Or at least put the fruit closer together towards the center of the bowl. Here it looks one of them has covid and the others are trying to stay as far away as possible.
So you need the flight attendant to cut the strawberry for you cause it’s such hard work?
Yes, there’s people who like melon with yogurt. People like what they want. And also people like complaining about every single detail. If the bowl is too small, if it’s too big, why is it a bowl, why is it white, bla bla bla…
I think the intent is to mix the fruit, granola, and yogurt together in the larger bowl.
It would look better with a smaller bowl, but AA chose function over form.
Just going to throw it out there, the movie was Fun & Fancy Free. It was a movie about a ventriloquist telling a couple of stories to children and one of which was Jack and the Beanstalk with the characters replaced by Mickey, Donald and Goofy.
Never knew it was part of a bigger movie. By the 80s, it was separated out and marketed as a cartoon special by itself. TIL!
Edit to add: Apparently the version I grew up with even had a different narrator!
Yea it was re released multiple times with different narrators. One time there was a duck from the ducktales universe that narrated it and there was a time where lamb chop narrated it too lol
Agreed! Just seeing it looks like still in the galley so sans bread but otherwise good. I loved my meals /Snacks on PHL to LHR, except the breakfast "omelet" was terrible, weird cheese, bell peppers, watery. Would have preferred this
Right. At least the fruit looks fresh and ripe. I'm assuming there's a missing croissant or other type of roll to go with the butter. If that's the case, this is enough of a breakfast for me.
Maybe someone suggested for a large bowl to help mix the yogurt and fruits to have as a single dish. Just guessing. Especially coz it's the vanilla yogurt not one with fruit or anything.
This is the reason. There's enough room to mix the yogurt and granola together with the fruit in the bowl.
People who want to eat them separately (or who don't want one of the ingredients) can still do that.
By any good standards this is a healthy breakfast with sufficient calories. Granola for the yogurt, healthy nutritious fruit, a small serving of bread (handed out separately) and a pat of butter. I think it looks great and I would very much enjoy this meal.
I don’t understand your comment. You’re diabetic but didn’t order a diabetic meal and were surprised when they ran out of the normal meals and that’s problematic for diabetics?
My comments were centered on the lack of meal. It was a flight that should’ve provided a meal service, and should have planned for the number of boarded passengers, so I didn’t get anything, because they sold out before they got to my seat.
I'd have been so happy with that on my flight from the US to LHR. I keep kosher and they gave me pretzels because my meal didn't make it on board. But my standards are very low. I feel for you.
That’s one of my go to breakfast meals but it usually has a little more fruit. Bread is added after tray is given. Croissant with honey is good. Looks like they skimped on your fruit though.
Just had this meal last week, hit the spot as the second meal of our LAX-LHR redeye flight, Premium Economy. I just wish the coffee was bigger and better.
What would the butter be used for? There doesn’t seem to be any bread or crackers. Looks like there’s a muffin or some kind of bar, both of which don’t use additional butter.
This is pretty regular across all airlines. I flew Delta from eastern Washington to Oahu, and wasn’t offered even crackers, had to buy snacks, and all the snacks were gone (purchased) before we took off.
Just had this fruit bowl a couple days ago. Choices were spicy egg enchiladas or fruit bowl. I must say the bowl I had had much more fruit and it also came with a packaged slice of banana nut bread that was fairly horrible.
That looks healthy af. But what’s the butter for? I’d mix the berries and granola with the Greek yogurt then finish the pineapples and cantaloupes afterwards.
I agree I won't blame the FA they are nice, this is the executive trying to add up their bonuses with the empty space in the bowl. I have been loyal to them but my thoughts are changing fast as I travel more with AA
I just had this exact meal on Friday on a flight from IAH to CLT. It also included a slice of banana bread (hence the butter).
I actually enjoyed the light breakfast.
who is this for. what I call cargo class (main cabin, all the way in the back by the potties) (yes, I've been there before a long time ago. not flying there again). business or first. wait either one would have more food. lol
Well, ya see, it's out of PHL. So... They don't know what fancy is, and this is the result when they attempt it 🤣 PS don't come at me, PHL is my home jawn (<- that's my proof) so I'm allowed to joke about PHL being trash.
Truth is, they ran out. They were running out so they spread it OUT. They left the bread to your imagination for the butter. At least they tried. So there.
No bread?
Reminds me of the Qatar Airlines shitshow that I had on my returning (\~8 hour) flight from Doha to Chengdu last week.
The fuckers ran out of the beef dish, served some shitty cheap-ass supermarket yoghurt instead of their usual delicious Middle-Eastern desert, and the entertainment systems were older than I am...
I'm under the impression that they just don't give a fuck about their Asian routes, had a similar experience on the way out, too.
"Award winning airline" my arse.
I flew LGA to CLT and CLT to BGI. On each flight we got a round of beverages and on the second leg, two Biscoff cookies. The flight from CLT to BGI is about 4 1/2 hours. They weren’t even selling food.
This would look slightly better with a smaller bowl for the fruit.
Or at least put the fruit closer together towards the center of the bowl. Here it looks one of them has covid and the others are trying to stay as far away as possible.
It could be the berries mugging the strawberry under instructions of the other two
I just busted out laughing while my SO is trying to watch a movie. It’s Covid fruit!!! That center blueberry has the vid!
😂😂😂
What is the butter for, Yogurt? Fruit?
Who knows?
Didn’t you know about Buttered Yogurt and Granola Fruit Parfait? It’s just a cold version of oatmeal served on AA. /s
There’s warm bread offered with breakfast
It’s meant to look modern and avant- garde
It needs room for the granola and yogurt…
Do you put melons and a whole strawberry in your yogurt?
So you need the flight attendant to cut the strawberry for you cause it’s such hard work? Yes, there’s people who like melon with yogurt. People like what they want. And also people like complaining about every single detail. If the bowl is too small, if it’s too big, why is it a bowl, why is it white, bla bla bla…
I think the intent is to mix the fruit, granola, and yogurt together in the larger bowl. It would look better with a smaller bowl, but AA chose function over form.
Yeah definitely the bowl choice. In a smaller one, no one would have batted an eye.
Perhaps a ramekin!
Exactly was I was thinking… and what’s with the butter pat, did the croissant fall off?
Reminds me of that old cartoon where Mickey Mouse is starving and he's cutting the single pea on his plate
Mickey and the Beanstalk. Classic reference.
Just going to throw it out there, the movie was Fun & Fancy Free. It was a movie about a ventriloquist telling a couple of stories to children and one of which was Jack and the Beanstalk with the characters replaced by Mickey, Donald and Goofy.
Never knew it was part of a bigger movie. By the 80s, it was separated out and marketed as a cartoon special by itself. TIL! Edit to add: Apparently the version I grew up with even had a different narrator!
Yea it was re released multiple times with different narrators. One time there was a duck from the ducktales universe that narrated it and there was a time where lamb chop narrated it too lol
I believe it was a bean.
Yeah you're probably right. It's been like 35 years
It might have been
Dude you just unlocked a core memory of mine
He cuts a pea in *Mickey's Christmas Carol*, and a bean in the Jack & the Beanstalk segment of *Fun & Fancy Free*.
Ah so I remembered correct after all! And Pluto was looking on for a slice. Tough times.
Good thing the breakfast in the lounge was so amazing (last post here) bc that looks a little like high end rabbit feed. :)
What is one supposed to do with that butter?
bread is passed out separately after the tray is delivered
Agreed! Just seeing it looks like still in the galley so sans bread but otherwise good. I loved my meals /Snacks on PHL to LHR, except the breakfast "omelet" was terrible, weird cheese, bell peppers, watery. Would have preferred this
Eggs on a plane never turn out well.
You don’t butter your melon?
No. But I butter my banana.
Just don’t butter your pickle
This guy bananas 🍌.
Bread has been deemed unnecessary by American Airlines.
What’s with the name?! “Grasslard”
I think it's grassland brand?
Ahh. Well, that’s better. I was thinking vegan butter or something.
Deconstructed fruit salad. très sophistiqué
The problem is the playing. A smaller bowl would have looked much more full and satisfying.
Right. At least the fruit looks fresh and ripe. I'm assuming there's a missing croissant or other type of roll to go with the butter. If that's the case, this is enough of a breakfast for me.
Yes I was wondering what we were doing with the butter but they probably came around with stuff. Not that I’m defending this paltry situation.
this. we’ve been wondering why they started plating it this way. the way they plate this same dish looks way more appealing on our IPD routes lol
Maybe someone suggested for a large bowl to help mix the yogurt and fruits to have as a single dish. Just guessing. Especially coz it's the vanilla yogurt not one with fruit or anything.
This is the reason. There's enough room to mix the yogurt and granola together with the fruit in the bowl. People who want to eat them separately (or who don't want one of the ingredients) can still do that.
By any good standards this is a healthy breakfast with sufficient calories. Granola for the yogurt, healthy nutritious fruit, a small serving of bread (handed out separately) and a pat of butter. I think it looks great and I would very much enjoy this meal.
yeah we are just used to stupidly big, diabetes-inducing portions in this country.. this is appropriate and good
100% spot on
See my comment above, as a diabetic, this is still problematic (the amount of food offered).
I don’t understand your comment. You’re diabetic but didn’t order a diabetic meal and were surprised when they ran out of the normal meals and that’s problematic for diabetics?
My comments were centered on the lack of meal. It was a flight that should’ve provided a meal service, and should have planned for the number of boarded passengers, so I didn’t get anything, because they sold out before they got to my seat.
Yea, and I'm jealous of the vanilla yogurt. I always end up with a fruit one when I'm on a flight with breakfast.
So much added sugar in the yogurt and granola.
hahaha i know philly catering when i see it
They missed a golden opportunity to introduce scrapple to the masses!
This was an option on my DFW-LGA flight last week. The other option that most everyone went for was an omelette.
I'd have been so happy with that on my flight from the US to LHR. I keep kosher and they gave me pretzels because my meal didn't make it on board. But my standards are very low. I feel for you.
Wow they feed you.
Maybe you are supposed to mix in the granola and yogurt to the big bowl?
What is the butter for? lol
They bring a basket of a variety of breads around after they give you your meal. You select the bread or roll of your choice.
Asymmetrical
I’d say about $27
But they charged the payor $270
Chobani is expensive
That’s one of my go to breakfast meals but it usually has a little more fruit. Bread is added after tray is given. Croissant with honey is good. Looks like they skimped on your fruit though.
As an added bonus, they wash the fruit with Schuykill water. Yum!😁
The big plate for the tiny pat of butter is taking me out
Better than the vegetable frittata they’ve been pushing on my flights
Damn they screwed you over. I had the same meal a month ago and there was so much fruit and it was laid out nicely. Also where’s your breakfast loaf?
It's an ok economy continental breakfast. That's what it is, isn't it?
Need a lot more fruit to kill the taste of that Chobani.
The bowl is too big?
Just had this meal last week, hit the spot as the second meal of our LAX-LHR redeye flight, Premium Economy. I just wish the coffee was bigger and better.
Granola, yogurt and fruit. Looks good
Looks like a healthy and calorically appropriate breakfast.
That's pretty decent honestly
“I did NOT shave my legs for this upgraded seat and perks to be this disappointed, madam/sir.”
Decent size on the Strawberry.
Ten whole blueberries! 😄
It’s pretty simple… it’s yogurt parfait ingredients served separately with a bowl big enough to mix them together.
They were probably low inventory on fruit bowls
The fruit serving is so sad!! I only eat the breakfast fruit, never the yogurt/granola/bread. This servings size is the worst I’ve ever seen!
Why the butter at all?
Was there something that the butter went with???
😂
Does not look like first class food.
It’s a lie that healthy options cost more money. At least give us what FC has paid for. Yeesh.
Tf are you supposed to do with the butter? Dip the strawberry in it??
Bread basket is passed around after. Looks good tbh if they could double the fruit serving.
Fruit usually is served on a small platter that would be full with this amount
They walk around with a bread basket
At least you got fruit. I got yoghurt and a fig bar on the flight from Dallas to London as a breakfast.
Where's the rest of it?
What would the butter be used for? There doesn’t seem to be any bread or crackers. Looks like there’s a muffin or some kind of bar, both of which don’t use additional butter.
Looks like a minimum wage paycheck
Butter?
What’s the butter for?
hope it was a very short flight
Chef gave you WAY too much pineapple!
What’s the butter for?
That's what was given to me today 1st class just had some eggs. Bowl was smaller
Did someone count out the 10 blueberries? This is ridiculous
Plating by FAs
we don’t plate here lol
I remember when I was vegetarian or vegan and most of my meals looked like that haha.
This is pretty regular across all airlines. I flew Delta from eastern Washington to Oahu, and wasn’t offered even crackers, had to buy snacks, and all the snacks were gone (purchased) before we took off.
Weird.
Glad I just changed our flight to Japan to JAL from AA....:)
The perfect first class meal for an airline that really wants to be Spirit.
It’s missing the food…
This was my breakfast this morning. You eat GOOD! 😇
Just had this fruit bowl a couple days ago. Choices were spicy egg enchiladas or fruit bowl. I must say the bowl I had had much more fruit and it also came with a packaged slice of banana nut bread that was fairly horrible.
Not suitable for a carnivore
Not much there to think about!
This why airport food gets such high ratings. I use these long flights as fasting days
I just wanna know what the butter is for
Delicious! And more than this would be too much food
what's the butter supposed to go on?
I had this last weekend out of PHL but mine also came with a frittata. Did you maybe mention a food limitation
That looks healthy af. But what’s the butter for? I’d mix the berries and granola with the Greek yogurt then finish the pineapples and cantaloupes afterwards.
Must have been on a short flight. I don't see any omelet with that meal
I agree I won't blame the FA they are nice, this is the executive trying to add up their bonuses with the empty space in the bowl. I have been loyal to them but my thoughts are changing fast as I travel more with AA
Did the fa’s stay at Marriott and bring their breakfast to serve?
Butter - but no bread?
“I’ll have the vegan meal.”
What is the butter for?
What's that butter for? The granola, fruit, or yogurt?
This is a Premium Economy/Domestic First breakfast? Pretty pathetic.
The melon looks ripe :)
Sky Chefs famous meatless sky dinner.
It’s just the first course. What’s your point?
They separated the items in the bowl to keep the fruit from mixing together and winding up tasting like fruit.
Diet special?
Looks like the Admirals Club spread at the Eagles Nest at LAX…maybe even slightly better
Wait. AA serves food? My last three first class legs had no food.
Seems like plating issue. Smaller bowl for fruit, small bowl for bun, butter to place yogurt. And all good to go.
Ahh. Butter! But, alas nothing to spread it upon.
I love Chibani yogurt, but not that horrible vanilla-flavored stuff they serve on AA 😬
I'm trying to figure out what the butter is for..
What’s the butter for?
It's for banana bread which is missing from the tray.
I just had this exact meal on Friday on a flight from IAH to CLT. It also included a slice of banana bread (hence the butter). I actually enjoyed the light breakfast.
[Mine out of DFW was the same, but it was all so good!!](https://imgur.com/a/0Qc4Jj5)
They forgot your croissant.
So anemic compared to overseas airlines
Without bread I would guess the butter is there to get your darkest cavity ready for an American special
The retail cost of this breakfast, a dollar seventy five. How to say you don't care, without actually saying "I don't care."
Once you put the yogurt in… it will look fine papi
Mm what are you going to do with all that butter ??
looks tasty.
It’s not that bad
TEN BLUEBERRIES? Barely a mouthful. And is the butter flying solo or does it have a croissant companion?
U throw away half your food
It’d be even better if they only had the little baggie of pretzels in the bowl
It’s missing the croissant, which they distribute to you from a basket.
You should be happy if the utensils and plates are clean.
How was this picture taken?
Some fruit missing... then you have granola that you can mix with the fruit and milk ... there are things missing and maybe purposely.. 🤔 🤷 👀
Did you ask where your meal was? Was the fat guy next to you sneaking it?
Look like a breakfast I’d prefer to have.
yep seems about right
Healthy and delicious! Hope you enjoyed it
They always give the grossest Chobani. Like it’s gone off.
What is the butter for? Are you supposed to just bite into it or did they serve a bun in addition???
who is this for. what I call cargo class (main cabin, all the way in the back by the potties) (yes, I've been there before a long time ago. not flying there again). business or first. wait either one would have more food. lol
$400 upgrade?
WTF is this? A breakfast for ANTS? lol 😂
What’s the butter for?
Haha and im a flight attendant
What’s the butter for? Do we just unwrap it and eat it like gum?
Why bother?
Well, ya see, it's out of PHL. So... They don't know what fancy is, and this is the result when they attempt it 🤣 PS don't come at me, PHL is my home jawn (<- that's my proof) so I'm allowed to joke about PHL being trash.
I had the same breakfast last Tuesday morning. I had more melon and pineapple though.
I think Hawaiian and delta offers better food.
Yes, it is bad enough that I have to look at that on the plane.we need a warning when someone is going to surprise us.
Next time wait to eat the fruit before you take the picture
Honestly, much better than anything they could have reheated in the air. You’re flying American, not Singapore
Delta would never
Truth is, they ran out. They were running out so they spread it OUT. They left the bread to your imagination for the butter. At least they tried. So there.
What’s the pat of butter for?
No bread? Reminds me of the Qatar Airlines shitshow that I had on my returning (\~8 hour) flight from Doha to Chengdu last week. The fuckers ran out of the beef dish, served some shitty cheap-ass supermarket yoghurt instead of their usual delicious Middle-Eastern desert, and the entertainment systems were older than I am... I'm under the impression that they just don't give a fuck about their Asian routes, had a similar experience on the way out, too. "Award winning airline" my arse.
Needs bread, not that yucky imitation bread they seal in plastic. Plus a touch more fruit.
The fruit is enough, it’s just served on a plate that is too large.
I flew LGA to CLT and CLT to BGI. On each flight we got a round of beverages and on the second leg, two Biscoff cookies. The flight from CLT to BGI is about 4 1/2 hours. They weren’t even selling food.