The Oasis Mystery: Why Does Everything Taste Amazing at Sea?

I need to come clean about something that's been bothering me since I returned home from my Royal Caribbean cruise last month. The food on the Oasis of the Seas was absolutely incredible, and I'm pretty sure it's not actually incredible. That's the mystery that keeps me awake at night, staring at my kitchen ceiling, wondering if I've lost my mind or if the cruise lines have discovered some kind of culinary dark magic. Let me back up. I'm not someone who gets excited about cruise ship food. Honestly, I've been on two cruises before, and I remember the buffets being fine—adequate, even occasionally good—but nothing that made me write home about. My expectations for this Royal Caribbean adventure were appropriately low. I figured I'd grab whatever looked least suspicious at the buffet, eat a couple of decent dinners in the main dining room, and spend most of my time at the pool or pretending to read a book I'd never finish. Instead, I became that person. You know the one. The person who takes photos of their dinner and plans the entire next day around meal times. The first hint that something weird was happening came on embarkation day. After boarding the Oasis of the Seas in Port Ca…