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#1755 by CryptKeeper
05 Jul 2004, 20:22
Flying UCS this month. Can anyone scan in a copy of a recent menu. I just wanted to get an idea of what they offer on the freedom menu. Also, is the menu at the clubhouse the same or is it different?
#35476 by The_Banking_Scot
05 Jul 2004, 20:57
Hi cryptkeeper,

The clubhouse menu is different from what you get on board.

In the morning ( before 11am I think) you get a continental buffet with a choice cereal, fruit, smoothies, pastries. You can also order cooked food from the kitchen ( choice of three or four dishes I think).

One of the choices at the LHR in April was American Sweet pancakes ( yummy).


General selection on Freedom;
Salad
Soup
1 meat dish
1 fish dish
2 other choices I think
Cheese
2 choices of desert

Nibbles at the bar during the flight

Afternoon tea includes sandwiches and scones plus other good stuff.


Regards

TBS
#35487 by Nick
06 Jul 2004, 01:51
quote:Originally posted by CryptKeeper
Flying UCS this month.

Hi CryptKeeper,

I'd like to thank you for asking all the right questions (here and over on FlyerTalk) - I'll also be flying in UCS from Tokyo for the first time next month (normally travel in Economy or PE) and seem to be going through exactly the same set of questions in my head as you, but just a little later.

I hope you will write a trip report, especially about what the UCS are like on the 346. I hope you enjoy Japan.

Nick
#35492 by Jonathan
06 Jul 2004, 09:11
I also recall a choice of breads & sandwiches (in flight)!!
Yummy;)

I've only had breakfast in the clubhouse as I fly mostly to mco..

Last time (in the clubhouse) I had this great scrambled egg with chives and bacon on toast

If you fly a red-eye you also get a breakfast choice in flight (bacon sandwich, full english.. pasteries cereal etc)
#35507 by Gelding
06 Jul 2004, 10:55
Also If you can "mix and match" different types of meal. For example when I last flew UC we didn't like the look of the soup for starters on the dinner menu so we had a couple of bacon rolls from the breakfast menu instead!! Damn it I am just too northern for my own good:)
#35519 by HelenF
06 Jul 2004, 12:26
Code: Select allDamn it I am just too northern for my own good


Surely it isn't possible to be too northern:D
#35535 by Gelding
06 Jul 2004, 16:13
If you are northern, then you can be never too northern. Still if you are from the south then I am sure even the slightest northerness is too much:D
#35538 by HelenF
06 Jul 2004, 16:55
One of my friends described me as 'not a real northerner', meaning it as a compliment. To me, 'not northern' meant 'southern', which as a born and bred Yorkshire woman (albeit currently reident in Bristol) I wasn't happy about!
#35539 by Decker
06 Jul 2004, 16:58
Know what you mean - when one of my friends describes me as a "soft southern s***e" I have to point out that whilst I may have gone partially native the Wirral is still further North than Nottingham :D
#35544 by Matt
06 Jul 2004, 17:34
On my last flight in June on the LGWMCO route I didn't like ANYTHING they had on the UC menu (fussy...and told that by the IFS!!), so I had an economy meal that they put on a plate for me:D:D

Matt
#35556 by mitchja
06 Jul 2004, 17:54
I'm still waiting for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to appear on the Freedom menu.......Mmmmmmmmm


Regards
#35557 by csparker
06 Jul 2004, 18:00
They've just opened a Krispy Kreme outlet in Canary Wharf. There's going to be a lot of bankers putting on some weight over here...
#35559 by HelenF
06 Jul 2004, 18:01
quote:I'm still waiting for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to appear on the Freedom menu


Just so long as they have plenty of defibrillators on board. I swear I can feel my arteries hardening when I eat one of those!
#35561 by mitchja
06 Jul 2004, 18:06
quote:Originally posted by HelenF
quote:I'm still waiting for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to appear on the Freedom menu


Just so long as they have plenty of defibrillators on board. I swear I can feel my arteries hardening when I eat one of those!


true - but hey, there's always that long walk from the gate to arrivals at LHR to work off that excess :D

Regards
#35565 by HelenF
06 Jul 2004, 18:13
quote:true - but hey, there's always that long walk from the gate to arrivals at LHR to work off that excess


Yep, sometimes I think strategically placed stores of Kendal Mint Cake wouldn't go amiss at LHR, just to keep the blood sugar up.
#35593 by mcuth
07 Jul 2004, 09:33
quote:Originally posted by HelenF
Surely it isn't possible to be too northern:D


As an exiled Yorkshireman living in Reading, I can confirm that this is not possible :D

Cheers

Michael
#35597 by Jonathan
07 Jul 2004, 10:40
quote:Originally posted by csparker
They've just opened a Krispy Kreme outlet in Canary Wharf.


Wherer about? I live near the wharf! hmm doughnuts;)
#35601 by candyman
07 Jul 2004, 11:25
quote:Originally posted by mitchja
I'm still waiting for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to appear on the Freedom menu.......Mmmmmmmmm


Regards

sorry to be a bit thick what is a Krispy Kreme doughnut?

perhaps its because i am a bit of a northener
(difficult decsion as i live in nottingham it is not real north but just in the middle but i would hate to be thought of as a toffee nosed southener)

steve
#35605 by anteo
07 Jul 2004, 12:36
I saw KrispyKreme donuts in EWR and thought Id try them. I must admit after all the hype that Id read, they werent that special!!! Now Dunkin' Donuts is an entirely different matter....... ;)
#35606 by candyman
07 Jul 2004, 12:43
here we go i will betray my real northern roots

i like morrisons doughnuts are they like them ?

steve
#35610 by anteo
07 Jul 2004, 12:59
Kind of.

Take the custard ones (if they do them- Asda do) make em about 1.5 times bigger, pour chocolate or some flavour icing over the top and your pretty darned close [:p]
#35618 by PaulS
07 Jul 2004, 14:20
Helen

I also come from Gods Country. Unfortunately I've had to leave Yorkshire to live in Manchester. Dont understand these fancy foods. Much prefer to have beef dripping rolls

Paul
#35628 by candyman
07 Jul 2004, 15:29
with a side order of pork scratchings?
now that sounds like a fredom menu you would get if easy jet did uc
steve
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