I am currently flying from Boston to Chicago on my way back to school.

I’m flying Southwest, my personal favorite of all the airlines (other than Jet Blue). There are many things that make Southwest great: relatively comfortable seats, slightly larger overhead compartments than American, friendly and funny flight attendants, and cool color schemes and exterior designs for their planes. But the best thing about Southwest is their complimentary snacks! More specifically their trademark honeyroasted peanuts.

‘What’s the big deal?’ you might ask. ‘Peanuts are peanuts.’

This is not true, my friend.

Who wants plain old peanuts when you can have honeyroasted peanuts? Their sweet and sugary goodness is just a step above your usual salted variety.

So you can understand my dismay when the flight attendant handed me my free snacks (that’s right, you get multiple snacks on Southwest!) and I soon discovered that I had been given salted peanuts.

This is a tragedy, my friends.

I had been looking forward to, and greatly anticipating, the honeyroasted peanuts.

I mean, yes I am thankful I have any peanuts at all, but I expect great things from Southwest. To be let down like this…it hurts.

In my opinion, a simple bag of peanuts can make all the difference in the world. It’s the difference between starvation and adequate sustenance in a world where cheap, let alone free, airport/airplane food is extremely hard to come by.

So I will eat my salted Southwest peanuts, but I will mourn the absence of honeyroastedness.