This is the thread about tomato juice

And don't forget, five Bloody Marys = your five portions of fruit/veg for the day!

apple juice always grossed me out! tomato juice on the plane is very perfect, often. with a TWIST OF LIME

and pretzels i kind of want to be on a plane now. but i don't want to be at the airport.

I always drink tomato juice on the plane, literally never any other time. Why is this?

i'm telling you it's a thing

one explanation: it's a little more substantive than other drinx

I always have ginger ale.

Tomato juice is food of the gods, obv.

Toast, tomato juice, one egg, coffee: perfect breakfast.

used to hate tomato juice until i made myself start liking bloody marys

Toast, tomato juice, one egg, coffee: perfect breakfast.

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:30 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

why do you speak such truth?

I like a bloody mary with tequila instead of vodka (not a fan of the clear likkers); I believe this is a bloody maria.

have become addicted to it as of late

A bloody mary with gin is very good, too.

Good if spicy/salty. On a plane recently I was offered "spicy tomato juice" in addition to regular, and when I asked for it I received a can of Bloody Mary mix. (It was tiny, relatively delicious, and contained about 50% of the daily allowance of sodium.)

Quality is also highly dependent on temperature, more than almost any drink I can think of

SPICY is like i almost can't take it, that's how good

and yes i need me some cold tomato juice

I always have ginger ale.

On planes, me too! I really can't think why.

I am considering moving to New Orleans and a friend down there keeps telling me about this awesome tomato juice I'm gonna have to try when I get there.

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Still, all these theories don’t explain how ginger ale and tomato juice came to be served on airplanes in the first place. That's what brings us to the definitive “civilized gentlemen" theory.
This theory holds that in-flight culture is a relic of the 1950s, when commercial air travel came into its own. While everything on the ground has changed, those cabins of compressed air have also compressed time, hearkening back to an era when most of the people who flew were white, wealthy and male. And so these gentlemen, who might be found frequenting places like the Yale Club, brought the trappings of their clubby life aboard with them. The staples of smoky, wood-paneled bars became the staples of smoky, plastic-paneled airplanes.
That would include mixers like tonic and ginger ale. Drinks like the Bloody Mary, or its virgin cousin, tomato juice. And, of course, peanuts.

I always drink Bloody Mary Mix on airplanes. If not, ginger ale, but I always drink ginger ale. For those keeping score:

Seagrams>>>>>>>Schweppes>>Canada Dry

Seagrams is the most dry.

caesers are killer. drink more clam!

I would consider that more "self-evident" than a "theory," wanko -- it's been a staple forever to treat air travel as a sort of club experience; and they still make loads of money off of pay drinks on long flights, and need the mixers; though I'd suggest the ginger ale presence these days probably also doubles as a stomach-soother for anyone upset by travel

have become addicted to it as of late

― dell, Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:48 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

have become re-addicted. i find one glass a day with some ICE CUBES is very refreshing in this ultra-HOT weather. vegetable juice, to be more p r e c i s e. sometimes i pretend it's ox blood

<3 tomato juice, bloody marys etc. Tomatoes in general - half my diet is tomato-based and I can't understand people who don't eat it.

friend told me once that his father, who is swedish, is skeeved out by tomatoes b/c they are NIGHTSHADES, i.e., POISON!!