This was some serious culinary catfishing.
Airplane food at its best isn’t exactly haute cuisine. However, one RyanAir passenger has sworn off ordering grub on the airline after receiving a terrible in-flight meal that looked nothing like its photo.
“Never ordering this again,” vented passenger Eleonora Juhos, 29, in the caption to the clip, which currently boasts thousands of views on TikTok.
The Slovakia resident had reportedly ordered the dish, a vegan lasagna, while flying from Vienna, Austria, to Tenerife, Spain, Newsweek reported.
It’s one of several offerings on the low-cost carrier along with Thai green curry, baguettes and grilled cheese sandwiches.
“This was my first time [ordering food], though I’ve flown with them many times,” the flyer told Newsweek “Since this flight was over five hours, I decided to try it, and the only veggie option was the lasagna.”
She was excited to sample the multitiered pasta, which looked appetizing enough in the in-flight magazine — plus it cost only around $16, a veritable steal amid inflation.
However, what arrived was a complete mess.
The accompanying video juxtaposed the enticing menu pic of the lasagna with the dish she received, which entailed a sloppy quagmire of plastic-looking cheese and less-than-enticing sauce.
To complicate matters, the revolting repaste tasted “even worse than it looked,” Juhos told Newsweek.
“Even though I didn’t have high expectations, I was still surprised by how unappealing the meal looked,” she recalled. “Unfortunately, it didn’t taste any better.”
She explained that the lasagna only had a “few small pieces of courgette [zucchini] in a watery ketchup-like sauce.”
The predicament evoked the late Ray Liotta’s closing line from Martin Scorsese’s 1990 opus “Goodfellas”: “I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup.”
Juhos wasn’t expecting much for the price on a budget carrier, but she felt that “the presentation in Ryanair’s in-flight magazine and on the packaging was quite misleading.”
Viewers were similarly appalled by the in-flight fodder, with one commenting “that’s … horrendous.”
“That was more different than I expected,” added another.
Others weren’t so shocked that a low-cost carrier would serve something unappetizing.
“Yep seems about right,” remarked one viewer, while another wrote, “Oh Ryanair food, I wish I could have warned you.”
“Lesson learnt, not gonna make the same mistake again,” Juhos replied.
The Slovakian didn’t expect any compensation for her hellacious lasagna, so she neglected to broach the issue with crewmembers, instead opting to voice her complaint via Ryanair’s post-flight survey.
The Post has reached out to Ryanair for comment.
This isn’t the first time a budget airline’s herbivorous offerings have left a passenger high and dry.
In March, a vegetarian voyageur flew off the handle after an unnamed airline served them a “vegan” option that consisted of cucumber and tomato slices bookended by a dry bun.
