Watch out for that dog!!! 😉
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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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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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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.
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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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. 😁
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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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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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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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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At least we got a nice pic of a gas station sign out of it. 😎
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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Ad Sunoco is Sun Oil Co.
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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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fill your tank with dinosaur juice.......