This is why you crave ginger ale when you’re on an airplane
This is why you crave ginger ale when you’re on an airplane
Have you ever found yourself ordering ginger ale on airplanes, specifically? Like, sure, ginger ale is tasty, but why do we want it so badly when we’re flying? One Reddit thread sought out the answer to that very question, and it turns out we’re not alone in our airplane adoration for ginger ale.
In the Reddit thread “Do you order ginger ale on planes, but not on the ground?“, Redditor muki_mono asked the *real* questions:
“I always see people drinking ginger ale on planes, but almost never off them. I drink the same thing on planes than I do on solid ground, and it’s not ginger ale, but I keep feeling like there’s something everyone else is in on and I’m not.”
The thread received almost 150 comments, with everyone musing on the ~mysterious~ quality of in-flight ginger ale.
“I do…and I have no idea why…now I am questioning myself,” responded one Redditor.
“It’s magic sky juice,” responded another.
Others theorized that it may have to do with ginger ale’s anti-nausea qualities, but Sherry Ross, M.D., of Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, doesn’t believe the ginger is the reason why we order it. As she explained to Woman’s Day:
“It’s not the ginger providing the relief. . . You’re buying into the power of suggestion. We’ve learned from our mothers and grandmothers, who brought us ginger ale and chicken-noodle soup when we were sick as kids, that ginger ale works. Tomato soup is another old remedy that your mom used to bring to you on the TV tray. There’s something very comforting about it. Those types of foods have powerful messaging to our brains and that alone makes us feel better.”
So apparently, it’s all in our heads. But that’s not gonna stop us drinking it on planes — it *is* comforting and delicious, after all.
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