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Old 09-27-19, 08:48 AM
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Watch out for that dog!!! 😉


Especially if it's a jalapeno & cheese corndog. 🤪 Convenience stores can save your butt sometimes, but when it's still early, breakfast can get tricky. 🙄 I didn't even know they made these things, so it caught me unawares. I hate hot peppers, so I'll definitely be more aware, in the future. 😉
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Do they have Casseys General Store's where you're located?

Their pizza is excellent. It's my new bike touring staple food.
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Old 09-27-19, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by boomhauer
Do they have Casseys General Store's where you're located?

Their pizza is excellent. It's my new bike touring staple food.
Nope, but I remember those from Kansas, & possibly Missouri. 🙂 Out here, it's mostly Circle K, probably because it sounds like a ranch's brand. AM/PM (at ARCO gas stations) is somewhat less common here, but I've seen them all over Ohio & PA.

I often have pizza for breakfast too, unless the ants get into my ziploc freezer bag. 😒 Ants are way worse here in Arizona, than anywhere else I've been. There must be at least 5 or 6 different kinds, probably more.
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Originally Posted by boomhauer
Do they have Casseys General Store's where you're located?

Their pizza is excellent. It's my new bike touring staple food.
As of a few years ago, Casey's was the 5th largest pizza chain in the US.
It's always funny to me that a gas station is the 5th largest pizza chain.

But they churn out some good tasting stuff!
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touring in southern china, sometimes that "hot dog" really is a hot dog!
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Corn dogs. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

BTW...ARCO is gone. AM/PM mini-marts are now at Sunoco gas stations, and they are bad compared to Wawa.
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Old 09-29-19, 11:42 AM
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I'll doublecheck, but I'm fairly sure this one still says ARCO. 🤔
You have to remember where I'm posting from, lol, everything's at least 10-20 years behind the rest of the country, usually more. 😁
Sometimes I worry someone's gonna draw on me, and I ain't got no guns. 😳 And reading Louis L'Amour just feeds that fire. 😁
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Can't see that corn dog saving your butt...maybe causing you and your butt some issues down the road lol
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Originally Posted by saddlesores
touring in southern china, sometimes that "hot dog" really is a hot dog!


Similar beliefs in Vietnam when I was there, but largely myth.. I think.

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Originally Posted by bobwysiwyg


Similar beliefs in Vietnam when I was there, but largely myth.. I think.
not a myth.

come across all sorts of restaurants and roadside stalls, selling dog and cat and horse.

then there's the vendors in laos selling rat-on-a-stick.

and the cambodians with tarantula-on-a-stick.

and various nationalities with grasshoppers and grubs, etc.

when having dinner at a brothel in guangxi, don't ask where those crunchy little hot dogs come from!

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Originally Posted by bobwysiwyg


Similar beliefs in Vietnam when I was there, but largely myth.. I think.
I was a couple years too young for Nam, plus bad eyes kept me out of the military, but I knew a few vets who came home with that same story. I figure it's probably true, but not as gross as us spoiled Americans make it out to be. 😉 Anyways, we eat beef like crazy here, and they worship cows, over in India, so it's just a matter of perspective.
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Originally Posted by 257 roberts
Can't see that corn dog saving your butt...maybe causing you and your butt some issues down the road lol
You're partly right, lol. 😁 All they really "save", is a little discomfort in your tummy, from being hungry. Still, riding hungry is never a good idea, best to eat something. 👍
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Corn dogs. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

BTW...ARCO is gone. AM/PM mini-marts are now at Sunoco gas stations, and they are bad compared to Wawa.
As I said, ARCO, lol. 😛 😁😉 Actually, I haven't seen a Sunoco in a long time, so maybe it's PA that's behind the times. 🤔 No wonder I left, a few times. 😁😉

At least we got a nice pic of a gas station sign out of it. 😎
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Originally Posted by stardognine
As I said, ARCO, lol. 😛 😁😉 Actually, I haven't seen a Sunoco in a long time, so maybe it's PA that's behind the times. 🤔 No wonder I left, a few times. 😁😉

At least we got a nice pic of a gas station sign out of it. 😎
Heh. Must be a western thing. I haven't seen an open Arco in the east in ages. They closed or became Sunocos. I remember seeing an Arco sign at a closed service station while riding across PA in 2014 and thinking "Wow! Haven't seen one of those in ages." There was one two blocks from my childhood home. I remember waiting in line for gas with my mom during the oil embargo of the 70s. They ran out before it was out turn. I also remember the giveaways. One summer you would get a Philadelphia Phillies drinking glass with every fill up. There were six different ones in all.
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Gas stations not only used to pump your gas and check your engine, they gave away free stuff too.

I used to lust after these Union 76 antenna ball things that 76 stations gave away (I missed out on that one). Decades later, I wonder what the heck i was thinking.

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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
Gas stations not only used to pump your gas and check your engine, they gave away free stuff too.
Yeah. They would check the oil and other fluids and clean your windshield. When I was riding the Great Allegheny Passage last month I stayed in a town that had a c-store with gas pumps. Still had one of those old school hoses that rings a bell when you drive over it to get to the pumps. The pumps are self-serve but not "computerized." You have to pay inside. As a result, the workers need to know when someone drives up to the pump in case they are thinking about pumping and dashing.

New Jersey is, I believe, the only state that does not have self-serve gas. I always tip the attendant a couple of $$.
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
Gas stations not only used to pump your gas and check your engine, they gave away free stuff too.

I used to lust after these Union 76 antenna ball things that 76 stations gave away (I missed out on that one). Decades later, I wonder what the heck i was thinking.

Naw, those were cool. Not as cool as the Jack-In-The-Box ones, but still cool. 😎 For the un-knowing, Jack-In-The-Box is another hamburger chain, like McDonald's, but predominantly on the left coast. If you ever get to one, go for the Ultimate Cheeseburger. 😘
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Heh. Must be a western thing. I haven't seen an open Arco in the east in ages. They closed or became Sunocos. I remember seeing an Arco sign at a closed service station while riding across PA in 2014 and thinking "Wow! Haven't seen one of those in ages."
Hmm, I wonder now, if they're reverting back? I know Sunoco and Texaco were both very common, in the '60s, when I was a kid. Then in the late '70s, they started changing to ARCO. Maybe all these years later, they decided Sunoco was actually better, after all. 🤔
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You guys have triggered my nostalgia gene. Didn't Sonoco ads say something about Dino Supreme. But mostly you've triggered memories of Burmah Shave signs which I'm still fond of.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
...New Jersey is, I believe, the only state that does not have self-serve gas. I always tip the attendant a couple of $$.
Oregon also...though they have recently relaxed the law to allow self-service at some locations.
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You guys have triggered my nostalgia gene. Didn't Sonoco ads say something about Dino Supreme. But mostly you've triggered memories of Burmah Shave signs which I'm still fond of.
Dino Supreme -That would have been Sinclair - their logo was a dinosaur.



Other long-gone gas station brands here in the southern Great Lakes -- Pure, Sohio/Boron (now BP), I remember Conoco, Hudson, Ashland,... I haven't seen a Texaco around here in ages, or an Exxon (or Mobil)...

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Originally Posted by stardognine
Hmm, I wonder now, if they're reverting back? I know Sunoco and Texaco were both very common, in the '60s, when I was a kid. Then in the late '70s, they started changing to ARCO. Maybe all these years later, they decided Sunoco was actually better, after all. ��
ARCO is a shortened name for Atlantic-Richfield Company.

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Ad Sunoco is Sun Oil Co.
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Originally Posted by aRoudy1
Oregon also...though they have recently relaxed the law to allow self-service at some locations.
I've given serious thought to going back to Oregon to live. Unless things have really changed, they don't have sales tax!!! 👍

FYI, I quit driving back in the early 80s, due to really bad eyes. So that's why I'm pretty out of touch, where gas stations are concerned. I knew things changed, lol, but didn't realize how much.

I'm trying to remember where, but they still have a few Dino the dinosaur statues around. 😎 Oh yeah, one is on the edge of the Apache reservation, back in Eastern Arizona or maybe it was New Mexico(?). There was an older Apache customer there, with his kids & grandkids, who started yelling like a lunatic, to see how I'd react, I guess. 😁 His kids said don't worry, he must like you, he only yells at people he likes. 😁😉
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