smujsmith, at the superior Oxonian aerodrome, we used to specify our preferred meal for each flight when we did things properly on the RAF's premier tanker squadron. Including on any 3-5 hr trip. Until, that is, the shiny loadmasters became involved when we were dumbed down to the execrable 10101 nonsense, because they couldn't be ar$ed to liaise with the ever-helpful folk at in-flight. So a diet of S1 boxes became the norm on any flight which wasn't a 'route' as they considered an AAR trip to be a 'local'.....
The rattling swine pie was a phenomenon of the early 1980s, now consigned to history!
Last edited by BEagle; 9th Mar 2014 at 06:54.