Kids. Free booze and seatback video are all very well and good – but bi bim bap at 30000 feet is pretty fricking sweet. Bi bim bap is rice and sauteed vegetables, occasionally topped with some sort of protein, tossed together with red bean paste and an egg fried just enough to set the white. The yolk becomes the…

If you do the math, factoring in meals (accounting for both regular and skipped), surreptitious snacking, late-night burritos, early morning ice cream, steamed vegetables followed by Pepperoni Hot Pockets, Friday night beers, Sunday morning bloody marys – and the occasional, perfectly toothsome, freshly microwaved (yes, MICROWAVED) piece of bacon served with a small tumbler of…