#Airplane Food

[unbfacts]

Airplane food tastes bland because reduced air pressure and dry cabin conditions dull our senses of taste and smell by 20-30%, making sweet and salty flavors less detectable.

[deebrisbyfish]

When I had the idea for this strip, it was JUST a commentary on my sudden craving of the chips that both airlines provided flying to and from San Diego. Once I started scripting it, however, I also decided to add in my Gut Goblin. I just like drawing her.

[paulpingminho]

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage United Air Lines Valentine’s Day menu - 1942.

[ryuucafe]

Dad got an insane voucher and decided to give me a once in a life time experience flying business class.

[shoku-and-awe]

My JAL flight last month had one each of the best and weirdest airline meals I've ever had! Also a bottle of wine featuring... Hannibal fanart I think?

No??? Am I the only one who sees it?

The great meal was street-food-style chicken over rice! I thought it was a risky choice because these are not flavors that are very familiar in Japan (where they tend to under-season Western food to begin with), but it was very flavorful and very satisfying! The steamed cabbage was a weird addition but I liked it.

Also had delicious sides: salad, miso soup, marinated carrots with mandarin slices and tuna (which should not have worked but did), pasta salad with edamame and broccoli and capers, and some kind of corn custard? I would say corn pudding but this was much creamier. They also offered me an ice cream, which I could not eat.

The weird meal had three containers that you were supposed to mix together. The first was pasta with chicken, kabocha squash, greens, and pieces of barley(?). The second was a carbonara-style sauce with slices of lotus root (weird?? but I like lotus root). The third was steamed broccoli, soy meat, and pickled cabbage??? Like, it's weird enough to put so many ingredients in a creamy, silky, carbonara sauce, but grainy loose barley(???) and PICKLES???? Of all things.

The meal was formulated by Tanita, an equipment manufacturer that is known for diet food because it makes scales, but health food does not have to be gross, and also I've had pleasant JAL meals from them before (I think). Anway, I did not mix the third container in, which was good because the soy meat had a sweet seasoning that was really offputting. Also I got a bite or two of an unidentifiable starchy vegetable that tasted like dirt and raw potato. It turned out to be the base of a baby corn??? I love baby corn, but it tasted wrong, maybe somewhat rotten.

Overall very bizarre experience. I kinda cannot wait to see what they have in store for me next week.

[cornerstorecandy]

[aquadragondavanin]

the art is by outsidewolves. you can find the post here

Did You Know: if you get to the airport early enough in the morning, you can look through the big windows and watch them shovel oats and alfalfa into big troughs for the planes

[scatterbugged]

i took a flight over portugal recently and it was the first time i'd seen it all in bright daylight from up so high and we were passing over these fields. everything was green and they were all squares of grass lined up and puzzled together with each other and the houses were nothing more than these little colored boxes stacked up on top of one another like building blocks. i thought it all looked like a monopoly board because everything looked so tiny and plastic and you couldn't see any of the people, nothing moved and everything looked incredibly still. and i thought that if this is what god sees then it's no wonder he doesn't do anything. if i were a god i wouldn't care about any of this either. it all looked so still and lifeless and miniscule and if i were a god standing all the way above everything and this were my only view of the world i wouldn't care one bit what happened down there. but then if there's a god standing up here with me surely he must hear everything. he must be able to see what i cant, surely he sees past every restriction i cant. what looks like diorama houses must look like flesh and running blood and bricks and clay and bugs and air and breath to him. so i thought why doesn't he do anything then. if he sees all this why doesnt he care. and then i thought maybe god is in what im thinking. maybe god is the anger i feel or hes the longing and the fear and the joy and maybe he doesnt exist at all except he exists only if i believe he does. and then i thought but i dont believe he exists. but then i believe in a divine power. i believe in meteors and ghosts and freewill. i also believe in predetermined fate and that freewill is a carefully thought out narrative and then that starts to give me a headache if i explain it for too long. so i dont. but i dont believe in god. maybe i want there to be a god even if i hate him. even if i dont believe in him. but then i thought maybe it isnt about god at all. maybe i just dont want death to be the end. but then it doesnt matter if its the end because when it comes i wont even have realized it. i wont even have known it was the end until the end has already passed. unless i do realize it. unless there is a god. unless there's something else.

[paulpingminho]

[stone-cold-groove]

A United Air Lines in-flight menu circa 1951.

[goldennika]

i remember a while back how “what’s the deal with airplane food?” was a joke(?) being thrown around a lot

i thought i was in the minority who actually enjoyed airplane food until i realized that the people who popularized that joke probably flew a lot of western airlines and i’ve seen how bad their food options are

but as someone based in asia and therefore flies with asian carriers almost exclusively, i’ve always had a very different flying experience than someone on say, a US carrier

[gottauseanomdeplume]

*over plane intercom* so whats the deal with airplane food?

[magicmitch-eats]

Before beginning my food adventures in Australia, I need to make it there first! Here I'll be talking about my experiences while embarking on the longest flight I've ever taken! Of course, some of those experiences involve airplane food I've never tried before! 🌟🐟🍜😁🌟 ✨ Support my content & unlock awesome perks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/magicmitch

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