Oh my God, look at the teeth on that Sea Bream! 

That sounds awesome! 

My wife got me a tin that makes personal loaves (loafs?) but I’m too lazy to wash each individual compartment... 

Oh, and it’s even better if you spread the “loaf” thin over a larger baking dish and put some oil in the bottom. The crispy top is the best part, especially when the meat caramelizes (and when you season it), and this ensures the highest proportional ratio of delicious top crust to interior meat.

I will say that Mumbai’s airport is quite impressive, despite the generally lousy service that you get out of it. 

Really?! I wonder if it was your route. I think I recall getting pretty toasted on a Qatar air flight once, though given my state it may have actually been Emirates and I’m just not recalling it properly.

I actually kind of liked Continental at one point

Oh God, I hate Alitalia! And it’s even worse since you have to fly into Rome’s dump of an airport.

Those are all good calls.

Some are getting better - Delta, for instance is weirdly good now - but I’ve noticed a bit of regression on many carriers. Even Emirates, which used to be the gold standard for indulgent trans-Oceanic travel, is cutting corners.

I was going to get offended, but then I saw that you are from the rust-belt/Midwest area, which is a global hub of poorly executed or ill-conceived “comfort foods.” My grandmother, who was from Northern Kentucky, never served any meat that wasn’t leathery or a vegetable that wasn’t either raw and bathed in mayo or…

Richard Wright would have been a nice addition too. 

I’ve never understood how Hulk could defeat the Abomination in that Norton movie. I just accepted it and moved on.

I’m going to seek out the West Cork one now.

Never buy new. I purchased 3 years of clothing for my son for the cost of like, one pair of decent jeans. Most of the items were new or worn once, as is the case with all children’s clothing, except the two items that the child demands to wear 350 days out of the year until they fall off in tatters.

It is, but he’s not wrong

Plush, yet tacky! I like the Lapis Lazuli countertops. 

Bring a real, paper book. It keeps your eyes distracted in ways that podcasts really can’t plus it might actually put you to sleep. 

We’ve taken dozens of 12 plus hour flights over the past 7 years with my son, and I have to recommend that you pack judiciously but not excessively. It’s great to have lots of options for the kids when they get bored, but you’ve got to haul all of that crap around, put it on an x-ray machine and try not to forget it…

Flake seems like a decent human being, but he’s a coward and an ideologue. He’ll scold, but God forbid he ever hold the loonies in his party accountable for anything using something useful like his actual fucking votes.