BillKirch wrote:

They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made
some. of
course it was at the airport. BG


That combo smell of Cinnabon and jet fuel always makes me gag.

--
Best
Greg

S.Dunlap wrote:

We have three Cinnabon places here in Honduras - two in San Pedro Sula
and one in Tegucigalpa. I pay about $7 (depends on the fluctuating
exchange rate)for a box of four including the extra frosting. Since we
live 2 hours from SPS, when we go, we buy a box and split it amongst
all the cinnamon roll junkies we know. I usually take a half, the kid
gets one and a halfand a family friend gets the other two - one when
we get home, one for breakfast the next day.


Man, $7.00 sounds kinda expensive for a place like Honduras - do they cater
to mostly an ex - pat crowd?

--
Best
Greg

In article Y95Eb.73112$8y1.273435@attbi_s52, Julia Altshuler wrote:

I've started to wonder about that breakfast roll I bought. It was as
though someone gave himself a challenge to design a roll that looked
like other rolls and was technically food meaning that it wasn't poison
and did have some caloric content but that otherwise was made from the
cheapest possible ingredients in the cheapest possible manner. Then
you'd have that roll I bought in the airport.

Probably the same firm that designs the breakfast pastries for
Panera. They all *look* nice, but you find they have the wrong
consistancy. It does go well with their version of esspresso
drinks, though--they're both bad.

I second the recommendation to just bring something to the
airport with you. You probably pass by several excellent
food places on the way. Of course, I'm always late....

Mike Beede

Mike Beede wrote:

I second the recommendation to just bring something to the
airport with you. You probably pass by several excellent
food places on the way. Of course, I'm always late....



The trouble with bringing something to the airport is that I've usually
gone out of my way to empty my refrigerator before leaving town, and I'm
normally busy with a thousand last minute things to do before flying.
Planning on a meal, even a simple portable snack, is enough to send me
over the edge. Then add to that the need to get up early to accomodate
the flight and the lines so there's nothing open at the time I'm
traveling. By the time I get to the airport, I'm glad to pay high
prices for something to eat. My best bet for something that will be
available at the airport at all hours, good enough quality, not stomach
ache material and will stave off hunger for just long enough is, oddly
enough, chocolate. It has enough calories to keep me going and is sold
with the newspapers and magazines.

--Lia

"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message ink.net...
S.Dunlap wrote:

We have three Cinnabon places here in Honduras - two in San Pedro Sula
and one in Tegucigalpa. I pay about $7 (depends on the fluctuating
exchange rate)for a box of four including the extra frosting. Since we
live 2 hours from SPS, when we go, we buy a box and split it amongst
all the cinnamon roll junkies we know. I usually take a half, the kid
gets one and a halfand a family friend gets the other two - one when
we get home, one for breakfast the next day.


Man, $7.00 sounds kinda expensive for a place like Honduras - do they cater
to mostly an ex - pat crowd?

Nope, not particularly. In fact I rarely see ex-pats there. Cinnabon
shops are are located in the malls - which cater to upscale Hondurans.
The stores in the mall specialize in imported Italian suits, French
perfumes, Rockport shoes, OshKosh and Stride Rite for kids, Sony
computers and audiovideo equipment, etc.

Sandi

I'm guessing now 2.50 is not to far from the ones at a mall possibly.. I go
for greasy fatty food at the , but not sweats so have never looked at the
prices. but a store that only sells cinnamon rolls..or primarily sells
them, to shoppers? 2.50 would probably be about the price..

--

Laura


"Arri London" wrote in message
...
Richard Kaszeta wrote:

Julia Altshuler writes:
I've wondered about this. A few years ago I was on the airport
shuttle bus to Logan Airport in Boston. A sign in the bus said
something about how the prices in the airport were supposed to be the
same as other area prices and gave a phone number on where to report
violations.

Boston Logan has a "Street Pricing" policy which states that "Street
Pricing Policy requires all airport food and retail merchants offer
goods and service at prices similar to prices found at comparable
locations in the Boston and Cambridge area". Further reading
indicates that "comparable locations" include mall food courts.

So they can gouge, as long as the local malls are gouging, too.

A lot of airports have these policies, but they are mostly lip
service. I know Detroit and Vancouver gave up on theirs since it
wasn't working.

Although I've seen it work in Phoenix, where in the late '90s Terminals
2 and 3 had such a policy, whiile the larger Terminal 4 didn't, and
there was a ~15% difference in prices at the Burger Kings.

--
Richard W Kaszeta


The London airports have the same sort of policy, which is enforced.
Have never tried a Cinnbon thing. The smell of them at any airport food
court has always put me off. Flying doesn't do great things for my
stomach anyway LOL!

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:10:35 GMT, Julia Altshuler
wrote:

The trouble with bringing something to the airport is that I've usually
gone out of my way to empty my refrigerator before leaving town, and I'm
normally busy with a thousand last minute things to do before flying.
Planning on a meal, even a simple portable snack, is enough to send me
over the edge.

While Calvin Trillin prepares for longish (or even short) airplane
journeys with an emergency run to all his favorite NYC food purveyers
to stock up against possible famine, it takes about 6 hrs to fly from
(US) coast to coast. I believe even in these days of no-frills travel,
airlines supply *some* nourishment on long flights. How bloody starved
can one *get* in 4-5 hours?! Make a sandwich, f'r heaven's sake. Pack
a 'breakfast bar.' Airline travel is rarely a gourmet experince. Nor
is going to work every day with a 30-minute lunch hour. Nor spending a
morning or afternoon (or both) doing yardwork and errands.