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January 9-15, 2008

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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The fog was so thick this morning that I was worried flights would be delayed, so we took off for the airport with time to spare.

The interior decorator of the Oakland Airport has finally abandoned the charred fuselage look:

... (which many of us found outré and disturbing.)

Now they have to work on getting some culinary “there” there.

Since I got on an earlier flight, I had some time to kill at LAX:

I checked out how others handled their time surplus:

... before taking a walk around the death star:

... while keeping my eyes peeled for breakfast options. CPK, Boudin and Daily Grill are off my rotation so I decided to visit the culinary equivalent of a crack house - McDonalds.

In last week’s Bunrab email, Steve pointed us to a NYT article which explained why eating a Starbucks egg and sausage sandwich is so similar to getting out of a trap in Saw 2 (they cook their eggs two days prior to serving in two kitchens somewhere in the U.S.)

I had never had a McDonalds sausage egg McMuffin before, but I knew two things:1) it would probably be on par with most of the chow available in the airport and 2) I would like it more than a balut.

Even though I like my eggs less cooked and my bread toasted, this sausage and egg in an English muffin ($2.49):

... was saltier (in a good way) with a less rubberized, less muddy flavor than it’s café counterpart. Carrying along the disadvantage of the plastic, orange chemical-cheese square, this low-brow version was less palate spackling than its most-sincere-form-of-reheated corporate copy cat food product. I think that it would take an act of poor meal planning to get me to eat another of these again, especially if they expand their menu to include Balut McMuffins.

It was an interesting taste-off, but a steady diet of impersonal, assembly line food has a dehumanizing effect - that’s what is so sinister about Starbucks –they allow you to customize your kool aid.

-G

Monday, January 14