Earlier this month, a passenger on Japan Airlines (JAL) had a very sad—and now internet famous—breakfast. The passenger took to the comment forum Flyer Talk to explain that they had requested the VGML (Vegetarian Vegan Meal) for breakfast in business class on a flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Indonesia to Narita International Airport in Japan.
What the passenger received was a single banana on a plate. While the passenger initially thought the breakfast included a banana, they quickly came to realize that the breakfast was the banana. And lunch aboard JAL was also disappointing.
“Lunch was barely seasoned spaghetti and my meals on other JL flights were also bad, but nothing was quite as insubstantial [as] this [banana],” the passenger commented.