šŸ§‘ā€šŸ³ Best Convenience Store/Gas Station Food?

There is a chevron station here that makes a fine 1/2 inch thick, slightly burnt fried bologna sammich , with a fried sunny side up egg and (black rind x sharp) hoop cheeseā€¦ on buttered Texas toast , that would rock his world..
 
Krimson said:
QV in camden, al has a meat and three bar I'd put up against most 4 star restaurants in the mid west
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I've looked at that name for a place. The majority of the time it has been "______'s meat and three." I think it's a good name for a restaurant. Here's the problem. The best mark-up is breakfast...and you don't find meat and three's on that meal.
 
TerryP said:
I've looked at that name for a place. The majority of the time it has been "______'s meat and three." I think it's a good name for a restaurant. Here's the problem. The best mark-up is breakfast...and you don't find meat and three's on that meal.
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Qv has catfish and salmon croquettes for breakfast, don't find that much either. Dallas soul food, Dallas county alabama, and Arthur's in Nashville were 2 really good ones i used to go to. Qv bar doesn't have a name it's just part of the gas station but some southern name like Gertrude without the meat and 3 part or something regional is what I'd suggest.
 
Krimson said:
Qv has catfish and salmon croquettes for breakfast, don't find that much either. Dallas soul food, Dallas county alabama, and Arthur's in Nashville were 2 really good ones i used to go to. Qv bar doesn't have a name it's just part of the gas station but some southern name like Gertrude without the meat and 3 part or something regional is what I'd suggest.
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A thought. Tell me if I'm wrong.

If you see a convenience store that sells food the best way to judge the quality is based on the gas pumps. If they are old, the ones with the nozzle on the side where you slide up the lever to turn the gas on ... the food is going to be good. IF they are electronic, modern day kind of pumps. the chances are HIGH it's all processed crap, under heat lamps, behind a sneeze guard.
 
TerryP said:
A thought. Tell me if I'm wrong.

If you see a convenience store that sells food the best way to judge the quality is based on the gas pumps. If they are old, the ones with the nozzle on the side where you slide up the lever to turn the gas on ... the food is going to be good. IF they are electronic, modern day kind of pumps. the chances are HIGH it's all processed crap, under heat lamps, behind a sneeze guard.
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I think that's partly correct. I judge a lot by the town it's in. Rarely will I stop at one right off the interstate, they get lots of road traffic and don't have to rely on return customers. The ones I eat at around where I grew up have newer pumps but they're in small towns and the only way to last in small areas is to be really cheap and fast or be pretty good. I've seen a lot of small town restaurants close and it's almost always either bad food or trying to be too upscale. Think being in the south comes into play as well. I've found very few convenience store type places that even had decent food outside the south.
 
Krimson said:
I think that's partly correct. I judge a lot by the town it's in. Rarely will I stop at one right off the interstate, they get lots of road traffic and don't have to rely on return customers.
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There's one on I-20 between Atlanta and Columbia that is just off the I. There are no "gas stations" on that exit...as in the ones you see from a mile away because their signs are 200' in the air. It's just a store next to a two lane overpass. But, damn good food..and it's old as my grandmother would be.

You are right. If I get off at a main exit I'm going to drive a mile or so inland just to find a spot. Most of the time, if it's a "meal" on a road trip, I'm looking for a bar that serves food.
 
TerryP said:
There's one on I-20 between Atlanta and Columbia that is just off the I. There are no "gas stations" on that exit...as in the ones you see from a mile away because their signs are 200' in the air. It's just a store next to a two lane overpass. But, damn good food..and it's old as my grandmother would be.

You are right. If I get off at a main exit I'm going to drive a mile or so inland just to find a spot. Most of the time, if it's a "meal" on a road trip, I'm looking for a bar that serves food.
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Most of my interstate stops have involved a 41 foot trailer being behind me so I don't venture far from the interstate for food. We've started eating a large breakfast and taking snacks for the trip most times so we don't have to eat near a main exit. When we're traveling back roads we usually find a place to stop and eat. The older pump joints are the only ones I'd eat at near a main exit but they've about all been bought out.
 
Krimson said:
Most of my interstate stops have involved a 41 foot trailer being behind me so I don't venture far from the interstate for food.
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Oh man. This reminds me of a story...(bet that doesn't shock anyone.)

A friend of mine, Bobby, passed away a few years ago and we talked about this story at his funeral. He was hauling cars in the mountains and had stopped for a breakfast sandwich on his way down. We called it the 3 million dollar sandwich.

He was descending and, as he related the story, started wondering why his sausage biscuit smelt like burning rubber. It took a few seconds to realize his brakes were on fire. He was hauling cars...a few Lambo's and the like...an inventory that was about 3 mill with the truck included. Burned to the ground ...

Again, as he told the story...it all began when I thought about a sausage biscuit at that store.
 
When I was at Ft Stewart a little outside the gate was a convenience store that sold two hot dogs and a 16.9 oz. Pepsi in a glass bottle for $1.00. Remember this was back in the 1980-81.
 
(New thread I'm about to merge with old one.)



Gas station food is as much a slice of American cuisine as a single serving of pizza, according to one celebrity chef.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, chef Andrew Zimmern, based in Minnesota, said he's spent the better part of 25 years traveling the country in a van.

"I'm not sure there's someone else alive who's probably stopped as many places to eat as I have in the last two-and-a-half decades," he said. (See the video at the top of this article.)

That's what Zimmern said makes him qualified to vouch for gas station food, which he believes is more appealing to hungry Americans than it may appear.

He's now partnered with the Iowa-based Casey's gas stations to promote their new barbecue brisket pizza.


"We don't have to cross the ocean on a 19th century tramp steamer to have an adventure. We can walk into some place and try a regional food or a regional treat that happens to be for sale in that particular shop and have just as much of a warm, fuzzy feeling."

The chef praised the new barbecue brisket pizza at Casey's, which he touted for its "real, wholesome ingredients, stuff I'm happy to feed my family."

He added, "And by the way, in today's price-conscious world, there should be a pizza that's a whole pizza that can feed a family of four people really easily and not cost you a million dollars."

"When you're in Arizona and you have a breakfast burrito at a gas station with three grandmas in the back rolling up homemade chorizo with eggs and crispy potatoes and handing them to you, you are in a very, very, very special place, and you're about to eat something really extraordinary ā€“ and they're all hiding in plain sight."

Zimmern also makes no apologies about eating what he wants when he's on the road.

"You try to maintain your healthy lifestyle up until the time that you have a cheat moment or a cheat day," he admitted.
 

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