Meals Up in the Air

The letter from Mimi Jaffe (April 23) praising the food on airlines makes me wonder about her taste buds. Anybody who has been presented with a tray of airline food and has any appreciation of food must still be shuddering.

Too often, I have had the misfortune of being presented with a tray containing a gray-brown lump, supposedly meat, that tastes as if it were cooked in 1990 and frozen until it was put on an airline catering truck and then reheated. Then there is the limp salad, the damp roll and a dessert that is usually reprocessed sponge with a topping of Elmer’s glue or some type of pudding made mostly with cornstarch. Methinks your writer eats the containers of Big Macs with relish.

LYNN SPEAR MERLES, Costa Mesa