When it comes to airline breakfasts I’m generally very boring and reliably stick to the egg dish. But on a recent United Airlines flight, I tried banana bread pudding, something I never eat at home and worked surprisingly well as a pre-arrival dessert breakfast.
Bread Pudding In United Airlines Polaris Business Class
Eggs are a central part of my diet. At home, I break my fast between 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm each day with a five-egg omelet filled with vegetables and meat. It’s one of those things that I never get bored of, despite eating the same thing every day. Typically, when I travel I will also eat eggs every day. Most airlines have eggs as one of their breakfast options and hotels do too.
But on my last United flight, traveling from Denver to London, I resolved not to eat breakfast at all. Instead, I resolved to maximize my sleep and eat something at the arrivals lounge once reaching London.
The pre-arrival breakfast service on a United transatlantic flight typically begins about 90 minutes before landing. I woke up about 55 minutes before landing, happy to have a cup of coffe as we began our approach into London.
But noticing that I was awake, a flight attendant offered me breakfast…the blogger’s dilemma. I wasn’t hungry, did not feel like eating, but thought this would be a good opportunity to try a dish I’ve never had on United before…the banana bread pudding (versus the scrambled eggs I’ve ordered os many times in the past).
I thought I’d just order it, take a photo, take a bite, and leave the rest.
Banana Bread Pudding
with fried golden raisins and vanilla creme anglaise
Unfortunately, it was good. Heck, this would be a far better dessert than many of the desserts on United (I’m not sure who eats bread pudding for breakfast, but hopefully no Live And Let’s Fly reader…)
I did stop myself after eating half of it and the fruit (I left the second piece of bread pudding, the fake croissant, and the sugary yogurt), but that was still more than I intended to eat onboard!
It’s not a bad dish at all…if you are looking for more dessert.
My Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.
I admit I’d be tempted. But, I’m usually the fruit and yoghurt guy.
The presentation (and lack thereof) clearly shows United has not improved its catering.
Tell you what . I’ll take the food part , and you take the “presentation” .
I’ll scarf it down because I’m usually starving .
It seems on UA, the worse the food looks, the more you enjoyed it, Matthew.
5 egg omelette every day?!?! Watch that cholesterol Klint.
Fake croissant, LOL.
Yikes. With the raisins, it likely has more grams of sugar than a candy bar.
Ask for prune juice instead of raisins .
I’ll take that with a coffee & Bailey’s!
I see the catering service got creative rolling into balls ruined French toasts and soaking them in batter. My mom made bread pudding quarterly using old French baguettes, vanilla beans, condensed milk, eggs laid that am and rum caramel at the bottom of the bundt pan using Bain de Marie baking. It didn’t look anything like the picture here.
@Joe … Ask your mom to add a lot more rum .
I think it looks good. And good for UA for trying. Not up to your standards? Tough. Go to a restaurant. And oh my goodness, raisins, the horror. Eggs, how dangerous. I grow weary of busybodies telling others what to eat.
Lufthansa offers something similar on flights within Europe. I prefer any airline breakfast without eggs
Being diabetic I hate that airline food is so carb heavy. I think they do that to make us go to sleep but it’s a shame.
That looks absolutely revolting.
I’m a reader. I love bread pudding. The Grand Hyatt in Berlin often has it for breakfast in the restaurant. I eat way too much of it every morning that I eat there.
For those that are too good snobby to eat it, GOOD! That means there’s some left for me! It’s my favorite breakfast, it’s kind of like French Toast. But the one in the picture looks like it might have sat a little too long in the oven. But it’s definitely worth trying. Or then again, maybe not!
I ordered it on my last flight, and I was surprised by its appearance. It was not attractive at all. I actually broke it into small pieces while wondering if I should eat it. After the first bite, I couldn’t stop. It was really good. My only complain is that there was not enough cream on it! 🙂