Originally Posted by
azmojo
If they don't want people to take their masks off to eat, they need to ban eating. Otherwise instructions from the crew to not eat or not to eat too much become capricious and arbitrary. If you're going to let people eat, then you have to allow them to take off their mask to do so.
I've flown quite a few flights and thus far have not had a flight attendant try to tell me to stop eating or something out of pure capriciousness. Usually it's the opposite.
On the other hand I've seen lots of people wear masks as chinstraps, take them off and claim not to have another etc. because they want to continue to travel as normal during a pandemic (i.e. because they are selfish).