I need someone to help me understand this paragraph.?

Question

While in-flight meals have come a long way, there are still some scary snack options being served up. Airlines have tried to health it up, offering snack packs (many trans-fat-free) with tons of goodies instead of just TV-dinner-style fatty entrees. Unfortunately, the calorie and fat counts on these packs are often, well, sky-high. Here's the lowdown on what's guilt-free at 30,000 feet...

What's meant by TV-dinner-style fatty entrees, sky high, at 30,000 feet?

Answer 1

"TV-dinner-style": this would refer to the couch potatoes who usually survive with potato chips, fries, etc and other such snacks as their dinner while watching TV at home.

"sky-high": refers to a lot of calorific value of the food in context. In the above paragraph, this refers to the the food being served by airlines, which, although claims to be trans-fat-free, but eventually contain a lot of calories/fat.

"30,000 feet": refers to the altitude at which the airplane flies.

Answer 2

TV dinners were before microwaves. They were trays of food with a section for each type of food, so there was meat in one part, carrots in another, peas in another etc. You put the whole thing in the oven and when it was cooked ate out of the tray. On TV, the trays you see prisoners eat out of are kind of like the way TV dinners were laid out. They were packaged in aluminium foil. Many microwave meals these days are set up like TV dinners but without the divisions for each kind of food.

A fatty entree is a small snack before a main meal that has a lot of fat in in, so a tv dinner style fatty entree is a fatty snack before the main meal in a tray with compartments.

Sky high means to the extreme, or top, or as far as it can go, so sky high prices are very high prices.

At 30,000 feet refers to the altitude the plane flys at.

Basically the story is that for a fatty snack in a divided tin you pay a lot of money if buying it on the plane.

Answer 3

TV dinners are the frozen meals that come in those compartmented trays? In my day, when they first came out before microwaves, the trays were aluminum. We ate the dinners in front of the TV, which was also fairly new.
Fatty entrees are main dishes that are high in fat content. Transfats are still high in calorie.
Sky-high is a play on words since meals are served in a plane at 30,000 feet.

Answer 4

if you want healthy fresh airline food ask for the Orthodox meal [these are prepared on a separate line for same day consumption], whereas the tv dinners may be 3 days old when they arrive to the plane.

Answer 5

That they serve you the equivalent or TV dinners on airplanes