A conservative comedian complained about the cost of his cheeseburger lunch at Houston Airport on Facebook, sparking a viral response. But is this satire? I truly cannot decide.
Comedian Thinks Houston Airport Cheeseburger Cost Too Much
Chad Prather, a “humorist and podcast host of The Chad Prather Show,” took to Facebook to complain about the cost of his lunch at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (IAH)…and also to boast about his first class seat on United via faux anxiety over flying on a Boeing 737.
At Houston’s Bush airport this was $62.16! There are so many directions I could go with this post right now. Unfortunately I have bigger things to worry about as I sit in seat 1E of a United Boeing 737 awaiting takeoff.
Thus far (in just a few hours), his post has garnered over 650 comments, most of them expressing outrage at Biden for inflation:
Of course, this incident made me think of New York Times columnist David Brooks, who made a similar gripe at Newark Liberty International Airport. But there it turned out that the bulk of his bill was liquor and the price of the food portion of his meal was frankly reasonable (you can now order a David Brooks special).
> Read More: David Brooks’ Whopper About His Newark Airport Hamburger
So my first thought was that this was satire. After all, it looks like he is eating at Hubcap Grill, where a cheeseburger costs $14. And that makes me wonder how many shots of gin are in his gin & tonic…
And if it was Phil Hendrie-style satire, it certainly worked…just read the comments.
But look at this guy, I think he’s serious. And if he is, I wonder what planet he’s on to think that a $14 airport burger is somehow a bad deal…
Is this real outrage or just satire from a self-professed humorist?
Umm, we have reached the point where we can’t understand if MAGA people are serious or satire. That’s something in itself.
He’s totally serious and a complete idiot. Did he not realize people would eventually realize this is a ball face lie? He was drinking most of that bill. And look at all the people just buying right into it.
You’re also totally serious and a complete idiot, but I imagine people buy into your nonsense. A sucker is born every minute right?
But was it a bloodbath, or no? You people are amusingly gullible. So are most “conservatives”, but you people have taken the torch and run with it since “literally hitler” was elected.
The only thing funny about the “bloodbath” comment was when he backtracked and tried to claim he was talking about EV’s. Trump is stupid. But he is smart enough I guess to know that most of his base falls below even his own low intellect.
Ask the families of the officers who died working on Capitol Hill on January 6th if they think Trump is funny. Or that his followers have a great sense of humor.
He is Hitler. He is Putin.
You did not just equate the Holocaust and numerous, almost comical amount of political assassinations and the Ukraine invasion to January 6th. Come on man, you’re better than this.
He’s not. He really really isn’t.
I equated Trump to Hitler and Putin, yes. If not for Democracy god only knows what this man would do. January 6th was just an apéritif of the potential.
Ooof.
Jan , the difference is the attack on the Capitol was encouraged by a sitting president on US soil.
Maryland, that wasn’t an attack. Are you really so ignorant that you think this was an attack when nobody, in the worlds most armed populace, was armed outside of the government? Good God, I swear you people are unable to use critical thinking skills. Hell, even your potato of a president has claimed we don’t need “2a rights” because they are “useless against a F15”. So which is it? Either we don’t need them and they are useless, or we do but we could easily overthrow the “the government” with a 1 trillion dollar defense budget with a bunch of dumb boomers in cosplay? Not that Mr potato even understands the fact it’s an amendment to specifically limit the reach of government. It’s hilarious to watch your kind twist yourself into a pretzel to defend your clown.
Thanks for the amusement. Clearly logic and reason aren’t your friend.
He didn’t backtrack. Hahaha. Go watch the whole clip. I don’t even like the guy, nor do I vote. But you people are insanely gullible.
Oh please. You’re not fooling anyone.
Partisan little childbrain Aaron can’t understand what it means to not give legitimacy to a corrupt system. Shocking…..
Oh please. You can pretend you are impartial but most on here can see you have taken a side, and which one. You aren’t fooling anyone.
If you watch the clip, it is crystal clear he is talking about the auto industry. You have no legs to stand on and you are a complete liar.
Also, not one single police officer died on January 6th. 4 Committed suicide in the months following it and 1 died of a stroke the day after, you liar.
Is anything that you say true?
Wow. #fakenews right there.
Yes, suicide, strokes, trauma. They died. They died because a deranged lunatic told his rabid base to go there. I suggest you watch the interviews of the officers that survived and the trauma they live with now. And the family members of those that died.
I live in DC. So please do not tell me what that day meant to us. It was as traumatic as 9/11 in how it paralyzed and confused the entire city. We were overrun with terrorists. American terrorists at that. There were plans for pipe bombs, people bringing in trunks of weapons, and the same unknowing nature of 9/11 in wondering what was next. Just like 9/11 the streets were filled at corners with National Guard troops. Barricades placed everywhere. We had no idea what was coming next.
So please, do not tell me that their deaths and trauma were not murders. They were. Despite when they occurred. They were killed by Trump’s army of MAGA lunatics. And they left scars and pain on many who witnessed the violence and chaos.
Yes, suicide, strokes, trauma. They died. They died because a deranged lunatic told his rabid base to go there. I suggest you watch the interviews of the officers that survived and the trauma they live with now. And the family members of those that died.
I live in DC. So please do not tell me what that day meant to us. It was as traumatic as 9/11 in how it paralyzed and confused the entire city. We were overrun with terrorists. American terrorists at that. There were plans for pipe bombs, people bringing in trunks of weapons, and the same unknowing nature of 9/11 in wondering what was next. Just like 9/11 the streets were filled at corners with National Guard troops. Barricades placed everywhere. We had no idea what was coming next.
So please, do not tell me that their deaths and trauma were not murders. They were. Despite when they occurred. They were killed by Trump’s army of MAGA lunatics. And they left scars and pain on many who witnessed the violence and chaos.
Ah you’re from DC eh? That would explain the constant lies. In fact it would explain a lot of the idiotic things you say.
Well sir, this is reality: Suicide is not murder, and strokes are not murder, and you are a giant liar.
Chi Hsuan, so you say a Capitol Police officer’s death was not quick enough to count? I know you are better than this.
“I know you are better than this.”
He isn’t. He really isn’t.
Wow are you a low IQ Biden supporter? I guess everything is OK in hair sniffing, pedoland.
“Bald-faced” ≠ “ball face lie
Everything else you wrote cannot be taken seriously
He posted that he had ~$30 worth of Patron. Sandwich itself was $20, still ridiculous
Also, there’s not a lot of MAGA chuds complaining about Biden in the comments, as Matthew would like us to believe—just regular comments about “wow that’s pricey” — and more sarcastic comments about risking his life flying UA/Boeing.
Matt has to keep his liberal virtue signaling going strong so his “friends” don’t think his support for the “church” is wavering. There is literally zero other reason to post this.
There are other reasons to post this. Folks find it interesting and click on it, that’s probably the primary reason, and people talk about it in the comments, and the regular band of clowns show up to provide their predictable responses.
Nobody finds it “interesting”, partisan clown. Nobody. It isn’t relevant to the blog and it is stupid regardless. But I expect no less of a response from you.
I find it interesting. I don’t mind being a clown, but if it’s clear to you that I am partisan, which party do I support?
@Jan. I actually read through a great deal of the comments. There are many directing the attacks on Biden, Democrats, etc. My favorite was one who blamed the Mayor of Houston, lol.
He did not clarify the cost in the headline. If he did it is buried in comments because he got called out later. So what, he got the reaction he wanted.
His entire feed is attacking either Biden or Democrat policies (exaggerating of course by emphasizing the left positions of the minority of Democrats.). He masks this in what he things is comedy. Umm, he is no Jon Stewart.
He knew perfectly well what he was doing here. He didn’t need to directly blame Biden. he knew full well that the rest would follow as his entire act is based on trying to make MAGA seem funny. It’s not. And no, $20 for a Burger is not horrific. In Sri Lanka at an average place they are over $25 now. Yes, Sri Lanka. Further, he is at an airport.
He attempted to first make it seem like a Burger was $62 to rile up the base that love to chomp on these lies. He then backtracked in comments but did not change his post. He’s not the first. You would think he would have learned from the other idiots…my favorite being the MAGA billionaire blaming Biden for the cost of his room service at The Carlyle in NYC.
He has a right-leaning audience, great? They would blame Biden if it was raining on their golf day. Same deal when the lefties blame Trump on just about everything. I would still contend that the generic “thats expensive” and UA/Boeing trolling on the comments are more numerous.
But anyways, so he panders to his audience, and knew what he was doing, we agree on that, which makes Matthew’s comment about “I think this guy’s actually serious!” false.
We will agree to disagree. I think he is perfectly serious and knew exactly what he was doing. Jon Stewart clearly leans left as an example. That doesn’t make him less of an instigator just because he uses comedy as his delivery device.
And no, for an airport, a $20 burger is not that expensive at a sit down location. He knew that, and that it wouldn’t be shocking to his base to say a Burger was $20, so he first tried to mask it in his booze bill as well for effect.
The patron was also clearly in the pic (which Matthew also clearly omitted in the title and the thumbnail), and the poster did not say the burger cost $62 in his original post. I think Matthew was the one who had the more blatant attempt of riling certain people up.
@Jan I’m looking at the photo now. I see a burger and what appears to be a glass of water with a lime. How is Patron shown there? Nor did he say it. Sorry, he was pandering to his base knowing full well and got busted. He did it with the idea that if he did, and he did, that he could say, “Oh, that’s Patron in the glass, sorry, forgot to mention that.”
His post should have said, “$62 for a Burger and a Patron.” Nor does he show the receipt. How do we know he didn’t have two?
Look, any average Joe posting this, whatever, you call them out for exaggerating. But this is not an average Joe. It’s a full on MAGA dude who panders and feeds his base exactly what they crave. And he has a very large base of followers.
You sure that’s water, and not a double patron silver with lime? (Honestly not 100% sure since tequilla is shit tier liquor so I’m not an SME) Anyways I don’t disagree with your assessment of his pandering like I said earlier. I just find Matthew is doing the same thing by calling this a mere “ cheeseburger” lunch.
Stuart thinks DC is crime free. While he’s been “traumatized” by the events of January 6th the daily carjackings and murders are a walk in the park and DC is, clearly, perfectly safe except for those Republicans riots.
Which should tell you that he’s a relatively well off liberal who lives in NW DC and reads the Washington Post religiously. His heroes include Ezra Klein and Muriel Bowser and he thinks Hunter Biden has been grievously persecuted.
Pretty obvious where his head is.
Oh cairns, as I have asked before please visit DC. Maybe then you will begin understand the world and our leaders and losers. Remember, attack the comment, not the poster. Said with respect.
Pretty obvious that my head is living in yours. Whoever you are.
Stuart, cairns is a child. Please be generous and guide her kindly.
https://imgur.com/a/NPwjU9k – he also said this in reply to a comment very similar to Matthew’s post. I think he knew what he was doing in baiting certain types of people…
He was baiting his MAGA followers to get riled up. He says nothing in that comment to say that, “yeah, I drank most of that bill actually and, ya know, it’s an airport.” He is poorly trying to backtrack on being called out and masking it in, “Oh, I was just joking.” Look at the rest of his feed to get a sense of who and what this guy is.
@ Stuart — We can tell one thing for sure about MAGA people — they are idiots. Look no further than the idiot from Georgia’s 14th district.
Lol, for every mtg there is an AOC. Yet you people actually think there is a difference. I can’t wait for an astroid or seats to mars to get away from the uniparty dolts like you.
AOC isn’t the hateful trash box nutjob that mtg is. Jewish space laser y’all!
I actually agree with you, Brandon. I am equally as disgusted by the far left like AOC. But the reality is that the sensible Democrats out number them enough to keep them at bay. Even Pelosi has reprimanded many of them to calm the heck down. That’s the difference. We keep at bay and control our radical side. The Republicans let theirs completely take over what was once a great party that offered balance to our system.
“I think he’s serious”
Seriously trying to go viral and pandering to his audience. Seems to be working.
A sensible Democrat is an extinct species. President Biden’s policies have brought high inflation and interest rates. The US being invaded by illegal invaders, Our military being killed during withdraw from Afghanistan. 2 wars costing the taxpayers billions. Transferring legitimate student debt to the taxpayer. Just to name a few items.
If anyone supports Biden, they are clueless. I will take mean tweets, no wars, low inflation, low gas prices, stable food prices over someone trying to close the border and looking to improve America over this hair sniffing, 10% big guy, dip stick any day.
Speaking of expensive food, there’s a PP restaurant in BOS with the $28 credit. The price of the burger: $25.
With a drink, tip and tax added? …nah, SkyClub it is
A bacon-cheeseburger at five guys around the block from me is $13 before tax.
You say that, but that’s also still horrifically expensive for a fast food burger.
I concur. I used to go there more often but it’s now about double the price it was a mere 6 years ago.
Who?
And why? And why is this a post?
Expensive burger or not Joe Biden sucks. MAGA!!!! 2024!!!!
Don’t you mean MAWACA?
No little Aaron he means MAGA. Go back to lusting after your younger family members
Isn’t that Trump’s thing? I mean he lusts after his daughter, which, ew, gross. You must support that as you are fan of his. Which makes you a pedophile, Chi.
I’m not sure where this thing with Ivanka comes from little Aaron. I imagine that you resent her because she’s the type of girl who would be way out of your league, or you secretly have a thing for incest. Either way, its creepy.
It comes from Trump’s own mouth? Man you are as dumb as you are hateful. The only one lusting after her is her own father. But since you seem to condone or excusing Trump lusting after his own daughter (on the record), that says quite a bit about you…and none of it good.
Make Attorneys Get Attorneys?
Once again we prove that Democrats and Republicans agree that there is a problem but completely differ on the cause and the solution. Furthermore, everyone is so toxic and ignorant that they are unwilling to figure this out and agree.
No matter what side you are on Powell’s speech yesterday should have been alarming. We are in fiscal dominance, so much debt that monetary policy is ineffective and raising rates actually exacerbates inflation. In other words buckle up, inflation is here to stay.
The majority of the commenters here don’t have the intellectual capacity to understand the economics of the situation. Just “reeeee goooo teams”, as evidenced by Matt’s stupid post.
…and insults, sadly. Heaven forbid anyone on either side agree to disagree politely and refrain from insulting the other. Sigh.
Brandon, dude you lack the intellectual capacity to vote. Or so you have said.
And how did that debt escalate to where it is at such an alarming rate? Trump tax cuts. And you forgot to add that to the narrative in your subtle innuendo.
Yes, I will blame. Because there is so much blame to be had about 2016-2020.
With that I will also say that Biden has not reduced the debt as he claims. Although he has slowed the bleeding. I believe Trump added $7.5 Trillion? Biden over $5 trillion. That’s at least an improvement. And there was Covid.
The reality is that many besides the sources you talk about laugh at the obsession with the debt. I don’t know. Math is hard. Inflation? I dunno, plenty of more fiscally “responsible” nations have much higher inflation these days. Help me? I am ignorant and desperate for what you mean? I am ready to listen to your analysis of how this is truly affecting us. Other than some shit is expensive right now in certain sectors. For a myriad of reasons.
Serious question, Stuart, have you ever looked at a YoY bar graph of the deficit? Or do you just parrot everything that comes on cable news? I’m really trying not to be an azz here, but seriously. You are hysterical over getting a tax cut that actually didn’t increase the deficit anymore as a percentage of gdp until 2020. The deficit under the orange blob was actually lower than Obama’s first term until the “pandemic” hysteria. Yes, turnip obliterated person, individual freedoms to start with and the left grabbed it and ran with it for almost 3 years. I mean ffs, pretending this uniparty bs is somehow limited to the orange blob is hilarious.
A complaining, aggrieved conservative? Say it isn’t so? It’s their oxygen.
$62 total when the Cheeseburger is $14 …. Sounds like another booze soaked conservative brunch to me.
More politics. Sigh.
I almost never buy food at an airport. However, last week I was late for my evening flight to CA and my upgrade did not clear so I grabbed a sandwich that was packaged and a bottle of sparkling water at one of the airport places to have on the plane. It was a basic ham and cheese sandwich (which was absolutely horrible) and the combo cost me $22. Then while in CA I ended up getting a large latte at the Starbucks next to my hotel as my breakfast in the morning. $9.70 for that before any expected tips. I am not here to blame anyone for these prices but we have a serious problem here for sure.
We do have a problem. It’s lack of competitive pricing pressure. We need more competition in America.
Let’s take your “favorite” city, San Francisco, as an example. Just 18 months ago trying to find a room at even a mid range property for under $700 a night was a battle. Four Seasons? More like $1200. Now? Prices have dropped to around $450 for Four Seasons on Market in a few weeks. Sure, low hanging fruit as I know you want to call SF a battle zone and shit hole or whatever…but the reality is it’s still a wonderful city and many come. And the hotels are fantastic. It’s just that the market has reverted back to pre-covid faster. Less people coming than during the revenge years and prices drop. It’s probably no different than pre-covid actually. SF is showing us what happens when things settle down. Everywhere needs to prepare.
With that, other areas will begin to fall pricing wise. As people adjust. Life begins to return to some sense of normalcy, everything but the real estate market will quickly readjust. Commercial real estate will be a mess for years. That we can see already. But everything in the “need” category will absolutely come to terms with calibrating the now to pre covid. And forgetting the Covid years.
How does this relate to inflation? Much of it is a result of Covid years. We are starting to settle. Take the Austin example of pricing on real estate in the city. WSJ and The Atlantic just did some interesting articles analyzing it as a template for the country. Competition and market availability, two things that were missing during Covid, will drive down prices…and we need those to happen. And they will, as Austin showed us with reducing rents by nearly 9% in a few years by increasing the number of developments within the city. Math is hard. But it seems pretty easy in this sense.
Oh, and as far as your latte cost? You went to Starbucks. Of course they can charge you $9.70. Why? Because they know you have no other choice. I do the same. I notice the increases as well there. But I don’t blame anyone for it (not that you did) but rather reflect that if there was more competition, if Peets (which I love) was in more places, maybe the prices would drop. Starbucks won. Now they can suck in the higher prices. They can please their shareholders. Enrich more of them. But for the average American? It’s just $9.70 for a latte. Which is when we scream inflation and blame whoever we choose to that fits our thought narrative.
C’mon, Santastico, as a Brazilian you know full well how inflation works. And how it is very much a product of policies steeped in tariffs and cronyism. Which in America translates to: lack of protections to encourage competition, too much focus on protecting shareholders, and tax breaks for the wealthy. Boeing is the poster child to this.
How in the f… Do you equate insane regulations with a “free market” is beyond me. Why is housing so expensive in Cali? Hmm, I know the wonderful nonpartisn Atlantic never looked at this…. Hint, the government is the cause of most of these issues, just like “money printer go burrrr” in 2020 in response to the cold.
en.m.wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage#:~:text=5%20References-,Causes,for%20neighbors%20to%20block%20developments.
Inflation (government created) via low interest rates, fraudulent PPP, and trillions in spending by the government. Housing shortages, government created due to zoning regulations and artificially reduced supply. Do I really need to continue? Yes, blame a side. It’s all their fault only your “side” never bothered to fix it when they were “in office” either. Why?
I read this post and was surprised to see there was a $62 hamburger at IAH. Especially since I work there. Then reading further posts, I was surprised how a $62 hamburger became a political dual between left and right. These people are just too twisted for color TV. the post is about expensive food at the airport not whether it’s left or right. Wake up America. Read the post and respond appropriately. This forum isn’t for political gain or repression.
Exactly.
@Stuart: I already said here and will repeat. The only time I eat out in the US and go to a Starbucks is when I am on business trip. Same with hotels. I just don’t spend my money here. Now, I used to. I went on several vacations to Hawaii, California, Florida, Colorado, New England, NYC, etc… Not anymore and not because I don’t like those places but because I don’t need to spend my money there. I can tell you that last time I spent money on a vacation in the US was 2018. I rather go to Europe, Asia and Latin America where I get way more for my money. If more people do this, prices will come down. I went to Starbucks because that was walking distance from my hotel and yes, I was shocked to see how much they charged me for two shots of espresso plus foamed milk. And of course there was an expectation for a 25% tip. Not with my money.
My regional airport (mostly GA) a burger is $22 + . A milkshake for my driver was $14. Yes the food is excellent but 60 miles from IAD.