The best and worst foods to eat on a plane, according to an airline meal expert

Nikos Loukas has sampled airline meals on around 400 flights with over 50 airlines as the creator of inFlightFeed, an online guide to airplane food. I've always loved planes, I love food, so it's kind of a mixture of both, he told INSIDER about the inspiration for his site. Originally from Australia, hes been in the travel industry for 15 years and currently works as a training manager, but his expertise expands beyond the corporate underpinnings of air travel. Its the food that continues to pique his interest and whet his palette. Hes even crowdfunding a documentary called The Inflight Food Trip - Its Not Just Plane Food! that goes behind-the-scenes of inflight meal production. Plane food is often notorious for being tasteless and rubbery, but Loukas shared a few of his tricks of the trade to make your next meal positively gourmet. Or, at least, edible.Loukas' favorite foolproof plane food is curry because it maintains its flavor.If there's a curry on the menu, I'll take it, he said.Ice cream is another safe bet.Ice cream is really good, he said."It tastes the same in the air as it does on the ground.Avoid foods that don't usually jive well with the human digestive system, like beans.Airlines usually wont serve them, anyway.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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