Airline meals, even on long haul flights, seem like such a weird hold over from that glorious but now long past time where Airlines actually had a dream (or pretended to at least) of making flying enjoyable and comfortable for everyone.
It might be better for everyone if they just went away entirely.
I dunno, paying 1400 bucks for a set of 13 hour flights to/from the states leaves me in a position where I think it's reasonable they provide me with half decent hot/full meals, it's not like it's convenient or really possible for me to arrange my own high quality food with the restrictions involved.
I'm a Hare Krsna with a strict vegetarian style diet and tend to have to request a custom meal because airlines double down on fucking us by often not having many (as in literal number of) veg meals so they run out when picked by people including non vegetarians, and they also like to offer meals full of eggs for their vegetarian option (If they even offer a veg option).
I mean if they want to reduce the number of special meals it'd make way more sense for them to prepare a vegan option as one of the defaults cos it'd get rid of about 60% of the special request options that exist on most major airlines. I'd be sad because I like my dairy but there are no vegetarians who can't eat Vegan food for dietary/religious reasons, it'd also be a sub par but acceptable option for folks who have animal slaughtering requirements.
Edit - Sorry rant sort of unrelated to the topic, but I feel there's a lot of ways they can cut down on complexity to offer genuinely valuable stuff like food that won't cause you intense bodily harm if you're a celiac.
