The trail food you just can’t stand.

[Kelly G]

I've gotten tired of instant oatmeal packets, so I tried couscous with butter, cinnamon and honey in it. Perfect.
Kelly

[Roger Caffin]

> I've gotten tired of instant oatmeal packets,
But that stuff is not oatmeal.
Try some raw oatmeal instead.

Cheers

[Sean Westberg]

A little bit of thread resurrection but food tasting like crud at high altitudes is a known thing. It's part of why airline food tastes like wet cardboard usually. The high altitude jacks with your sense of taste and smell.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/one-reason-airline-food-so-bad-your-own-tastebuds-f6C10823522

Supposedly airlines have researched the hell out of this and found that our taste of sweet and salty decrease significantly at high altitude. Dry environments (like cold dry air high up) also impact our sense of smell.

As for the topic of the thread I can't stand Mountain House spaghetti. Tried it once and could barely choke it down. It tasted like malted barley extract (a flavor I'm very familiar with since I brew beer). I didn't look at the ingredients but I wouldn't be surprised if like maltodextrin or something like that was high up on the list.

So instead of tucking into a pouch of tomato spaghetti sauce, I choked down a bag of unfermented, unhopped beer sauce.

[Matthew Voswinkel]

All this talk about people not liking food got me wondering…why doesn't this happen to mosquitos. Every time I go out I seem like the meal of choice. When will they get tired of eating me!?

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