclusion: I think they do it better.

Thank you, KLM, for the beautiful model.