a first class experience
September 9th, 2005
Yesterday I moved to Edinburgh using a Virgin Train. I travelled first class, because for some reason it was the only advance ticket Virgin would sell me, and it was only £25.
Unfortunately, Virgin’s complementary food wasn’t so first class, although there was a lot of it. During the journey I knowingly consumed E134, E127, E202, E220, E422, E430, E450, E500, hyrdogenated vegetable fat, dried potato and monosodium glutamate. And that doesn’t include the sandwiches, which did not come with ingredient lists. I also ate a chocolate bar, a ‘chocolati’, which came in the Virgin ‘snackbox’. It was very cold, along with the sandwiches and other food items, and had clearly been refrigerated, despite the label on the reverse of the chocolate bar – ‘do not refrigerate’.
2 Responses to “a first class experience”
1Not Responding
September 24th, 2005 @ 12:46
The Virgin complementary “snack pack” is an insult, as you have discovered. At breakfast you get a marginally better microwaved bacon sandwich.
My personal award for best on train catering goes to GNER. Their breakfast is the best breakfast I’ve ever come across outside my own home. I’ve had some good dinners with them as well. It’s nice to board a train sober and hungry and alight full and half cut.
2tomment: expense for what
October 2nd, 2005 @ 19:58
[...] ed if I’d paid a few hundred quid for a Virgin train ticket, even if the did give me one of those awful snack boxes.
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