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It was the hero we don’t deserve.
An Irish airplane passenger has sworn off flying Aer Lingus after being served the “world’s worst sandwich,” which was almost devoid of filling and scarcely bigger than his thumb.
“It lacked the basic quality of what it is to be a sandwich,” Oisín Breen, 40, who works as a poet and journalist, told Kennedy News of the dismal dish.
The Irishman, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, was served the abysmal meal while traveling from Dublin, Ireland, to Toronto, Canada, last month, before continuing to Jamaica the next day to visit his fiancée’s family.
Disaster struck five hours into the five-hour trip, when Breen was served his second meal. He opted for the vegetarian option — an innocuous-seeming cheese and relish sandwich.
What the flyer received was “100% the worst sandwich” he’d ever had.
“The sandwich was atrocious, probably the worst I’ve ever seen in my life, but equally, it wasn’t really a sandwich,” lamented Breen while describing the “inedible” nosh.” “The bread was miniature and dry as hell.”
Accompanying photos show the blandwich, which appeared barely big enough to satiate a Calico Critter.
Along with being tiny, the composition of the filling was also off-kilter, per the fed-up flyer. “The relish was spread on one-fifth of one side of the bread,” he recalled. “Essentially, you got a corner of relish and the cheese was unpalatable and just one miniature slice. “So dry bread, a faint mist of relish, and ghastly cheese.”
The wordsmith said it was so bad that even Michael O’Leary, the outspoken cost-cutting CEO of budget carrier Ryanair, wouldn’t even “serve such bilge.”
However, when Breen broached the issue with the flight attendant, she initially thought he was just “moaning,” but then agreed that his inflight bite was terrible.
“She laughed and said ‘yeah, I’m sorry about that, you can’t help but think where’s the rest of it gone, right?’” he recalled.”
In light of his underwhelming experience, Breen said he is “contemplating never flying with them again.”
“I’d appreciate honesty,” the traveler declared. “If they’re still claiming to be a proper carrier, do the job properly.”
An Aer Lingus spokesperson has since weighed in on the less-than-satisfactory dining experience.:
“We regret that due to an issue with our catering supplier in late December, our second service offering on this flight was not our usual standard,” they said. “We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this temporary issue, which has since been rectified.”
Unfortunately, the incident follows a rash of underwhelming dining experiences travelers have experienced in the friendly skies.
This past fall, Air France put the “plain” in airplane after allegedly serving a passenger sticky-note-thin cheese slices between bread with an unidentified sauce.
The flyer compared the minimalist dish to in-flight equivalent of the “Fyre Festival,” the ill-fated 2017 event luxury music festival that notoriously stranded thousands of revelers on an island with nothing but meager food and emergency tents.
