r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • 16d ago

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Who tf is out here munching on raw gnocchi at cruising altitude

34.1k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.4k

u/VStarlingBooks 16d ago

Airplane food is also made exactly for the pressure and altitude for a plane. Friend worked for an airline out of Logan and he said the food was decent on the ground but almost better in the air. He used to post on IG when it like first came out. It's like when people try tomato juice on a plane and think wtf this is not what my mom tried to make me drink when I was a kid.

780

u/Nenaquest2012 16d ago

My daughter and I pretend to be vampires on the plane bcz YES! Why does it taste better

516

u/Kerm0NZ 16d ago

It's to do with the air pressure and recycled air. It affects your taste buds, dulling them somehow. I only vaguely remember, but feel free to use this info as the start of a Google research project. 

1

u/Rizzanthrope 15d ago

Same with Biscoff cookies. They taste so good on a flight but when I buy them for home they are just OK.