Why Do Flight Meals Taste So Bad?

Find airplane food bland? Don’t blame the airlines. It’s not them. It’s YOU.

Airplane food sucks. Pretty much every TV show on earth has made a plane food joke. But now there is a scientific reason for that dull taste. And no, it’s not lousy cooking by the chef!

Turns out, everything that makes your in-flight experience affects the way your food tastes and the biggest culprit is the cabin air: incredibly dry and very cold.