The shocking vegetarian meal served to passenger on flight

Plane food is notorious for being disappointing and substandard, however, a vegetarian traveller was left shocked after receiving a very unremarkable meal.

Passenger Steve Hogarty ordered the vegetarian meal option on a recent flight with Colombian airline Avianca when he was served an apple and a pear.

"The vegetarian meal on this flight is an apple and a pear wrapped in clingfilm, served with a knife and fork,” Steve, a London-based journalist, tweeted.

Online users were just as baffled as he was.

Which bit’s dessert?” someone asked.

Another said, “There are half a billion vegetarians in the world. It seems a bit backward to consider them all ‘special’.”

In response to his tweet, the airline asked him to contact them privately about this issue, claiming that his meal was a mistake.

“This is not our standard, so we surely will investigate as soon as possible," Avianca said.

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Earlier this year, a passenger who ordered a vegetarian meal on an Aegean airlines flight was given a few sticks of celery, carrot and capsicum.

Vegetarians are not the only ones suffering on flights.

In May, a British passenger who ordered the gluten-free option on Japan’s All Nippon Airways was given a banana while everyone else enjoyed a hot breakfast.