Veg Above: Vegetarian Airplane Meals

The best part about ordering a vegetarian meal when you book your flight?

You'll get served before everyone else and they call it a "special meal".

I figured I would pick at my food, but my Air France grub was shockingly good. Pasta, lots of vegetables, crusty bread, Roquefort cheese, and two desserts: Kozy Shack rice pudding (I admittedly love the stuff) and an espresso chocolate chip coffee cake (on the dry side, but not too bad). I wasn't expecting breakfast as well, but a few hours later, yogurt, juice, and a chocolate chip bun (not quite a muffin) was placed before me.

On the way back, NWA's veg meal consisted of fruit salad, a marinated salad with pickled vegetables, an unlikely trio of string beans, beans, and rice, some kind of cheese spread, and saltine crackers. Dessert was a French cereal bar. It was like they had no clue what a vegetarian would eat and just threw a bunch of random foodstuffs on a tray. The "snack" was a cheese sandwich, pretzels, and vanilla ice cream. They kept shoving food at us.

Bottom line, it's safe to assume you'll be taken care of.