Sometimes the only thing to look forward to on a long flight is the meal, however one man thinks pangs of hunger should be ignored – even on lengthy flights.
‘Strongly believe that people who eat on flights need to be incarcerated for 10 days,’ TikTok user Zavier Torrence declared in a video.
‘Because why are we eating a TUNA MELT on a flight?!’ he wrote in the caption for the clip, which showed himself sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking disgusted.
While many users agreed eating smelly food is a big no-no while traveling, most drew the line at not eating at all.
‘I have a 10-hour flight coming up… you expect people not to eat during a flight???’ an appalled passenger wrote.
‘Hell yeah I’m eating. Just not a tuna melt,’ agreed another.
‘Food is fine. Strong scented food is a CRIME. WHAT DO YOU MEAN A TUNA MELT?’ another furiously chimed in.
‘I fly a lot and I get people need to eat but damn, please pass on hard boiled eggs, sushi and onion. It should be a crime,’ someone else wrote.
Zavier Torrence thinks pangs of hunger should be ignored – even on long-haul flights
‘If the flight is longer than six hours you can feel hungry. What’s wrong in it?’ questioned another person.
Most people agreed there was nothing wrong with eating on a plane, but did agree that tuna was a diabolical choice when in a small, enclosed space.
In September, one TikTok user named Ally went viral after sharing her less-than-desirable seatmate on a flight to Seattle, who cracked open a can of tuna.
‘Canned tuna on the plane gotta be up there in terms of crimes against humanity,’ she captioned the seven-second video, which she posted online.
In a follow-up clip, she explained that the passenger only got worse as the flight went on.
‘It wasn’t just the tuna,’ she said. ‘This guy was literally in the textbook for someone you do not want to sit next to on a plane.’
Ally reported immediately being hit with ‘a wall of smell’ when she went to go sit down.
She said she gave him the benefit of the doubt until he broke out the tuna ‘not 10 minutes into the flight taking off.’
‘Because why are we eating a TUNA MELT on a flight?!’ he wrote in the caption for the video, which showed himself sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking disgusted
Most users said they took forward to their mid-flight meal (stock image)
While many users agreed eating smelly food is a big no-no while traveling, most drew the line at not eating at all
‘So he’s got the can of tuna and he also has a roll of Ritz crackers and he’s making himself little f***ed up tuna hors d’oeuvres,’ she recalled.
She said he also ordered a strong-smelling Bloody Mary and also picked at a scab.
All airlines based in America allow most foods on the plane regardless of its odor – with the exception of liquid based foods above the 3.4 ounce limit imposed by the TSA.
A survey published last year by travel website Kayak revealed that 92 per cent of people agreed that you shouldn’t bring strong-smelling foods on a plane.
Tinned fish was one of the biggest offenders according to 89 per cent of those surveyed.
