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Home  >  Meal of the Week • Ukraine International Airlines  >  My Perplexing Egg Dish On Ukraine International Airlines
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My Perplexing Egg Dish On Ukraine International Airlines

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 2, 2019November 4, 2019 6 Comments

Each week, 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.

Would you eat an airline egg dish if you didn’t know what it was?  I did on Ukraine International Airlines and I didn’t regret it…even when I discovered it wasn’t actually eggs I was eating…or maybe it was?

It was about three years ago and I was traveling from Istanbul to Kiev. The flight departed early in the morning and breakfast was served after takeoff.

No menu was offered, but a flight attendant took breakfast orders immediately after takeoff. The choices were eggs, specifically a plan omelette, or cheese blintzes. I ordered the omelette.

Now keep in mind, I had just flown from Los Angeles to London to Cairo to Beirut to Istanbul without a break, so I was rather sleepy by this time.

The tray arrived. It included bircher muesli, sliced melon and grapes, a croissant, and the “omelette”…

I looked at the dish and thought, that’s a strange-looking omelet. It doesn’t even look like eggs.

Clearly the fatigue was at work because it simply did not dawn on me that these were a thin crepe-like pancake filled with cheese…a blintz; the other choice. Ot maybe it was eggs? I still don’t know.

The cheese was mild, the pancake egg-like, and I finished the dish having thought I had eaten weird eggs. Even the bitter taste of the powdered coffee did not help me discern the taste.

CONLCUSION

I wrote the trip report immediately and even then it did not dawn on me that I may have eaten blintzes, not eggs. Now I’m just confused. What do you think it was?

You can read my full trip report here.

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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6 Comments

  1. Mishas Reply
    November 2, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    I think it actually was omelette. It looks very much like omelette I had recently on Aeroflot.

    • Matthew Reply
      November 2, 2019 at 2:02 pm

      Could be. Who knows. But three years later, it looks like a blintz to me. It was bland.

      • MeanMeosh Reply
        November 2, 2019 at 10:43 pm

        I think Mishas might be right. It looks like a poorly executed version of a Ukrainian omelette. Like what you’d get when using powdered instead of fresh eggs. (Yes, I really did just spend the last 20 minutes looking this up. What can I say. I’m a food nerd.)

        https://ukrainian-recipes.com/ukrainian-omelette.html

        The crepe just seems too thin to be a blintz to me.

  2. Aaron Reply
    November 2, 2019 at 3:31 pm

    So possibly both you and the FA didn’t notice you might have been served the wrong dish.

  3. CP@YOW Reply
    November 2, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    I love how “jam” is approximately the same word in Ukrainian/Russian as in English: джем transliterates to dzhyem, pronounced almost the same as in English (albeit more like gem than jam).

  4. Olga Reply
    November 4, 2019 at 1:02 am

    As Ukrainian, I can prove that this was actually an omelette. My grandma cooked it the same way 😉 it contains eggs, milk, some flour and is baked in the oven.
    The other dish would look like pancakes 😉

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