David Brooks' $78 Newark Airport meal gripe that went viral is now a hilarious meme

This is now a meme everywhere.

If you’ve been to an airport and eaten a meal while waiting for your flight, you know that the prices at the restaurants aren’t the cheapest.

New York Times columnist David Brooks decided to make that the issue of the day on Twitter (X) earlier in the week, with a photo showing a sad-looking burger and fries, plus a beverage that looked like it was alcoholic, and declaring: “This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.”

The post was already getting dunked on, but the owners of the Newark Airport restaurant that served him noted on Facebook that the “bar tab was almost 80 percent” of the meal.

Now, there’s a new meme making fun of this, and it’s quite hilarious: