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I usually stop at Joel's in Flatonia for bbq unless the parking lot is too full. Tried a chopped brisket sandwich at Prasecks in Sealy this year and it was disgusting ! Was truly the worst attempt at bbq I've ever come across and half of it went in the trash. Their store is nice and clean, but pretty much a copy of Bucees.

Joel's pork sandwich has been my go-to for over thirty years.

I am a strong, independent Boomer.


I hate being around people and crowds.

I haven't seen a TV in 78 years.


....spend all my time in a giant box filled with people because the potty is cleaner than any other potty in all of the other giant densely populated boxes I haven't set foot in in 78 years.




I think that's about it.

I shake my boomer fist at you, ya dang yungster.

You continue to sink Jim. Still handloading the 25-06 AI you started here with?

Yes...and at least Geno participates.


Geeze.

neither had I until I took a trip back east in December. Stopped and got gas at one in Oklahoma, then one in Crossville TN, and then one east of Knoxville TN. Like 120 gas pumps. The last one east of Knoxville, they were pumping regular for $2.26 a gallon.

They had a great pulled pork sandwich for like $7.50, but I think they throw away more than they sell. If they are old than 30 minutes or so old, they pull them and trash them. They were taking them and donating them to old folks home and places like that... but someone took them to court and claimed it made them sick.. and won.

so instead they just trash them now.

Think of them like the old Stucky's but on a Grand Walmart scale.

Things have changed, but still need to improve.
Public bathrooms in the south have a well deserved reputation.
Hell, places used to advertise "Clean Restrooms". Because that set them apart.

Wife old store was ancient and run down, but the shabby schìttèrs were kept spotless.
Despite how worn they were, folks noticed, and often commented on it.


Sheets is funny.
Fancy, shiny stores. Same with their trucks.
Putting on the big show.
Go take a poop after dinnertime in one, paper everywhere, sink all hogged up,
a snazzy bathroom tgat looks like a bomb went off. Look close, and it's fresh.
I'm told they only clean at night, I believe it.
Somehow it works for them, their stores are magnets.
Folks flock, despite high prices and slow checkouts. The food is pretty good.

He was born in TX. This tells the story.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/buc-ees-the-path-to-world-domination/


...Aplin expects smiles and attentive service in exchange. There’s no sitting on the job and no using cellphones. Like cast members in an elaborate theatrical production, employees also must adhere to certain wardrobe and grooming standards. They are not allowed to display visible tattoos or body piercings. Men are prohibited from having long hair; nobody can have unnaturally colored hair. There are no open-toed shoes, no torn or faded clothing.

Building one near us now. They’re also building a sheetz on the other side of the interstate from it, and that’s where I’ll likely go. Wife will drive 20 minutes and burn $4 worth of gas to buy gas at costco to save .5c so no way she’ll go there.

When ever I see a buc-ee, the first thing that runs through my mind oddly enough, is I wonder just how much copper wire it took to rope out that big store and all those gas pumps. I’d like to know.

One of my brothers manages a business on Hilton Head Island that is run much like the above.

Probably 90% of the folk here have seen someone wearing a T-shirt advertising the business.

The owner has made it, bigly.

A Buc-ees store opened up on I-65 just a little south of Athens Alabama a few months ago. I made my first and last visit there a couple of months ago. Gas was a little cheaper than average, but making a 5 mile hike through a crowd of people to the restroom, no matter how clean, was a disappointment. The main ingredient in their "pulled pork" sandwich seems to be sugar- - - - -not exactly how I learned to smoke pork back in the 1960s, and there are no leftovers when I provide the BBQ a couple of times a year at our local American Legion meeting. This Friday's Karaoke there will feature my pulled pork and smoked chicken leg quarters- - - - -and the post will make a tidy profit, I'm sure.

I stopped at that one last week, there were very few people there.

It's a different story at the fairly new one on I-40 @ 407 in Tenn.
I'm by it 5-6 times monthly and it's always packed.

I did my obligatory 1st stop last fall for a brisket sammy[dry].

A very good sammy for 'In & out' while on the road.

Beaver Nugs.......no thanks.

We don’t have them here. Sheetz has taken over here in the last 2-3 years. Clean (depending on the neighborhood and employees), good food, generally lowest gas prices etc.

Ron

Everyone has their thing. Its a fast food joint though. Crowds to the bathroom. We stop at one thats having the worlds largest built right behind it. Its EASY to walk right into a clean bathroom. No big deal.

As to the food, its tasty enough and quick IE Ready to go and somewhat reasonably priced assuming the Biden inflation. And its always fresh enough

Now If I was going into a nice sit down type restaurant I'd expect a bit more probably. But really don't do that.

So is the legion on a big interstate? Has cheap enough gas and ice and corn for my feeders? Quick in and out like Bucees? But it probably does have better pulled pork. Of course the taste of all that kind of stuff is totally up to each individuals palate too...

No open toed shoes?

Rules me out for working there.

Oh yeah, my long hair and unruly facial hair.

Too bad, they'd have lost out on an exceptional employee who doesn't adhere to 1950's standards of grooming.

F'n moron. Lol

Was in the seveierville exit 407 store a few days ago…

Hol.e.chit


Traffic to get in. Traffic to get out.

Got my jerky and brisket sammich and rolled out.