Nomination for smallest on-board snack of all time?

January 9th, 2009
  • Flying on QX 2088 two days ago, the on-board snack was a pouch of "Sunglory Raisins", net wt 14g. Upon opening this tough little container, I was rewarded with 8 (eight!) raisins. In all of my travels, this qualifies for the smallest intentional on-board snack of all time. Can anyone go lower?

    In defense of the Sunglory Raisin folks, I can say that each individual raisin was moist and tasty. And if it had been an afternoon flight instead of morning, I would have had a glass of free QX wine and forgotten all about it.

    (I searched, but didn't find a forum/thread for on-board snacks, so posted it on the appropriate airline forum)


  • I received about 24 pretzels, 12x2 on my Anc-Sea-Las this past weekend.:td:


  • I know it's not AS, but on a recent flight on Air Canada between Victoria and Vancouver, the on-board snack was a solitary mint on the 15 minute flight.

    It was kind of funny. :D


  • I received about 24 pretzels, 12x2 on my Anc-Sea-Las this past weekend.:td:

    Hmm...I think 12 pretzels still outweigh 8 raisins. Now if our metric was taste, that might be another matter...


  • Out of curiosity, what is QX serving as their mid-day snack currently?

    Well, yesterday on the return flight from Walla Walla it was a bag of some sort of baked wheat snax. Together with the WA state red wine, quite nice! (and weighed more than 8 raisins(.


  • Out of curiosity, what is QX serving as their mid-day snack currently?

    Last weekend:

    SEA-STS = Sticks
    STS-SEA = wheat crackers


  • The little Ghiraidelli chocolate squares that they unveiled in first to pass as "dessert" a few years ago were pretty small too. ;)


  • I hate raisins.

    What happened to those "organic" potatochip like snacks with sun dried tomato flavor? I actually bought them at the grocery store after eating them for the first time on Horizon.

    Heh--I think the raisins were the breakfast snack--all I needed was a bowl of oatmeal!


  • I've had the raisins on the (ugh) 0600 shuttle flight to SEA since March. I have quite the collection of them in my kitchen. They are the "breakfast" snack.

    As for the wine on the morning flights, I've asked for it on the aforementioned 6 am departure. The flight attendant usually looks at me like I'm from another planet. Not sure why... :confused:

    If I was flying from TUS-SEA at 6 am, I'm pretty sure some wine would help?


  • On my very first QX flight a couple of weeks ago, a 6:30am PDX-SEA run, I wanted to try the Oregon microbrew beer the in-flight magazine said they had. (Beer at 6am, you ask? I hadn't gone to bed yet--working nights, 6am for me is roughly equivalent to 9pm for a regular 9-to-5er...) The FA didn't look at me strangely, but he did say there probably wouldn't be enough time to do both the regular AM beverage service and crack open a bottle of beer, too.

    But literally moments before landing, he appeared at our seat with two cups filled with a very tasty brew. I now know why people say there's great service on QX! :D

    I would like to echo the comments of jackal:D, and add that raisins were served indeed. (Better then those sticks they handed out last year during mid-day flights) It was indeed a good brew.

    Out of curiosity, what is QX serving as their mid-day snack currently?


  • I think 14 g might be the bottom end of the snack sizes; there's been a "pomegranate bits" and "yogurt raisins" kind of snack of QX that is also 14g.

    I miss the oatmeal breakfast cookie things of a few years ago.

    E


  • For those wondering, 14g is about .5 oz. And while it wasn't AS or QX, I did fly F9 PDX-DEN and received a package of one Biscoff weighing in at .4 oz. Really, at some point why bother! Oh, wait, I guess many airlines don't anymore....


  • Do chocolate covered macademia nuts or should I say nut package count? Actually I think it came with the meal kinda like a mint.


  • As for the wine on the morning flights, I've asked for it on the aforementioned 6 am departure. The flight attendant usually looks at me like I'm from another planet. Not sure why... :confused:
    On my very first QX flight a couple of weeks ago, a 6:30am PDX-SEA run, I wanted to try the Oregon microbrew beer the in-flight magazine said they had. (Beer at 6am, you ask? I hadn't gone to bed yet--working nights, 6am for me is roughly equivalent to 9pm for a regular 9-to-5er...) The FA didn't look at me strangely, but he did say there probably wouldn't be enough time to do both the regular AM beverage service and crack open a bottle of beer, too.

    But literally moments before landing, he appeared at our seat with two cups filled with a very tasty brew. I now know why people say there's great service on QX! :D


  • Flying on QX 2088 two days ago, the on-board snack was a pouch of "Sunglory Raisins", net wt 14g. Upon opening this tough little container, I was rewarded with 8 (eight!) raisins. In all of my travels, this qualifies for the smallest intentional on-board snack of all time. Can anyone go lower?

    In defense of the Sunglory Raisin folks, I can say that each individual raisin was moist and tasty. And if it had been an afternoon flight instead of morning, I would have had a glass of free QX wine and forgotten all about it.

    (I searched, but didn't find a forum/thread for on-board snacks, so posted it on the appropriate airline forum)

    Perhaps you could have used a little cheese with your whine!!;)


  • I've had the raisins on the (ugh) 0600 shuttle flight to SEA since March. I have quite the collection of them in my kitchen. They are the "breakfast" snack.

    As for the wine on the morning flights, I've asked for it on the aforementioned 6 am departure. The flight attendant usually looks at me like I'm from another planet. Not sure why... :confused:


  • Warm Nut Ramekin anyone?

    (GEG-SEA in F, 2005)


  • On my very first QX flight a couple of weeks ago, a 6:30am PDX-SEA run, I wanted to try the Oregon microbrew beer the in-flight magazine said they had.

    The FA didn't look at me strangely, but he did say there probably wouldn't be enough time to do both the regular AM beverage service and crack open a bottle of beer, too.

    But literally moments before landing, he appeared at our seat with two cups filled with a very tasty brew.

    It just took awhile to ferment the raisins. :D


  • But literally moments before landing, he appeared at our seat with two cups filled with a very tasty brew. I now know why people say there's great service on QX! :D

    Q: Whats the difference between AS first class and QX?
    A: Nothing


  • OK--no more whining from me--on SEA-SBA this morning there were 40 raisins! A 400% increase (and this will likely start a new thread on % increases, fold vs times, etc. For the record, it also represents a 4-fold increase, and is 5 times higher....)


  • I hate raisins.

    What happened to those "organic" potatochip like snacks with sun dried tomato flavor? I actually bought them at the grocery store after eating them for the first time on Horizon.


  • Q: Whats the difference between AS first class and QX?
    A: Nothing

    I beg to differ... the seat size is much smaller... (Still waiting for my F seat on the Q400 :p)







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