Angry passenger slams airline for ‘box of sludge’ served during long-haul flight

An angry passenger has slammed an airline after being served a ‘box of sludge’ for their in-flight meal, with people saying it looked like ‘someone defecated into a box’. GROSS.

Look, plane food isn’t exactly known for being gourmet, given that it has to be something easy enough to serve en masse and simple enough for broad appeal.

Oh, and as it’s being dished up in a confined space, ideally it can’t be anything with too much pungency.

What you’re left with usually isn’t too exciting, but it’s normally at least edible.

One traveller, however, found that they weren’t feeling too peckish after what was dished up for them recently, sharing photos of the food on Reddit.

“All I can say with my recent experience is EW,” they said.

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While they did not name the airline, the pictures were posted in a Qantas Airways sub-Reddit.

One showed a cardboard box filled with – we think – scrambled eggs, sausage, a hash brown and a grilled tomato.

Next up, was another box, this time stuffed with a nondescript, brown and beige mélange.

The original poster added that they’d been served the dishes last week, having flown to Brisbane and Adelaide on two different trips.

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“Omg what the hell is that box of sludge?” one person asked in the comments.

Someone else said: “Absolutely f**kin appalling! The food looks like the someone defected into a box.”

A third wrote: “Must be fukn embarassing working on these planes. Poor hosties.”

Another added: “What the actual F**K!? I can't even identify what is in those boxes - is it supposed to be food? If so, for... humans??”

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Many others also shared their own horror stories from flights, with one writing: “They didn’t even put the food on the plane for my flight the other day. Landed in Sydney and they told us to trudge over about 10 gates to pick up something to take with us as we left. I was not wasting 20 minutes for a 6 month old cookie.”

But it gets worse...

Someone else said: “They ran out of water on a long-haul I was on last month. So no water for toilets, taps, for the final hours of a 14 hour flight... just when everyone waking up from their kip.”

Nope. Hell no.

Suddenly that ‘box of sludge’ isn’t looking so bad, is it?

A spokesperson for Qantas told Tyla: “There are no flight details in the social media post so we don’t have specific information on what’s occurred, but all of our aircraft are cleaned with a disinfectant between flights and at the end of the day and undergo deep cleaning on a regular basis.

“The presentation of one of the meals is not what they normally look like but generally we’ve had great feedback on the new dishes and the larger portions we’ve recently introduced.”