[bkepley]

It’s the vodka.

[alisasny]

I totally agree. I always get tomato juice while flying and enjoy it so much!

[nuconvert]

I’d rather have a V8

[fieldmarshaldj]

I hear the sex is better, too.

[parisa]

And a self-conscious one percent said they drank tomato juice because they thought it made them look like experienced air travellers.

Hmmm!!

[Bernard Marx]

I always request Bloody Mary mix, no vodka. I’ve even had kind flight attendants make it from scratch. It really perks me up.

[Retired Greyhound]

The only time I drink tomato juice is on an airplane.

[RegulatorCountry]

I only drink tomato juice while on a plane, never anywhere else. I don’t like the taste of it normally. It does taste different, and it seems like it helps with the stale air and the close quarters, somehow. I have it over ice with a lemon wedge.

[Revolting cat!]

It’s twue!

[Irenic]

Tomato juice on the plane and V8 or grapefruit juice on the ground. I don’t think they have V8 on the plane.

[Theodore R.]

Nearly a quarter of people who drink tomato juice while flying say they only like it while sitting in a plane.

Yes, I only drink tomato juice while flying; it's the only time I have a yearning for it. Had no idea anyone else felt that way

[ken5050]

Great, true story..

It's June, I think it was 1988..I'm in Bermuda for a conference, and the wife and I go down to the hotel dining room.. (think it was the Ocean reef club?) they have a satellite set up to receive the Wimbledon finals during brunch. It's 8am..and ahead of us in the line are these two young ladies..early 20s, who looked like they've been out, and up all night..partying hard..they get to the bar, the bartender, a very dark-skinned black man, with a DEEP voice..( imagine Mr. Clean) asks them what they want. One asks for a Virgin Mary. The bartender, obviously recognizing the hangover symptoms, and having a little fun in front of an audience, tells them that he doesn't know what that is. So one of them, while holding her head, explains that it is a Bloody Mary WITHOUT the vodka.

Sorry ma'am..the bartender explains, but here we call that a BLOODY SHAME!!

[wideminded]

23 percent of those who order tomato juice during a flight told pollsters it was, “because I suddenly like the taste when in a plane”, but that they would never drink it on the ground. …

How do they suddenly like the taste before they even order it?

That being said, I think this phenomenon affects me too. But maybe there's more to it than taste. Perhaps craving for something that is in tomato juice and not in other drinks.

[bgill]

Tomato juice makes the mile high club?

[CHEE]

I have an Irish Cream on the rocks prior to liftoff. Three hours later I wake up when the engine reverse brakes kick in upon landing. Do not even mind the lack of peanuts or pretzels.

[GOP Poet]

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[exDemMom]

Interesting. I, also, usually drink tomato juice while flying, and rarely at other times.

I don’t think it’s because I suddenly like the taste better (I never paid attention to how location affects taste). But most of the drinks offered are carbonated sodas, which I can’t stand. And the other juices offered are usually orange or apple, neither of which appeal to me. So, by process of elimination, I end up with tomato juice.

[EnquiringMind]

Know what’s good on a plane? Bloody Mary mix with lemon on ice, hold the vodka (if too early in the a.m.).

[Ramius]

That’s interesting. I always get a craving for a bloody mary when I fly.