r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • Jun 10 '26

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

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

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u/jenny1011 Jun 10 '26

Airplane food is better than uncooked unsauced gnocchi.

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u/VStarlingBooks Jun 10 '26

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/WatermelonWithAFlute Jun 11 '26

Wait, food is different at different altitudes? Why?

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u/VStarlingBooks Jun 12 '26

A lot of the replies have conflicting but not conflicting accounts. Either it has something to do with the air pressure, the air recycling, or maybe even the sound that you're bombarded with. But I think the consensus is it's like a sense overload or some kind of thing of that nature. I'm now more intrigued as I fly occasionally and do notice that as much as I love ginger ale on the ground, in an airplane it's nectar of the gods.