This incident happened on the 15 october 1996.

A middle aged Ghanaian lady asked for fufu on a British airways flight. The air hostess did not have a clue what it was, because the lady could not express herself properly in English.

After it was explained to her, by a fellow passanger, that it was not possibe to get fufu at 36,000 feet she said

"OK, forget the fufu and bring only light soup with goat meat."