Coffee on the plane if it’s early enough for caffeine; seltzer water if not. Vodka and soda or straight whiskey if I’m in a seat that includes alcohol and I feel like drinking.
My “other” is wine (I don’t consider that a straight alcoholic drink), on the rare occasions I’m traveling with my wife and we’re in seats that include alcohol and feel like drinking.
I called that “soda”. The thing i drink on airplanes and almost nowhere else is tomato juice.
More often than not just water (not sparkling).
It depends on what the meal options are for me. And I definitely ask for beer when I’m flying on Lufthansa, because I kinda feel like I’m in Germany. Especially if the meal is bratwurst and sauerkraut, which I have gotten on Lufthansa before.
Yeah, same. Helps with motion sickness, which on normal flights I dont get, but…
I rarely get a drink on a flight. I bring my own bottle of water. It’s a pain in the ass to have a drink on the tray table when I’m trying to reach something in my pack under the seat in front of me, or trying to get up to go to the bathroom.
I get dehydrated on airplanes. I pretty much always say “yes” when they are offering drinks, and sometimes ask for two, usually still water and something else.
Also, i fly a lot. (I had coffee, water, ginger ale, and more water on the flight total.)
It’s going to depend on the meal (if any), the mood I’m in, the length of flight and what I have to do when I get off, what kind of beer and of wine they have available, and probably on something I’m forgetting about.
What I probably really want is my own well water; which these days, I gather, I’m forbidden to bring with me. (I have neighbors who can light their well water on fire, but I assure you, I can’t.) That’s not the only reason I haven’t flown in years, but it doesn’t help.
At Rome, this morning, they said it was okay to bring your water through security. Up to two liters, i think. So i didn’t bother to empty my 500ml water bottle.
I usually bring an empty bottle and fill it after security. I’ve been hearing for years that new scanners would allow you to pack water, but this is the first time I’ve seen it done routinely.
(Yes, I’m rambling on as i try to stay awake and get back into my home time zone schedule.)
If I need to get on a plane again, I’ll check.
While I’m at it, I’ll check whether I can carry my Swiss army knife.
Water always I have bottle and I’d ask for Tomato juice or v8 if available.
They usually have tomato juice, bloody Mary mix, orange juice, and apple juice. (In the “juice” category.)
Sorry, I forgot about wine.
This is what prompted my poll. Drinking tomato juice in-flight, and rarely or never when grounded, is surprisingly common. Apparently, your senses of taste and smell are suppressed while in the air due to changes in cabin pressure, and this actually enhances your perception of umami flavors.
I always ask for tomato juice when flying, but I also love it while on the ground.
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what is this tollbooth thing you’ve mentioned @psychonaut? Aren’t they all EZ-Pass anymore?
As for the three words poll; we have five losers who don’t know how to describe The Grinch 
I had to look that one up—seems to be a regional thing.
The last time I took a toll road (last July), there were still booths with human toll collectors. Maybe there were also licence plate or transponder readers for frequent drivers who had pre-registered, but that certainly didn’t include us.
For psychonaut’s “disadvantages of a car with steering in the side you’re not used to” poll, I couldn’t vote, because there was no “other” option.
In my experience (borrowing my brother-in-law’s car in New Zealand), the only tricky thing was me getting in the car. Several times, when it was time to get in and drive away, I opened the door, sat down, looked around…no steering wheel!
I sheepishly got out, walked around the car, and entered properly. The actual driving was easy peasy.
Same here.
When we were in Oz about twenty-five years ago, we opted out of renting a car. The only cars available were stick-shifts, which was what I was driving at the time. I just didn’t want to relearn how to drive a right hand drive stick-shift.
On my first trip to Ireland I was really sweating being able to shift with my left hand. It turned out to be a lot easier than staying left on small country roads with little traffic.
I don’t know what a tainfin is; so I don’t know if I want one.
And whether the ship sank or sunk depends on the rest of the sentence.