so, there i was eating panda express.....

Van_Hoolio said:
If only those guys knew how dated our computers in the ERJ are. I swear there's got to be a Commodore 64 in there somewhere.
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That's the truth! I still (20 months into it) can't get over how much lag there is between turning a knob on the MCP and seeing the change on the PFD. It's Embraerassing, if you ask me.

Anyway, back on topic (?): I enjoy a little Panda every now and then, but it doesn't compare with real Chinese food.

Oh, and pax are dumb. :)
 
HAHa..yeah, they were tools. sitting two feet from me, took every ounce of restraint not to say anything. I chocked it up to being a dumby. Oh yeah, and one of the dudes came back saying how he lost his boarding pass. I guess a pilot picked it up and turned it into the gate agent....thats how the conversation started. go figure.

Ive worked too long and hard and sacrificed too much to let donkeys like that bother me...

This is making me hungry....might have to get a round two before I commute home later....as soon as crew sched releases me....grrrrr.
 
WestIndian425 said:
Good Eats? :);)

LOL...I'd much rather the restaurant in the EWR crew room. :) As for Chinese food, one of the beautiful things about NYC (particularly Brooklyn) is the loads of stores that open late and are usually a few blocks away from home. Oh, and they're way better than Panda and cheaper too. :)
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:yeahthat:

I miss the szechuan chicken and french fries from the chinese place that was right down the street from my house...right next to the pizza shop and the corner store. And it was like that every couple of blocks or so. I know that it wasn't an authentic chinese cusine, but the taste was fantastic. I can't find anything like it anywhere else.
 
KLB said:
:yeahthat:

I miss the szechuan chicken and french fries from the chinese place that was right down the street from my house...right next to the pizza shop and the corner store. And it was like that every couple of blocks or so. I know that it wasn't an authentic chinese cusine, but the taste was fantastic. I can't find anything like it anywhere else.
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What is so funny, is when you are at airports. Overall the food quality is not up to par. You'll find a few places that serve somewhat of an ok meal but overall you'll find one of the following; McD's, BK, Wendys, some sort of Chinese food, pizza place, etc. What I don't get is how these places charge above normal prices for these sub-par eats. I know it's the airport and you have no other choice. Recently I started bringing my own sandwiches and snacks from home. Yes the wings and burger look finger lickin' good but you have to have some sort of control.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
What I don't get is how these places charge above normal prices for these sub-par eats. I know it's the airport and you have no other choice..
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Answered yer own question, you did!

Some airports are getting better. I know at KMDW they have both a PotBelly sandwiches (where you can get something healthy) and Harry Carey's (more of a sitdown place, but with options) and they seem to be viable.

I'm also noticing at some of the kiosks, you can get things like yogurt with granola, fresh fruit, water instead of sodas. It's a little more spendy, yeah, but cheaper than a gym membership, y'know?
 
When I was CS down at MCO, I would either get the fresh connections or splurge a little with Outback, mostly it was out back since sandwhiches get old...and fast. If I was in the bagroom it was Chic-fil-a!
 
SkyCougar said:
I don't think we even have a Panda Express around here. They'd be laughed right out of San Francisco. I could be wrong though. There might be one hiding in some corner of the city. I tried it once in another US city and it didn't taste like Chinese food to me - nasty!

Of course I'm a Chinese food snob because we have the best here. Vancouver does as well.
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Don't forget about NYC and BOS (in Chinatown at least).

I went to a Chinese restaurant with a captain who spoke three or four different dialects of Chinese (he was literally an operative in the CIA in Vietnam) and I had some things that I'd hate to have seen uncooked but yummy! :)
 
triple7 said:
....listening to two jackasses next to me spout off about how being a pilot is such an easy job. How the airplanes dont even need pilots. How the computer does it all, and does it better. They would trust a computer landing more than a person, because the computers operating systems dont crash as much as humans do. How they have never seen a pilot leave the cockpit ahead of the pax, because they are prob trying to hide because they are drunk or asleep. I was in uniform, and had to bite my tounge, until they said "hey buddy, do you think these airplanes really need pilots? what do you do up there anyways?" I told him there was plenty to be done in flight. His answer, "what? ring the stewardess for a drink?"

jacka$$.
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I gave a private pilot friend a tour of the training center this weekend. We had a chance to jump in a 767 simulator. He didn't do so well. Maybe it isn't that easy after all.
 
SkyCougar said:
I don't think we even have a Panda Express around here. They'd be laughed right out of San Francisco. I could be wrong though. There might be one hiding in some corner of the city. I tried it once in another US city and it didn't taste like Chinese food to me - nasty!

Of course I'm a Chinese food snob because we have the best here. Vancouver does as well.
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It's not Panda Express but a similar type place in SFO. I used to have to choose between that and the burger joint attached to it while waiting on my UA flight. There was also a restaurant place around the corner for about 2-3 times the cost of this schwag tho.
 
had a similar experience coming home from BHM a few weeks ago... two older fellows beside me were watching the planes while we waited to board. The one guy kept spouting off about how " man i could fly any of those dang airplanes out there, i play ms flight sim!!". A plane would take off, and he would call out the airspeed and altitude of it until it left sight. He even told his partner that when the airplanes got pushed back from the gate, they had to make sure that there engines were off so that the thrust didnt oppose the tug, making pushback impossible... :drool:
 
Flysher said:
He even told his partner that when the airplanes got pushed back from the gate, they had to make sure that there engines were off so that the thrust didnt oppose the tug, making pushback impossible... :drool:
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haha..thats hilarious. We must be doing something wrong since we start an engine during the push about half the time.
 
mrambo said:
It's not Panda Express but a similar type place in SFO. I used to have to choose between that and the burger joint attached to it while waiting on my UA flight. There was also a restaurant place around the corner for about 2-3 times the cost of this schwag tho.
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Is that the place in the middle of the United terminal? Ironically I rarely eat at SFO unless my flight is delayed. I usually eat before I leave the house or wait till I get home. So, it's pretty bad?

A lot of people tell me the food at SFO isn't that bad, although it's expensive, like all over-priced airport food!
 
Flysher said:
had a similar experience coming home from BHM a few weeks ago... two older fellows beside me were watching the planes while we waited to board. The one guy kept spouting off about how " man i could fly any of those dang airplanes out there, i play ms flight sim!!". A plane would take off, and he would call out the airspeed and altitude of it until it left sight. He even told his partner that when the airplanes got pushed back from the gate, they had to make sure that there engines were off so that the thrust didnt oppose the tug, making pushback impossible... :drool:
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OMG......that's a good one!

:tmyk:


I think he might have been a little :confused: about the whole thing. But hey, he must've stayed at a holiday inn express the night before!
 
SkyCougar said:
Is that the place in the middle of the United terminal? Ironically I rarely eat at SFO unless my flight is delayed. I usually eat before I leave the house or wait till I get home. So, it's pretty bad?

A lot of people tell me the food at SFO isn't that bad, although it's expensive, like all over-priced airport food!
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They have a Burger King in the UA terminal, and yes, all the other stuff at SFO is expensive as HECK.....

I once made the mistake of eating of light breakfast before I flew out of there.........Almost died.........
 
People are stoopid. I was recently on a flight from Toronto back to MSP. The guy next to me spent the whole flight chatting up the guy on the other side of him (not me, thank God!) about this, that and the other thing. On the approach he started to go on and on about how this Airbus we were in was the most advanced aircraft ever conceived, and had all these bells and whistles, and was the only commercial plane without hydraulics running between the yoke and the control surfaces, yadda, yadda, yadda.


Since we actually were in a 30 year old DC-9, I found this extremely entertaining. :crazy:
 
SkyCougar said:
I don't think we even have a Panda Express around here. They'd be laughed right out of San Francisco. I could be wrong though. There might be one hiding in some corner of the city. I tried it once in another US city and it didn't taste like Chinese food to me - nasty!

Of course I'm a Chinese food snob because we have the best here. Vancouver does as well.
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Go to Powell Street mall.....oh wait, is that Panda Express still there?
 
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