Originally Posted by
PAXboy
In 1999, I was shuttling every few weeksd LHR-MUC-LHR. They served a light, cold, meal that was typical German. One one trip, the pax next to me refused the meal as it was (obviously) meat, cheese and salad and he was vegetarian.
The CC did NOT understand! (it was 1999!) and could not grasp why he would not eat just the salad and cheese and ignore the meat. After several times back and forth, I picked up his tray (lifted it over his head so that he did not have it nearer to him - and handed it firmly to the CC.
Poor guy was really not prepared for that. I cannot recall if we were ex-MUC or LHR. Either way, he was learning some lessons! I would have every confidence that this has changed.
In those times if the meat was cut up, LH would consider it vegetarian. I had a vegetarian colleague on a flight back from Germany and all they could offer, once he said he didn’t think “mit speck” made it vegetarian was offered a bread roll.