Sometimes the only thing to look forward to on a long flight is food, yet one man believes hunger pangs should be ignored, even on long flights.
‘We strongly believe that people who eat on flights should be jailed for 10 days,’ TikTok user Zavier Torrence declared in a video.
‘Because why are we eating TUNA MELT on a flight?!’ he wrote in the caption of the clip, which showed him sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking displeased.
While many users agreed that eating smelly food is a big no-no while traveling, most stuck to not eating anything.
‘I have a 10 hour flight coming up… do you expect people not to eat during a flight???’ wrote one horrified passenger.
‘Hell yeah, I’m eating. Just not a tuna melt,” another agreed.
‘The food is good. Food with a strong smell is a CRIME. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY TUNA MELTING? Another chimed in angrily.
“I fly a lot and get people needing to eat, but damn, please leave out the hard-boiled eggs, sushi, and onions.” It should be a crime,” someone else wrote.
Zavier Torrence believes hunger should be ignored, even on long-haul flights
‘If the flight lasts more than six hours, you may feel hungry. What’s wrong with that? questioned another person.
Most people agreed that there was nothing wrong with eating on a plane, but they did agree that tuna was a devilish choice in a small, enclosed space.
In September, a TikTok user named Ally went viral after sharing with her less than desirable seatmate on a flight to Seattle, who opened a can of tuna.
“Canned tuna on the plane must be up there in terms of crimes against humanity,” he captioned the seven-second video, which he posted online.
In a follow-up clip, he explained that the passenger only got worse as the flight progressed.
“It wasn’t just the tuna,” he said. “This guy was literally textbook for someone you don’t want to sit next to on a plane.”
Ally reported that she was immediately hit by “a wall of smell” when she went to sit down.
She said she gave him the benefit of the doubt until he broke into the tuna “less than 10 minutes after the flight took off.”
‘Because why are we eating TUNA MELT on a flight?!’ he wrote in the caption of the video, which showed him sitting on a plane holding his nose and looking displeased.
Most users said they eagerly ate their food mid-flight (file image)
While many users agreed that eating smelly food is a big no-no while traveling, most stuck to not eating anything.
“So he has the can of tuna and also a roll of Ritz crackers and he’s making himself little tuna hors d’oeuvres,” he recalled.
She said he also ordered a strong-smelling Bloody Mary and also picked off a scab.
All US-based airlines allow most foods on the plane, regardless of smell, with the exception of liquid foods that exceed the 3.4 ounce limit imposed by the TSA.
A survey published last year by the travel website Kayak found that 92 percent of people agreed that strong-smelling foods should not be brought on a plane.
Canned fish was one of the biggest offenders according to 89 percent of those surveyed.