New York’s Magnolia Bakery launched to fame in 2001 when Sex and the City characters Carrie and Miranda sat on a bench outside the bakery and enthusiastically plowed their way through pink-iced cupcakes while talking about their crushes. That was the original Bleecker Street location in the West Village, but the bakery has since expanded to nine other locations in the city, Los Angeles, Chicago and now… at cruising altitude. That’s because passengers flying first class on United on flights of more than 901 miles will be served something very sweet: Magnolia’s banana pudding with wafer cookie bits.
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These treats are made with real bananas, whipped into pudding, dotted with wafer cookie pieces and served in cute little 3-ounce cups. They’re inspired by the bakery’s World-Famous Banana Pudding. It’s not often you see an airline serving pudding at all as it's probably hard to keep the texture intact. These desserts are frozen to thaw. So just about the time the pilot says, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board, our flight time today will be—” your pudding will be already de-icing like a jet at Bangor International in December.
The Magnolia team worked for three years to prepare this banana pudding for its wings, so lucky first-class passengers, please savor the moment! If you’re in coach, you can still get Magnolia’s banana pudding at the airport; a location just opened in LaGuardia Airport.
And just like that, we couldn't help but wonder: if we eat banana pudding in the air, does that mean we're weightless?