I order Mac Donald when I’m at security gate. By the time I reach the boarding gate with the MacDonald, my order is ready. And if I get blocked for whatever reason, well, it was “only” a Mac Donald, compared to being blocked at airport.
One Mac Donald, please
Isn’t that just Scrooge McDuck?
I look for the least overpriced meal and I get that meal.
Often it’s a sandwich, but sometimes it’s a burger. It’s still overpriced, but 200% overpriced is better than 500% overpriced and pretending to be bougie.
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
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?
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.
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.
Oddly enough, I have had both gourmet burgers and pizza. The latter at an airport. And before anyone jumps that it is obscenely expensive, I was travelling on the federal government’s dime.
I can’t believe you would take missiles out of the innocent government’s hands just to create happiness in a human.
The audacity!
Great so I paid for this. /s
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. Not worth it (for me) paying prices 2-3 times higher than the already ridiculous ones.
Airports aside, I love it when people assume just because you like cheap food, it means you can’t stomach or don’t love good food, too.
One of Gordon Ramsey’s all time favorites in an IN-N-OUT burger.
At least it’s not grilled cheese.
F’real man. Like, I love all sorts of food, but nothing hits quite like a really shitty cheap pizza, with that “cheese” that just comes off in a flat sheet.
Yeah. When I eat Taco Bell, it’s not because I want Mexican food. It’s because I want Taco Bell.
There’s a certain itch that good food can’t scratch.
How do you feel about shit-tier ice cream? Like knockoff hoodsie cups, or store brand ice cream sandwiches?
I think it’s weird that eating pizza is somehow a sign of someone who lacks the correct values or something
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.
De gustibus non disputandum. What a gatekeeping cunt.
People who gatekeep fucking food can just shove it in their mouths and shut the fuck up.
People who gatekeep fucking food …
How about we don’t fuck food at all
Whoa. You’re the worst kind of gatekeeper. Simultaneously gatekeeping food and kink shaming.
Then you explain it to your mother. That pie was supposed to be for eating, not for sating your carnal lust.
Now you’re gatekeeping camel lust? We ought to chuck you in the horny hole
Camel Lust?
Must be the eyelashes. I get it.
Bactrian or Dromedary?
Any humpie will do
Do the humptie hump.
If your Puritan morales are getting in the way of eating it, that sounds like something you need to come to terms with.
You think it is morally OK to eat a fruit pie filled with your own son’s semen?
Answer quick, the FBI watch list guy is waiting.
Have I been watching too many episodes of “family pies”?
I don’t know, how big a fruit pie. What kind of fruit? What temperature was it at when he fucked it? When did I acquire a son? Wait, was this my cat son? BAD CAT! NO FUCKING PIES WITHOUT A PERMIT! YOU GOT TO GET A PERMIT FROM THE PERMIT OFFICE! YOU KNOW BETTER!
Over airport food no less
Pizza gate keeping is amusing, no that isn’t real pizza! OK, wtf is it then?
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.
Sounds like a pizza to me. Maybe not a variant of it that you like, but still pizza.
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).
Sure, I’ll accept that. Pizza didn’t exist until 2009.
Or, more seriously, are you saying pizza was invented in 1889 in naples, years after people were selling pizza in New York?
Later research cast doubt on this legend, undermining the authenticity of the letter of recognition, pointing that no media of the period reported about the supposed visit and that both the story and name Margherita were first promoted in the 1930s–1940s.
Like all things pizza, everyone claims to be the first and they’re all liars.
If you demand true authenticity, accept nothing after the early 990s oiled flatbreads with buffalo cheese, sharing a common ancestor with pita. Because you’re not going to find an actual origin for who, where or how people first “properly” put stuff on their bread when we’ve been eating bread and stuff for all of human history.
It’s like saying that the only real sandwich is a single slice of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread with no toppings or condiments. Everything else is just some manner of dumpling.
That oiled cheesy pizza sounds good to me. But then I am probably the weirdo who actually wants to try the 1000+ year old foods, not the modern processed food imitations of them.
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.
I would normally think of flatbread as plain bread. When its covered in typical pizza toppings, now its pizza
Cannibals agree.
If I am at an airport, I’m probably not gonna eat anything because I refuse to pay $50 for a single meal.
I just got 3 grilled cheese, 3 orders of fries, and two (12oz canned) sodas at a city beach on Cape Cod. $52.
Not Nantucket…not Martha’s Vineyard. Not even outer cape or P-town. Inner Cape.
What the fuck man. Like, I get captive audiences…but that’s theme-park prices as far as I’m concerned.
That doesn’t honestly seem too awful for what sounds like 3 whole meals in this economy.
Yeah, I guess not, when you tack on the “in this economy…” to it.
And those fries were pretty friggen good, too. Grilled cheese was mid tho. Best grilled cheeses use mayo. Good grilled cheeses use butter. This had neither. It was more like a toasted cheese.
Was it just straight grilled cheese? Not something fancy like 3 cheese or added meat?
No. Regular grilled cheese. Orange American. Which, if you’re gonna make a grilled cheese with American, I guess is the better choice.
I probably am because I’m high as balls on edibles and ate the food supposed to last me the whole trip during the first flight.
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?
You’ve seen what people post to NoStupidQuestions, right?
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 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.
Narcissistic personality disorder.
Oh man, don’t go looking me up on Mastodon then…
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.
He’s probably a LinkedIn poster
Not enough grindset content or some form of subtle worker shame.
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Bro got the palate of a latino 10 year old
Which is probably healthier than a lot of children in the US.
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.
Nah man you see they used long words and therefore it’s fancy
Americans when they don’t translate the food:
It is pronounced “quasson” 🥐
