Continental Still Serves Food

It's rare that I fly Continental, but my past two trips with the airlines have included full meals and two rounds of drinks. And I thought on this round, I'd immortalize the almost non-existent airline meal. While I wouldn't call the burger tasty, it wasn't any better or worse than a McDonald's burger. Now, the barbecue sandwich on the way home was wretched, but the burger, it was AOK.

Also a little travel note: If you ever show up at an airport early and asked to be put on the standby list for an earlier flight, while still getting checked into your later flight, don't then go to the airport bar, have a few beers and some fried oysters and decide that you'll just skip the standby option and get on your regular flight. If the airline is in a surly mood, it'll drop you right off its roster as though you never existed, and that makes getting on your real flight (even with a boarding pass) a real pain in the ass.