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The meals served by Air Food One are inspired by Business Class in-flight meals.

It may seem weird to many, but there are some people who love airplane food. Even weirder, there are people who love it so much that they want to eat in-flight meals in their homes.

This is the idea that a new venture in Germany is based on, which has begun delivering airline-style dinners to German homes.

Max Thinius of online produce retailer Allyouneed.com says, “Some of our customers called us and said we love to eat fresh food, but we don’t want to have convenience food.”

In August, in response to these requests, the company partnered with LSG Sky Chefs, the German airline Lufthansa’s catering division, to launch Air Food One.

The project is still in an eight-week trial period that Thinius calls its “pre-pre-pilot stage,” the service currently delivers meals inspired by Lufthansa’s business class menus once a week in Germany’s Dusseldorf and Cologne regions.

The meals retail at around $13. Included on the menu are steak filets, chicken in pepper sauce, fried cod and several vegetarian options.

According to Thinius, the meals appeal to working parents with kids to feed, as well as to busy business travelers who don’t want to give up their diet of delicious airplane food.

He insists Air Food One’s meals are better than their inflight counterparts, because they’re delivered fresh for customers to heat up themselves, opposed to the commercial aviation caterers that have the meals precooked and packed into metal crates.

There is the additional advantage of being able to use a real knife and fork, and a larger steady surface to sit one’s tray on.

“They’re astonishingly OK,” says Thinius. “I didn’t think one could do such stuff that you heat and eat it, but it works. It’s not as good as if you cook yourself — unless you can’t cook properly — but it’s OK.”

He added that the pilot service has been going well so far, but it is still too early to tell if it’ll be expanded.

“If it will be successful we will of course expand, if it’s not, we won’t. There’s a lot of things we have to test, not just if the meals are liked by the customers, but also the logistics.”

The rest of the world will just have to wait for a long flight if one is craving the airline food flavors, at least for now.

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