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Home  >  Meal of the Week • United Airlines  >  My Favorite Airline Comfort Food, One Last Time
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My Favorite Airline Comfort Food, One Last Time

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 21, 2020March 21, 2020 11 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.

My last United flight for what may be many months fittingly featured one of my favorite dishes. Oh how I look forward to having this dish again…

Heidi and I have decided to wait out the epidemic in California rather than Germany. Thus, my final flight was from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles, a late-night flight after an easy connection from London.

United serves a “snack” on its late evening transcontinental departures (after 8:00PM). Tonight’s choices were a Thai noodle salad or a cheeseburger on pretzel bun. Even as I try to limit my beef consumption in 2020, this was an easy choice…the pretzel burger on United has been one of my favorite airline meals for years. It thus seemed fitting to enjoy one of my favorite meals on my last flight.

The toppings (lettuce, tomatoes, Gouda cheese, pickles, mustard, ketchup) are served on the side, with the hamburger patty warmed and pretzel bun toasted. I had slept through the pre-arrival meal on my London to Washington flight and skipped the lounge in Dulles, so this was a perfect late-night snack. It was served with grapes and Ghirardelli chocolate on the side.

Prior to landing, a cranberry muffin was served…in fact everyone was offered two each since the cabin was only half full.

I was happy to enjoy the burger one more time…I have a feeling that even if I were to travel in first class during this time United will soon switch to pre-packaged food only, like Air Canada has done.

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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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11 Comments

  1. David Marquette Reply
    March 21, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    it apparently tastes better than it looks! not terribly appetizing looking, the burger, big puffy bun.

    • Henry Reply
      March 21, 2020 at 7:59 pm

      I have had many of these over the years, and YES they do taste better than appearance and under the Smisek days was probably the best option of any meal. Thanks Matthew for the memories!

  2. Mike Reply
    March 21, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Steamed? Nasty Looking!

    • Les Pontiac Reply
      September 27, 2020 at 6:12 pm

      Yes, steamed hams Super Nintendo Chalmers.

  3. debit Reply
    March 21, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    All the worlds pandemic were started from viruses that jumped from animal meat to humans.

    We need to figure out a way to tax meat eaters more. They seem to be free loaders in the world. All these residents recessions and losses because of meat eaters but the rest of the world has to share the cost.

    Meat eaters are free loaders of the world. Tax meat eaters more.

  4. colleen Reply
    March 22, 2020 at 12:05 am

    Honestly, I’ve never had such fundamental disagreement here on this blog about your travel choices.

    By placing the cheese slice on top of the cold lettuce (rather on top of the heated meat), how on earth can it melt into delicious cheese gooeyness apropos a cheeseburger?

    Freeloaders, unite!

    Thanks for the post.

    • ChuckMO Reply
      March 23, 2020 at 10:23 am

      I was going to comment on the cheese placement as well.

      • Matthew Reply
        March 23, 2020 at 10:56 am

        That’s my fault! I just wish they put the cheese in the oven as well.

  5. debit Reply
    March 22, 2020 at 2:32 am

    https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-rihanna-donation-20200321-wmhmd4sworebvg6k3xidy7alcu-story.html

    ^^ this is really opportune since this is food related. President trump we are waiting for your generosity to convince us Republicans are not slimy hypocrites. Where are the millions of $ of donations from a billionaire, you POS.

  6. Aaron Reply
    March 22, 2020 at 6:42 am

    Glad it tasted better than it looked, since there doesn’t seem to be anything premium about it…

    • Henry Reply
      March 22, 2020 at 7:38 am

      Trust me, compared to the Swill United was putting out in F Class during the Smisek days, this is as good as it got.

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