It’s time for Snack Saturday and a look at some food items found at airports.
This week, in what seems to be a never-ending line of locally-themed chocolate “poop” candy, we encountered Oregon Beaver Poop and Oregon Duck Poop candy at the Eugene Airport in Oregon.
We’ll add this to the collection, which includes Bigfoot Poop from Sea-Tac Airport, penguin poop from Pittsburgh International Airport and cow Poop from the Will Rogers World Airport.
Stuck at the Airport.com reader Katie Jackson recently spent some time in Nicaragua – and at the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport (MGA) in Managua. She was kind enough to share some photos and notes from her Greenspot.travel post on what she saw.
Handmade souvenirs
“No chain stores, just stalls featuring authentic Nicaraguan handicrafts that will leave you wanting to shop for even your extended family members,” said Jackson. “A wallet in the airport is $8–the same price you’ll pay in a local market.”
High-Quality Chocolate at a Low Price
Jackson says, “You’ll get your fill of free samples and a specialty chocolate bar made with Nicaraguan cacao will only set you back $1.76. Better yet: you can feel good about supporting a local company, Momotombo, founded by a Nicaraguan who is using the same cacao his grandfather used years ago.”
More breakfast for your buck
Jackson found “a huge and hearty Nicaraguan breakfast including eggs, plantains, beans, rice, cheese, sausage, orange juice and coffee for only $3.”
Throughout October and November passengers on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flights from Amsterdam will notice a special Dutch theme as the airline celebrates its “From Holland” festival by offering food and entertainment featuring Dutch products and farming.
“The meals KLM on intercontinental flights in World Business Class (WBC) from Amsterdam during the festival are made from all kinds of ingredients produced by Dutch farms, fisheries and suppliers. KLM will serve Willem van Oranje potatoes from Flevopolder, Reypenaer cheese from Woerden, and wine from the coastal province of Zeeland. The desserts have been developed by Huize van Wely. The pike-perch with the Zuiderzeezilver label are also caught in the IJsselmeer and Markermeer just north of Amsterdam. A range of Dutch autumn vegetables and fruit also feature on the menus.”
Yum.
In European Business Class, the “Touch of Dutch” menu will include those Huize van Wely desserts. And in Economy Class on European flights, the Dutch touch will feature large “stroopwafel” syrup biscuits, cheese crackers, and bread rolls filled with Beemster cheese.
Intercontinental Economy Class passengers aren’t left out either: there, the menu will include red cabbage with minced-beef meatballs or a fish dish with a Dutch-cheese sauce.
Not interested in those dishes? KLM says the Dutch products will be offered as an option alongside the international onboard meals it usually serves.
The in-flight “From Holland” festival goes beyond food: on the in-flight entertainment system the airline will be serving up Dutch films, music and other programming.
It all sounds yummy… but I’m still waiting for the opportunity to start collecting those gin-filled, Delft blue, miniature Dutch houses.
Photo courtesy: Clark County Department of Aviation
There are lots of changes going on, concession-wise, at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Many of the hotel-themed and other shops in the pre-security concession area they call the Esplanade are gone and shops with new concepts are moving in.
One of them is iCandy, a locally-developed shop with its own mascot and a wide variety of sweets, including chocolates by local favorite Ethel M and Tipsy Truffles, alcohol-infused treats ranging from cupcakes to chocolate alcohol drops. Yum!
If you don’t make your own holiday tamales or know someone who does, then consider making a stop at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
As they do each year, the folks at El Bravo (Terminal 4, in the D concourse) are selling their popular holiday tamales in special holiday bags.
On the menu: green corn chicken, green corn vegetarian, red beef tamales and the seasonal specialty: sweet bean. All are available frozen.
And while you’re at PHX, take a moment to check out the airport’s bug exhibit.
According to the exhibit notes, Arizona has the richest natural endowment of insect life – including America’s biggest, strangest, most beautiful and most poisonous bugs.
The photos and the bug specimens in “Arizona’s Bizarre and Beautiful Bugs” are provided by Kim Wismann, American Home Naturalist, Tempe, Arizona, and will be displayed in a Terminal 3, Level 2, garage exhibit case through April 2011.