And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Mid-flight snacks on Scandinavian Airlines in 1969
I flew first class in early 70s on a 747. We sat right up at the cone. The steward brought us leg of lamb and mint jelly on a glamorous cart covered in a white cloth. I was waaay too young to appreciate it but such a great memory!
Had it, lost it.
ReplyDeleteWith that layer of fat, that ham would fry itself, and a bunch of home fries, right properly!
ReplyDeleteWhen flying was a civilized endeavor.
ReplyDelete3 half-drunk beers, 2 what, brandies? and look at her, checkin' out the steward.
ReplyDeleteThat was not coach.That was first class.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll bet a ticket, adjusted for inflation, cost about 10 times what it costs today. In both coach and first.
In 1971, a coach ticket NY-SJU cost about $150 in actual dollars, on Eastern, Pan Am, American.
It still, in 2020 before Biden's oil skyrocket, cost about $150 in actual dollars.
Flew SAS to Norway a couple of years ago and the same attitude prevails: good food, lots of it, and great coffee. We did not get the display, however.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that carver is using a left-handed knife.
ReplyDeleteflying now is like riding a trailways bus
ReplyDeleteI flew first class in early 70s on a 747. We sat right up at the cone. The steward brought us leg of lamb and mint jelly on a glamorous cart covered in a white cloth. I was waaay too young to appreciate it but such a great memory!
ReplyDeleteFrom THAT in 1969 to THIS:
ReplyDeletehttps://vimeo.com/394234569
in 2020. Watch it all the way through, and be sure to appreciate the "Our Viking Ancestors" line at 1:30.