Taking a snack onto a plane to munch on your flight is not an unusual thing, but one person's choice of food left their fellow passenger bracing themselves.
Some foods, while delicious, can be less then pleasant for people nearby who don't share the snacker's fondness for it.
If someone is tucking into pickled eggs or cooking fish in their own home that's one thing, but heaven forfend the person who microwaves their salmon at the office.
Still, in an office you can at least take refuge out of the kitchen area - on a plane your only other option is sky.
But that didn't stop one person from bringing a box of flatulence-inducing snacks onto a two-hour flight.
Content creator Missy McIntosh had been on the flight when she noticed to her dismay what the person she was sitting next to planned to eat during the journey.
“Just want to share what the person next to me on my plane ride brought as their snack,” she said in a video on social media.
“So these are four hard-boiled eggs and two corn on the cobs.
“What isn’t pictured are actually three more hard-boiled eggs, unpeeled,” added the influencer, “and an entire boiled potato.”
It might be a healthy meal, but the thought of the bum trombone solo resulting is enough to turn even the steeliest of stomachs.
Not only that, but making other passengers sit in a small metal tube as the same 'hot air' is circulated through the plane again and again, only building in eggy intensity as the chronic trouser-coughs add to it throughout the flight.
It's not like you can crack a window 30,000ft up, either.
Several people took to the comments to express their horror at the journey awaiting the unfortunate influencer.
One wrote: “Going full fart cannon on a plane is insane,” while another grimaced: “What a stunning aroma to fill the cabin, so cool."
For one commenter the sheer number of hard-boiled eggs was too much, causing them to explain: “SEVEN HARDBOILED EGGS???"
That IS a lot of eggs...
Social etiquette expert Jamila Musayeva spoke to the New York Post about the sorts of foods to bring onto a flight, suggesting that more pungent options might be better enjoyed on the ground in a less confined space.
She said: “Even when prepared fresh, they tend to give off a strong scent once reheated, which can quickly fill a confined cabin space.
“Not everyone is tolerant of that smell, especially on long-haul flights. It lingers and can make nearby passengers feel nauseated.”
“On a plane, subtle choices are often kinder.”
Words by Kit Roberts
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The FOODbible Team