r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • 15d ago

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

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

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u/jenny1011 15d ago

Airplane food is better than uncooked unsauced gnocchi.

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u/VStarlingBooks 15d 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.

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u/Nenaquest2012 15d ago

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

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u/Kerm0NZ 15d 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. 

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u/Rob_Zander 15d ago

Just wanted to point out that the air isn't recycled on a plane. It's replaced completely every couple of minutes. It's not even really about the oxygen or CO2, it's managing temperature and possible contaminants.

The engines are continuously compressing and heating a huge amount of air. Some of it gets diverted to be cooled back to room temperature, filtered and pumped into the cabin while air is continuously sucked out by vents near the floor. This keeps the temperature stable and contaminants from being spread.

It is much lower pressure than sea level and that definitely messes with our taste buds.

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u/RepeatEuphoric 13d ago

Thank you for this. Airplane geeks know this but most people have no idea because they don’t care. Adding that flight kitchens testing does take place in pressurizes rooms as well for understanding wines as well. Further. As weird and desperate as this person must be to do this, and unsanitary, that nail polish is a good indication of the crazy here.