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By Lindsay Rogers You don’t have to be a frequent flier to know that airplane food is spectacularly bad. Chicken, beef or pasta? It’s a question to which there is truly no right answer, because they’re all likely to taste exactly the same, which is to say like nothing at all. But it turns out there’s an explanation for that — and it has very little to do with the food itself. In 2010, in conjunction with Lufthansa, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in Holzkirchen conducted a study using a “simulated aircraft cabin environment,” which looked at the “effects of reduced pressure i…