We’ve written about some truly awful passengers in our time:
- Man’s revenge at the Sky Club after flight delay frustrations
- The battle between the “Karen” and the United 1K member
- The complaining business class passenger who got what was coming to him
- Ms. “Get out of my way; I just arrived at the airport and my plane leaves in 30 minutes”
I think we can add this hateful person to the list – a woman who had the nerve to make tuna salad on her tray table while on her flight.
Of course, one of THE biggest etiquette faux pas (besides taking your socks off, manspreading, etc.) you can do on a plane is to have stinky food. But this woman apparently didn’t care. And the moment of selfishness was captured for all the world to see.
The Offense, Captured on Camera
The nine-second video clip, called Eating Tuna Salad at 35,000 Feet, shared on TikTok by a user with the handle chipotlemildsalsa, has about 1.3 million views on the social media platform since it was posted on June 10th. It shows the offending plane passenger’s hands while preparing the meal – putting a container of tuna and (looks like) yogurt together, before panning the camera to her own face – she looks horrified (and rightly so) – at the sight of the meal.
@chipotlemildsalsa
chipotlemildsalsa did say that she asked the flight attendant to tell her to put it away and she said she couldn’t. Which makes sense – tuna isn’t “not allowed” by TSA and there’s no “legal” reason why the person couldn’t make/eat tuna salad on the plane…just “social inappropriateness” reasons.
The Internet Reacts
The comment section was, as expected, filled with criticism against the unknown aviation chef:
- Honestly he’s a bad person. There’s no other way around it. This is a bad inconsiderate person. – BILLY
- Tuna should be on the list of things TSA confiscates – jjaassoonnmm
- i love me some tuna salad but on a plane? should be illegal — Elana Aiello
- That’s when u pull the “I’m allergic” – Mckaleigh Manning
Others empathized with the tiktokker by mentioning their own bad experiences with other peoples’ food:
- My mom wanted to bring her leftover fish tacos and an open bag of pickles on our flight.. i made her throw it away 😭 – Lil_pp
- One time the person next to me pulled out a FOOTLONG tuna subway sandwich TOASTED!!!! Hot tuna. – Juliana
- had a lady bring three hard boiled eggs in a ziplock to enjoy at cruising altitude! – eve 🙂
- Someone next to me ripped out not one but two tuna salad sandwiches on onions instead of bread mid air🙃 – Maysa
- Someone does this next to me in my corporate office every day and I’m considering reporting him to HR I’m not kidding 😭 – NYC Food Girls
The Funniest Reactions
And some responses were pretty funny…
- And as someone who eats tuna this is still a federal offense – Madeleine Rose
- She have durian for dessert? – matt
- Imagine this and the Moana girl singing at the same time 😂😂😂 – Ashley
- Omg this is sickening like wtf lady I understand protein but grab a protein bar and a pre made shake this is unacceptable – maryeliz18
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