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airport design was fair game. What struck several people was the absence of … well, a terminal. Driving by, we debated among ourselves as to where it actually was. “I think it’s hiding behind the parking garage,” said one woman. She was right. A multi-level garage obscured what appeared to me the terminal behind it. The garage does not look like much fun to navigate. A few months back, upon returning a rental car to a similar garage at the San Jose Airport, I missed the signage on Level Three and ended up leaving the car on Level Six because there was no way back down. It was a little embarrassing. The San Jose Airport is your stand ard American mid-size airport. I suspect the new KCI looks much like it and dozens of others, but San Jose has something that KCI will not have. Wanting to get in on the griping,

I told my bus mates, “The new airport won’t have a Chick-fil-A.” They expressed shock and wanted to know why. Their reaction did not surprise.

excluded Chick-fil-A from its proposed line-up of restaurants. Oblivious of the paradox, resistance leaders claimed that the inclusion of the Christian owned eatery would “betray the terminal’s inclusive ideals.” If there is a more “progressive” area in America than greater San Jose, I am not sure I know what is, but their airport has a Chick-fil-A. Hell, even Reagan National has a Chick-fil-A. But here, alas, our fear of offending cripples us. I would like to have explained all this to my bus mates, but not wanting to get thrown off the bus or under it— these were strangers after all—I held my tongue. “Why no Chick-fil-A?” I said. “Beats me.”

If there is a more “progressive” area in America than greater San Jose, I am not sure I know what is, but even their airport has a Chick-fil-A.

Everyone loves Chick-fil-A, the nation’s most popular fast-food chain. I knew the answer. In September 2021, under pressure from other spe cial-interest groups, a Canadian vendor

The views expressed in this column, which is also published online in the Heartlander, are the writer’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Ingram’s Magazine. Jack Cashill , Senior Editor, Editorial @ Ingrams.com

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