This hungry traveler must be off her noodle.
Yummy food can be hard to come by on a flight. So, one peckish plane passenger took matters into her own hands (literally), and fixed herself an Italian-inspired feast at 30,000 feet.
But her mid-air meal’s got haters reaching for their seat-back barf bags.
“You hate airplane food, so you make it yourself,” Katie, a pasta influencer, wrote in the captions of a clip, featuring her handmade, on-the-go gnocchi nosh.
Footage of the foodie mixing, rolling, cutting and grooving raw dough into the little dumplings from her window seat on an aircraft has garnered over 5 million TikTok views.
The viral visuals are, too, sparking heaps of hate from skeeved digital detractors, who call the sky-high snack hack “disgusting” and “unhygienic.”
And they’re not totally wrong.
Cabin crew members have long warned frequent flyers of the grimy, gunky filth that lurks all throughout the average airplane.
From the floating germs that often linger in the recycled air, to the particles of blood, feces and toe jam that coat the seats, tray tables, window shades and carpets — not to mention the bathrooms — in-flight insiders have strongly encouraged folks against engaging in any unsanitary behaviors while up in the clouds.
Still, daredevils do it all the time.
Starving for attention (and seafood, apparently), a madcap content creator cooked a garlic shrimp dish for himself in a bacteria-ridden plane lavatory.
Equally foolhardy trippers have meal-prepped funkier foods, such as tuna salads and boiled eggs, during flights, forcing their fellow passengers to deal with stinky smells and icky surroundings.
Social media naysayers flocked to Katie’s comments, scolding the pasta aficionada for subjecting herself and others to the gross grub-out.
“As someone who cleaned airplanes, the street floor in Los Angeles is cleaner than ANYTHING you touch on that PLANE,” warned a concerned commenter.
“I don’t know how people don’t realize the airplane is the most unhygienic place,” another agreed.
“I have celiac [disease], and if the person next to me starts making fresh pasta I’m going to lose it,” wrote an onlooker with gluten intolerance.
“Normalize remembering you’re in public again,” an annoyed viewer added.
“Do you have any idea how disgusting airplanes are?,” questioned another.
“So now you have uncooked pasta,” said a critic, noting Katie’s apparent inability to cook her gnocchi on the plane. “What now??.”
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