2008?! Fuck.

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.

Not enough grindset content or some form of subtle worker shame.

Whoa. You're the worst kind of gatekeeper. Simultaneously gatekeeping food and kink shaming.

There are several airports that I travel through regularly that have absolute shit when it comes to food.

For several of them I'm stuck steering towards the least offensive options.

I do think a lot of things called pizza should be called flatbreads or something, but this is the first time I've ever expressed that opinion. It's just not that important.

Well I have experienced Non-Real Pizza when I moved to the west coast, a few BC places just gave you cheese on bread with toppings with no tomato sauce. Sacrilegious.

I've tried to explain to a few places (who do use tomato sauve) that they shoukd ouble the sauce they put on for a better flavour.

That question has a clear and very simple answer that most people dont like because it doesn't correspond to their version of it.

The Wikipedia page sums it up:

Region or state

Naples, Campania

And

Raffaele Esposito is often credited with creating the modern version of pizza in Naples at the end of the 19th century. In 2009, Neapolitan pizza was registered with the European Union as a traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG) dish. In 2017, the art of making Neapolitan pizza was included on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.

Pizza = Neapolitan pizza. Everything else is a variation (and that's fine).

It is pronounced "quasson" 🥐

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 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.

I think they’re joking around because the idea is such insecure, hyperbolic clout chaser nonsense. It felt like a Simpson reference. “Only the most sensual dances. The lambada, the Macarena.”

Excuse me, I brought my suitcase just for fine dining. It's full of milk. and skittles!

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.

Mexican airport food also isn't that great.

It seems like in us airports, you have to follow your nose to That One Restaurant That Actually Makes Good Food. Most of the places make substandard versions of whatever their chain sells outside, and for whatever reason their corporates are okay with them representing their brands that poorly. But there's always That One Restaurant, usually a local chain, never Sbarro gods I hate that place never eat there they are the only place I have ever given a thumbs down to I don't even think the cheese was melted on my "Arizona style pizza" I need an entire gram of weed to tolerate them and my niece loves them so I have to have a slice a year dear gods help me I'm getting nauseated just remembering eating there and I love pretty much everything

okay haha funny wife she changed the autocorrect on my phone to change "everything" to "scrotum" because I like to write I love everything when talking about food. Or I just love scrotum that much and my thumbs are gettin real fat, could be a lot of things I guess. She's asleep right now. I'm going to have to ask her which niece put her up to this. I've gotten completely derailed and I don't care this means war. I think I'm going to... Hm. A good creative prank requires thought. Maybe something next week.

That doesn't honestly seem too awful for what sounds like 3 whole meals in this economy.

Man I wish my local airport had Onigiri. It's like the most perfect on the go food