They didn’t think it was so egg-cellent.
A female influencer is being ripped online after prepping a meal on a plane — which reportedly included a helping of “smelly” boiled eggs.
An Instagram video of her demo amassed over 1.3 million comments and oodles of angry comments before getting taken down, Jam Press reported.
“What started as a fun travel moment turned into the international egg scandal of the year,” Jess Marra, 33, told the outlet while recalling her cooking demo at 30,000 feet.
The Los Angeles-based influencer — who goes by @kitschenista on social media — had reportedly been flying from Los Angeles, US to Paris, France, and wanted to bring something along to tide her over during the 10-hour trip.
As she was averse to airplane food, however, she decided to bring several containers filled with various ingredients so she could enjoy a healthful meal in-flight — like a sky-high Sweetgreen.
“When the flight attendant came around for meal service, I politely declined and once everyone around me was settled eating, I got to work,” she told Jam Press.
In a video reposted to TikTok, Marra is seen whipping out a bag of arugula, Ziplocs with an avocado and salad dressing, which she tossed at her seat.
She also opened a container of boiled eggs and celery and took a bite.
The Californian’s mid-flight meal prep did not go over-easy with the viewers.
“Ya eggs/ fish in a small space like that makes you hella disrespectful,” said one critic. “If you wanna bring dinner, heck ya, but like, c’mon girl.”
“THE EGGGGGGGGG straight to jail,” said another while one wrote, “hard-boiled eggs smell on a long-haul plane.”
“New fear unlocked: I get on a plane and the person next to me starts making an egg salad,” said another under the Instagram post.
“Between the egg, the elbow jabbing into your neighbor, the salad shaking and the ‘influencing’ I am 100% annoyed and I’m not on the plane,” critiqued one detractor. “Just be a normal person and stop trying to gain attention.”
One viewer wrote, “No one likes you on this flight … no one.”
However, Marra insisted in the comments that the eggs didn’t smell as they were “soft-boiled.”
She said that she was “shocked” over the “brutal” comments. “People were yelling at me for being selfish, inconsiderate, endangering the lives of passengers, and just generally being the worst human ever,” said the content creator.
Marra found the reaction overzealous, considering that she was “discreet” with her DIY dinner service, adding that “no one on the flight seemed to notice or care.”
She argued that the criticism was unfounded given that boiled eggs are sold at every airport convenience store, Starbucks, and even on the airplanes, whose meal options she felt naturally had a “strong odor” even if they didn’t feature eggs.
“Was it a little weird I assembled a salad at my seat? Sure,” Marra declared. “Is it the end of the world that I ate an egg on a plane? Certainly not!”
In a similar incident in October, flight attendants allegedly raised a stink after a fitness influencer and Playboy cover model brought a smelly egg-rich lunch into an airplane’s first-class cabin because she was on a strict diet.
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