Actually fuck Buc-ees or whatever that gross Republican beaver is.
And here on the East Coast we already have Wawa and Sheetz so let’s not pretend Beaver Barn is special in literally any way.
Don’t try to park overnight at Bucees, they’ll kick you out and threaten to have you towed if you don’t leave fast enough.
And notice how they have a bunch of fresh cooked food but no place to sit and eat? All they want is your money and then for you to gtfo quick.
no place to sit and eat
Jokes on them, I eat right inside the store.
Perusing the comments here makes me glad to be loyal to no corporation. I really have Nestle to thank. Knowing how evil they are from a young age has proven one of the best barometers.
Arch Aplin, the owner of Buc-ee’s, is a huge Republican donor who backs Trump-aligned candidates in Texas, including Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Buc-ee’s really lost me when they opened one in Bastrop on 71 and planted a billboard over Hruska’s, trying to drive away their business, but I would never go there regardless.
So villainous Dolly Parton is opening a series of alternative chains
I never heard of Buccees before but YouTuber Joe Scott hyped it up. But he’s Texan so of course he’s proud.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
French gas stations just make me think of ‘The Vanishing’. Such a great film.
I would be so interested to see what a gas station bouldering popup looks like…
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.
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
When WALL DRUG did it, it was cool
The only reason I stop at Buc-ees when I’m driving past is because they actually clean the bathrooms. Worst part of many road trips is stopping at normal gas stations where the bathroom hasn’t been touched by a cleaning product in a very long time.
How’s their stall door sitiation
They have German-style stall doors where even your feet are not visible from outside
Their entire business model is build around a Clean Bathroom, literally everything else is just there because you wanted to not have to worry about sanitation
Exactly.
It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.
But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.
Oh I get it the culture that smears shit off their asshole with paper is concerned with a certain level of hygienic lol.
I mean… What are they supposed to do, oh wise one?
I just take my asshole off and put a new one on why don’t you do that /s
Portable bidets are an option. The toilet paper is then used just to dry off.
I dunno’ what the problem is. You cannot get syphilis if it’s just your piss hitting the toilet and surrounding area.
Pretty sure the whole idea of getting an STD from toilet seats is just people cheating and blaming a random toilet as an excuse.
It was a big scare in the 80s and 90s. People were spreading rumors that you could get HIV from the toilet seat after merely using the toilet after someone with AIDS, no bodily fluid exchange necessary. I was taught that in fifth grade health. We had a guest teacher the first day. The second and third days, we did not have a guest teacher, we had the vice principal. Someone else had also told the administration that bullshit we had been taught and the guest teacher was dismissed.
So like, I don’t know what the rumors were in the 70s, but in the late 80s it was AIDS.
I hate Buc-ees but they do have clean bathrooms and they always have working EV chargers
Sheetz gang where you at?
Same draw, you know it’ll have a clean bathroom. I don’t think they have any overlapping areas though.
SWVA and NC have both now
I’ve never been in one, but family brought home some of their “beaver nuggets” and I really couldn’t believe how disgustingly delicious they were. Basically they are big crunchy sugary things that taste a lot like plain Capn’ Crunch, but they go down by the handful way to easily.
A friend told me if you want to be really decadent you can eat them in a bowl with some milk like breakfast cereal.
They also brought me some of the fudge, but I was less impressed with that.
Okay… Have you thought about putting capn crunch in the air fryer before the milk? Is that what that is? We don’t have bucees here
I had the beaver nuggets for the first time this past summer…I found that they got even better a few days later as they got just ever so slightly stale…it gave them this wonderful “al dente” texture!
The Cult of Buc-ees is only rivaled by the cult of personality of Kim Jong Un.
I used to pit stop at the original buccees for the nice bathrooms back in the day. Small place, nice bathrooms, a little kitsch.
Then they did the new ones. I am from here and they still completely astound me. The jerky is good though so I stop and get a supply about once a year. Then I am shocked when they scream about brisket.
And they say the orcs have no culture
Old timers: … Wall drug: Free water! Old timers: 🤯🤯🤯
One of two things in South Dakota
Wall drug!
Why are they called that??? XD
Because of the city Wall, South Dakota
