# Your Favorite Gas Station Cuisine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908 "2008-12-12T17:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/21 "2008-12-12T22:10:12Z")
Fried Chicken, Potato wedges and those sweetened Hawaiian rolls Why even consider anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/22 "2008-12-12T23:40:23Z")
> [@Finally](#): > > Gas Station food?? Shudder. No need to shudder if you’re on Hwy 191 near Gallatin Gateway, Montana. Stop in at the [Gourmet Gas Station](http://www.gourmetgas.com/) which actually deserves its name. (Truly - it’s a commendable place for dinner.) They claim to be in Bozeman, but that’s a bit of a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/23 "2008-12-13T00:07:44Z")
Pizza Pockets and corny dogs! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/24 "2008-12-13T00:12:26Z")
Around these parts, we have Pilot Truck Stops. We love Pilot. Reason one: their fountain soda machines. They have “flavor shots” you can add to your soft drink of choice. Vanilla, cherry, lemon and maybe something else I can’t remember. But you can get a Diet Pepsi with all the Vanilla you want! Mmmmm, refreshing! Also, they have those “hot dog rollers” with all kinds of nasty food in them. In the morning, they have “French Toast” wrapped around a breakfast sausage. Oh, and the French Toast is syrup-flavored, too. Two of those bad boys for $2.00. You can almost _feel_ your arteries hardening! But damn! That’s good eatin’! ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/25 "2008-12-13T00:12:31Z")
I’ve always been a fan of $.99 44oz drinks, especially when you can make a cocktail of all the “NOW WITH MORE ENERGY” ones they have on tap. Course, my teeth hurt afterwards, but no matter… ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/26 "2008-12-13T00:13:09Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I have one I can’t even justify–AM/PM burgers. A friend once said to me, "If you had bacon that tasted like popcorn, you’d say ‘That’s terrible bacon.’ But if you had _popcorn_ that tasted like popcorn, you’d say ‘That’s good popcorn.’ So don’t think of AM/PM food as _hamburgers._ They won’t taste right. Think of them as Barfy Burgers. And they’ll taste _exactly like Barfy Burgers._" We actually got the graveyard shift attendant to start calling them that. Until he accidentally called 'em Barfies in front of a customer. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/27 "2008-12-13T00:17:14Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > I’ve never had the guts to order the roller dogs, roller taquitos, or roller sausage/cheeseburger/breaded looking…things. Me neither. The random curly hairs on the burgers and bandaids on the dogs are a big turnoff. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/28 "2008-12-13T00:21:27Z")
Fun Dip! Also, assorted candy you can’t get anywhere but at gas stations. Mostly Fun Dip, though. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/29 "2008-12-13T00:23:49Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I have to go with the Tijuana Mama family of pickled, dyed, and heavily spiced meat waste sausage products. They are true gas station food and most of them seem to have them despite the fact that I have never seen anyone buy them except for me and this hot girl I worked with in high school. > > “Mechanically Separated Chicken, pork, pork hearts, water, beef, spices, soy protein concentrate, salt, corn syrup, flavorings, paprika, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate, red 40.” > > Yummy. > > [BENTUK4D » Link Slot Gacor Bom Perkalian Situs Slot88 Paling Hoki](http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2006/06/tijuana-mama-pickled-sausage.html) Thats my fav as well. they are just so damn nasty I can’t resist em ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/30 "2008-12-13T00:29:07Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I like how I can get boiled peanuts in gas stations when I go south. Yum. Never in my life had I heard of boiled peanuts. I had to look it up in case it meant something different. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/31 "2008-12-13T01:00:44Z")
Remember that shooting spree in Northern Washington a few months ago? The Shell station at Exit 240 where one or two of the victims were killed has really good 1/4-lb. hot dogs. I don’t know if they’re ‘roller’ dogs or not; they’re in the bun and wrapped in foil in the hot bin. That lets the grease soak into the bun. I like them with no condiments. AND by the time I get there they’re 1/2 price. They also have these sausage things in the morning. They’re roughly hot dog-shaped, and contain sausage, eggs, and cheese. They taste deep-fried. My local gas station/mini-mart has a patty version of the sausage things. (Both places also offer a ham version.) Their fried chicken is very good, and they have ‘chicken fries’ – frenched chicken breast meat, battered and deep-fried. They have the typical mini-mart burgers, but if you want to wait 15 minutes they’ll make better ones (bigger patties, lettuce, tomato, onions). ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/32 "2008-12-13T03:55:02Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > No need to shudder if you’re on Hwy 191 near Gallatin Gateway, Montana. Stop in at the [Gourmet Gas Station](http://www.gourmetgas.com/) which actually deserves its name. (Truly - it’s a commendable place for dinner.) They claim to be in Bozeman, but that’s a bit of a stretch. It’s not in the spirit of the thread, but there’s a famous [gas station](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/267730/between_yosemite_and_mono_lake_lies.html) near Lee Vining and Mono Lake that has pretty great food. The fish tacos are killer, and this comes from a guy who’s eaten a couple of hundred fish tacos in Baja. There’s also a trapeze out front. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/33 "2008-12-13T15:11:07Z")
My quickiemart + gas station fave: The 2 for $2 roller dogs with more jalapenos piled on top than there is dog. Awesome. The jalapenos will kill whatever evil lurks in the dogs. This next one probably doesn’t qualify under the strict terms of the OP, but … We have one nearby quickiemart / gas station which has an attached eatery. It started out as an A&W; great root beer, too bad about the food. The A&W died & was replaced by an awesome Cajun place run by two real Cajuns. I could eat there, and eat well, daily. The atmosphere is A&W-in-a-Phillips-station; the eatin’ is down home bayou awesome. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/34 "2008-12-13T15:24:27Z")
Once again I have to point out the major failing of US culture (apart from their inability to adopt Rugby League) - the absence of the savoury pie in their diet. Every service station within hundreds of kilometers of me has [Mrs Macs Pies](http://www.mrsmacs.com.au/OurBrands/) and although they are not great pies that are pretty damn good for the weary traveller. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/35 "2008-12-13T16:19:00Z")
I’ve recently become addicted to Little Debbie Apple Pies. I don’t much like the rest of their product line (which are mostly cheap - and cheap-tasting - knockoffs of other company’s products), but the apple pies are DA BOMB. They’re tough to find, though. Other Little Debbie products are sold in multipacks in supermarkets, but not the pies. So I am usually getting a few at a time when I find them, which is in gas stations. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/36 "2008-12-13T16:25:12Z")
Can we agree [Sheetz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheetz) doesn’t count? Too close to real food (although it’s not; it’s “foodz”). ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/37 "2008-12-13T16:33:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But, when I want a quick, tasty, salty, naughty treat I get one of those Slim Jim beef sticks w/ cheese. Nummy! The last time I bought one of those things, one clerk turned to the other and said, “See? I _told_ you somebody must buy those things!” ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/38 "2008-12-13T16:35:09Z")
When in the US - 7-11 roller hot dogs/taquitos – They aren’t old, they’re _aged and slow-cooked_. Here - Umeboshi onigiri (pickled plum goo wrapped in rice and nori), Oden (if it can be boiled and left on the counter for probably weeks in broth, it’s oden), yakitori (kabobs, basically), and corn dogs if I’m feelin nasty. When I was little, no trip to the gas station was complete unless I got a Handi-snack and a Sno-ball (I think that is how they were spelled). You know, the cheese-and-cracker packets and the disgusting marshmallow, chocolate cake, and pink coconut monstrosities. Why were they pink?! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/39 "2008-12-13T17:34:28Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908/40 "2008-12-22T10:04:23Z")
Homemade fried apple or peach pies. Fresh. Ya gotta be there when they’re delivered, or else they’ll sit under that infrared light all day and get stale. Also, be aware that this may be a separate purchase from the normal gas station fare, since an old Gramma probably has a deal going with the station proprietor. Quasi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-gas-station-cuisine/476908.md?page=3)