@yakkoTDI I don’t actually mind the smell, although it is very pungent. Not sure in the whole “snack” aspect. How does one cook roadkill skunk? Schnitzel?
Passing a livestock operation is also a sensory experience
Gatorade. The wide mouth bottle comes in handy for, uh, reasons.
Also, I like to get pistachios and sometimes sunflower seeds for road trips. They’re fun.
@Kidsandliz@show_the_maw
I keep a wide mouth bottle in the back of each of my vehicles for those times when you get stuck in dead-stop traffic on the interstate for a couple of hours. As I got older I (and my prostate) found that was a wise idea… (This is actually one of the times when driving in Europe is super practical because stopping to take a pee on the side of the road is not as frowned upon - or at least it didn’t used to be)
Pretzel rods. Idk why but Dad always had those to suck on if he was getting tired. And twizzlers for some reason. Not sure what the deal was there. Not sure I’ve actually had a twizzler since the last time we went out west.
For some reason image thinks pretzel rods must be coated, not just a big salty stick of pretzle
If I go by a QT I always stop and mix frozen caramel latte with frozen hot chocolate. When I was younger it was always fudge rounds and Coke as road trip food.
@hchavers Most of my long-drive travel happens during hot months, so I have to make do with snacks that tolerate being in an overheated interior; I wish I could bring my two favorite Kind flavors along.
@2many2no@Kidsandliz At least they finally smoothed out the old steeplechase section from the state line over to Jennings. For a while back in the '80s and early '90s, that stretch would shake fillings loose.
No long road trips these days but I have very fond memories of riding in the back of our Volvo wagon with my brother and sister with the seat folded down (seatbelts…LOL). I would have my big box of Lego blocks and would make a box with a big flat bottom and a lid. I’d hand it up to my mom and she’d fill it with her amazing homemade Chex mix. Us kids would munch on that for quite a while. Good times.
@tweezak We used to put crayon gun sites on the windows of the van and shoot at trucks with our fingers as they’d past us (yes past us as dad was a slow lane guy pulling an apache tent top trailer) on our long road trips in the summer. The trucks would occasionally honk their horn as they went buy. We’d dive under a flannel sheet after we’d shoot if they’d honk their horn. Seatbelts? What were those back then?
Footlong tuna sub from Subway, anything that seems nonhazardous at Love’s, egg rolls from the roller grill at QT (but NOT the chicken taquitos anymore), two-for-six-bucks double sausage breakfast croissants at BK, and occasionally a slice of pizza from the grill at Costco.
@earl_danger I only eat McDonald’s in general on a long road trip. The food isn’t great, but its pretty consistent anywhere in the United States in terms of food quality and how quickly you are going to get in and out.
The food is “good enough” and the speed is really what I am looking for when I am still “en route” on a long car tip.
@DrWorm@earl_danger My defaults are BK and JackInTheBox at the moment. If McD goes back to having a really good premium burger, they’ll see me in their drive-thru again. The regular Quarter Pounder just doesn’t do it.
One summer (when I still had the drop top Sunfire I drove from Montgomery to Nashville with over a gallon of muscadine grapes and spent the whole way spitting out skins and seeds as I went. Felt kind of like Johnny Appleseed…
@werehatrack yep, Sikeston, MO (I believe I got the town right) is the first one I went to, and the other is in Alabama near the Gulf Coast and FL State line.
@djslack@werehatrack There are two Lambert’s in Missouri: in addition to the one in Sikeston, there is one in the Ozarks (near Branson). And of course there is the Foley, AL location.
I have some vague memories of Stuckey’s Pecan Logs in my younger years, but now that I have migrated a few decades north and several parallels south, Bucee’s jerky has become the current snack of choice between the many unofficial bathroom inspections.
The dead skunk in the middle of the road.
@yakkoTDI I don’t actually mind the smell, although it is very pungent. Not sure in the whole “snack” aspect. How does one cook roadkill skunk? Schnitzel?
Passing a livestock operation is also a sensory experience
@unksol
Passing a citrus processing plant at the wrong time can be even worse.
Cook? Raw like sushi is the way to go.
@yakkoTDI I uh. Have some parisite concerns with your approach
Gatorade. The wide mouth bottle comes in handy for, uh, reasons.
Also, I like to get pistachios and sometimes sunflower seeds for road trips. They’re fun.
@show_the_maw I hope you don’t drink the “reasons” after the gatorade is gone.
@Kidsandliz @show_the_maw
I keep a wide mouth bottle in the back of each of my vehicles for those times when you get stuck in dead-stop traffic on the interstate for a couple of hours. As I got older I (and my prostate) found that was a wise idea… (This is actually one of the times when driving in Europe is super practical because stopping to take a pee on the side of the road is not as frowned upon - or at least it didn’t used to be)
Sail Possum
Sunflower seeds in the shell “spitz cracked pepper” specifically
Breakfast.
Pretzel rods. Idk why but Dad always had those to suck on if he was getting tired. And twizzlers for some reason. Not sure what the deal was there. Not sure I’ve actually had a twizzler since the last time we went out west.
For some reason image thinks pretzel rods must be coated, not just a big salty stick of pretzle
/image uncoated pretzel rod
and yes I do hear it before you make the joke lol
If I go by a QT I always stop and mix frozen caramel latte with frozen hot chocolate. When I was younger it was always fudge rounds and Coke as road trip food.
Breakfast bars. I like to be Kind.
@hchavers Most of my long-drive travel happens during hot months, so I have to make do with snacks that tolerate being in an overheated interior; I wish I could bring my two favorite Kind flavors along.
Tums
Fast food french fries
Combos, tho never the pizza ones. Usually cheddar.
@baqui63
Combos is still a food group for me.
@baqui63 Weren’t there some non-cheese versions at one time?
Store bought Chex mix
Not exactly eating, but chewing gum is the only thing that enables me to make it from Amarillo to OK City.
Other that that, I hate gum, it makes my jaw ache.
Also across Louisiana on I-10, where the highway rocks you to sleep.
(Insert your worst stretch of road here.)
@2many2no The 12 miles or so that goes over the swamp can be interesting though. I drive that getting to Houston.
@2many2no @Kidsandliz At least they finally smoothed out the old steeplechase section from the state line over to Jennings. For a while back in the '80s and early '90s, that stretch would shake fillings loose.
@2many2no
Yeah, I had a car like that once, too.
No long road trips these days but I have very fond memories of riding in the back of our Volvo wagon with my brother and sister with the seat folded down (seatbelts…LOL). I would have my big box of Lego blocks and would make a box with a big flat bottom and a lid. I’d hand it up to my mom and she’d fill it with her amazing homemade Chex mix. Us kids would munch on that for quite a while. Good times.
@tweezak We used to put crayon gun sites on the windows of the van and shoot at trucks with our fingers as they’d past us (yes past us as dad was a slow lane guy pulling an apache tent top trailer) on our long road trips in the summer. The trucks would occasionally honk their horn as they went buy. We’d dive under a flannel sheet after we’d shoot if they’d honk their horn. Seatbelts? What were those back then?
Gas station sandwiches. Ugh.
@andyw “fresh” egg salad sandwiches
@andyw @sjk3 I mean it worked out pretty well for Fry
Footlong tuna sub from Subway, anything that seems nonhazardous at Love’s, egg rolls from the roller grill at QT (but NOT the chicken taquitos anymore), two-for-six-bucks double sausage breakfast croissants at BK, and occasionally a slice of pizza from the grill at Costco.
@werehatrack
Anymore???
@Kidsandliz They disagreed with the gut the last time I had them
Gas station sushi.
Gas Station Hog dogs,on the Rollers. Usually a good deal, and satisfying.
Red Vines
McDonald’s breakfast
@earl_danger I only eat McDonald’s in general on a long road trip. The food isn’t great, but its pretty consistent anywhere in the United States in terms of food quality and how quickly you are going to get in and out.
The food is “good enough” and the speed is really what I am looking for when I am still “en route” on a long car tip.
@DrWorm @earl_danger My defaults are BK and JackInTheBox at the moment. If McD goes back to having a really good premium burger, they’ll see me in their drive-thru again. The regular Quarter Pounder just doesn’t do it.
Buc-ee’s brisket sandwiches. Conveniently located along I-95 when I head south. (Kind of a gas station sandwich, I guess)
@olperfesser I usually go for the Buc-ee’s beaver nuggets on a road trip
@cbatte @olperfesser I’m told that the Beaver Nuggets are very similar to Chester’s Puffcorn, which is essentially Cheetos minus the cheedle.
@olperfesser @werehatrack beaver nuggets are what would happen if Kellogg Corn Pops and caramel corn had a baby
I don’t really do long road trips. But I will drink tomato juice only during a flight.
@kittykat9180
That’s one more place than I will, which might be odd given how much I like tomatoes.
@werehatrack, it tastes different at 36,000 feet. I don’t drink it when I’m on the ground.
@kittykat9180 @werehatrack
Similar flight choice… the Wife and I generally go for the bloody Mary mix. We both like the extra spice kick
@kittykat9180 for me it’s cranberry juice on a flight. Don’t drink it at ground level.
I have to ask this…
Does anyone actually eat the Pizza-flavor Pringles by choice?
One summer (when I still had the drop top Sunfire I drove from Montgomery to Nashville with over a gallon of muscadine grapes and spent the whole way spitting out skins and seeds as I went. Felt kind of like Johnny Appleseed…
@chienfou I love muscadine grapes! These were from your yard?
@Kyeh
Yep. On the back fence. Plus an arbor with scuppernongs growing in it (remember the last cat pics I put up…?)
@chienfou Yes, I sure do!
Lambert’s throwed rolls. Has to be a pretty specific long road trip as I believe there are only two locations. Usually it’s AL for me.
@djslack I know of one in Missouri somewhere along I-57 (I think). (Yeah, Sikeston, where I-55 branches off.)
@werehatrack yep, Sikeston, MO (I believe I got the town right) is the first one I went to, and the other is in Alabama near the Gulf Coast and FL State line.
@djslack @werehatrack There are two Lambert’s in Missouri: in addition to the one in Sikeston, there is one in the Ozarks (near Branson). And of course there is the Foley, AL location.
@DrWorm I stand corrected, then, and the one I went to was near Branson. Thank you.
Still a very specific road trip
Fastfood. Only time I’ll eat it is on a long road trip.
I have some vague memories of Stuckey’s Pecan Logs in my younger years, but now that I have migrated a few decades north and several parallels south, Bucee’s jerky has become the current snack of choice between the many unofficial bathroom inspections.
KuoH