I’d like to say that I’ve had terrible experiences with airline food lately, but I’m having trouble remembering the last time I was on a flight that served actual food. I obviously need to upgrade more.

Or not, according to a letter circulating around the web and recently published on UK’s Telegraph. Apparently, a passenger had a regrettable experience with dinner on a Virgin Airlines flight.

I’ll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about.

Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing. That’s how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this.

Read the fully hilarious text of the letter, complete with gory photos, after the break:

This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.