Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) has a special on-board snack that is not to be missed: Coffee coated peanuts. Perhaps it's a nod to the honey-roasted peanuts which used to grace all U.S. domestic flights--back before rampant peanut allergies and the economic woes of the airlines ended all such "luxuries". But coffee coated peanuts? Although I've eaten them on several flights, I truly can't describe the taste or figure out why I ate them again this time. But people do strange things when they fly all night and then spend six hours in an airport between connecting flights.
We're almost home...
