Indulge In United’s New Business Class ‘Build Your Own Ice Cream Sundae’ Choices – View from the Wing

Indulge In United’s New Business Class ‘Build Your Own Ice Cream Sundae’ Choices

by Gary Leff on May 31, 2024

United Airlines is bringing a new ice cream flavor to long haul business class, along with refreshed toppings and cake starting June 1, as first reported by Live and Let’s Fly. Tillamook ice cream replaces variable ice creams for different stations, where passengers have complained about inconsistent quality.

An internal airline memo shares the change,

In addition to the Tillamook vanilla bean ice cream, we’ll serve the Tillamook strawberry ice cream. We’ve also included toppings to make a strawberry shortcake sundae for customers in Polaris and premium transcontinental premium cabins.

Long haul international business class flights and flights between Newark and both Los Angeles and San Francisco will receive this on departures after 9:45 a.m.

Original Polaris Sundae

The airline recommends opting for sundaes with a single scoop of Tillamook strawberry along with strawberry compote, shortcake, Biscoff crumbles and topped off with whip cream. There will also be lemon berry cheesecake replacing their recent salted caramel cheesecake on board.

To me, Tillamook evokes images of cheese, but perhaps that’s just the years where their cheese cubes were the only option in the airline’s Red Carpet Clubs.

Original Polaris Dessert Cart

Build your own sundaes was an early feature of United’s Polaris business product eight years ago, though they had issues with bowls cracking. While business class food saw a number of cutbacks since the original Polaris roll out, with new lows they’ve never fully recovered from since the pandemic, ice cream carts returned early last year. I’ll look forward to reader reports on the quality of the new ice cream they’ll be serving on board as dessert.

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