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"Florida BBQ"?

What a BBQ joint means to me The MAP Imagine for a moment a cash-only, styrofoam only (even if you "dine" in), plastic-fork only restaurant with red-checkered plastic table cloth on plastic tables. What it's about to me is the land and the people. People who refused to be poor planted a flag in the land and, keeping their costs low, tried to cultivate a taste for the land itself. The dirt grew the corn; the corn fed the cattle; the cattle were butchered into brisket cuts, tongues, cheeks. The pigs, same thing. Sometimes a chicken gives its very life for your sustenance. In the modern era, this is not exactly how it happens. Beef comes from Publix or H-E-B, not your farm. The cow wasn't fed with your corn, either. Even so, most BBQ joints focus on the meat, and it is a way of doing business that invites the hipster snob to focus only on the brisket, because everything else is obviously shit. South Florida I know of only two BBQ joints down there. The Georgia Pig on 44...
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Kayak sucks

 Inspired by a reddit post , I posted on reddit. That's how it happens. I think the bad guy here is Kayak.com. The longer this goes on, and the less I hear from Kayak, the more I am convinced that Kayak should vet its third-party resellers better. There are thousands of bad reviews of Kiwi.com online. If reviews are like roaches -- for every one you see, there are nine you don't -- then nine people who got screwed by Kiwi.com (and Kayak.com) didn't bother to go online to piss and moan like me.
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Don't Use Kiwi.com or Kayak.com -- they're both scams

I had an incredible experience with two companies that really opened my eyes to the nature of online money and regulation. I want to share it with you so that you're forewarned. First, remember that when flying, you are REQUIRED to buy your ticket online. If you actually go to the airport, you'll pay an incredible markup, as far as I know. I may be wrong, but at least searching for a flight requires one to go online. That said, let's get started. I bought a ticket to Europe in January. The flight was for mid-May. My search engine was Kayak.com. I clicked-through a good flight to Kiwi.com, and paid for the flight, and was basically looking forward to my trip ... until .... You guessed it! Covid-19. In March, I dusted off my flight information and went to inquire. The flight was still two months away, at this point. Did you know that Kiwi will charge you for email support? And if you didn't pay extra, you can't be surcharged for that support? This wouldn't be bad,...
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