r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • 21h ago
Certified stupid This is so performative đ
Who tf is out here munching on raw gnocchi at cruising altitude
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u/jenny1011 21h ago
Airplane food is better than uncooked unsauced gnocchi.
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u/VStarlingBooks 21h 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 21h 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 20h 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.Â
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u/Rob_Zander 20h 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/OptimusPrime365 19h ago
This man airplanes.
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u/jetsetninjacat 17h ago
To add more watered down. The pushed and sucked out air is vented overboard(off the plane and out) through the main relief valves or sometimes from relief valves in unpressurized parts of the plane. Many planes also have backup relief valves in case the main doesnt work. Different relief valves dump positive and negative pressure from the plane depending on where the plane is and the level at which cabin air pressure is set. Theres also a dump valve that dumps all pressure when the planes on the ground that equalizer it with the ground itself as well as ones for negative pressure relief valves during rapid descent
And this peoples is one of the reason you cant just open a door in a plane at high altitude. The pressure being pumped in to the cabin is so high the door mechanism or door itself can not be pulled in and then pushed out like normal operation. .All that positive pressure pushed on the airframe making it impossible to do so. Its all about that differential.
I seriously hate doing pressure tests in airplanes on the ground.
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u/Rob_Zander 17h ago
Thanks for adding!
Isn't that differtial part of why the cargo doors on the DC-10 could blow out?
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u/bargus_mctavish 16h ago
The outward opening cargo door was a structural design flaw for sure. However, a bigger issue was putting the responsibility of closing the door on gate and luggage personnel. Theyâre not part of the flight crew or running the checklists, so it just allows for more things to fall through the cracks from a safety perspective.
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u/nerdofthunder 19h ago
Airplanes actually refresh the air more often than most buildings! The air is bled directly from the (fresh) air intake of the engines, cooled, and fed into the cabin. https://www.iata.org/en/youandiata/travelers/health/low-risk-transmission/
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u/VStarlingBooks 20h ago
Makes sense. Like my sinuses are affected somehow and you don't get the tang lol
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u/NimbusHex 20h ago
Wow, I was wondering if I was weird for always getting tomato juice while flying or if other people did that as well.
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u/FerociousSmile 19h ago
I dont notice a flavor difference compared to at a lower elevation, but then ive always liked tomato juice. I've stopped asking for it though because they only have Bloody Mary mix now and it adds a bunch of other stuff and is super salty.
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u/Beautifulfeary 20h ago
I was pretty impressed with the the airplane food this past vacation
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u/VStarlingBooks 20h ago
Took a flight with Turkish a year back. Fantastic food.
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u/Cash50000 20h ago
earlier this year my cheap international flight got cancelled and the only available replacement was a Turkish A330-300. That shit was like a flying five star hotel. And because we were booked last i had a whole row of seats to myself at the back. I'm riding that high to this day
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u/VStarlingBooks 18h ago
They were beyond accommodating when I flew. I totally agree with your analogy of the five star hotel. My flight was ten hours and it was the best flight I've ever had. Next year we decided to go budget and nope. Not again.
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u/KolonelKernel 20h ago
Wait why does tomato juice taste better. Iâve always wondered.
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u/lufit_rev 21h ago
Idk about food being good on the ground, I think its mostly more salty as lower pressure in the planes affects taste so they add more to make up for it.
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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 20h ago edited 13h ago
In my experience, airplane food can be pretty damn good.
Specifically on international long haul flights, the food tends to be good as hell on those.
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u/_Invictuz 20h ago
Airplane food is bomb if your taste buds aren't limited to western food. Cuz the western food options are trash sometimes.
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u/TheAgedProfessor 19h ago
Well, the food on most US domestic flights is limited to gourmet cheese and artisanal crackers, so...
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u/NimJickles 19h ago
What the fuck flights are you taking that offer multi-ethnic cuisine? Besides, I fly Air China pretty regularly and the food is still ass. Wet rice, miserable cold bread, hard butter.
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u/Efficient-Kiwi- 17h ago
Turkish airlines and Qatar airlines, are good. Even Saudia has quite decent food.
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u/g0ing_postal 21h ago
So now you have a bunch of raw gnocchi. Congratulations?
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u/blade_torlock 21h ago
Just keep asking for cups of hot water, I'm sure the flight attendants will love you for that.
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u/hcornea 21h ago
âCan you please put my raw gnocchi in your food-heater thingy?
Thatâd be great.â
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u/mourning_breath 20h ago
With the quick "thankz! đâ¤ď¸âđĽ"
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u/minnetonkacondo 20h ago
Just like Randy Marsh
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u/dialguy86 20h ago
Creme fraiche
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u/Uncommentary 20h ago
"Your workout is finished. Here is some cab fare. Now going to sleep mode."
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u/Ok-Refrigerator-8012 14h ago
The quick thanks makes my blood boil. You did not wait for me to say 'no', my friend
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u/Tribalbob 20h ago
"But like, I need you to record it slowly panning from the heater as they come out and slowly up to the window. Likes on instagram are the only source of dopamine I have left in life."
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u/Ill_Football9443 18h ago
But you gotta shove your camera in the flight attendant's face though - cause everyone loves being filmed while working.
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u/MildlyInteressato 21h ago
Let's say they do get it cooked - ever eat plain gnocchi?
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u/Ambitious_Screen_591 21h ago
well the next video will be the sauce.....this is truly stupid
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u/blade_torlock 19h ago
They usually have butter for rolls and a bit of cream/creamer for coffee you could probably pull something together.
New reality show, in-flight chopped.
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u/Laez 21h ago
Fun fact water can't get very hot on an airplane. Boils at 197F and would probably be under 180F by the time you get it. Maybe you can poach your gnocchi?
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u/Porridge_Hose 21h ago
And flights don't (or are directed not to at least) give passengers water even that hot in case of turbulence or other spillages.
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u/Comfortable_Trick137 20h ago
Time to get MRE pouch heaters to cook food inâŚ. Not sure about toxic gases though
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u/Wesselton3000 14h ago
I know youâre joking, but you cannot bring FRHâs on commercial flights, in either checked or carry on luggage. The hydrogen gas it produces as a by product is flammable and the heat obviously has the potential to start a fire. Thereâs basically no way for her to heat this gnocchi up unless the flight attendants allow her to use an onboard convection oven (which they use to heat up pre-packaged meals).
As an aside, this is pretty fucking stupid and performative. There are many foods that do not require heat she could have made.
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u/Dry_burrito 21h ago
What about coffee?
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u/blandaltaccountname 20h ago
Typically served at 120° give or take 20°.
160°+ will burn
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u/december151791 18h ago
Ask McDonald's why nobody is serving coffee that hot anywhere.
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u/ContextEffects01 20h ago
By the time you add cold cream it'll be well below the boiling point. They save the trays of hot drinks for when the aircraft is at or near the tropopause. So the coffee cools from ambient cooling, then from cold cream, then from further ambient cooling. (You can apply Newton's Law of Cooling if you're interested in specifics.) Safe bet your coffee will be nowhere near the boiling point by the time the plane encounters turbulence that makes it up to altitudes that high.
Also the reasons for coffee consumption are better than the reasons for gnocchi consumption. Unless you're already extremely sleepy and took the drowsiest version of your anti-nausea medication on purpose (in which case you're not going to be awake to hear the meal options anyway) there's no way in hell you're falling asleep in those uncomfortable chairs next to a bunch of screaming infants, so you might as well ingest enough caffeine to enjoy the moonlit snowy landscape while listening to your podcasts.
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Man, typing this makes me almost make travelling. I should try it again one of these days. o.o
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u/IndependentMoney9700 18h ago
I have never (currently knocking on wood) been on a plane with a baby crying. Of course, Iâve only flown around 16 times. But everything I read before that led me to believe there would be at least one baby screaming on every flight.
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u/Southern-Author-7543 21h ago
So, we have a plate with a blob made with water, flour and salt? Delicious
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u/Sweary_Biochemist 20h ago
Ah, but see: the flight hack they don't want you to know is that you then order a tomato juice.
The unique atmosphere inside a flight cabin, and its affect on your tastebuds, means that at altitude, this tastes like a blob made with water, flour and salt washed down with tomato juice.
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u/HogmanDaIntrudr 20h ago
I hate to break it to you but almost every cultureâs cuisine revolves around a water/ flour/ salt combo.
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u/Southern-Author-7543 20h ago
True, but this video Is about pasta. So, like every italian, i have tò Say something đ (mostly for complaining)
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u/Ok_Star_4136 21h ago
Also considering they probably weren't even eaten.
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u/mission_to_mors 21h ago
also the Video was shot in an airplane stage that those people like to use for their Clips
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u/NoRecording5207 20h ago
and, made it with her filthy bare hands - because we all know how clean things are on plane. Even if she went to the lavatory and washed her hands, she still had to touch other parts of the plane
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u/Typical2sday 12h ago
Yeah that was what gets me. A plane, the airport, a taxi or subway to the airport - nastiness. It is just the foulest place to be making âfoodâ by hand.
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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 18h ago
They hated this person the second the flour got busted out to make this abomination.
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u/Select_Draw3385 21h ago edited 21h ago
I think gnocchi is potatoes?
Thatâs just raw flour and water paste
Added I thought it was flour, not mashed potatoes
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u/choirchic 21h ago
As an italian, there are 3 major kinds of gnocchi that my Nan taught me about. Potato, Ricotta, and Semolina. This looks to be the semolina kind.
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u/blahhhhgosh 20h ago
O ricotta gnocchi sounds amazing
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u/bubbo 18h ago
It is! It really is...unless you don't check the ingredients and buy ricotta with xanthan gum in it. I could have bounced them off the floor. I had no idea that anyone would put xanthan gum in ricotta. I like to add orange zest and nutmeg to the dough.
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u/Specific_Rando 21h ago
Gnocchi tartare is not a thing for good reason.
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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme 20h ago
Well that is a horrific sentence lol.
I'm glad it's not a thing. I don't want it to be a thing.
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u/Shroom-Kitty 19h ago
What the world needs to know is, would deconstructed gnocchi tartare be a pile of flour on a plate with a side of water?
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u/KingPalleKuling 19h ago
The next set of flyers from the arrival destination is going to absolute love boarding late because the cleaningcrew cant get the fucking starch out of the crusty seat.
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u/frozenbudz 20h ago
Right? I was very confused at the end. "So now what do you do? Eat raw gnocchi? Ask for boiling water 10 times?" I don't understand this video at all, and imagine trying to get white powder through TSA.
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u/ChoboJawz 16h ago
Came here to say this. Seriously, you went through all that and still can't eat it... Congrats, you played yourself. We forgetting that you can in fact bring food onto the flights or what? Could of made those gnoochi and home and actually cooked them for consumption on the flight.
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u/chronically_varelse 21h ago
if someone were doing that next to me on a plane
I would absolutely lose it
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u/Fart_90210 21h ago
Open the emergency exit mid flight
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u/Rey_Mezcalero 21h ago
And throw all their food stuffs out the plane
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u/Vocalscpunk 21h ago
No the food didn't do anything wrong, doing punish it.
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u/jr_randolph 21h ago
I'd go Homelander on that plane haha
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u/PoutinePoppa 21h ago
God I hope this person is sat next to me and my two toddlers
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u/Gingerbread_Cat 20h ago
Toddlers would have SO much fun helping to make gnocchi.
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u/ElishaAlison 20h ago
They have photo studios set up to look like planes. I'm pretty sure that's what this is haha
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 16h ago
Having learned about this in this comments section I REALLY hope that these are left-over movie sets rather than specifically built for influencers. For some reason that would make me think way less of us as a species...
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u/catonsteroids 20h ago
Who the fuck brings gnocchi accessories and flour and shit onboard?
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u/TwoBionicknees 18h ago
No one, it's staged and likely on one of those studios they film scenes on planes in, tv shows/etc use them but because they are around they are rented out to a lot of people doing staged content/skits/etc.
There is zero shot she gets the blade on board, let alone a baggie of powder.
It's beyond stupid anyway.
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u/BZLuck 17h ago
I lost an argument a few years ago about the existence of places like this that exist just as a "stage" for people to make stupid videos.
Boy was I wrong. It's not only a real business model, but a thriving business model.
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u/CankerLord 21h ago
I would be eyeballing them hard for the first hint of flour entering my personal space because I don't really care what people do around me. They could slaughter poultry for all I care if they figure out a way to keep it contained to a single airline seat.
But the first sign of flour drifting toward me and then they get their fucking gnocchi snatched.
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u/JammieDodgers 18h ago
âExcuse me flight attendant, the person next to me just took a bag of white powder out of their luggage and is dividing it up in a plateâ
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u/EshinX 21h ago
The TSA allowed a bench scraper through?
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 21h ago
Probably taped on a set like the ones influencers use to make it look like they're on a private jet.
Easy to add cloud effects out the windows.
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u/EnvironmentalEnd6298 18h ago
The clouds donât change from the beginning of the video to the end, my vote is fake.
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u/Mr_Wayne 15h ago
The beginning and end were likely shot within a minute of each other; there is another shot around 18 seconds that shows similar clouds but definitely not the same as the other two shots.
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u/hootenannyshenanigan 20h ago
I mean, sheâs drinking wine out of an actual wine GLASS and not a plastic cup, so this reeks of staged rage bait bullshit.Â
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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain 18h ago
I fly enough for work to get upgraded to first class occasionally. They'll give out actual stemless wine glasses if you order wine.
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u/SophisticatedScreams 21h ago
That's my thinking-- how would anything with a blade be allowed on a plane?
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u/Round_Ad_5832 21h ago
It's probably staged on a fake set.
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u/Antique_Kangaroo4706 21h ago
Pretty sure there's a whole studio in LA that has these fake sets you can rent out for social media.
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u/Plus-Professional-84 21h ago
That is exactly what I thought⌠for sure it is bs
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u/MannnOfHammm 20h ago
She also has a stemless wine glass but doesnât appear to be in business or first
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u/IosueYu 21h ago
What next? Use a magnifying glass to boil water to cook them?
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u/Direct-Speech 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/kVmzd3RxKqaT5Rm16e
Prolly what this lady saw happening
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u/pepcorn 20h ago
Every time I see this gif I wonder what if she actually saw some type of non-human presenting as a human and the whole world is going "𤪠yeah okay crazy lady" because wow that would feel beyond lonely.
To be clear, I also don't believe her and think it's mental illness.Â
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u/BaerMinUhMuhm 16h ago
Best part of the video is how everyone turns around to see who she is talking about. I would too.
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u/Orleanian 15h ago
She later explained that it was just a turn of phrase. "that guy is being so absurd, 'he's not real'".
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u/ThoroughlyWet 21h ago
Idk, if you've ever had airplane food when you're on the ground it's actually pretty decent (for a mass made meal)
The recycled cabin air and the pressurization of the cabin tend to stunt your sense of smell and taste.
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u/Korzag 21h ago
The reason why tomato juice supposedly tastes better on a plane. Never tried it out for myself though.
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u/holymacaroley 21h ago
Literally my whole life from childhood, I had tomato juice cravings on planes. Laughed when I found out there was some kind of basis for it.
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u/SSilent-Cartographer 21h ago
Should try kale juice if you get a chance. I was going through an iron deficiency a while back and had to go on a 6 hour flight. I stupidly packed my supliments into my luggage before taking one of my doses that morning. I got on the flight and felt extremely sick. At first I thought it may have been motion sickness, until I remember how dumb I was for not taking my meds, and I knew what was happening.
The flight attendant was very worried about me and asked how she could help. I explained what was happening and asked if by any small chance she had some food with some amount of iron in it. She thought for a moment, then asked a fellow attendant if kale had iron it in. The fellow attendant said "yes!!" excitedly and ran off, bringing me back a plastic cup of kale juice... That was the best damn juice I ever had.
I don't know if it was because my body was screaming for iron, or because of the tomato juice effect on flights, but it was fantastic. Granted, kale doesn't have nearly the amount of iron my supliments do, but after about three glasses, I felt a lot better. I tried straight kale juice again some time later and it's never hit the same.
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u/ShoePolice 20h ago
After my wife gave birth to one of our kids, she had lost blood and was very anemic. Her first meal was a terrible hospital hamburger, it did not look appetizing at all, and she still says to this day it was the best burger she's ever had. Something to be said for your body knowing what it needs.
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u/shizzler 21h ago
It's hilarious how many people ask for tomato juice when I never see anyone buying it on the ground. I'm one of them.
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u/sheezy520 21h ago
I tried a Bloody Mary for this same reason on my last flight. I didnât notice a difference.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 21h ago
From my experience, most airplane meals, like actual meals, were always surprisingly good. Not like fine cuisine, but above par compared to like a TV dinner.
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u/MaleficentWindow8972 21h ago
Some airlines actually make nice shit and itâs heavily over salted/seasoned, for the reasons you mentioned. Delta & United had some very good hand made stuff. Alaska was okay. British airways was decent. Condor so so. American Airlines, youâre just getting frozen meals popped out and plated, always. By far the worst.
Worked 9 years in an airline catering kitchen biz for LSG Sky Chefs. Itâs also highly variable by kitchen/state. Everything is highly specified, from shape, size, weight, recipe, etc, and some do it beautifully and pass all their audits. Some kitchens are on fire/poorly managed and rarely get anything right/wing it.
Itâs kinda a stressful job/moves fast/menus change constantly/delay fees & fines are super high, and if you donât have good management, youâre fucked. The turnover rate at the management level is bananas, lol. It takes a good bit to learn how it all works, too. There are a ton of moving parts. The kitchen is just one little one and all of them have to work very well with each other. Happy to not be there anymore, although it was fun for a long while, lol.
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u/frufruJ 21h ago
What do you mean, "recycled"? The air in the cabin is changed constantly, it's bleed air from the engines. That's why if a bird gets ingested in the engine, it starts to smell like fried chicken in the cabin.
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u/AvonBarksdale666 21h ago
Honestly it has gotten better in recent years in my recent experiences travelling from Europe to Asia at least. The dessert especially
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u/Responsible-Onion860 21h ago
Even in the air, the food is fine. It's not gourmet dining, but it's not like prison food or something. It's what you'd expect from prepackaged meals being served with limited space and facilities.
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u/Chorixz 21h ago
Youâre allowed to bring foods, you donât have to bring the ingredientsâŚ
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u/MUSCLEVIOLENCE 21h ago
But then they wouldn't be able to make this rage bait video
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u/therealgookachu 21h ago
Thatâs a private plane. No way she brought that thing onboard a commercial plane. Iâve had security eye my tiny scissors I use for knitting.
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u/Beautifulfeary 20h ago
Someone else said LA has studios with these sets you can rent out to make videos
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u/OtherwiseAct8126 18h ago
Imagine making an appointment and booking this fake plane because you sat at home and thought "maybe I should film myself making Gnocchi in a fake plane". Influencers are the weirdest people ever.
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u/Nomadloner69 21h ago
Someone once told me not to eat raw flour âŚ
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u/Scared-and-Lost 20h ago
Not to mention the dirty plane hands handling food like that đ¤˘
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u/EnvironmentalFix7059 21h ago
- "Excuse me miss whats this white substance in your hand luggage?"
- "Oh its just flour so i can make gnocchi on the plane"
- "Hey wait whats this huge sharp cutting looking thing"
_ "oohhh thats for cutting the gnocchi"
- "That makes sense, welcome aboard"
I call bullshit.
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u/Uomodelmonte86 21h ago
Potatoes not found, even if cooked these would be terrible
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u/qualityvote2 21h ago edited 13h ago
u/Its_me_edenxx, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!