A special IATA meeting was held in London to define a sandwich, and hear violations. The airline industry body declared that sandwiches had to be “cold… simple… unadorned… inexpensive” and had to “consist of a substantial and visible chunk of bread.” Moreover they could not contain anything “normall...
I love airline meals! They are such a treat. Get your mouse away from the downvote button and I shall tell you why... I don't fly very often and I am usually very hungry by the time the meal gets brought around so it really does taste nice. And it's a very plastic kind of meal, very tiny, and I never have processed food so it really feels like a bit of a space-age game to me. All that dreadful plastic and the Barbie sized tray, I cook all my meals from scratch so airline food is so weird and such a rare experience. I like it in the way I like "funeral food": the little triangular, pure white sandwiches (no crusts) and tiny sausage rolls. Perhaps it's the child in me that likes them... I don't know. Okay, you can click the downvote button now. 😅
I'm curious how rigidly they define bread. An ice cream sandwich with two cookies would be an option, but it isn't bread. Is a pastry bread or the kind of excessively gourmet food they restrict? Could it just be jam on raisin bread?