Flight attendant warns you should always pick the same in-flight meal

Plane food doesn't exactly have the best reputation, whether that's because delicious-looking menu items turn out to be soggy grey mush, or the fact that food can taste different onboard.

Now, one flight attendant has revealed that if you're given a choice of in-flight meal there's one dish you should always choose – purely because the alternative options are 'gross'.

A member of cabin crew previously opened up a Reddit thread for questions, urging people to 'ask me anything'.

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When it comes to plane food, the classic choice tends to be between chicken or fish – and according to the airline worker, there's only one right answer. "Chicken," they answered. "Airplane fish is gross".

It wasn't their only tip when it comes to in-flight meals.

They added they would't recommend people order tea or coffee, because these are served with water that 'comes from the portable water tanks' and that 'cleaning them is hard'.

It's not the first time that passengers have been warned to swerve the water on planes.

Anton Radchenko, travel expert and founder of AirAdvisor claims that drinking tap water on a plane is the worst thing you could do, as you could be risking ingesting a virus or bacteria.

He told Daily Star: "In-flight tap water systems are rarely cleaned. So, when you ask for a glass of tap water, hot chocolate, or a cuppa, you’re potentially drinking from dirty pipes."

Instead, he suggests sticking to bottled water, explaining: "You know where the water has come from. While planes do carry drinking water, it can be sourced from any pickup points on that plane’s route and it can be stored for long periods which inevitably means that the water quality is reduced."

Being sick on a flight can be a nightmare situation – and one that became a reality for one woman who claims she was given the wrong food on a recent flight, triggering her allergy.

Chlo Chapdelaine suffers from coeliac disease meaning that if she eats gluten she can get extremely unwell. She claims that she was mistakenly served gluten on a flight, leaving her battling sickness and diarrhoea on a 15-hour journey she described as the 'worst flight of her life'.

Chlo was given a meal on a tray which was marked up as gluten-free. There was also a croissant on the tray, which she began tucking into.

However she became suspicious that it tasted 'too good' to be gluten free, so she double checked with the flight attendant, who returned and confirmed it was not gluten-free.

Chlo says she went on to have symptoms from her stomach and bowels to her skin.

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