I’ve just driven back and forth across Iowa and am astonished that a corporation would name it’s gas station/convenience stores “Kum & Go”.
Anyone know this operation and how the name came about? Are these folks extremely naive or extremely clever?
Yes, I know I should do a web search on the name but I’m too tired after a 1k mile drive.
Was this on Hwy 69?
Missouri doper here.
I live in a small town in NW Mo, about three blocks from a Kum & Go. It’s on 69 highway about 3 blocks south of another C-store named “My Store.”
I don’t know about elsewhere, but here in Minnesota there is a “Pump & Munch”.
I can’t even type that without cracking a grin.
The stores are operated by Krause-Gentle Corp. (founded by Mr. Krause and Mr. Gentle, of course), and it appears that the “Kum ‘n’ Go” name was chosen (during a more innocent time, I guess) to maintain the initials “K-G.”
What’s wrong with Kum 'n Go? Fine stores. Sure as an adolescent the name was always good for a laugh, and okay, it still is. I don’t know anything about the stores, though. They were just always good for a laugh and had pretty good doughnuts.
They’re in Utah, too. I always giggled when I’d go to the one in Moab…
Hmmmm… I wonder if there’s a Truth or Consequences Kum & Go?
Hmmmm… I wonder if there’s a Truth or Consequences Kum & Go?
A bit more on the Krause - Gentle Oil Company: Bill Krause married Tony Gentle’s daughter. They started very small with (i think) a Deep Rock (Kerr-McGee) station in Hampton, Ia., they opened a number of stations under the Holiday franchise and soon grew to be the second largest oil company in Iowa. When Holiday went on the decline, they re-branded with the Kum & Go name to, as Nametag mentioned, “…maintain the initials K-G.”
I went to the Univ of Iowa which had a couple of them on campus.
We came up with 2 alternate versions:
Spurt & Split
Ejaculate - Evacuate
Amazing what cheap beer will do to the mind in an Iowa winter. 
OK Beagle! Now it’s my turn––
Interesting – according to this page’s map, there aren’t any Beehive State locations (nor New Mexico stores).
There are a few in Kirksville, MO, i’d always go to one when dropping off my sister at her college there.
I guess they probably don’t carry the Snuggles brand there.
Got 'em in north dakota too.
No Kum and Go in New Mexico. In the Las Cruces area, though, there is a local chain of gas station/convenience store outlets called Bar-F. The locals there don’t get it … really.