Sometimes the only thing to look forward to on a long flight is the meal, but one man thinks hunger pangs should be ignored – even on long flights.
‘Strongly believe that people who eat on flights should be locked up for 10 days,’ TikTok user Zavier Torrence explained in a video.
“Because why are we eating a TUNA MELT on a flight?!’ he wrote in the caption for the clip, which shows him sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking disgusted.
While many users agreed that 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???’ wrote a distraught passenger.
“Hell yes, I eat. Just not a tuna melt,’ agreed another.
‘Food is good. Strongly flavored food is a CRIME. WHAT DO YOU MEAN A TUNA MELT?’ another chimed in frantically.
‘I fly a lot and I get people to eat, but damn it, please pass the hard-boiled eggs, sushi and onion. It should be a crime,’ someone else wrote.
Zavier Torrence believes hunger pangs should be ignored – even on long-haul flights
‘If the flight is longer than six hours, you may feel hungry. What’s wrong with that?’ asked another person.
Most people agreed that there is nothing wrong with eating on a plane, but did agree that tuna is a diabolical choice when in a small, confined space.
In September, one TikTok user named Ally went viral after she shared her less-than-desirable seatmate on a flight to Seattle cracking open a can of tuna.
“Canned tuna on the plane has to be up there in terms of crimes against humanity,” she wrote alongside the seven-second video she posted online.
In a follow-up clip, she explained that the passenger only got worse as the flight continued.
“It wasn’t just the tuna,” she said. “This guy was literally in the textbook for someone you don’t want to sit next to on a plane.”
Ally immediately reported being hit with “a wall of smell” when she sat 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 shows him sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking disgusted
Most users said they went ahead after their mid-flight meal (stock image)
While many users agreed that eating smelly food is a big no-no while traveling, most drew the line at not eating at all
“So he has the can of tuna and he also has a roll of Ritz crackers and he makes himself little smoked tuna hors d’oeuvres,” she recalls.
She said he also ordered a strong-smelling Bloody Mary and also picked at a scab.
All airlines based in America allow most food on the plane, regardless of its smell – with the exception of liquid-based food above the 3.4 oz limit imposed by the TSA.
A survey published last year by travel website Kayak revealed that 92 percent of people agreed that you shouldn’t bring strong-smelling food on a plane.
Canned fish was one of the biggest offenders according to 89 percent of those surveyed.
