What's the deal with airline food?

What's the deal with airline food? - 1

It is food served on Airplanes.
What is so difficult to comprehend?

We actually do know it. The punchline is "it's trying to hijack our stomachs and take us to the bathroom!"
To appreciate it, you've got to understand that before 9/11, plane hijackings almost always were about the hijacker wanting to go somewhere besides the intended destination of the plane. For example, people would hijack planes and demand that the plane go to Cuba.
What hasn't changed is that plane bathrooms suck. No one wants to use them if they can avoid it. No one wants to go to the bathroom, but the airline food is hijacking your stomach to make you go there? Get it?
However, the full joke stopped being told as soon as 9/11 happened, for obvious reasons, and it never really recovered. However, it was such a classic and universally loved joke that comedians would start the opening line to get a few laughs from older audiences.

First, most airlines have stopped serving free food on short flights- under 6 hours. They're squeezing every dollar of profit.
As for the food on long flights, there are a couple of problems. One is that it has to be prepared on the ground, packaged, and reheated. That means it's usually overcooked and dry. Then things taste differently on a plane. It's been shown that your taste buds change because of the altitude, and I just saw something about how the noise actually makes things taste different. Or makes your brain perceive it differently or something. They also don't want to serve anything that's smelly, or anything that's over spiced for some people. So that means everything is bland and tasteless.

You want food, fly business class. I just eat it and don't complain. Because they don't care if you complain anyway. Some like to go for special meals. Kosher can be pretty good. Low salt is generally horrible.

What's the deal with your childish and repetitive question?

People say it is worst because their sense of smell is reduced by almost 80%. However, I love airline food most of the time and think it gets a bad wrap.

Awful, it's prepared so far in advance, tiny servings, not flavorful or imaginative. I eat it to kill time.

It is a money saver for them on long flights. Were you should get 4 meals they only need serve 2. To avoid revolt on the plane. They are ate in desporation. Then to avoid starvation.

What about it
Anymore only served free on international flights
Its not great but not bad
The higher class of ticket you pay for the better the meal

Everything tastes worse on an airplane flight, Jerry, because being in a pressurized can of dry, dehumidified air at high altitude numbs your taste buds and dulls your sense of smell. That's why food in general, including snacks you brought with you, seems to have less flavor, sort of like when you have a cold.