Cross-Country Driving
Though I ended up stopping at Loves more often than Pilot/Flying J
I found the food at these major truck stops cheaper and better* than what’s found at McDonald’s et al … though Runza’s through Nebraska are worth a stop.
*though there’s still plenty of junk food available as well
I used to think the same thing about Speedway grub though I haven’t eaten anything there in many years.
They have them 1/4lb roller style hot dogs and you can really load them up with chili, nacho cheese, sliced jalapeno’s, etc., to where you have to eat it with a spoon cause it’s so messy.
And of course their 99 cent, 84 ounce Big Slurp, or whatever they call it.
Frozen-Slushy Coke.
Grab a 48 oz Mud, a handful of lottery tickets and get back out on the road.
For just a couple bux a hoon could chow down like a big dawg at Speedway.
If your standards are flexible, gas station food is often under-rated, but don’t get the sushi. However, gas station coffee is often hard to beat.
Speaking of sushi and coffee, I took this picture in Tokyo in 2018. I’ve never had the stuff… my coffee consumption is limited to just the one cup in the morning. But I always thought that the brand and the logo were too cool to be only seen in Japan and I’ve wondered why they didn’t expand elsewhere.
Regarding that Coffee Boss, I tried everything in my life
Things I like, I try ’em twice
Sushi? Never.
That pik, there’s no trash laying around, not even a single cig butt!!!
One of the things about life as an airline pilot is that each of us would kinda settle into their 4 or 5 favorite restaurants everywhere you went. My list might be different than my copilot’s, but when it came time for dinner, we’d each come up with a suggestion and then decide where to go.
One of my favorites in Tokyo was a sushi place. We stayed in the Shinjuku district, not far from the busiest train station on the planet, and so the trick was to go to dinner early, before all the working men left their offices for the train ride home. The sushi was good and I had dinner there a number of times. While I’ve had sushi in America, it was never as good and I always had a bit of suspicion.
Believe it or not, one of the best Italian places I’ve been to anywhere was in Tokyo. Their Pasta Carbonara was fantastic.
And yes, the Japanese are a very clean people. Even their homeless are very tidy and organized.
Pie shops. Many of those small towns on the back roads used to have lunch counters with a “home made pie” sign out front. I still consider those places for “road food”–just in case they have a fresh home made pie.