Snack Basket Fluke?
Oct 3, 2005, 11:04 am
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Snack Basket Fluke?
I have had 2 flights in a row (9/28 - MSP-CLT) & (10/2 - CLT-MSP) where the snack basket was not offered in FC. Is this just a fluke, or has this been discontinued?
Oct 3, 2005, 11:11 am
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The snack basket was offered on my LGA-DCA and DCA-DFW flights this weekend. Hopefully you just experienced a fluke.
As a side note, anyone else see the "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? I think it's my new favorite snack basket item!***
***at least until the return of the XOs
As a side note, anyone else see the "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? I think it's my new favorite snack basket item!***
***at least until the return of the XOs
Oct 3, 2005, 11:17 am
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Fluke. Just had the snack basket on my flights up and back to BDL this past weekend.
Oct 3, 2005, 11:21 am
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Snack basket was present on flights between CLT and MDT this weekend. Didn't notice the Screaming Yellow Zonkers (what are they?). Just had a bag of cashew/sesame stick mix, which appears to have replaced the bags of cashews.
Oct 3, 2005, 1:40 pm
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Screaming yellow zonkers are caramel coated popcorn. Had them on the R/T CLT_TPA this weekend. F/A said they came over with HP.
Oct 3, 2005, 1:44 pm
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Not quite caramel...but yes, some buttery-sugary coated popcorn.
http://www.lincolnsnacks.com/zonkers/index_on.asp
My FA said they started carrying them on Oct 1.
http://www.lincolnsnacks.com/zonkers/index_on.asp
My FA said they started carrying them on Oct 1.
Oct 3, 2005, 4:11 pm
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Ah yes. Had the Screaming Yellow Zonkers today from IND to CLT and CLT to PHL. I'm glad to see that the new US is freshening the snack basket, as a previous poster noted, rather than shrinking it. Interesting that the new snack came over from HP; I didn't receive anything other than a generic nut mix when I flew them over the summer in F.
Oct 3, 2005, 7:39 pm
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Originally Posted by shell nyc
The snack basket was offered on my LGA-DCA and DCA-DFW flights this weekend. Hopefully you just experienced a fluke.
As a side note, anyone else see the "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? I think it's my new favorite snack basket item!***
***at least until the return of the XOs
As a side note, anyone else see the "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? I think it's my new favorite snack basket item!***
***at least until the return of the XOs
Oct 4, 2005, 12:39 am
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Food in First
Had the Screaming Yellow Zonkers for the first time on a 10-2 flight from PHL to SEA. They're awesome.
I solely earned my elite status to receive the free drinks and food in first!! I'm quite bummed when I don't get upgraded, but not because I am cramped in the back, but jealous of all the free food being dished out in F. (smile)
Has anyone ever asked for 2 entrees? The most packets you've taken from the snack basket?
-GH
I solely earned my elite status to receive the free drinks and food in first!! I'm quite bummed when I don't get upgraded, but not because I am cramped in the back, but jealous of all the free food being dished out in F. (smile)
Has anyone ever asked for 2 entrees? The most packets you've taken from the snack basket?
-GH
Oct 4, 2005, 5:23 am
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Originally Posted by ghhoughton
Has anyone ever asked for 2 entrees? The most packets you've taken from the snack basket?
On an unrelated thought, I was eating a KitKat this morning for breakfast wishing it were really an XOXO.
Does anyone else have these feelings??
Oct 4, 2005, 7:59 am
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Originally Posted by jimcfsus
I was eating a KitKat this morning for breakfast wishing it were really an XOXO. Does anyone else have these feelings??
Does anyone else have these feelings??
Oct 4, 2005, 8:15 pm
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XO's and a Coke...breakfast of champions!! 
Toblerone and Godiva chocolates have returned to Duty Free so I"m sure the XO's aren't too far behind if they aren't on the airplanes already.
Toblerone and Godiva chocolates have returned to Duty Free so I"m sure the XO's aren't too far behind if they aren't on the airplanes already.
Oct 4, 2005, 8:48 pm
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No xoxos in the snack basket on the LGA-DCA Shuttle this morning but there was one on the tray next to the sandwich and potato salad this evening on the way down to MCO.
After the trays had been picked up, a guy came up to the FA and had him rummage around in the trays for any leftover packages.
After the trays had been picked up, a guy came up to the FA and had him rummage around in the trays for any leftover packages.
Oct 4, 2005, 9:03 pm
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Originally Posted by monitor
No xoxos in the snack basket on the LGA-DCA Shuttle this morning but there was one on the tray next to the sandwich and potato salad this evening on the way down to MCO.
After the trays had been picked up, a guy came up to the FA and had him rummage around in the trays for any leftover packages.
After the trays had been picked up, a guy came up to the FA and had him rummage around in the trays for any leftover packages.
Oct 4, 2005, 10:22 pm
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Originally Posted by ghhoughton
Had the Screaming Yellow Zonkers for the first time on a 10-2 flight from PHL to SEA. They're awesome.
I solely earned my elite status to receive the free drinks and food in first!! I'm quite bummed when I don't get upgraded, but not because I am cramped in the back, but jealous of all the free food being dished out in F. (smile)
Has anyone ever asked for 2 entrees? The most packets you've taken from the snack basket?
-GH
I solely earned my elite status to receive the free drinks and food in first!! I'm quite bummed when I don't get upgraded, but not because I am cramped in the back, but jealous of all the free food being dished out in F. (smile)
Has anyone ever asked for 2 entrees? The most packets you've taken from the snack basket?
-GH
They were out of seconds in F.My GF was the only passenger in F on a 321 from CLT to BDL last December - what are the chances of that ??? The FA showered her with a barf bag full o' mini bottles of her choice. On another occasion a FA gave her a full bag of Milanos, back in the day. I've never been so lucky.