Posted on 08/31/2025 10:17:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
...how a gas station megachain with palatial bathrooms, beef jerky walls, and neverending merchandise became a cultish American spectacle...
Roadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the occasional Hostess Zinger, and my compulsive noticing and reading-out-loud of every passing billboard. After a couple hundred such noticings of these advertising relics, the thematic frequent fliers become apparent: ALL-CAPS fireworks-warehouse placements, PSAs of upcoming generic gas-and-food oases, phone numbers promising to chastise you out of eternal damnation (often abortion-adjacent), anti-balding serum promotions with “before and after” pictures of hairless men growing terribly thin-haired, and the occasional reminder that sex shops selling pornographic DVDs remain standing in valiant defiance of inexorable digital apocalypse.
While occasionally mountebankish, many of these billboard advertisements are imbued with the associative charm of small town America and “the open road.” Their transparent lack of persuasive power makes them endearing. They’re real, physical, localized. They feel more like “Small Business” than “Big Business.” There is something about personability and warmth that is almost impossible to scale....
There is one billboard, however, that seems to gleam and rise spiritually above its baser counterparts. Its bolded yellow letters sit atop a black background. Below, the face of a 1950s-esque cartoon beaver, plastered with a manic bucktoothed grin, looks up and to the right in delirious optimism. “TOP TWO REASONS TO STOP: #1 AND #2,” the sign reads. “BUC-EE’s, 42 MILES.” You, the hypothetical roadtripper and Buc-ee’s uninitiate, are intrigued by its aura and figure that this place is probably as good as any for handling the necessary road trip action items (refueling, assorted bathroom activities, meandering and leg-stretching, the excessive purchasing of snacks, and so on).
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Why didn’t Cracker Barrel C suite get together and take a lesson? They sold out that’s why. They tanked their stock
The Buc-ee’s in Katy, Tx is awesome!
Likewise, Johnstown, Colorado.
BlackRock is your answer.
They might put a Buc-ees in Meridian, Idaho. Idaho is just Texas with colder weather and no funny accents anyway, right?
They are the next target bank it. Buccee’s better watch their flank. They are exactly who the left targets for destruction.
Good place to buy gas and a bathroom break. That’s about it.
The infinite line to get in and out.
Is that the place with cinnamon rolls?
They are awesome.
If only their food was good. Those sandwiches suck! I was so excited to get one that I drove two hours with family for one. Awful and expensive!
Buc-ee’s on I95 just outside St. Augustine is pretty awesome. 60,000sf of convenience store! Serves some of th best brisket for miles around. Just be careful when you buy a bag of Buc-ee nuggets, once you start eating them it’s not possible to stop. Just my $.02.
Not so fast. The leftists tried to cancel In and Out burgers for their religious messages on their drink cups and it was a spectacular failure.
I live in CA and visit my son and his family in Fort Collins. I’ve been to that store several times and now make a point of stopping there on my way to FC from Denver
See my no. 15. I still have beaver nuggets (I call them beaver dropping) from my last visit!
Their brisket is wonderful
What “funny accents” are all y’all talking about?
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