The airport is a wild place to judge and gatekeep others. Everyone is stuck there waiting, and depending on specifically where, you have limited access to anything brought-in and are at the mercy of massively overpriced options.
It’s also pretty poor vs. poor. If you’re going to gate keep the airport, where is the flex about some high tier lounge where you had a beer with a B-list celeb and they served whatever ridiculous stuff they claim those lounges have to sell passes? Lobster ravioli made by some Italian chef from Maine or whatever.
I aint see no celebs, but last time i flew my sister and her husband had a couple guess passes. It was great. Still pretty crowded, but especially once they flew out and i snagged a personal booth… whewweee it was worth it. At the price of nothing.
I dont fly often enough to give a dam, but for people who fly regularly it might be worth checking. My brother in law isnt rich afaik, but he definitely has a well paying job and is responsible. Travel is their big thing, so I see how it makes sense for them.
My spouse and I fly a lot, and have a credit card where we can get an annual pass for the price of going once. But that’s for the lowest tier, cattle call lounge. The business class lounges for individual airlines are usually nicer.
It varies by airport, but by the time I get a beer, some food, some coffee, etc. I’ve already saved $80.
Right? Captive “audience.”
Also the comment is right, the Beff Empenada is just some.boring ass basic shit but they gave it a fancy name.
If they called the burger a “Beef Slabion con Quisito” or some shit to make it spunds fancy and foreign, he wouldn’t complain.
So an empanada isn’t a rare delicacy or anything, but it’s a stretch to say that they just gave it a fancy name. It’s not being fancy to call a food by its name, and it’s not even foreign for a food to have a Spanish name in Miami.
I usually have second thoughts about eating food made by someone who knows his customers will be a thousand miles away when the dysentery hits.
Flying to Oregan, “You have died of dysentery.”
Just like in the simulations.
I consider myself lucky to not have to eat at airports. When I fly, it’s usually direct flights, so I only have to wait maybe an hour before a flight. Not worth it (for me) where things are 2-3 times higher than already ridiculous prices.
My go to airport meal is pounding as many beers as I can at the bar so I hopefully pass out after I get on the plane.
Wine
You don’t have to pee like if you drink beer
I fly from Australia to the US several times a year and rarely piss on the 15 hour flight, because I stick to wine
Fifteen hours without having to urinate sounds like a medical condition, or an invitation to incontinence later in life.
That’s a weird thing to say
That’s a weird thing to say
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30-60 minutes after drinking a glass of water is a normal amont of time to start needing to urinate. Fifteen whole hours of not needing to urinate, while drinking during those hours, is not normal. Like get your kidneys checked, and prostate if you have one. Chronically holding your urine when you need to go can stretch the bladder and lead to incontinence later in life.
I’ve got a trip to Vegas coming up in September. I’ll give it a try next time.
Cheers to my Australian friends!
The Australians know their stuff
Including pub brawls
Won’t you be visiting the lav a lot though?
If he is eating at an airport his beef likely came from the same factory as the cheeseburger.
Probably came from the same horse too.
Panda express is the best airport food imo. Its the only place I’ve consistently been able to get plain grilled chicken, white rice, and broccoli. Very boring meal, but it doesnt cause my digestive system to bloat up or twist itself into knots, which is pretty peak for air travel days
Can you guys like eat at home before going to the airport? Domestic flights don’t last more than 8 hours or so and international ones usually have food. Just don’t eat food 8 hours. Problem solved. Or bring snack/PBJ with you. Blows my mind how many people are eating at the airports. Should be a fraction of that.
I could, but I don’t live near an airport, so I have to leave home roughly 4 hours before my flight departs to account for driving, parking, and airport security. So 4 + 8 = 12 hours without food, and that’s not even counting waiting for bags and getting to your destination on the other side of the flight.
Doesn’t seem like a lot. Not like any significant energy is being expended sitting in the plane
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I have. Literally travel for work every quarter plus normal family/vacation flying. Just because you can’t control your overeating doesn’t mean that I’m wrong.
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What kind of life do people like this lead where they think EVERY SINGLE PASSING THOUGHT they have is SO important and insightful that they need to get it all out there?
I mean, this is a top 3 boilerplate response to someone sharing something boring online. Sharing is generally a pretty meaningful activity for humans. Sharing person to person is a lot better for us than shouting things out on social media but that’s the model that’s provided and the behavior that’s being modeled.
It’s boilerplate because it’s still true and people STILL can’t tell the difference between insightful, useful information to share, and spewing stream of consciousness like they’re a junior high school student who just learned about the concept and is ABSOLUTELY certain they’re about to blow the world’s mind with their unique and mind-blowing interpretations.
By the time you’re old enough to be jetsetting, it’s just pitiful.
Yeah I dunno what to tell you, I’m just pointing out that it’s not much of an original insight either. Menial, non life changing conversations are perfectly normal and fine. In my opinion what’s weird is how few people are in our lives and how little time we have to talk to them, and also the giant bullhorn in everyone’s hands when they go online. Everything becomes a stance instead of just shooting the shit and getting reproached when you are too much of an asshole about your dumb little opinion. This guy chatting in the corner with some colleagues about liking empanadas more than burgers? Seems pretty harmless.
Well, he literally called dissenters 10-y.o.'s, and that kind of behavior is not “harmless” as the mindset behind it bleeds into other, related abuse and negativity.
Oh man, don’t go looking me up on Mastodon then…
You replied.
He’s probably a LinkedIn poster
Not enough grindset content or some form of subtle worker shame.
2008?! Fuck.
It’s honestly shocking how much worse the art has gotten, considering he’s been doing it for decades: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/07/24/the-leto-protocol
Wtf
Took the wtfs right out of my wtf hole
I don’t know how you get the impression that the poster thinks it’s particularly important or insightful. People usually just post random things to interact with other human beings. It’s no different here on Lemmy.
Narcissistic personality disorder.
You’ve seen what people post to NoStupidQuestions, right?
Who gives a shit what you eat at an airport? That’s probably the most utilitarian food imaginable. Plus, because of all the unknown international cross-contamination, there’s also the major “at your own risk” consideration. Complaining, judging, negging, or memeing about who eats what at the airport in any sort of serious capacity when it doesn’t affect anybody AT ALL is bizarre and gives me “we have Seinfeld at home but he’s just a cringe asshole” vibes.
Airports are stressful, chaotic, and uncomfortable. I’m just surviving when I’m in one. Definitely not trying to be doing any fine dining.
Excuse me, I brought my suitcase just for fine dining. It’s full of milk. and skittles!
Bro got the palate of a latino 10 year old
Which is probably healthier than a lot of children in the US.
People don’t eat shitty overpriced airport food because they like it. They do it because they have no other choice.
Seems like such an American phenomenon. Food in US airports is by and large horrible, but in many countries it’s pretty decent.
Mexican airport food also isn’t that great.
Having been to airports in 20+ countries, they pretty much all suck. Decent meal in Hong Kong, one place in the US, and an ok one in Japan. The granola bar in the back of my pantry I forgot about until packing for trips is better than almost anywhere. Airports aren’t for food.
What ? People are often stranded in airports for hours and have been traveling on airplanes which almost always have either no food or awful food. People are tired, hungry, sometimes lonely, and seeking nourishment. They very much are a place for food. Having bad food and terrible prices is something the management of these places and the leaders of the respective cities should be ashamed of. I’ve had very decent meals at a number of European airports and Argentina and Brazil. I’m not talking about taking a date there to impress, I’m talking about a decent meal that doesn’t fill me with regret like every single damn place at JFK for example.
Fair enough, and I almost listed Argentina. It would be great if airplane restaurant food improved. Until then, I’ll just get snacks.
The US is not near the bottom from what I’ve eaten. More expensive, of course.
You can talk all the shit you want about MIA as the airport logistics and operations are trash, but the $6 empanadas at Versailles, la carreta on gate D37 and a couple of standalone empanada places are the best food at MIA by leaps and bounds, and way safer than any of the sushi, sandwich other of the microwave to table restaurants there.
Source : used this airport for +20 years living here.
“I spent way too much instead of eating before I left and need to make this about being better than everyone else.”
Comfort food has nothing to do with health and nutrition unless your momma use to make you kale salad and organic quinoa bowls, which she didn’t.
Hey, I make my kids kale salad and
organicquinoa bowls.
The airport is a lawless place. 7AM? Have a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost $17.
I’ve been more than one place in the US that won’t sell alcohol before a certain hour. Like MF I’ve been up for 20 hours, my body thinks it’s midnight and I just want a damn beer.
“beef empanada” Either use name of the dish in the original language or in your 💔
