Anchorage Airport & A Slice of Watermelon

In 1986 while traveling on a flight going from New York to Seoul, South Korea, I'd got to know a young college student who was sitting two or three seats away from me. 

The airplane had a short stopover at Anchorage Airport, Alaska. 

This student bought a thin slice of watermelon from a food outlet inside the airport lounge and he paid US$5 for it. 

He told me he was dying to eat some watermelon, and I thought he was insane to pay that kind of money for a thin slice of fruit.

(At that time, the currency exchange rate of US$1 was equivalent to about S$2.15)