Just bananas! Passenger gets BANANA as an in-flight meal

A banana breakfast for passenger

Picture this: you board a plane and look forward to having a filling in-flight meal and when the time comes for service, all you’re presented with is a BANANA.

This was the unfortunate reality for a vegan passenger on board a Japan Airlines flight recently, when he was left hungry after receiving a single banana as his vegan meal option.

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A reported by New York Post, Kris Chari was travelling from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Tokyo when he ordered the vegan meal on his seven-hour-long flight.

The unhappy flyer took to air travel forum, FlyerTalk, to share his experience, saying that he had thought the banana was just a pre-breakfast starter, and NOT the entire meal.

“Before takeoff today my flight attendant confirmed that I ordered VGML and that my breakfast was a banana, by which I mistakenly assumed she meant that breakfast included a banana. When she served the banana after takeoff I thought it was just an underwhelming appetizer, but it was in fact the entire meal service! It was a really good banana—one of the best I’ve had recently—but it still seems more appropriate as a snack. Is catering out of CGK typically this underwhelming?” Chari said on the platform.

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A bad meal deal

The passenger also told Business Insider that he had expected to receive the equivalent of what non-vegan passengers were being served as a snack option in-flight meal, which were things like a sandwich, salad, vegan cheese, or a baguette.

Chari claimed that when he approached a flight attendant and asked about the banana, he was “frankly quite shocked” to learn that the fruit was, in fact, a catered in-flight meal.

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Chari also told Insider that it was a bit insulting to be served a single banana while others are given a far more substantial and flavorful meal option, adding that given the growth in the number of vegans and vegetarians, it should be seen as more important.

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