Airline Food Tastes Bad Because Of The PlaneBY THOR JENSEN"What's the deal with airline food" is a comedy set-up so cliché that even the worst hacks won't use it anymore. But the amazing thing about science is that we now know what the deal is – and it's not the food. Sure, the pre-packaged meals aren't the height of gourmet cuisine, but one of the reasons they taste bad is the environment. A study at Cornell University in 2015 measured how people perceive taste in noisy environments. They found that when the subjects were exposed to sounds of about 85 decibels – what you'd get from the engines inside a plane – sweet flavors were dampened and savory ones heightened. In addition, the dry recycled air inside the plane cabin further deadens your taste buds. Because plane meals aren't made with this in mind, they always taste a little… off.
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