But as airlines grapple with a deepening recession, can passengers expect treats to vanish from food trays?

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Hundreds of millions of dollars were sent out of Afghanistan some in airplane food trays, according to the report.

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Many of the clothes, cooking aprons and even stainless steel food trays offered in the Berlin store were either designed or manufactured in jails, but not just German ones.

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The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.

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Recreational vehicles even build cabinets now with pullout drawers that contain built-in food and water bowl trays.

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The food, served in metal trays and plastic baskets on picnic tables, is simple and fresh, sourced from the Eastern seaboard.

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