-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Last Tuesday, a Delta redeye flight took off from Detroit at around 11 p.m. When the plane’s 277 passengers went to sleep, they were likely expecting to wake up somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on their eight-hour, non-stop flight to Amsterdam.
Instead, the plane made an emergency landing at New York’s Kennedy Airport “after reports that a portion of the Main Cabin in-flight meal service were spoiled.” Some travelers told CBS Detroit they bit into chicken that tasted “really sour,” while others reported spotting black mold on some of the pre-packaged meals. While it is unclear how many people actually ate the spoiled food , a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement that Delta would investigate the incident.
“This is not the service Delta is known for and we sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and delay in travels,” they continued. In the week since, details about the exact food served on the flight have been slim (though one could make guesses based on the Delta menus posted on international flight forums, which include options like a brie sandwich and peppered chicken breast salad), however jokes about the fiasco abound. It’s not exactly a surprising turn.
Related I miss airport food The diminishing quality of airplane food has been a punchline for decades now, especially among observational comics. George Carlin once famously said that “you only know it’s food because it comes in .
