Along the highways, Indian restaurants serve America’s truckers

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Great read, thanks!

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Although this video is not recent (it’s from 2019), it is about the same topic and is really good.

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Lookout Buc-ee’s, WaWa, Pilot :smiley:

i wish I had a gas station near me like this. (Actually, there are a couple in Houston but not near me). No mention of whether the townspeople come in for food?

We’ve had a couple of other posts with similar stories I think. I remember one about Sikh place in Oklahoma or New Mexico.

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There needs to be a website with these marked on a map (I suspect there is one somewhere, in Punjabi!) so we can do a road trip to visit them. We’re going to be driving around in Texas next spring and this would be an interesting counterpoint to all the barbecue we plan to eat!

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https://twitter.com/mvenk82/status/1659960128743849986?s=20

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Third time’s the charm :joy:

There’s a map on one of the earlier threads

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Yet another article on trucker dhabas, this one from IndiaCurrents. I read the NYT piece several years ago and forced a lunch stop at a dhaba in Indiana on route from DC to Chicago. It was the first summer of covid so we took our food to go and ate at a rest stop a couple of miles down the road. My sons were appalled - why can’t we eat at normal places, mom??? - but thanked me once we dug in. Very tasty food. Sadly, most of the dhabas seem to be nowhere near my normal routes.

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I could not figure out how to post the map URL!

Here it is and thanks! Sadly, nothing along our TX route but I do see one just an hour away in Hammond, LA!

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https://goo.gl/maps/KKuNcB7oAdtjZt2t9

Aha! Share link. You’re welcome!

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