United Airlines Serves Moldy Veggies in Business Class – $3,000 for Rotting Food? [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• This bell pepper was simply aged to provide business class passengers with extra flavor? At business class prices, quality control isn’t an unreasonable expectation.
  

  I really don’t hold @united to any high standards, but surely you guys are above serving rotting moldy vegetables! SURELY! pic.twitter.com/fYjUwbvOLN

  — Nneka (@Playm8z) November 5, 2024

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• Frankfurt airport is using cashew nuts in place of asphalt on the airport apron. And the cashews are organic, because stupid.
  

  [F]or this primarily newsworthy vanity project they only needed 200 meters of an airport airport apron road, often called a Zip Road or Zipper.

  …Bio-bitumen can cost around $830 per ton when made with 20% bio-oil (80% still petroleum based). 100% oil based bitumen is around $370 for the same amount. So that means the 20% organic portion costs the equivalent of $2,670 per ton, or about 8x the price of a petroleum solution. Also, does anybody ever consider the environmental damage of mass producing cashews in order to pave roads?

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  Here’s the brand head’s vision.