Gas Station Snacks

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You're on a road trip, pull over to get gas, and are craving a snack. What's your favorite cheap gas station indulgence?

If I'm craving chocolate, I'm picking Milk Duds.
If it's sugary, I'm going for the Mike & Ike's Original Fruit (green box).
If savory is what I'm after, it'll be Gardetto's Garlic Rye chips. If it's not a very well-stocked gas station, I'll look for Funyuns.

If it's a gas station with some locally sourced beef jerky, stored in a big bucket that requires a pair of tongs to extract, then that's the ultimate winner.

What about you?
 
I make my own jerky now so I don't need to buy it anymore, but In warm weather a salted caramel Magnum or Gaytime ice cream is a must.

And in general a Chokito or a Picnic otherwise!

I am a bit partial to an iced coffee as well on trips! ;-)
 
Homemade beef jerky sounds awesome. Might have to start a new thread to hash out those details!

Hadn’t thought about an ice cream snack but if given a choice, my order of preference would be a milk chocolate dipped haagen-daz bar, a Klondike bar, or a dipped drumstick cone with a caramel swirl.
 
Hummm.....Road trips in the UK aren't really long enough to need a mid run refueling stop. But when I do stop on a long run it's normally for a meal break at a Motorway service area, so that could be anything. Starbucks or Costa (Coffee / sandwich), Marks and Spencer or Waitrose (sandwiches / juice), Burger King or McDonalds, A.N.Other fast food brand.
For the more usual 2.5hrs journey I take some coffee with me in an insulated mug.
Bob
 
We tend to be well stocked on trips like that thanks to my Wife.... :giggle: :giggle:
So it's rare that any extra snacks would need to be purchased. But, on the off chance, it would be something easy to handle and eat while driving. Nothing wet or messy. Probably chips. Not into Jerky.
 
bobtskutter said:
Hummm.....Road trips in the UK aren't really long enough to need a mid run refueling stop. But when I do stop on a long run it's normally for a meal break at a Motorway service area, so that could be anything. Starbucks or Costa (Coffee / sandwich), Marks and Spencer or Waitrose (sandwiches / juice), Burger King or McDonalds, A.N.Other fast food brand.
For the more usual 2.5hrs journey I take some coffee with me in an insulated mug.
Bob
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Gregg's sausage roll if you're on an A road.
 
I was at a Farm Equipment Show today where vendors had all sorts of ag equipment to crawl over and a lot of the vendors were giving away candy (one was giving away buckets and another local chocolate milk - I got both) - but, in the candy category, I trended today towards Hershey's chocolate bars, Reese's and the occasional KitKat.

No pics of the candy, just pics of Ag Candy!
 

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@onocoffee Some serious eye candy there for sure!

I've often wondered with farm equipment and how it has evolved so dramatically to be the incredibly complicated machinery it is today, whether the modernisation is possibly a serious detriment in such a hard life as working on farming, or they've become more reliable and efficient for farmers and thus lower operating costs?

I imagine given the hard life these can have that the farmers would sometimes yearn for the simplicity of the older farming equipment for ease of maintenance and operating costs?
 
Anytime I travel westwards I'm always in search of the Idaho Spud candy bar...shaped like a small Russet potato...delicious. Anyone else like those things?
 

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luvmytoolz said:
@onocoffee Some serious eye candy there for sure!

I've often wondered with farm equipment and how it has evolved so dramatically to be the incredibly complicated machinery it is today, whether the modernisation is possibly a serious detriment in such a hard life as working on farming, or they've become more reliable and efficient for farmers and thus lower operating costs?

I imagine given the hard life these can have that the farmers would sometimes yearn for the simplicity of the older farming equipment for ease of maintenance and operating costs?
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Agre. Looking at the first photo I was wondering how you could possibly clean that thing.
 
On snacks - I tend to just get peanut butter crackers. Try to stay away from the sugary candies.

On ag equipment and 'eye candy' - tractors are in the $300-$1MM range now depending on horsepower and options. Full autonomy is available starting this year for an additional 150-200K. Drive the machine to the field, get off it and start it and monitor remotely with your smartphone. If's preprogrammed with depth, field boundaries and cameras for avoidance of wet spots or other hazards.

Combines are in the $1M to 1.5M range. All the equipment is satellite enabled to less than 1" accuracy for movement. Autosteer, auto turns, auto depth control on equipment, etc. Sprayers have sensors and cameras that only spray the weeds. Massaging seats, AC, Heat, Refrigerators. Long hours bring comfort.

The challenge is repairs. Deere and Case/IH now have removed the right for farmers to have access to their diagnostic tools used for the tractors. You might get a diagnostic code on the display but can't get the tools to trace it down. There is talk of legislation to enable 'right to repair' given the costs. An extended warranty can cost up to $40-50K a year on these machines!

Service crews now tend to have a mechanic and a tech specialist given the complexity. Deere I know is offering 'agtech' training in trade schools now as there is a shortage of skilled workers.

We have a row crop farm that is leased out. Incredible the equipment they are using and the complexity of it.
 
Cheese said:
Anytime I travel westwards I'm always in search of the Idaho Spud candy bar...shaped like a small Russet potato...delicious. Anyone else like those things?
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I had to look that one up, the closest we have to that are what we call marshmallow lamington's which were the staple for kids raising school funds for many decades here in OZ.

Haven't had one in decades, now i want one!
 
I'm not particularly a snacker, maybe some almonds?
At home, I usually keep some really high % Cacao, like Ghirardelli squares. 72 or above, lower is too sweet.
Since I have gone back to my old ways of eating, essentially backward of the typical American way, I don't really eat snacks. Biggest meal in the morning, light lunch, raw vegetables around 4:30, nothing until 7am.
I've learned to make exceptions, being too ridged is hard to sustain.
 
Depends on what I'm driving. My 2022 Ram pickup usually no food allowed and no cigs. My work van everything goes, so sometimes a bag of popcorn or the little bags of peanuts.

Peter
 
peter halle said:
Depends on what I'm driving. My 2022 Ram pickup usually no food allowed and no cigs. My work van everything goes, so sometimes a bag of popcorn or the little bags of peanuts.

Peter
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Oh yeah. I haven't eaten/drank in any of my cars, since the 80s. Never smoked, ever.

I did "catch" a lady yesterday, apparently sneaking a smoke. I always park way out in the parking lot (away from everything), as I was coming back to my truck, this lady is out kind of pacing around her car. She had her cig pinched in what was basically a roach-clip. Not smoking in the car, not getting it on her hands she finished and left, doing it on the DL? There was no other reason to be out there, isolated.
 
luvmytoolz said:
@onocoffee Some serious eye candy there for sure!

I've often wondered with farm equipment and how it has evolved so dramatically to be the incredibly complicated machinery it is today, whether the modernisation is possibly a serious detriment in such a hard life as working on farming, or they've become more reliable and efficient for farmers and thus lower operating costs?

I imagine given the hard life these can have that the farmers would sometimes yearn for the simplicity of the older farming equipment for ease of maintenance and operating costs?
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I personally don't know much about farming in America, just a little here and there from some people I know. It seems difficult and walking around the show today underscored just how much these people must be in debt. Hundreds of thousands - even millions of dollars are on the line for a bad harvest to wipe it all away. And then the whole Right To Repair thing. I sat in a big Case harvester and it's pretty darn cool. These new beasts are just downright comfortable and have all the features and conveniences to spend an entire day driving back and forth across your fields. The controls are more like a commercial airliner and the placement of the controls feels very natural. It would be cool to drive one, just to see what it is like.

The rep at the multi-fuel heater booth (the big yellow heater in the pic) noticed my Festool cap and said that he had just bought the Pro Sanding Set we have on offer here in the US with a CT MIDI, ETS EC 150/5 and Granat set. He was pretty excited to start using it.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
I did "catch" a lady yesterday, apparently sneaking a smoke. I always park way out in the parking lot (away from everything), as I was coming back to my truck, this lady is out kind of pacing around her car. She had her cig pinched in what was basically a roach-clip. Not smoking in the car, not getting it on her hands she finished and left, doing it on the DL? There was no other reason to be out there, isolated.
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A question...what is a roach-clip?

On another issue, when parking anywhere, I've always parked the furthest distance away from the store to preserve the health and well being of my vehicles. But for some reason there is always the owner of a Honda, Suburau or Toyota that feels the need to park within 2-3 feet of me...why is that? What is with those folks and what is the itch they need to scratch?
 
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