# Travel/Road food for car trip, 2024 Edition

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking, vacation-travel\
**Created:** [September 12, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173 "2024-09-12T17:19:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173/21 "2024-09-14T10:42:20Z")

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Cheddar Jalapeño Mega goldfish crackers!

Just discovered them! Very yummy! Crunchy like a cracker ought to be, but with a lovely bite of spicy! Mmmm.

I’m hooked, give it a try!

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173/22 "2024-09-14T12:25:13Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> I do like @Chefguy’s suggestion of something you have to _work_ on in terms of staying awake, but I don’t want the concussion of eating corn nuts.

Well okay, but don’t come crying to me when it all goes terribly wrong. 😆

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173/23 "2024-09-14T19:58:09Z")

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This is anecdotal rather than helpful, but I think we’re far enough into the thread.

We’re on a driving vacation at the moment; a couple of days ago we had to rustle up some lunch for a drive from Chalons en Champagne to Strasbourg. It’s a long enough drive that you’re stopping for lunch, so we went looking for sandwiches before we set off. The store we used had a bakery, but the oven was broken; however, they also had a selection of pre-prepared packaged sandwiches - oh, good! I got a tuna salad one with nine days left on the shelf life. Cool, I thought.

Some time after buying it I thought: holy crap, what have I just done?? That’s got lettuce in and someone says it’ll be good for nine days?? And I don’t even want to think about the tuna.

Some time later, in a service area, I ate it. It was OK. I wasn’t sick. But it was the most un-French thing that has ever happened to me in France.

j

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