@olperfesser As opposed to a certain chain that proudly puts out billboards saying “Eat here. Get gas.” (Although I’ll admit that they’re far better than the ones with less honesty about the food.)
@olperfesser same with Wawa. Almost every Wawa around here with the available space now sells gas. But Wawa (and I think Sheetz as well?) were both convenience food stores first, so I hope their food is a little better than a no name corner gas station.
We have both locally and the feud is strong regarding whether Wawa or Sheetz is better. People are very passionate on both sides, lol!
@Kyeh It does have gas pumps, in addition to restaurant and shopping, etc. So I think it qualifies.
We usually stop there to gas up and eat when visiting my wife’s family. Because pie…
@Kyeh It’s kind of in the middle of nothing (thus “Oasis”), but if you are driving from say, Sioux Falls to Rapid City (or vice-versa) on I-90, it is a conveniently placed stopping point.
@Dstraktd I think they are still a thing in Louisiana. They were the first to have an open container law but that meant the drive thru liquor stores just put a lid on the daiquiri cups
@Dstraktd@ironcheftoni After Katrina displaced so many people from New Orleans to Houston, drive-thru daiquiri places started cropping up here. Most of them are kind of meh.
@ironcheftoni I’ll have you know it means we scotch tape the wrapped straw and the lid down to the daiquiri cup, thank you very much.
And yes, they’re still a thing. Recently my area voted to allow liquor sales (before, it was just beer and wine) and now they’re building what I believe is going to be a drive through liquor store next door to the pizza place down the road and they put in a daiquiri drive through just down the road from there.
Not every parish can have drive through liquor stores, but I think daiquiri drive throughs are legal statewide.
@djslack i know they are still a thing and been for years in Caddo Parish. That was the thing to do living in our dry east texas county was go “to the line”.
@ATanYam And not just gas station sushi, but discarded, past-the-sell-by-date sushi! I’m skeptical of most sell-by dates, but NOT for any sort of fresh protein - especially raw fish!
@ATanYam
Whenever I see a patient with “GI distress,” I always ask them if they’ve eaten anything suspicious, like gas station sushi. Always gets a chuckle from anybody over 16.
@maht87 …from the guy with the tailgate down on his pickup, parked by the side of the road, with a sign that just says “boiled peanuts”. He’ll have salted-in-the-shell, which is my fave.
@werehatrack I’d probably trust that dude more… I would actually trust him more… less people coughing in the vat of juices… either way, still wouldn’t stop me of they were available in West Texas.
I figure anything sealed off premises is probably fiiiine.
@kostia Not if it is perishable! But I think you were kidding us.
@kostia Three words: Egg salad sandwich.
Salted peanuts.
Well, most stuff at Buc-ees is made in house and pretty good
@ironcheftoni Except their kolache, which are meh at best.
@werehatrack yes… if you are on I-35, best wait and go to Slovachek’s
@ironcheftoni Yes, but Buc-ee’s is a roadside attraction/food stop with a gas station.
@ironcheftoni @olperfesser
FTFY.
They all sound sketchy.
Boiled peanuts. They are only good from guys selling from the bed of their pickups.
Taqitos.
Pepperoni
7-11 Taquitos from the roller grill. If they’re giving them away for free late at night, it’s best to just decline. Trust me.
@canuk I think going for a free well-burned taquito late at night would basically mean failing the drug test.
@pmarin somehow I still said yes and then proceeded to have the worst food poisoning experience of my life. I thought I was going to die.
@canuk
You are… eventually.
@canuk @chienfou Especially if they keep eating late-night 7-Eleven taquitos!
Pickled pig feet
@famwelch especially when there is three-legged pig out in the parking lot…
@famwelch @pmarin
@chienfou @famwelch @pmarin The Original … from National Lampoon
sushi
@rtjhnstn local sushi from the creek out back
Burritos that have been in the chest freezer since the Clinton years.
@brennyn Maybe it was in the freezer from a game of “hide the burrito?”
“Corn dogs” from the roller grill at QT.
@werehatrack actually, those aren’t too bad. Well, with enough mustard on them!
I thought that you were selling fire crackers at first. That would be rad.
We have Sheets here. Burgers and burritos. The food is reliable if not great. Good prices for drinks. And they sell gas.
@olperfesser As opposed to a certain chain that proudly puts out billboards saying “Eat here. Get gas.” (Although I’ll admit that they’re far better than the ones with less honesty about the food.)
@olperfesser same with Wawa. Almost every Wawa around here with the available space now sells gas. But Wawa (and I think Sheetz as well?) were both convenience food stores first, so I hope their food is a little better than a no name corner gas station.
We have both locally and the feud is strong regarding whether Wawa or Sheetz is better. People are very passionate on both sides, lol!
The apple pie topped with cinnamon ice cream at Al’s Oasis.
http://www.alsoasis.com/restaurant/
@macromeh Is it a gas station?
@Kyeh It does have gas pumps, in addition to restaurant and shopping, etc. So I think it qualifies.
We usually stop there to gas up and eat when visiting my wife’s family. Because pie…
@macromeh If I ever find myself in SD I’ll make a point of stopping there!
@Kyeh It’s kind of in the middle of nothing (thus “Oasis”), but if you are driving from say, Sioux Falls to Rapid City (or vice-versa) on I-90, it is a conveniently placed stopping point.
@macromeh Oh, okay.
What y’all know about drive-thru liquor?
@Dstraktd I know we need them in my state.
@Dstraktd I think they are still a thing in Louisiana. They were the first to have an open container law but that meant the drive thru liquor stores just put a lid on the daiquiri cups
@Dstraktd @ironcheftoni After Katrina displaced so many people from New Orleans to Houston, drive-thru daiquiri places started cropping up here. Most of them are kind of meh.
@Dstraktd @ironcheftoni @werehatrack
Still a thing in GA and PA at the very least
@chienfou wait…we have drive through liquor in PA? How did I not know this? (probably because I have like 10 drinks a year…
)
Is it a western PA thing, because I am not aware of any around her in SEPA…but I’m definitely going have to look into this.
@k4evryng
There’s one around the corner from where my son lives in Pittsburgh… Well I guess technically in McKees Rocks.
@ironcheftoni I’ll have you know it means we scotch tape the wrapped straw and the lid down to the daiquiri cup, thank you very much.
And yes, they’re still a thing. Recently my area voted to allow liquor sales (before, it was just beer and wine) and now they’re building what I believe is going to be a drive through liquor store next door to the pizza place down the road and they put in a daiquiri drive through just down the road from there.
Not every parish can have drive through liquor stores, but I think daiquiri drive throughs are legal statewide.
@djslack i know they are still a thing and been for years in Caddo Parish. That was the thing to do living in our dry east texas county was go “to the line”.
@ironcheftoni you and I have been to some of the same places, then. That’s my neck of the woods!
@djslack
/giphy small world
I do t eat gas station food, restaurant or not. I figure those two things don’t mix.
@pmarin @Star2236 I saw a sign a few days ago for a place that was proudly proclaiming itself to have Angus catfish wings.
@Star2236
/showme street cart of food, baroque style, corn dog for scale
@pmarin Those corn dogs have Peyronie’s disease.
Gas station sushi:
With the egg salad sandwich, you could hit the jackpot like Fry did in ‘Parasites Lost’.
@ATanYam And not just gas station sushi, but discarded, past-the-sell-by-date sushi!
I’m skeptical of most sell-by dates, but NOT for any sort of fresh protein - especially raw fish!
@ATanYam
Whenever I see a patient with “GI distress,” I always ask them if they’ve eaten anything suspicious, like gas station sushi. Always gets a chuckle from anybody over 16.
@ATanYam @mtb002
My ‘suspect foods’ list also includes the church pot-luck, esp in the summer.
Sometimes it’s the gas station black coffee that sux.
Sometimes damned awful even if advertised as “gourmet” and freshly made.
The half eaten donut on the floor in the corner of the sketchy bathroom.
Salami wrapped around a piece of provolone cheese…
Godspeed
Boiled Peanuts…
@maht87 …from the guy with the tailgate down on his pickup, parked by the side of the road, with a sign that just says “boiled peanuts”. He’ll have salted-in-the-shell, which is my fave.
@werehatrack I’d probably trust that dude more… I would actually trust him more… less people coughing in the vat of juices… either way, still wouldn’t stop me of they were available in West Texas.
Bugles, a Slim Jim and a Dr. Pepper. I mean, that’s like all the food groups right there.
@capnjb Fat, salt, caffeine, crunch, sugar; yup, pretty much covered.