On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:16:39 -0800 (PST), maxine in ri
> wrote:

>On Dec 3, 5:20*pm, sf > wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:10:24 -0500, Dave Smith
>>
>>
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >sf wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:32:37 -0500, Michael Horowitz
>> >> > wrote:
>>
>> >>> Having just flown IAD-ABQ and noticed the in-flight box lunches they
>> >>> offer, I was wondering what you pack to eat during the flight.
>> >>> Can't be anything TSA wouldn't allow, so a bottle of water is out, but
>> >>> sliced tomato with mozzarella and balsamic vinegar is in, as is a
>> >>> small pack of carrots; a candelabra is out; crackers, cheese, salami
>> >>> is good; buy wine on board. a cookie is good.
>>
>> >> Why do people want to eat on a flight that is less than 5 hours long?
>> >> Watch a movie instead, eat in the airport before you take off if you
>> >> want to eat that badly. *Airport food is pretty good over all and not
>> >> very expensive anymore. *I had a fabulous burrito at O'Hare the last
>> >> time I flew through there.
>>
>> >It is not just the flight time. There is the time it takes to get to the
>> >airport, being there early, layovers, possible *delays. Last we we flew
>> > *Estonia and Scandinavia. That involved leaving here to an airport and
>> >hour and a half from home and allowing extra time for traffic problems
>> >and to get parking lot and over to the airport 2-3 hours ahead of the
>> >flight time. *A few years before that we flew Buffalo to Denver with a
>> >connection in Cleveland. It is at least an hour to the airport, provided
>> >that it is clear sailing through the border, which it often isn't. We
>> >were told to be there an hour before the flight. *We had a layover in
>> >Cleveland, then another 3 hour flight. The food on each of the two
>> >flights snacks. *I suppose we could have had some expensive crappy fast
>> >food at the airport. While flying time was four hours total, it was more
>> >like 8 hours from the time we left home until we arrived very hungry in
>> >Denver.
>>
>> Not relevant and a sob story I can top. *The OP was about a FOUR hour
>> flight IAD-ABQ.
>
>Which, with the drive to the airport, the 2 hour wait, and then the 4
>hour flight, is at minimum 7 hours, unless like me you live 6 minutes
>from the local airport. <g>
>
Personally, even 7 hours without food wouldn't phase me. BTDT So if
eating is *that* important, there are 24 hour restaurants to stop at
before the airport and plenty of places inside the airport to eat in
around the clock.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.