Eat all what you can eat:

There are those who eat what is necessary and healthy and there are those that need to show other and themselves how much they can eat. First and Business Class usually have a 3 course abundant meal in long to extra long haul trip: they have the entrée, the main course and the dessert plus the in-flight snacks.

Not only may they repeat several times what they ordered but also they have an abundant plate with many palliative options to enjoy: caviar, murg varhadi, grilled red snapper, fettucini with salmon, baby lamp shank so on and so on. You may see those passengers that only ask for the necessary, not more or less. They finish the plate and then they say: “this is enough, I´m already full, thank you for this wonderful service” (well, actually not many say the words “wonderful service” to crew but let´s pretend for a second that they do). Those types of passengers are the least in each flight.

Usually you encounter people who have the need to eat everything that they can because if not they feel that they didn´t really “invest” in their ticket or that they need to show-off that they are eating all what they can devour in a premium class. So not only they order 2 the appetizers (entrée) and 3 times the main course and 2 times more each dessert but then they eat the whole selections of snacks (all the chocolate bars, bonbon boxes, sandwiches and potatoes bags  they find on their way and most of the times they ask for more). And not only they eat all what they can find in their way but also they drink everything that comes in a can or bottle. At the end of the flight you may see them all puffy and with a slight headache but they still have to have breakfast so once again they manage to perform a fast packman digestion but they ask for every little thing that appears in the menu and at least two times they need their coffee cup re filled.

Then there is the other group of passengers that order absolutely everything just for decoration, a very sad abstract piece of art scene that they “enjoy” staring at on their tray tables. Who would say the modern version of “Fruit and a Jug on a Table” by Paul Cézanne would be a breakfast scene of a passenger in Business or First Class? They just seat there with their coffee mesmerized by the small platter of fresh fruit and the very dynamic work of cutlery which sleeps by the impressive oval size shape glass that contain this orange color substance that is orange. The most impressive thing is the fact that if a fork falls down to the floor they have the need to ask for another one even so they are not going to use it.

And last but not least are those who are undeceive for everything so they ask you 3 times what each plate is about as if you may create a story about each plate and sometimes they are interested to know what would you eat if you were to be them. So once they made their decision and you prepared the presentation of the plate and then you are about to place the order on their tray tables they accidentally changed their mind because they saw what their neighbor passenger is eating and they feel they should eat the same. So we have to go to the galley and prepare everything again to go back with a big smile and a sense of comfort and dedication to service. Then when you are about to collect their plates you see that they barley touched their food and they kindly ask you to return in a while as they didn´t finish. So you return 20 minutes later and you observe that they only touched the bread and they ask you to return back in another phew minutes. So after 15 minutes you return and the plate is still there almost intact.

Is impressive to believe not only how rude people are to themselves but how little they care about food when people are actually dying of starvation in many parts of the world. Not only they don´t care but at the same time some passengers have the need to show off that they are eating in business or first class devouring everything (without pleasure whatsoever) what comes on their way.

Meanwhile I picture in my head that my healthy tray will transform somehow into a super fat greasy hamburger with french fries.

(I don´t own the above picture)