I was traveling the last two days during lunch so I had limited choices. Monday I flew to Austin through Chicago-Ohare. Yesterday I flew back through Dallas. Dallas has better options than Chicago. Anyhow, let's discuss which Airports have the best offerings.
I hate Ohare. Wolfgang Puck express sucks my ass. Their pizza's are either too floury or too greasy. The food courts there are a travesty as well. And the Great American Bagel company or whatever it is called should be sued for using Bagel in it's name.
Dallas is nice. Aunt Annie's Pretzel's rock.
Austin is great for the Salt Lick BBQ, as well as Schlotsky's.
Detroit is very nice in the Northwest Terminal. They have a National Coney Island.
Any aiport successes to share? WFL everyone.
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In Austin I had breakfast tacos at the Salt Lick BBQ place.
I tend to hit the Wolfgang Puck spots for breakfast if they are available in other airports. Chicago Midway has a Potbelly and a Harry Carey's (I think). If memory serves they also have a Billy Goat somewhere in there. A very impressive selection at MIdway (if you don't mind your plane crashing into street intersections). My most frequented airport, Washington National has a Legal Seafood but it is in the main concourse so you have to go before going through security. Thus I have never gone.
Lunch today: sandwich again, and I am open to suggestions.
Does La Choi have some poll results for us?
I think the food selection at Midway is far superior to O'Hare. They have a potbelly and everything. I've actually always had great luck getting really cheap flights out of Midway, and it is a good decent airport. I get defensive when people trash O'Hare, though. The place is a machine. And considering that we have horrendous weather frequently, and O'Hare gets more people traffic than any other airport, it is amazing that it runs as well as it does.
I am clueless about what to eat for lunch today. I'd like a nice chicken salad that is not mayo based. The Corner Bakery has a nice one that I thoroughly enjoy, but there isn't one near by so I don't know what I'll be dining on today.
Damn you Jo, you got to it before I did. Great minds do think alike.
hi hi,
turkey and swiss on tuscan sourdough bread today along with an apple...oh and my homemade guacamole for HaterTot to try...it's super onion-y, so beware.
as for airport foods, i can't say that i've had a positive experience in any location i've been to. HaterTot and i had a bloody mary and appetizer sampler platter at national once while waiting for a plane. it wasn't necessarily memorable in flavor, but it was right outside the gate and gets points for convenience.
boston has a "faux" cheers with decent clam chowder. when i worked at the bull & finch, the chowdah was excellent, but it was b/c it was from legal seafoods.
POLL RESULTS ARE...
(drumroll, please)
out of 11 responses, we had 6 (54.5%) vote for april 7-9 and 5 (45.5%) vote for may 5-7. the winner by a hair is...
0APRIL 7TH THROUGH THE 9TH!!! spring conference date has officially been chosen. everyone turn in your day-off requests and get ready for a rockin' time.
Detroit Northwest Terminal wins it for me. I'm a whore for PB&J's.
SFO has a Gordon Biersch pre-security (if I remember correctly) which is convenient.
My favorite airport bar though is in the B Terminal at BWI. There is nothing remarkable about it, but I've spent hours there waiting for flights, and always ended up with a couple of free drinks and extra pours, which is amazing at an airport bar. BWI also has a Phillips and a Church's Chicken.
The worst that I can think of off the top of my head is the old terminal at Reagan. It sucks in every way, not just it's selection of food and drink, though, I was once waiting to pick someone up there in the bar, and was flattered that they thought my ID was fake, as I was 29 at the time.
Lunch today is bean salad and a hard boiled egg, but was meant to also include cottage cheese and jello, but I left those on my couch. I would be more angry if I didn't have The Best Bus Ride Ever this morning.
HT -- don't forget that you'll have some heavy onioned guac today too.
Singapore Airlines Slut
That is me. The best food I've ever had in an airport is in Hong Kong International Airport. Singapore airlines has an AWESOME "Raffles Class" lounge there that I was able to get piss drunk at (drinks are included in the absolutely ridculous airfare price) and eat some of the best hand made sushi I've had in my life (with the exception of a restaurant in Taiwan which I will have to tell you the story about when I am drunk and we actually meet each other in person).
Better than that they had my favorite selection of chinese dumplings.
So there I was sitting in 2002 piss drunk, happy as a clam, curled up on a couch in the dim Raffles Class lounge when they came to get me for my flight in a golf cart.
I left kicking and screaming...
You both beat me to the punch on Midway. I have to agree. (I also understand the strange civic pride associated with O'Hare.) Airports feel so homogenized, though. I don't even look for character. I look for the bar.
I ate my pad thai for dinner last night. I’ve a hankerin’ for spicy tekka maki today.
I am extremely excited about the college basketball doubleheader tonight! Heavy implications in the world of OWFL. I wish we had a Hoosier on board. I know there’s a bunch of ACC junkies out there, but this should be an impressive exhibition of Big Ten hoops. The two most storied programs in the conference, both highly ranked. Good stuff. Where is MD vs. Duke?
Cameron.
But I have high hopes for Gary and the boys.
And, I expect Gary's sweat to be seeping through his jacket by the end of the first half.
Go Terps! Fuck Duke!
(I still love ya', LT)
Does any one know who this guy is? He links to us.
http://darrencarew.blogspot.com/
I believe Darren Carew is a friend of CSR's.
Oh my God. I'm so jealous of that Singapore Airlines flight. If you're flying coach, do you get all of that, too? Damn.
The only good thing I've ever had in an airport restaurant was beer.
Except for when my friend flies through here & I meet him during his layover at the Legal Seafood at Reagan. But that's like a real restaurant.
The only time I've been through Midway was a nightmare. A bunch of flights to the East Coast had been delayed or cancelled & people were sitting all over the floor. It seriously felt like a refugee camp. And the ceiling was really low and there weren't nearly enough seats in the seating areas. Shudder. Jade, was I in the old part of it or something? Is there some big new shiny party that I missed? (excluding the big new shiny entryway where the ticket counters are)
doood...you know how la choi feels about sports talk. i don't mind it, but i have an aversion to it. HT understands me since she witnessed me at the pourhouse that one time during all those college football games going on at once. blech! i love the party that goes along with sports. but it's when the sports people themselves get all crazy and irrational that i just can't relate to. i think growing up korean had something to do with it. if all else fails, blame the parents.
james -- your singapore airlines story makes me so jealous. i want free booze and sushi!!!!!!!!!!!
I happened to be flying on Sept. 11, 2002 and had lunch before my flight at the Jose Cuervo Tequileria in the St. Louis Airport. Really fake Mexican food and lots of Cuervo 1800 margaritas while watching CNN . Very sad & very drunk.
Have any WFLers spent time in Key West? CSR, Rico and I (and a band of others) are headed down their Friday for CSR's last stand as a bachelor. Any lunching, dinnering, drinking, tittering or other ideas would be appreciated.
Did you guys ever find your shirts? I looked and looked but never found anything.
Thanks Jade, we actually found a great website (thanks to hatertot) on which we could make tee shirts. At this late date we have decided to wait till we get down there.
here's the site:
http://www.uberprints.com/
Wait, I solicited naked pictures from strangers for you, got one, and now you're not going to use it?!
Oh it will be used...
I'm done for today, or at least until my mood improves. They have to reschedule my surgery, which fucks me up in so many ways (like the nonrefundable ticket TheBestFriend has, and that she has to try to take work off again, that she might not be able to, that my entire organization has scheduled shit around this etc. etc. It also means that I'll still be wearing big giant sweaters for the conference)
Sorry guys, I have to deal with this. I'll catch you later on.
We're with you Prez.
I think I speak for everyone when I say if there's anything we can do...
in key west, there is this place that hemmingway apparently lived in. i think there is a cigar bar there...sounds manly. you may want to do that since you'll be surrounded by "the gays".
"surrounded by.." what the hell is that supposed to mean?
Is the Hemingway house the one with all the weird cats?
well, everyone knows that key west is uber gay. it's probably one of the largest gay mecca cities next to SF, NYC, and LA.
i don't know if there are lots of cats. i was down there for a wedding last year, and the girls had brunch at this girlie place, and the guys met at the 'hemingway house', so i just assumed that it was a manly establishment.
when i mean 'the gays', i'm referring to margaret cho's stand-up where she imitates her mom talking about how 'the gays' are everywhere...."except for korea!!!"
La choi, isn't DC is the "gayest" city per capita in the US?
I bring this up because DC was nowhere in your ranking system and thusly, your logic must be flawed.
gayest per capita, i don't know, but this articleshould clear some things up for you.
ok, so key west isn't specifically mentioned, but it has to be in the top 10. the top three are SF, NYC, and LA as I said. the gayest town though is provincetown. no mention of DC, really.
actually, my logic is solid. check it.
um, yeah, scratch the hemmigway house thing...i thought that there was a bar or something there but you're right about those cats. they are cute though...
i just ate so many carrots...i think i'm gonna turn orange!
Our office’s regular cleaning lady is on an extended vacation back to her native Bulgaria. (Everyone else in my office thinks she’s Polish. Grrrr….100-99-98-97-96-95-94-93-92….okay.) Her replacement, who I have yet to meet, apparently has a different trash receptacle placement philosophy. So, for the last few days, my trash can’s been under my desk, instead of by its side. The reason I’m telling you this is that I was just preparing to eat my tuna roll, having put the wasabi in the little plastic cup and torn open a pack of soy sauce. I poured the sauce into the little cup, wheeled my chair over to the side of my desk and…whoa! No trash can. Where the fuck? Ah, yes, under my desk (directly below where the whole wasabi/soy mixing project is going down, mind you). So I threw out the empty soy sauce pack, grabbed another one, tore it open with my teeth, poured it in the cup, wheeled my chair over to the side of my desk and…d’oh. Thought it was kind of humorous really. So I wheeled back, tossed empty soy pack #2 into the can under project wasabi/soy, grabbed another pack, tore it open, poured it in the cup........
Someone recently told me that mixing soy sauce and wasabi is incorrect and unsophisticated. Rather, they pontificated, an amount of wasabi paste should be applied direct to the slice of roll/piece of sushi, whatever, and the soy should be added separately. Am I a total hick for not knowing this? Go ahead and tell me, ‘cause after that whole trash can thing, I’m feeling pretty rock bottom anyway.
(Sorry, HT. Jo certainly does speak for me.)
Lester,
I consider myself knowledgable about sushi, but I can't say I know the answer to this one. I generally do add the wasabi to the soy sauce, but I suspect this is wrong, because (WARNING: Long, possibly boring explanation to follow) the wasabi most of us are used to here in the States is not real wasabi, but is actually just green-colored horseradish. Real wasabi is a root that is grated - I've had it a few times (there's a place in Oregon that you can order it from - last I heard, it's the only place in the world outside of Japan that grows real wasabi). When you put real wasabi in the soy, it just sinks to the bottom. So you probably should really put it directly on the roll. Next time you go to a nice sushi place, ask them if they have real wasabi - sometimes they have it on the special board as "fresh" wasabi. It's hot, but not quite as hot as horseradish - a bit sweeter in flavour & the hit from the heat is a bit smoother, if that makes any sense. If anyone wants the website for the Oregon wasabi farm, let me know & I'll try to dig it up!
I turned orange as a kid. Mom took me to the doctor. Apparently I was short and orange. (insert Oompa-Loompa joke here)
Hater - good to see you. And, I hope my new name is okay with you, though, feel free to hate at will, as I understand it's what you do.
Thanks everyone for the support. I'm trying to reschedule, with or without TheBestFriend, so we'll see what happens.
I do believe DC is gayest per capita, which is not the same as most same-sex couples, but I could be wrong. I remember hearing that a lot though from friends in SF when I was leaving there for here.
Oh, speaking of sushi, and back to the original theme of today. Do not, under any circumstances, eat at the sushi bar in terminal B at Dulles. Especially if you are a sushi snob. I had the uni & thought I was going to vomit.
Is the surgery reschedule going to interfere with your ability to attend the conference? Because I will protest any conference that you are not able to attend.
Hi Hater!
Nice one, turtlebeth! I'd check out that site if you can find it.
And hater, I believe your thought on the subject is universally sound(in a Cat Stevens sort of way).
Well, that was easy to find.
For sushi snobs only
as a person who has eaten a shit ton of sushi, i am believing in LT's explanation.
growing up in LA, i ate at a lot of asian restaurants and grew up on sushi. we had the green wasabi stuff usually, and even had a tube of it at home in the fridge to add to some korean/japanese dishes. (i bet you never knew that there is such a thing. there's also special korean-chinese dishes that are only served in korean-chinese restaurants too...delish!)
the way i've always mixed my wasabi-soy sauce is by creating a paste. the key to doing this successfully is putting a large chunk of wasabi in the little dish first and then adding just a touch of soy sauce. then mix it around until you get the proper consistency, which is not as thick as the stand alone wasabi but not as thin as the stand alone soy sauce. the color should be a slight brownish green.
the wussy hick way is to just fill up the mini-saucer with a ton of soy sauce and then add a dinky crumb of wasabi and try to mix that around.
Hater? How wonderful to see you again!
LT - yeah I worked for a pretty kewl place when I was doing that. I just talk about it to make La Choi more jealous. I left the job for a woman :)
La Choi, I resemble that comment about Wasabi. I'm not your Daddy in that fashion. I think he is prolly tougher than me.
TexESQ and I just finished a cruise that stopped in Key West. That is a wild town. I'd like to try to make it for Fantasy Festival one year.
I had Pho today ... now I feal like I ate a whole salt lick .. you Yankees in the cold NE prolly don't know what that is
From now on I will be eating my sushi in the manner prescribed by La Choi. A wasabi-soy paste.
I ended up having lunch at SoHo the gourmet by the pound joint.
The highlight of my plate was the spicy noodle salad mixed with spiced collards and some glass noodles.
I'm the worst at mixing wasabi in. I know the proper technique (as described by La Choi), but I get too excited to get to eating & pour the soy. I wind up with chunks of wasabi floating around until they melt about the time I'm finishing. It doesn't help that they bring you soy way before you ever see wasabi. They really ought to bring you a plate of wasabi & ginger with the soy as soon as you order.
Mmmm . . . I love glass noodles. I could eat glass noodles and soy and nothing else. No, wait. Glass noodles, soy, and water chestnuts.
Don't make me bring out the water chestnuts quote again...
Riccotubs needs to use my new avatar. I edited it specifically for him.
LT -- the next time we eat, it will be sushi, and i will teach you how to refrain from pouring the soy sauce into the little dish before the wasabi. you must be patient and wait for the wasabi and place it in the little mixing dish FIRST. it is the only way to avoid your floating wasabi chunks in the soy sauce issue.
and james, you could not beat my daddy (aka jim/bob/mike choi) or the C-choi in a wasabi-soy paste mixing contest. they make that paste so perfectly! then they dip their sushi/sashimi and start "hmmm-ing" and "haaa-ing" since the wasabi is crawling up their nostrils and clearing out their sinuses. i warn everyone that the choi wasabi-soy paste method is intense. be prepared for clear nasal passages.
oh, and eat a slice of pickled ginger in between each different kind of sushi/sashimi you consume. it cleanses your palatte so you can taste each kind of fish as if it were new each time.
and i love oily, stinky fish. the oilier and stinkier, the better. all hail saba (mackerel) and hamachi (yellowtail)!!!! they are my favorite.
For the record, I am not a wussy hick. (Not to imply that any such thing was insinuated.) I like my wasabi pasty. I try for the sinus bomb.
wasabi pasties? We should open a sushi strip bar!
you know they have those places in Japan where you eat the sushi off a nude model who just lies there total still the whole time. I wonder if they ever get their nipples grabbed at with chopsticks. "oops, sorry! I was going for that piece of tuna!"
Speaking of naked ladies . . . .I don't like the mackeral. Ick! Too fishy! I do like yellowtail, though! And nothing beats a good, fresh, buttery salmon. Except a good, fresh, buttery, melt-in-your-mouthy uni. Mmmmmmm . . . god, I want sushi for dinner.
I want to move to London! I'd be such a lightweight there. Sigh!
Best line in the article: "[N]ow and again the only thing that will really do . . . is a pant-wetting, day-night blowout."
Thank you Hater - that actually means a lot. You can ask, I was legitimately concerned. CSR just told me if it did inspire your hate, it'd be directed at Jo anyway, which, I can live with.
Jade - I don't know, but I don't think so. Tentatively we're on for Feb. 17, though TheBestFriend is no longer guaranteed, so I have to find someone to pick me up from the hospital if necessary. (apparently they don't let you leave after general anesthesia on your own) After that, I can probably handle it on my own. The issue is that if it's not now, TheBestFriend is out for sure, b/c of her impending wedding, so I might as well just do it.
I went to Key West. All's I remember is it's real gay. And there's a lot of Hemingway shit. But, I was drunk, and it was a cruise stop, so I don't really remember much.
LaChoi's Korean pride is unrivaled. Viva la Korea!!
I haven't eaten lunch. Looooonnnngggg meeting, and I have to stick here for awhile tonight to accomodate this toolish Board member who's apparently coming into the offices.
Today started out magical and ended up in the shitter. Fuckity Fuck Fuck Fuck.
lester, you are not a wussy hick. i believe that all WFLers appreciate the wasabi-soy paste initiative. i say that at the conference, we all do sushi for dinner. that and burritos.
if you need a ride to and fron surgury, HaterTot, i can do it. we can coordinate. i will tend to you as you recuperate. i also have untouched onion-y guac for you too.
i think my korean pride is out of control lately due to the fact that i may actually be going there next month. though i don't know if i could stand a sustained amount of alone time with the C-choi for 10 days. we'll see.
La Choi - Korea is the worlds greatest supplier of jade. If you go, I will give you money and a general idea of what I like and you can buy me really cheap jade jewelry! I'm so excited.
Sorry, HaterTot, that all sucks the big one! If I was there, I would be your Florence Nightingale.
I was really hoping for a knockdown drag out HaterTot/Hater brawl...
Why do guys always love a cat fight?
Don't ask silly questions Jade.
Conference talk tomorrow
E-Que - that is the VERY first thing I thought about, actually. I thought, "Hmmm... at least now I could go to the Superbowl Party..." which is great consolation.
I've only been in one catfight, and it wasn't even. A random drunk girl pushed me and called me a bitch (pretty much out of the blue). When I said, "Get away from me, NOW," she grabbed my face and kissed me. At which point I punched her and knocked her out.
College was fun.
So really,
Noone likes the new avatar?
I guess I just don't get, James. It looks like you took a clipart of a horse & added a chicken waddle to its chin. Am I missing something??
Oh. Ok. Duh. Nevermind. I was thinking *way* too dirty. Ha! I can't stop laughing now.
I thought maybe the waddle was supposed to be a nutsack.
"69 DUUUUDDDEE!!"
I do love the Bill & Ted.
I'm glad to have today's dirty 69 post. Jade had it last week, and I have to say I was jealous.
Liz - I didn't get it either. No clue. Thanks for getting that cleared up for me!
OK LT FINE!!! :)
Is it better? Can you now tell what it is?
Hey, at least I'm going to the Rocket's\Sacramento tonight.
Without TMac and Yao we are totally gonna get spanked.
Oh my god, I'm laughing my ass off here. The sad thing is, I totally got it after I re-read my 1st post on the matter. Like 5 seconds after I posted it.
It still looks like a nutsack, though. ;-p
Bravo, James! Very funny!
I fly a lot into O'Hare and I have to admit, the food selections suck if you're even attempting to eat healthy (I usually dine in the American Airlines terminal).
However, I usually fly out of Miami International and they have a couple of decent places there. La Carretta is a staple in Cuban food in Miami, FL. Usually I fly out in the morning (Like I will be this Sunday) and I'll get a Cafe Con Leche and a Croquetta or Pastilito de queso. For lunch sandwhiches are usually the best option. Go for the Medianoche. The main La Carretta is located outside of security infront of the C terminal (I believe). If you have an extra 30 minutes or so and haven't gotten a chance to have any Cuban food during your stay in Miami (which is highly unlikely since its everywhere), I suggest going there.
Welcome, Musk!
Hi Sir Musk and a hardy OWFL welcome!
LT, what do you say to that. Most grrls would accuse me of needing to get laid if I said that :)
I was really doing it for Ricco and the grrls (Jade and HaterT) that are his fans.
I love everyone else here though .. (gotta throw it up for La choi .. she is our cute cuddly ex-roommate).
As it is the grrl is in bed so I better get there myself.
cheers all
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