I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised and you’re no doubt correct. I forgot to mention that the McLean Deluxe burgers from the Golden Arches were similarly reminiscent of the same burgers. Those marketing failure was reportedly 90% beef and 10% carrageenan (from seaweed). I’m just guessing that the AM/PM as well as the high school ones had some carrageenan in them as well.
What our high school had which was excellent was this coffee cake:
I’ve made the recipe and is one of if not my favorite coffee cake recipes!
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Welcome! I guess I have some kind of “investor vibe” so he was selling me hard on investing in the company.
Florida is still WaWa territory and their food is better than most of the fast feeders. Its fresh and made to order (which makes it extra great for those with food sensitivities/allergies), and tasty enough that i look for Wawa when I need gas and lunch (and my car runs well on their fuel)
Buc-eees does indeed have awesome bathrooms…but its so big and so crowded that I dont actually enjoy it.
I’ve only had the Buc-ee Tots which are good. And coffee and diet soda. None of the food in that video really looks great to me but I’m not much of a meat sandwich person.
Interesting. I’m dumbfounded by the popularity of gas station food, but I guess there’s something to it after all. Perhaps in the event we forget to pack sammiches for our roadtrips we may give either Sheetz or WaWa a shot some time.
My time in Australia (about a month) and New Zealand (a bit over a year) showed me a society where petrol station sausage rolls were a source of deep personal preference and even some pride. Also, hardware store sausages, sorta like the hot dog carts you sometimes see outside Home Depot, but these were strictly little individual vendors running off of a makeshift grill and a card table.
Vancouver BC had a few Duffin’s 24 hour donut shops that sold Mexican-ish torta sandwiches and really excellent (and CHEAP) fried chicken. The clientele after dark got… interesting.
For non-sandwich stuff, the cinnamon churro cookies, the fresh made on-site potato chips (aka "Beaver Chips), candied cashews or pecans, cranberry pecan chicken salad, and the kolaches are very good.
The brisket sandwich, however, is top notch, even if it wasn’t in a gas station.
Late night ‘convenience’ crowds are universal. Like they all come out of central casting, subtly localized for whatever town/country/culture fits the location.
There’s quite a few hidden gems at gas stations. Like the Mexican taco joint in Pescadero CA. Selling gasoline is low margins, and selling food and drink makes sense.
I was going to mention Habibi’s Birreria, which used to be not too far from me. Fortunately for them, they got successful enough to move into their own brick-and-mortar space, which is San Leandro on MacArthur Boulevard just down the road from Top Hatters (and next door to Koolfi Creamery).
We used to frequent them when kids were youngish and we were too often driving from VA to SC on I 95. I personally like the servers and the clientele. Breakfast food is fine. Service is quick if you are dealing with young uns but doesn’t involve a drive through (which I hate).
Cumberland Farms used to be big in the Philly area when I was young. (I seem to remember crushed ice with flavored syrup was very popular.) My older sister worked at one for a while when she was in high school. Apparently once Wawa took off Cumberland Farms gradually disappeared; there are still 7-11s in the area, but not nearly as many as Wawa.
