What’s the deal with airport food?
June 17, 2009
GSP Concourse Food & Beverage [website] | Chicken caesar wrap
$13.50
That’s how much I payed for a chicken caesar wrap, chips, and a Diet Coke. Unlike whatever sauce they drowned the chicken in, I’m not bitter. It wasn’t Greenville-Spartanburg Airport’s (GSP) fault that God hates Dallas and decided to smote it with hellish storms the day I tried to fly in. However, it is their fault that my sandwich cost nearly as much as my ticket.
Airporty goodness.
When the guy behind the counter, Zach, said, “That’ll be $13.50,” I’m pretty sure I chuckled just a little bit. Regular Jerry Seinfeld this Zach fellow. He added, “We take American Express.” Who was I to argue with Zach? I looked down the concourse to my right. Zero food options. To my left, the women’s bathroom. This little stand had such a strong monopoly on food they’d soon be building red plastic hotels. (Hardy har, how I amuse myself.)
At least it wasn’t some cooler sandwich sitting on ice all day. No, no. Only the best for GSP patrons. Chef Zach made my wrap fresh. That was nice of him. Then we had a rather interesting exchange:
“What do you want to drink?” he asked.
“Diet coke,” I replied.
“What type of rum?”
“Um, the kind without alcohol.”
“We don’t have that kind.”
[blank stare] … “Then I guess I’ll go without.”
“Whatever, man, it’s your layover.”
Regular Charles Nelson Reilly this Zach fellow.
Anyhow, the wrap was terrible. Don’t eat at GSP.
DTR
