I was armed and ready with my bag of 'flight' food but, nevertheless, shocked!!!
The Surgeon General says that obesity is a bigger threat to our country than terrorism. Congress introduced 400 bills using the word 'obesity' in them this past year. And the I was served the following on my flight to California.
Pizza (the round, doughy kind that they pop in a microwave), a bag of potato chips, a container of macaroni salad, and a fudge bar. This was what they called lunch.
I appreciate that fuel costs are high and the airline companies may need to cut costs,but serving these kinds of unhealthy foods undermines our attempts at becoming healthier both as individuals and as a nation.
I'm working on my letter to this airline but I'm sure others are guilty as well and that this remains an industry problem.
But really, folks, we've got to get together on this. We can't keep talking and eating out of both sides of our mouths!
Frances Kuffel sent me a link to your site and I love it. Hard to know whether you should consider yourself lucky to have gotten a meal at all (most airlines are doing away with them), but I would rather not have 40 pounds of sugar and fat dumped on my lap when I'm trapped in a seat with nothing to distract me.
Someone really said that fat was more of a threat than terrorism? Here, I thought that was just a joke.
Posted by: Jen | July 12, 2006 at 09:08 AM