Airline Meals | How It's Made

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[@luqmanhafeez55]

4:09 As with any meal, presentation counts for a lot, (Put a plastic cover over a tiny knob of butter)

[@randomgooy7456]

Who even rats butter?

[@John-kf7lh]

Luqman Hafeez you have 420 likes now

[@acidset]

Must be cheese

[@chloecoram1083]

I love how much they show they care when the don't ,but only kinda care

[@runarandersen878]

I would like to se how the food for the economy class is made or mass produced. I feel this video was made for the camera, not how they usally do it.

[@PHlophe]

Runaar, having once worked there, the economy class food may not be bad but it arrived prepackaged from either Taiwan or China. they have their own verification protocols for cleanliness etc.. but its sad that in 2019 we still have first class even.

[@saullivshutz6200]

Lechiffresix six how is first class sad nowadays people pay more to get more

[@Citatel1412]

@@saullivshutz6200 i agree. Equality xoesnt exist and shouldnt exist in this case. Its whoever pays more for a product. Food or snacks or whatever they give you isnt service. Its part of the price you paid.

[@cykablyat5611]

Well if the engine fail first class or economy call you gonna scream lol

[@imenmazhoud3848]

Watch how emirates airlines make their food it gives a better idea

[@paulmiddleton8593]

Wait...what....? Who gettin steak on a plane? Fresh roasted vegies? Man...I been on da wrong flights? I mist be flyin on ghettoair....

[@HS-PGX]

You can easily see these are for long haul business class. The food is plated onboard.

[@bentleyskipper6721]

Lmao

[@romella_karmey]

It's 1st class that you will never ever aboard to.

[@cy_torrent]

On my 15-16 hour flight I got served Steaks and Chicken Parmesan in Economy

[@Halal_Gaming]

On more expensive airlines you can get steak and stuff in economy. For example Emirates airlines, Turkish airlines and Qatar. I know from experience. Though I can't do that anymore cos covid.

[@momogonzalez333]

This is first class food apparantly. Eaten on a plane plenty of times. Nothing like this.

[@masterticcu]

Depends massively on the company. Finnair and TUI have delicious economy food in my opinion. Thats from my experience

[@bellagraceberlin5686]

Yea I always fly first and it’s like chili or chicken or breakfast sandwhich

[@张桓瑜]

KLM and Hainan also have decent economy.

[@evanmalone2806]

Economy food on International flights seems to be a lot fucking better for sure

[@sergejgajic]

do they have this on economy?

[@Bammer2001]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a 2008 recording of Gategourmet assembling foods at Toronto Pearson Airport, one of the most busiest airports in Canada and serving globally. If you look closely at one of the shots of this segment, you actually see a logo that is a silhouette of a maple leaf. That's actually Air Canada. Their headquarters is in Montreal, but most of their business is at Pearson.

[@theotheranna6973]

My luggage got lost in Toronto… good times

[@charKT-7461]

"Hey John! You've only prepared food for the first class passengers! Go to the garbage-bin and fish out some bread and stuff and make some for the normal passengers would you?"

[@theliltwirp]

I feel like this is EXACTLY how the kitchen staff mock the economy class passengers ! 🤣😅😂

[@Heymrk]

2021: "Best I can do is a pack of stale pretzels and half a Coke."

[@spo0kyxr0mance]

or those gross 'cookies'.

[@Harambae613]

2:05. “We had fish or chicken.” “Aah, I remember. I had lasagna.”

[@The_A_Cast]

When I rode an Amtrak train from West Virginia to DC, they had a kitchen that made food you could order. Of course it was like microwave food, but it was really good! My favorite was a spicy kind of chicken strip meal

[@MrRaidereric2]

I worked a couple months in an airline catering company and I was impressed by this video. I wish i knew what country and airline those meals were for. As for airline food in america i wouldnt advise eating or drinking anything on a plane, even prepackaged stuff - the warehouses and carts arent sanitary. I used to joke to my friends by telling them to disinfect their soda cans by rolling them on the floor.

[@TheLurker]

The stuff for economy class was Air Canada. Probably the stuff for first class as well, but I didn't catch a logo on that.

[@myusername3689]

Asian airliner’s economy food is actual food and tastes pretty good. Speaking from experience: The noodles are great.

[@MilkBoy17520]

I've had a few meals on ANA flights and they were leaps and bounds better than Delta or American

[@gorillachilla]

What do they serve bats and rats ?

[@TakoDeer]

Those are in the minority.

[@ILoveQazaqstan]

Especially Turkish, Air Astana, and Japanese airlines

[@naomiyokoi9248]

I bet whenever this dude makes a pun he kinda stops and grins at the crew while they face palm

[@BrilliantLightGlowing1111]

The amounts of puns in this video is unreal 😂

[@dylanringer7479]

airline food is bland, this is also first class food not regular food

[@dylanringer7479]

TheRenaissanceman65 I've eaten the food before it has been given out in the air, that's how I know.

[@ty_sk1348]

You could say it’s a little... plane

[@TheMasterhomaster]

Airline food tastes bland because the atmospheric pressure at the altitude you are at affects your tastebuds. Simply put you taste less when you’re flying.

[@aviationchannel6204]

I've tried taking some of the food when I land and when I have it on the ground, it tastes delicious.

[@espumacola4089]

Private jet food

[@Misha-dr9rh]

'A lot of negotiation' Businessman: What's your cheapest meal? Chef: That would be the sewage souff- Businessman: *I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!*

[@jazzyass5701]

but they can't rise to the occasion

[@HeeseungsDimples]

I always wax nostalgic about the airline food I had on the Chinese Airline I took to get to and from Korea last summer. I wish I could've taken the leftovers to go.

[@cooldog6129]

Bruh I got a croissant sandwich with a soda

[@spaaggetii]

2:50 "They are careful not to overfill them to avoid spillage" Proceeds to overfill the containers.

[@TrickyPasta]

0:00 wtf is up with that background? seems like it was filmed inside a concentration camp

[@thekoi6096]

You don’t prepare your food in a concentration camp?

[@aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh6947]

“... This is food of high quality” Me receiving a Meal on the Plane: “Looks like shit...”

[@ElementEvilTeam]

"First Class Airline Meals" - How It's Made

[@damndesign72]

2:51 "they carefully not to over fill it..." and that caught the moment when it is overfilled and the chef quickly push d food back in d container even though the food touches the side of the aluminium pan/ foil... 😂

[@jayveeaurea9091]

“They couldn’t possible rise to the occasion”

[@Hyperguy2000]

Jerry Seinfeld: "Whats the deal with airline food?" Me:

[@zues121510]

This is for the good airlines. The budget ones I fly on have normal prepackaged store food.

[@v06261]

I feel like airplane food always tastes 10x better. I’m Guatemalan, and each year I go back to my country to visit. However, flights can get very expensive and sometimes connecting flights is the only option. One year, I bought a connecting flight that traveled from IAD (VA) to PTY (Panama), the airline was Copa Airlines. I am not exaggerating when I say the attention that airline pays to its passengers is top notch. From the US to Panama and Panama to Guatemala, which is a short two hour flight, we were fed TWO times. In economy, passengers had the option between a Spanish Omelet and steak with rice. WE GOT TO PICK WHAT WE WANTED. The food was so good, unbelievably good. The second time we were fed it was more of a snack, like a yogurt and fruit. I don’t know what it is first class had but If economy’s food was THAT good then I imagine first class got a taste of Heaven. I was so full I could hardly walk.

[@IETTAIGA]

04:16 Most people can skip directly to here.

[@vaughanellis7866]

Never had a decent airline meal yet, on most flights irrespective of class, I've made do with just water on most flights.

[@HylerMusic]

When I grew up, wed constantly go on the small commuter jets and I’d always be told “no meals on flights less than 3 hours”. Fine, so I grew up, then I booked a flight and it happened to be longer than 3 hours. Now it’s apparently 5 hours and all you get are pretzels, no meal. Not even the stereotypical honey roasted peanuts anymore because they worry about allergies. Great. So I’m on a flight that’s just under 6 hours and get served pretzels again... why? Oh, now it’s “no meals on domestic flights”. Didn’t matter if my ticket said first class or coach, no meal. I’m going to guess that I FINALLY will get another international or LAX-JFK flight and my guess of what I’ll finally hear? “Oh, I’m sorry, we don’t serve meals anymore”. Airline food is always purported to be “bad” but I’ve flown literally hundreds of times (counting my own flights on my PPL as well) and can remember being served an actual meal TWICE. Once when I was a kid to Hawaii, and another time on a flight to the Midwest. The worst part? Sometimes even if you’re flying for 8+ hours, they’ll change your flight to one with a layover and you’ll be stuck with two 4 hour flights, neither of which will have meals. I once chased the Platinum and Executive Platinum levels with AA. Between the meals and all the other horrid changes they’ve made for the worse, I haven’t been on a flight in months.

[@pressed4888]

Dave Hyler damn you must have such a hard life only getting fed pretzels whilst flying to your holiday... sigh

[@coniurato8302]

LAX to JFK isn’t international

[@HappyRussians]

I guess it’s more of an American thing. The only times I didn’t have meals was in domestic American flights and short haul flights in Europe.

[@Citatel1412]

I havent been on planes too many times (like 20) and ive been served 20/20.

[@HylerMusic]

Coniurato do you understand syntax? It says OR. As in one or the other. Lax-jfk OR international. It’s fine if you don’t, but do not try to correct people who do and use it correctly. So where does it say “Lax-jfk is international?” because all I see is “lax-jfk or international”...

[@alexreid4131]

I love the "tidiness' of it all. I always had a set routine including covering the butter in the lid of the hot meal to soften it. But I haven't flow international for 14 years now so maybe it's all gone downhill along with most everything else.

[@PresMan36]

The shrimp and cob salad meals that were offered on my first first class flight in May 2022 looked rather neat, but still nothing as good as what was shown. But maybe I should've skipped getting dinner before the flight that day.

[@scareleague9551]

the food never took off with people that ate it did it

[@dilipv7979]

Puns are amazing

[@davemustaki134]

I love airline food it would be great to have them in supermarkets lol

[@lindak8664]

Who gets steaks on a plane? Mate, i’ve been flying on the wrong airline.

[@venividivici4253]

Wrong class too.

[@rubbertoe1262]

Thank you Discovery Uk. I finally know what’s the deal with airplane food.

[@Movie_Games]

Never understood why people don't just eat before the plane and then go into a food coma on the plane.

[@evaredacted]

Movie Games 1throwing up 2 don’t wanna miss their flight 3 bad bathroom

[@forteastro6996]

Hmm... Usually, a coffee/muffin is good enough but a food coma makes sense... Good point but usually making the flight kills appetite I feel.

[@kenechewkuk.l8707]

Everything has to be perfect with this stuff.

[@ShamelessMcBundy]

It's never that neat. They're assembled on an assembly line. I used to work for a company that packaged airline meals. It's all very precise and very fast. And can be very messy.

[@versatilecar1940]

Is this first class? My last airplane meal was a cold and unflavorful, weird wrapped hot pocket

[@justadjustor8993]

The script in the narration is so polite 😁😂

[@rebeccaroseenriquez2257]

Wow!

[@salmanrizvi942]

I never knew airline food was high quality lol now I know so I don't need to worry about the food when I go on a airplane

[@piradex6871]

Holy crap, actually using metric Measures, Thank God

[@EC2019]

I know this is originally a Canadian programme, but this UK narrator puts the original Canadian narrators to shame. He brings fun and life to the whole show with his excellent light-hearted delivery of the added humorous lines. Where the Canadians are very flat and dull as if they're just reading an instruction manual for a fax machine, and there's no humour or fun in their script whatsoever.

[@Perifroog]

They forgot about the diahrea powder in the meal

[@isabellsurber8046]

I'm real fuckin hungry, so like this looks amazing.

[@donn372]

thats jacked up everyone should get the same food

[@Colonel1954Dz]

I never expect Airlines food to be more than "okay". I'm there to from point A to point B, it's not supposed to be a restaurant. That's why I prefer low cost Airlines since they give you the choice to take or not to take food.

[@Weareonenation303]

What people usually get: A tin of Chef Boyardee and a bottle of water for $10 What high class people get: What is shown on this video. What billionaires get: Kobe steak topped with beluga caviar, truffles and jamon iberico de bellota with a glass of 1,000 year old French wine.

[@wadehart6937]

Fucking pun after pun, I knew when there were 3 in the first 30 seconds and they just kept coming lol

[@caljaysoc]

“A little less seasoning.” Says the British guy.

[@larrylaffer3246]

I thought it came out of a huge industrial drum labeled "Human Food" then they shape it like Play-Doh, and put it into containers to reheat later.

[@gundam5281]

The Fucking puns 😂

[@katarzynachabinska1484]

I just wanted to know how they warm it on the plane

[@fetusgoblinatr7]

God when I went to Korea in 2016 the airline food on both my flights were actually bomb idk why people complain, it was damn freaking good lmao.

[@scythal]

I'm surprised it didn't blow up!

[@HunterDriguez]

I've certainly never had food that looks that good during a flight. Sucks being a peasant who can't afford first class and their fancy meals.

[@RandomPerson-jo7cw]

Plane food actually tastes good for me

[@m4ttyicebecheffin698]

What kind of air lines are y’all traveling on? Lol

[@AudieHolland]

Economy Class passengers' food look like survival rations

[@MetaBloxer]

0:57 can it... can I have that sink?

[@b.hughes6181]

THE PUNS

[@miyaosamu4088]

All i get is a tiny portion of overcooked pasta in a plastic bowl and a napkin if lucky

[@hyeoh1834]

Is that you, Moss?

[@DarienDragonFox]

I just get me a bag o cookies, and some apple juice

[@thenuclearemerald1585]

Finally We know what the deal is with airline food

[@tabthecabbit3354]

Those airline meals look nice, but I would still be content with my bag of peanuts.

[@makeawishkid6542]

Is it me or I feel like airplane food is one of the healthiest out there

[@ericspace8816]

LOL

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

Never had airlines food but I bet it's expensive as hell

[@portal2kid]

If I had a dime for every pun, I would be able to buy a weed pipe, but I wouldn’t be able to get HIGH.

[@Trebbell]

How its made: Scooped out of a porta-potty

[@danielserrano591]

tray kart 1

[@worldwide8553]

Next to taste, the worst thing about economy food is the smell of scores of 3 different meal types all being "cooked" at the same time.

[@Inamichan]

Lol I’ve only had peanuts and crackers on planes. Never steak 😂😂

[@NycBeauty]

International flight food or first class.

[@gorillachilla]

They wont show you how economy food is made , bad image and pr

[@NextToToddliness]

Awww, I forgot about the terrible How It's Made puns. 🥲

[@mayad8042]

Food looks a bit plane

[@igieswainebragt]

Sedun Dnes they look and taste plane in general haah

[@sircluckstrthethrd1670]

Bud du cheing

[@Daisy-pr5bj]

Thats why i don't eat during flight

[@luis4210]

Not very uplifting

[@TorpedoGuido84]

Very nice

[@rinnabinna]

peanuts for the peasants

[@Robloxchat123]

i got pretzel sticks

[@wyom2838]

I got a whole potato.

[@aminissalty]

Tarina 5 Beavers 5 what if their allergic?

[@bleachnice5979]

I got a jar or air.

[@hamzasat]

😂😂😂😂😂Thank you for the laugh

[@olivet8402]

Puns r unreal

[@E1craZ4life]

Aiming a bit high, are they?

[@fajel172]

Most of the puns didn't even take off

[@rjmartinsgutinstinctspodcast]

Only high quality puns... ;)

[@fajel172]

Oakpc2002 thank you comrad

[@rjmartinsgutinstinctspodcast]

Some creep keeps liking all my comments. Get a life Pleb.

[@craggolly]

I can call myself lucky if they hand me a shitty sandwich instead of nothing and this video shows steaks and stuff :(

[@chunjiang3514]

Stick with Japan Airlines, Korean Airlines, Asiana, Emirates, Cathay Pacific etc...never fly American airlines(like Delta, American, or United)

[@tanner9851]

yeah let me just fly Japan Airlines on my way from San Francisco to Miami, sure thing.

[@UncleBearski]

@Tanner JAL [JL 7546] - San Francisco to Miami - 9:37pm departure. You're welcome!! :)

[@davepruitt]

You just have to fly overseas. Any overseas flight will give you good food.

[@BrieanaJohn]

@@davepruitt that's not always true because I've flown to Trinidad from the United States on multiple occasions and most times you don't get food when there's only been two or three times out of the 20 + times that I have gone

[@mailee1627]

First class food 🍰 vs economy 💩

[@AlexeiZavjalov]

Both won't taste good on the place anyway.. It is just not worth the money

[@coordinator3039]

I travel a lot and they both are equally the same. First or Business class just gives better options. At least economy is better than eating slop.

[@LordArioh]

I fly Finnair pretty often. economy food is OK, tasty and doesn't cause diarrhea.

[@JustinLaieatsbacon]

I went on a flight from Hawaii to San Francisco once on United Airlines. Got a cold sandwich.

[@4f52]

@@JustinLaieatsbacon Sounds amazing. Do you have any problem with that?

[@GrandNecro]

this is the type of food they serve on international flight. I only get peanuts when traveling domestic

[@Osephinejay]

I got pretzels on my last domestic flight...

[@what6_34]

not me watching past 10:00 pm in bed eating almonds 👁👄👁😓✋

[@thatonefriend2969]

"Theyre careful not to overfill them" as the chef absolutely loads veggies into a cup

[@KEVMAN7987]

"What's the deal with airline food?"

[@BigAl1976]

I know, could this stuff taste any worse? It's like "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm still stuffed from that HUGE bag of smoked almonds."

[@Getoutmyheadgetoutmyhead]

Ok yeah, but like what's the deal with airline food?

[@kjl3080]

pls explain

[@DjJackyB]

I don't care how it tastes, I love that it comes packed so neat and convenient and I always eat the meals.

[@recoswell]

u r a tool bitch

[@markcasper6940]

Same here. Makes me hungry... I never waste my food

[@tacticalkyuubi8147]

This dude's entire comedian startup script was this video

[@acookie7548]

okay so I actually enjoy the food airlines give me…? I fly economy btw. and I've never been on an american airline

[@ricefield4717]

ikr i fly on asian airlines and the food is pretty good cough cathay and eva cough

[@blueberry464]

Even on airlines that are American, I've had plenty of international flights with food like that in economy

[@annbeilschmidt6917]

Exactly! I fly economy within Asia and like all the food that I had were all great.... (btw your profile pic... fellow hetalian?)

[@jazzyass5701]

@@ricefield4717 Cathay is great but I hate any other airline food usually. Something about the flavour and overcooked texture make me feel sick. And I'm already dizzy from being on a plane

[@ahoorakia]

WOW,how bad is your wife's cooking!!LOL

[@DarthHao]

It took me a while to realize that the barf bag in front of your seat is for when you have to look at an economy class meal 🤮

[@deathborn6815]

Tyranus421 It’s not really, but considering you only eat the airplane meal, if you puke then you’ll puke up the airplane food meaning that it technically is.

[@MadTrump]

haha oh so that is what its for 😂😂😂

[@MP-xd1tc]

Never had a meal in an airplane. These look delicious.

[@yatesy117]

Yeah you wouldn't get these meals unless you were in 1st class. Stick to a sandwich, believe me!

[@Ibrahim10555]

Keep it that way, i fly every few months and am sick of the meals

[@GearGrinder1133]

I was on a thomas cook flight to Cuba. Sausage and mash and braised beef with a breakfast service. I dont usually like in-flight meals but they were amazing

[@rc8880]

They’re not

[@eshansohail3363]

they really aren't. at least for Emirates

[@zionmoulder4422]

0:11 e.e 0:23 *sighs* 0:30 *groans* 4:50 *Screams*

[@steaksoymilk3195]

Im confused

[@itsjustnick05]

Where’s the “how babies are made” episode?

[@randallgates3679]

So basically what you are trying to say is they cook it then serve it? 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@gaurav.13]

Randall Gates also negotiate with the camera guy

[@alexsmith1207]

I doubt it, i think some airlines cook it in microwave expecially Americans

[@blakris9382]

Huge if true

[@boogeymann6686]

Reasons why I go first class: 1. Food 2. The seats

[@erinfr]

How's its made: airplane food Cardboard

[@sheltongolden4394]

Businesses class: Medium-rare filet with sautéed vegetables, potatoes, and herb butter. Economy: Peanuts or pretzels. Maybe a whole can of soda if you're lucky.

[@joeyjoe7930]

That doesn’t look like any kind of food I’ve been served on the plane! Lol

[@Xxsarahbear1xX]

0:43 “maeals” lol

[@user-dq2ym1nn9k]

HAHAHAHA I heard that too and had to rewind!!!

[@inthrutheoutdoor5849]

This is not how it's done in the US.. I worked at a food processing plant where we made airline meals....Do you know that old saying "You don't want to know how sausage is made"... go with that....