I have to give props to Continental Airlines for still serving food for free on flights these days, but sometimes I wish they’d remove some items from the lineup. On this particular flight to SF, it was too late for them to serve real dinner, but they did give us a snack featuring a hot sandwich, baby carrots, salad, and a prepackaged brownie.
Turkey bbq bake, green salad, ranch dressing, baby carrots, brownie
The salad and carrots were fine – they were kept cold and actually kind of refreshing. I enjoyed the lite ranch dressing that came on the side. The sandwich, however, was the dreaded turkey bbq bake. Basically it’s a mushy, bready, pizza dough-like crust filled with mushy turkey enrobed in an off-tasting bbq sauce. I’ve had this before and hated it every time.
Turkey bbq bake innards
Luckily we had some free Continental currency coupons for some free drinks on the flight. I had a bloody mary made from a canned mix and Skyy vodka.
Bloody mary ingredients
The drink was filling and refreshing, and put me straight to sleep for the rest of the flight. Even without the coupons, at $5 a drink, it’s actually not a bad deal.
Pretty tasty bloody mary
Like I said, I’m really glad that Continental still serves meals at meal times, and the snacks are usually pretty good as well. They’re better than having to buy snack boxes on the plane or trying to subsist on tiny packages of pretzels or Biscoff cookies on a five hour flight. I do hope though that Continental will realize soon that the turkey bbq bake is pretty gross, and they’ll stick with the Jennie O turkey sandwiches from now on.
Tags: Sandwiches