Restaurant Joins in Roasting NYT Columnist for His Rant on Airport Food
David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, was roundly dunked on by most of the internet on Thursday for complaining about the cost of dining at Newark’s international airport—with even the restaurant jumping in on the roast.
Brooks shared a photo of his airport meal on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday, complaining that it cost him $78. “This is why Americans think the economy is terrible,” he wrote.
But social media sleuths quickly unraveled Brooks’ claim—matching the table, glass, chair, sheet and cut of fries to 1911 Smokehouse Barbeque in Newark’s Terminal A, where a burger and fries costs a far more reasonable $17.