I typically travel with Clif Bars and/or Zone Bars for snacks or quick meals. But if there’s time, eating in an airport restaurant, particularly overseas, can be culturally adventurous.
@Ambiverbal There used to be a Chinese restaurant (never saw the name written romanized, but I think I’d recognize the symbols) in the Singapore Airport that was the true Chinese experience of animals you wouldn’t find to eat anywhere else, but with the advantage of feeling like the animal identification was trustworthy. I heard it was shut down, but haven’t been back to check yet to confirm. It was near a random area with a couple dozen beds for folks stuck overnight, in case anyone is looking and it isn’t gone.
@jmoor783 I looked it up. In October 2001, the exchange rate was 1USD=1,600,000TurkishLira.
That works out to $8.75 in 2001 dollars, or about $13.40 in 2021 dollars.
(Turkey removed 6 zeroes from the Lira’s value in 2003, so 1,000,000 old Lira became 1 new Lira.)
@Ambiverbal@jmoor783
Yeah, I can relate.
I paid about $12 for a sausage biscuit breakfast at Burger King in the Dublin airport before a ‘buttcrack of dawn’ flight several years ago. Pissed me off to pay so much, then REALLY lost it when I had it confiscated after going thru security!. Turns out the US has an agreement with the Dublin airport that allows them (US customs) to have a station there, so I had ‘entered’ the US with a forbidden food product. Offered to eat it in the office but they refused. Thought my wife was going to go postal due to being so hangry!
Fast forward several years and, in a totally Alice’s Restaurant-esque moment when I applied for Global entry, they asked me if I had ever been stopped for a customs violation. I of course said “no” since I had long forgotten that episode. The agent then proceeded to grill me on the facts surrounding my ‘smuggling’ attempt…
Your mileage may vary as to whether it’s garbage, but if the airport has a Five Guys, I’m there. I don’t usually eat there otherwise, because the nearest one is an hour away in Fort Wayne, and if I’m in town and want to eat, I’m probably going to go to a sit-down restaurant.
Unless it’s Sea-Tac, which has surprisingly good food all around. I love Sea-Tac.
When I fly out I from home I try to do it very early in the morning so I’m always rushing, I’ll grab a muffin at the airport, eat it on the plane and fall back asleep. On the way home I’ll eat before I get on the plane.
While I have traveled by plane fairly often in my lifetime, I think I have only had one or two flights that were longer (greater than 4 hours) than the span between meals.
Once you get over 3 hours, the plane will usually supply a meal, and if I am hungry I will eat that.
Seems like these days a flight has to be over 6 hours before the airline will grudgingly provide you with a “meal.”
Although with current set of arbitrary airline rules, best strategy is to bring something on the plane that takes a very long time and many many bites to consume, so you can relish in just breathing the communal recycled air rather than your own recycled breath.
Even though the prices are ridiculous, I always enjoy stopping in to eat and drink a beer or margarita at Sammy Hagar’s Beach Club and Grill in the airport on Maui (OGG) I used to commute regularly to Maui for work, until Covid, and that was always an anticipated stop after a long flight from San Francisco.
Nowadays I generally will make a sandwich or two, pack some fruit and/or cookies and chips, and then eat them on the plane. I have been known to bring on some adult beverages to add to the mixers they supply at times.
Other times I will eat in the airport, especially if it’s a longish layover where I can get some food and a (preferably local) beer.
Y’all need to come through PDX. Our airport is pretty amazing and they’re not allowed to inflate prices. They have set street pricing, food carts and really decent restaurants have small spots in there.
The lounge membership used to pay for itself with food, drinks, and sweet snacks (no Stroopwafels) included.
@hchavers, not anymore?
@kittykat9180 from 33% travel to 0% travel means no benefits for me.
The food and drinks are pretty good at the front of the plane.
Once I made the mistake of travelling first class, anything less was no longer an option. I’ll go into debt before I go back to coach.
I typically travel with Clif Bars and/or Zone Bars for snacks or quick meals. But if there’s time, eating in an airport restaurant, particularly overseas, can be culturally adventurous.
@Ambiverbal I’ve been told they have excellent sushi at the Norita airport in Japan.
@Ambiverbal @tweezak It is indeed delicious.
@Ambiverbal There used to be a Chinese restaurant (never saw the name written romanized, but I think I’d recognize the symbols) in the Singapore Airport that was the true Chinese experience of animals you wouldn’t find to eat anywhere else, but with the advantage of feeling like the animal identification was trustworthy. I heard it was shut down, but haven’t been back to check yet to confirm. It was near a random area with a couple dozen beds for folks stuck overnight, in case anyone is looking and it isn’t gone.
Rule #1-Avoid airplanes if possible, nowadays. If a flight is needed, bring some PB&Js, energy bars, candy? from home.
Fly out of PDX where the restaurants charge the same price as non-airport locations.
Man, I don’t get everyone’s disdain for airport and air travel…
Eat something that will fill the crop dusting tanks.
I paid 14 million lira for a Whopper value meal at an airport in Turkey 20 years ago.
@jmoor783 $8475.47 today
@jmoor783 I looked it up. In October 2001, the exchange rate was 1USD=1,600,000TurkishLira.
That works out to $8.75 in 2001 dollars, or about $13.40 in 2021 dollars.
(Turkey removed 6 zeroes from the Lira’s value in 2003, so 1,000,000 old Lira became 1 new Lira.)
https://freecurrencyrates.com/en/exchange-rate-history/USD-TRY/2001/cbr
@Ambiverbal @jmoor783
Yeah, I can relate.
I paid about $12 for a sausage biscuit breakfast at Burger King in the Dublin airport before a ‘buttcrack of dawn’ flight several years ago. Pissed me off to pay so much, then REALLY lost it when I had it confiscated after going thru security!. Turns out the US has an agreement with the Dublin airport that allows them (US customs) to have a station there, so I had ‘entered’ the US with a forbidden food product. Offered to eat it in the office but they refused. Thought my wife was going to go postal due to being so hangry!
Fast forward several years and, in a totally Alice’s Restaurant-esque moment when I applied for Global entry, they asked me if I had ever been stopped for a customs violation. I of course said “no” since I had long forgotten that episode. The agent then proceeded to grill me on the facts surrounding my ‘smuggling’ attempt…
@Ambiverbal @chienfou @jmoor783
That’s just evil!
@Kyeh
yeah, it was all I could do to keep the missus from having a total meltdown and blowing a gasket.
@chienfou The fact that they wouldn’t even let you eat it on the spot?!?!! That’s just sadistic!
@Kyeh
yeah, it was totally an arbitrary line… ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN…
but the global entry interrogation was the kicker!
@chienfou Yeah, unending idiocy!
@chienfou @Kyeh Why would that item even be forbidden? I’m pretty sure you can’t spread pathogens, etc from a cooked sandwich?
@compunaut @Kyeh
/giphy preach it
Pack foods for myself and the kids. Usually a mix of granola bars, fruit leather, and tortilla rolls with PBJ or nutella. And a treat like M&Ms.
Eat at home, stay away from airports for another year or two.
I can’t be the only one who will toss a couple of Lunchables(™) into the backpack (assuming the flight is more than an hour or two)?
@TrophyHusband This is brilliant
Your mileage may vary as to whether it’s garbage, but if the airport has a Five Guys, I’m there. I don’t usually eat there otherwise, because the nearest one is an hour away in Fort Wayne, and if I’m in town and want to eat, I’m probably going to go to a sit-down restaurant.
Unless it’s Sea-Tac, which has surprisingly good food all around. I love Sea-Tac.
Whatever.
/youtube United States of Whatever
When I fly out I from home I try to do it very early in the morning so I’m always rushing, I’ll grab a muffin at the airport, eat it on the plane and fall back asleep. On the way home I’ll eat before I get on the plane.
A lot depends on the Airport. Some have a good selection of places to eat, some you want to avoid.
Never even considered it.
While I have traveled by plane fairly often in my lifetime, I think I have only had one or two flights that were longer (greater than 4 hours) than the span between meals.
Once you get over 3 hours, the plane will usually supply a meal, and if I am hungry I will eat that.
Seems like these days a flight has to be over 6 hours before the airline will grudgingly provide you with a “meal.”
Although with current set of arbitrary airline rules, best strategy is to bring something on the plane that takes a very long time and many many bites to consume, so you can relish in just breathing the communal recycled air rather than your own recycled breath.
Even though the prices are ridiculous, I always enjoy stopping in to eat and drink a beer or margarita at Sammy Hagar’s Beach Club and Grill in the airport on Maui (OGG) I used to commute regularly to Maui for work, until Covid, and that was always an anticipated stop after a long flight from San Francisco.
Nowadays I generally will make a sandwich or two, pack some fruit and/or cookies and chips, and then eat them on the plane. I have been known to bring on some adult beverages to add to the mixers they supply at times.
Other times I will eat in the airport, especially if it’s a longish layover where I can get some food and a (preferably local) beer.
Y’all need to come through PDX. Our airport is pretty amazing and they’re not allowed to inflate prices. They have set street pricing, food carts and really decent restaurants have small spots in there.
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