Wordless Wednesday: Air Travel Dining

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Wordless Wednesday: Air Travel Dining

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Two-fisted Taste Test

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLfYtDK286cJx9PtDKCiZfsiPuSviAKh3rZmQjc-jfJ9TP_U1GcgudSR_Fqz6q7CL3Cz0GPhbnGp1qTToyf5ltzWLvv5zfww7Jt_PPoG13t48F6_4oq7gMXf1XbEeQiapnaJDA-bkwO-x/s1600/biscuits7559.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636436564871222994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLfYtDK286cJx9PtDKCiZfsiPuSviAKh3rZmQjc-jfJ9TP_U1GcgudSR_Fqz6q7CL3Cz0GPhbnGp1qTToyf5ltzWLvv5zfww7Jt_PPoG13t48F6_4oq7gMXf1XbEeQiapnaJDA-bkwO-x/s400/biscuits7559.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 207px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Trader Joe now sells "Bistro Biscuits" very similar to the Biscoff cookies served on some Delta Airlines flights, and available randomly at some stores. These are justifiably popular cookies, maybe even a cult item, and I'm really glad that TJ has come through. <br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCS5A5mbxdqdIYm6WV9I4dOPmhXjm_5792O-q0G08sJH8tHdJoOhi_XCeit4Sh-XiZrfifWFx6qQ0oDc_BAlr9r2oWrtcpwXeDwlzVOiGxmGAiI34DITvKkTCONcTJu7eByEwjsBX9cNR/s1600/biscuits7562.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636436562212662866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCS5A5mbxdqdIYm6WV9I4dOPmhXjm_5792O-q0G08sJH8tHdJoOhi_XCeit4Sh-XiZrfifWFx6qQ0oDc_BAlr9r2oWrtcpwXeDwlzVOiGxmGAiI34DITvKkTCONcTJu7eByEwjsBX9cNR/s400/biscuits7562.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>We did the two-fisted cookie challenge, taking bites from a TJ cookie and one of the two Delta Lotus Biscoff cookies that a friend thoughtfully saved for me from a flight she was on. The TJ version might be just a tiny bit sweeter, but the taste is almost identical. The TJ cookies are slightly smaller, measuring approximately 3 inches. I ate the Delta cookie before I thought of measuring it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzzPR6BXk3Fo-fW3MACheOsu8IPXfLt4Pq_49NNaZz3tLs1rCSSEnUMrCT_-SAwzqO-2bfSps7TL2T2fBCM5_aJMiZ2BPOh-OY4lkn9np2xNR91zog_c1VhvLZ5EBPlcGSJWNJTzh-fGH/s1600/delta-cookies.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582615469194454338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzzPR6BXk3Fo-fW3MACheOsu8IPXfLt4Pq_49NNaZz3tLs1rCSSEnUMrCT_-SAwzqO-2bfSps7TL2T2fBCM5_aJMiZ2BPOh-OY4lkn9np2xNR91zog_c1VhvLZ5EBPlcGSJWNJTzh-fGH/s400/delta-cookies.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Above are the Lotus Biscoff cookies that I bought from amazon.com a few months ago (eaten up long ago of course -- see <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://regional-food.blogspot.com/2011/03/delta-cookies-hard-to-find-on-delta.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Delta Cookies -- Hard to find on Delta flights</a>). </span>As it happens, amazon.com now sells two kinds of Biscoff cookies, one from Lotus and another from "Gourmet Center" and the cost of the Lotus original has nearly doubled since I bought them. Lucky thing I can now get Trader Joe's Bistro Biscuits!</div>

Two-fisted Taste Test

Trader Joe now sells "Bistro Biscuits" very similar to the Biscoff cookies served on some Delta Airlines flights, and available ra...

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Delta Cookies -- Hard to find on Delta flights

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzzPR6BXk3Fo-fW3MACheOsu8IPXfLt4Pq_49NNaZz3tLs1rCSSEnUMrCT_-SAwzqO-2bfSps7TL2T2fBCM5_aJMiZ2BPOh-OY4lkn9np2xNR91zog_c1VhvLZ5EBPlcGSJWNJTzh-fGH/s1600/delta-cookies.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582615469194454338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzzPR6BXk3Fo-fW3MACheOsu8IPXfLt4Pq_49NNaZz3tLs1rCSSEnUMrCT_-SAwzqO-2bfSps7TL2T2fBCM5_aJMiZ2BPOh-OY4lkn9np2xNR91zog_c1VhvLZ5EBPlcGSJWNJTzh-fGH/s400/delta-cookies.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />We flew to Ireland and back on Delta, with stopovers at Kennedy Airport. All 4 flights were on time or early, and the service was impeccable -- except for one thing. Only on one flight were there any of the famous Delta cookies from Biscoff, and that time I found only one single 2-cookie pack in the flight attendant's basket of pretzels and peanuts. Too bad: I really like Delta cookies.<br /><br />So when I got home, I ordered several packages (the minimum order) from amazon.com, and I'm really enjoying them. I do admit that LU Le Bastogne cinnamon-sugar cookies are very similar; in fact, perhaps better than Biscoff. And my local grocer has them in stock most of the time. Still, it's fun to get Biscoff cookies like Delta would serve if they ever had any.

Delta Cookies -- Hard to find on Delta flights

We flew to Ireland and back on Delta, with stopovers at Kennedy Airport. All 4 flights were on time or early, and the service was impeccable...

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Ireland

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z3mu61JZMRTarmjXtdJsUO1ASOHr8-WTDqRnqhHO-Q5z9AObZX_ZhMoKtSyBnASUBjpZUKt6XLkCdYTfCD4STxgveos9uv6lJx7InIrqZdWB1J3SrqDjAMNwvNqO65GAUkWHrlwdpFiV/s1600/airlinemeal.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577687303225869730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z3mu61JZMRTarmjXtdJsUO1ASOHr8-WTDqRnqhHO-Q5z9AObZX_ZhMoKtSyBnASUBjpZUKt6XLkCdYTfCD4STxgveos9uv6lJx7InIrqZdWB1J3SrqDjAMNwvNqO65GAUkWHrlwdpFiV/s400/airlinemeal.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" /></a>Here's something we haven't seen in a while: a hot airline meal from a still-functioning airplane kitchen. Just the same as the meals in the past when you saw them on every flight. Strange puree (potato? applesauce? a mixture?) and orangish gravy over a small slice of rubbery chicken breast, off-green beans (canned?), salad, small cello-covered brownie, cheese, crackers. But Delta did include it in the price of the ticket. Since they woke me up to give it to me, I ate some of it. Then we were wakened again by a woman whose mother couldn't wake up -- we heard increasingly urgent and loud calls, "Mom, Mom, Help, Help." No doctor responded to the subsequent call, but the stewardess nobly gave the woman oxygen and got her to wake up and the drama was over. Then we were wakened an hour later for breakfast and landing at Shannon airport. Not much sleep.<br /><br />Ireland looks beautiful and green, with strange slanting winter sunlight. We walked along Galway Bay in a very stiff wind. I hope to post much more beautiful photos than this!

Ireland

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Silly Post: Airplane meal

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsYlh5I5k6WEN3yjjc2GQLdgW4zGGCUO5OY6sMFDN55WA1AUeKXJXj_FUr709XLwbyLErzO7LaEXbbRhcCgKbaWT2cdS6Cv_VehTW0x21m3yTvQoMacGnlTI7-IjF0otiUEBfrKQ4FMVRV/s1600/airtrip1979.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471955538299586642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsYlh5I5k6WEN3yjjc2GQLdgW4zGGCUO5OY6sMFDN55WA1AUeKXJXj_FUr709XLwbyLErzO7LaEXbbRhcCgKbaWT2cdS6Cv_VehTW0x21m3yTvQoMacGnlTI7-IjF0otiUEBfrKQ4FMVRV/s400/airtrip1979.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" /></a><br />We have arrived in the Galapagos. Airplane meals are so scarce, I took a photo of this one. Mostly, I'll be posting photos of wildlife and whatever we see at my other blog, maetravels.blogspot.com ... so far I documented the trip from our plane window here:<ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://maetravels.blogspot.com/2010/05/flying-to-galapagos.html">Flying to the Galapagos</a></li><li><a href="http://maetravels.blogspot.com/2010/05/hello-from-miami.html">Hello from Miami</a></li></ul>

Silly Post: Airplane meal

We have arrived in the Galapagos. Airplane meals are so scarce, I took a photo of this one. Mostly, I'll be posting photos of wildlife a...

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