I mean Rudy’s is all right. Best “bad” BBQ you’ll ever eat. Started in gas station and is now a chain across Texas and a few other states. Original gas station is still there, only now it’s just a restaurant. They make my favorite BBQ sause.
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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
This post just shows how many Americans are on here. Buc-ees is shit. What other country would turn a gas station into a tourist attraction. Its sort of like a church for giant gas-guzzling child-smashing cars. Oh and dont forget to take a shit while you are there, tell your friends!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
Preach brother! Smite the ignorant heathens for they willingly choose retardation instead of glory.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
When WALL DRUG did it, it was cool
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t understand wall drug either, but to be fair I didn’t stop because I was trying to get through south Dakota as fast as possible
Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
In France there’s some really nice gas stations on some of the popular highways. In the summer there’s so many tourists going on vacation through these that some of them even set up temporary art exhibitions or special activities like bouldering, bow&arrows, etc. I remember doing my first “dive” in a special water cube on the parking lot of Montélimar’s station when I was a kid, good times. Of course none of that is even remotely similar to putting a beaver themed slop-shop and calling it a day, the shops mostly just sell local products and the usual essentials.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
In my lifetime the French petrol station toilets went from horrible squat toilets where you needed to bring your own paper to pretty well maintained, mostly really clean experiences.
There are still some stops without petrol stations that have unmanned toilets. Those can be a bit rough, but generally it’s really good.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Yeah these days the standard on the toilets have gone way up (and stayed free, looking at you Belgium/NL), TBH for me even the unmanned ones are okay in case of emergency, it’s more that these stops lack a simple row of vending machines imo so I only use them if I really just need a quick bio break, they could be so much better as a more nature/calm alternative to the ones with shops.
The big stations along “autoroute du soleil” have been huge for a while though, at least since my childhood over 30 years ago. Beaune, Montélimar, etc.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
France is doing it correctly, that sounds awesome. I wanna go to a gas station, get hopped up on some fumes and then start blasting arrows in every direction
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
French gas stations just make me think of ‘The Vanishing’. Such a great film.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
That’s a nice obscure reference there, lots of interesting trivia around that film and as a french living in NL, sounds like I should watch this. Looks pretty janky though haha.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 42 minutes ago
Oh then you definitely should watch it! So long as you are okay with disturbing films that will stick with you.
What trivia is there?