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Air France: Real Simple

January 10, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

In the summer of 2012 I wrote a short post about a breakfast that I was served on a United Airlines flight back from China—how the meal’s plastic beauty fascinated me and how intrigued I was about the mix of exotic processed proteins that had been used to create it. For me, the inflight fakery evoked comparisons to meals served in dystopic science fiction futures. Yesterday while on an Air France flight from Casablanca to Paris, however, I was served […]

Categories: Care, Food, Random Reflections • Tags: Air France, airplane food, breakfast, cheese, croissant, faux food, inflight meals, meal, real meal, United Airlines

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United Airlines: The Food of the Future is Now

June 24, 2012 by Museum Fatigue

I don’t sleep well on long airplane flights. I usually stay awake through the whole thing and keep myself busy by reading, writing, watching movies and thinking. After twelve hours in the air I usually get pretty antsy and a bit punchy from lack of sleep. Often in my head I replay parts of Louis Black’s funny monologue about his airplane flight to New Zealand. Sometimes, however, in the final hours of the flight—when I have no endurance left and […]

Categories: Food, Random Reflections • Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, airplane meals, David Graeber, food, future, Hipstamatic, Science Fiction, soylent, soylent green, United Airlines

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