I ended up doing Bambi on ice in the aisle.
Decades ago whilst on a 5 day Tokyo, some of us went into a local restaurant, and because in those days hardly anyone spoke English they would have a plastic model of the the meals, dessert drinks etc. So if you fancied steak chips and a beer you would go to the counter and point to the appropriate model. Then 20 mins later the real steak would arrive.
One of my more brainy friends then decided to go to his local 'Early learning Centre' and bought a plastic cow and chicken and would take it on Tokyo flights, stick it on the meal trolley and use the models appropriately. There was never any problem during the meal service. However when BA changed the menu, I'm not sure what happened after that.
Nowadays if that method was used I would see a problem if security pulled out a model and ask what is it?
