Someone paid $9 for this in-flight meal dubbed ‘world’s saddest’

Airline meals are rarely culinary showstoppers, but what one traveller received after forking out $9 for lunch has left people in hysterics.

A holiday-maker has slammed the “world’s saddest bacon sandwich” which cost her €5.50 ($9) on a Ryanair flight.

Irish author Liz Nugent tweeted a picture of the sandwich her friend had ordered while on a flight on Friday.

“My pal Aimee paid €5.50 for this ‘bacon sandwich’. I’m trying to figure out if it qualifies,” Nugent wrote.

She also jokingly said eating the sandwich – with two very small pieces of bacon – was a “culinary experience”.

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A Ryanair customer shared a picture of this $9 bacon sandwich. Picture: Liz Nugent

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After Nugent shared a picture of the sandwich online, one viewer replied: “World’s saddest looking sandwich.”

“This looks like whoever was making it got a little peckish,” someone else said.

“It’s like a thought experiment in how far the concept of ‘bacon sandwich’ can be whittled down before the thing falls apart,” another tweeted..” I’m enjoying Ryanair’s new role as avant-garde philosophers.”

“Surely this is grounds to sue for pain and distress!” another person said.

Irish novelist Liz Nugent said her friend received the lacklustre meal. Picture: Liz Nugent

Nugent’s friend Aimee then said that she had eaten the sandwich, while adding some kind words for the flight crew.

“I also had a lovely flight and the cabin crew were class,” she wrote. “I just found the sandwich humorous and slightly overpriced. Still ate it though!

“I doubt people will book a flight based on the quality of a sandwich to be fair!”

The Sun Online has contacted Ryanair for comment.

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