A luxury vacation doesn't have to come with a huge carbon footprint — especially if you travel by train.
07.11.2023 - 08:41 / insider.com
Mindy Kaling shared the recipe for her go-to "plane salad" in an Instagram post on Saturday — some fans are concerned that the canned salmon might stink up the plane.
In the post, Kaling shared that she got inspired to prepare her own food on flights after traveling with Jessica Biel some 14 years ago.
"It had the most delicious looking homemade salad in it that was definitely a better option than whatever I was eating," she said in her post, referring to the container Biel pulled out of her tote bag.
"I eat terribly when I travel and I wanted to change that. So instead of eating randomly (which lets face it is fun too, sometimes), I was like "what if I prepared my meal and brought it with me?"," Kaling wrote in the post.
She shared one photo of herself in a black sweatshirt holding a salad in a plastic container, and another zoomed-in shot of the salad. The post has garnered over 150,000 likes and 1,600 comments at the time of writing.
Biel commented on Kaling's post, writing: "Omg wish I could remember what it was!!"
Kaling also shared her salad recipe in the post, writing that it's made with cherry tomatoes, greens, asparagus, cannellini beans, goat cheese, and a dressing of olive oil, Momofuku seasoning salt, and Dijon mustard. But there was one ingredient that stood out to fans, the canned salmon.
Despite noting in her post that the salmon "doesn't stink like tuna," several fans said they didn't want Kaling — or other passengers — to bring pungent food on a plane, especially canned fish.
"If you eat salmon, it doesn't smell to you. But I don't eat eggs or fish and have a sensitive nose. Maybe don't bring it into the tin can of the skies?" one Instagram user commented.
Another user wrote: "You gotta be a special kind of something to subject a plane full of people to your canned salmon."
"PSA: PLEASE people, do not eat fish on a plane," one user commented.
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Other fans supported Kaling in packing her own food on board and even shared their own salad recipes.
"Plane snack essentials: bag of grapes, string cheese, hard boiled eggs, mini hummus and guac and some pita chips," a user commented.
Poonam Desai, a longevity doctor, shared her own go-to plane meal: "For travel, I love a good salad with kale, brocolli, cauliflower, some seeds, pine nuts, cherry tomatoes, spinach, tofu or chicken, and salad dressing on the side (usually lemon, EVOO, salt, pepper, dash of apple cider vinegar), garbanzo beans!"
Kaling is best known for her role as Kelly Kapoor in the hit sitcom "The Office," which earned her a nomination for six Emmy Awards. She went on to write and produce six seasons of "The Mindy Project," in which she starred as Dr Mindy Lahiri.
A luxury vacation doesn't have to come with a huge carbon footprint — especially if you travel by train.
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