7. Bland Tasty Food
Why does the food in airplanes taste so bland all the time? Is it the airline’s fault? Well, no. According to the Thrillist, the reason why the food tastes so bland isn’t that it has not been cooked well, because the cause is something else: “About a third of your taste buds are numbed at altitude, which is why that $8 Mediterranean snack box always tastes, eh, just OK.”