The best arline snacks around the world

Some airline food is just bad right? well not all of it fortunately. here is yahoo shine's list of the best airline snacks around the world. do you have a favorite snack from a specific airline? While a bag of nuts may feel like a luxury item on most flights these days, witness the best examples of free haute cuisine varying route-to-route and month-to-month across the suddenly not-so-unfriendly skies. Check out even more enticing flight fare here.


Emirates' Cheese Platter
Route: New York to Dubai


This is the best cheese platter you'll encounter in the air. Period. (What else would you expect from an airline with roast lobster, Dom Pérignon, and Iranian Sevruga caviar on the menu?) The selection of international cheeses changes frequently, but often includes tart labnah balls, slices of rare Spanish bonvallis with a wine-soaked rind, pungent Swiss gruyères, chaumes from Périgord, and German cambonzolas, all of which come plated on oak cutting boards garnished with dried apricots, fresh carrots, and grapes.
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Austrian Airlines' Pastry Plate
Route: New York to Vienna


While Austrian Airlines' transcontinental flights have living, breathing on-board chefs, its operation out of J.F.K. Airport in New York actually features a pastry department, too. Nibble on Fabergé-like sachertortes, dobostortes, and soft chocolaty cherry cakes, but save room for the superlative punseh krapfen, filled with D'arbo apricot jam, soaked in Meyer's dark rum, draped in velvety pink fondant, and garnished with fragrant candied violets. It's a favorite of many staffers, as are the mini chocolate mousses, whipped up exclusively for crew.
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Cathay Pacific's Warm BBQ Pork Bun
Route: San Francisco to Hong Kong

There's a magical place a few miles from Hong Kong International Airport called Cathay City, where pilots are trained, flight attendant dreams come true, and secret pork bun recipes from Cathay's various caterers are tested to see which is best. The fruits of this labor — a dollop of tangy pork and some homemade hoisin sauce folded into a warm yeasty, honey-glazed bun — are just the thing to get you through Hugh Grant's latest chick-flick snoozer.


Turkish Airlines' Mezze of Cold Stuffed Peppers
Route: New York to Istanbul

Turkey has an airline? Yes, and its food is excellent. These light Turkish snacks (also known as Zeytinyagli Dolma) date back to the Ottoman Empire era and are ideal mile-high foods because they're low in fat, but still filling. Many foods seem duller at extreme altitudes because our taste buds are muted, but the long-grained rice, extra virgin Turkish olive oil, finely chopped yellow onions, currants, pine nuts, and chopped fresh herbs make these little dervishes burst with flavor.



Midwest Airlines' Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies
Route: Phoenix to Milwaukee

Those who say the flyover zone is bereft of decent business class snacks should reconsider. Baked onboard in the aircraft's convection oven, each one-ounce warm chocolate chip cookie is another step closer to Mom's Midwestern kitchen. Made with fresh Wisconsin butter and chocolate chips by Milwaukee-based Ambrosia Chocolate (who's been around since 1894), the classic cookie is available in both coach and business classes and remains a gooey and delicious slice of Americana.

Air France's Fauchon Mini-Crepes Cheese Crackers
Route: Paris to Los Angeles

Air France's business class consults with famed sommelier Olivier Poussier regarding its wine selections, uses flatware designed by Philippe Starck, and calls these snacks "mini crepes." While they're basically cheese crackers, they're not ordinary cheese crackers — not only do they come in a yellow box, they also "may contain trace amounts of fish, groundnuts, and celery," which must be the reasons they taste so magnifique.