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Woman makes ‘stinky' boiled egg dinner on packed flight
A woman has been mercilessly mocked after filming herself assembling a full meal – including boiled eggs – during a long-haul flight from Los Angeles to Paris.
Jess Marra, 33, set the internet alight earlier this month after bringing a stash of prepacked containers to make a DIY on-board dinner during a 10-hour flight.
'What started as a fun travel moment turned into the international egg scandal of the year,' Jess said, after her video racked up more than 1.5 million views on Instagram and was flooded with thousands of angry comments.
In the now-viral video, Jess can be seen unpacking her carefully prepped ingredients which included ziploc bags of dressing and avocado, before assembling a full-blown salad in her window seat.
The LA digital marketing worker filmed herself aggressively shaking her salad and even peeling avocados in the crammed economy space.
Naturally, many viewers weren't impressed – especially over her choice of protein.
'New fear unlocked: I get on a plane and the person next to me starts making an egg salad,' one horrified user wrote.
'Just because you can eat an egg on a flight doesn't mean you should,' agreed another.
'Between the egg, the elbow jabbing into your neighbour, the salad shaking and the 'influencing', I am 100 per cent annoyed and I'm not on the plane. Just be a normal person and stop trying to gain attention,' a third person fumed.
Jess, however, hit back, saying she took care not to disturb anyone around her.
'Despite what the internet thinks, I was discreet in my window seat and kept everything low-key,' she said.
'When the flight attendant came around for meal service I politely declined, and once everyone around me was settled eating, I got to work. No one on the flight seemed to notice or care.'
'The comments were brutal,' Jess said.
'People were yelling at me for being selfish, inconsiderate, endangering the lives of passengers, and just generally being the worst human ever. I was kind of in shock.'
She insists the eggs weren't actually smelly, explaining she deliberately undercooks them to avoid any odour.
'Was it a little weird I assembled a salad at my seat? Sure,' she admitted.
'Is it the end of the world that I ate an egg on a plane? Certainly not!'
She was quick to point out the double standards, saying eggs are a common ingredient in plane meals anyway.
'Hard boiled eggs are sold in every airport convenience store and even at Starbucks for people to eat during flights,' she said.
'Plane food has a strong odour and, many times, eggs are included in the meal service as well. It's not like I unwrapped a tuna melt or started microwaving salmon mid-flight!'
In the end, Jess says she was just trying to enjoy a decent meal on a tight schedule.
'The internet really ran with it,' she said, 'but in reality, I'm just a hungry girl trying to eat my dinner.'
