Your favorite road trip snack

[Jazzy]

What is your favorite road trip snack and why?

 

[Lamb]

Strawberry flavored licorice. This is something that my husband and I bought on our honeymoon to take on the long drive up to the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. Ever since, licorice has been our thing to take on EVERY trip except one when the store didn't have it in stock. He was really disappointed.

 

[Fritz Kobus]

coffee. Keeps me awake.

 

[Jazzy]

Just water. If I want to eat I stop somewhere, use the restroom, eat, wash my hands, and get back in the car.

 

[Joshua1Eight]

Popcorn

 

[tango]

Anything I can eat with one hand without making a mess. My wife hands me whatever it is while I'm driving, so I need to be able to take it and eat it without taking my eyes off the road for any length of time. If it's sticky or messy I don't want it, because I don't want to be driving with gunge on my hands.

Usually it means something like pretzels. If the trip is long enough to need a pitstop we may get some fast food but even then usually eat it on the move, so the same issues with messy food apply. I once tried driving while eating an Arby's beef sandwich with cheese..... not a good idea, I won't be doing that again. I forget now whether I pulled over and stopped to eat it or just didn't eat it at all, but eating it while driving didn't work out.

 

[Lamb]

Anything I can eat with one hand without making a mess. My wife hands me whatever it is while I'm driving, so I need to be able to take it and eat it without taking my eyes off the road for any length of time. If it's sticky or messy I don't want it, because I don't want to be driving with gunge on my hands.

Usually it means something like pretzels. If the trip is long enough to need a pitstop we may get some fast food but even then usually eat it on the move, so the same issues with messy food apply. I once tried driving while eating an Arby's beef sandwich with cheese..... not a good idea, I won't be doing that again. I forget now whether I pulled over and stopped to eat it or just didn't eat it at all, but eating it while driving didn't work out.

A beef n cheddar? Those are amazing!! The nearest Arbys is a half hour away

 

[tango]

A beef n cheddar? Those are amazing!! The nearest Arbys is a half hour away

I don't care for the cheddar as much, it feels like it makes the sandwich much messier to eat and doesn't add enough flavor to make it worth the mess. We have an Arbys that's maybe 15 minutes away but we haven't been there in ages - we'd often drive down and get a shake and then drive the back roads home but the last couple of times we went we got the sense the staff's job would be so much easier if they didn't have to deal with the pesky customers interrupting them, and the shakes had almost no flavor at all. It's probably been four years since we interrupted their peace.

It's a shame, I used to like their beef sandwiches but the quality at our local branch dropped to the point I wasn't willing to pay their prices any more.

 

[Lamb]

I don't care for the cheddar as much, it feels like it makes the sandwich much messier to eat and doesn't add enough flavor to make it worth the mess. We have an Arbys that's maybe 15 minutes away but we haven't been there in ages - we'd often drive down and get a shake and then drive the back roads home but the last couple of times we went we got the sense the staff's job would be so much easier if they didn't have to deal with the pesky customers interrupting them, and the shakes had almost no flavor at all. It's probably been four years since we interrupted their peace.

It's a shame, I used to like their beef sandwiches but the quality at our local branch dropped to the point I wasn't willing to pay their prices any more.

Maybe your local place used different ingredients? The Beef N Cheddars used to be so tasty!!

 

[tango]

Maybe your local place used different ingredients? The Beef N Cheddars used to be so tasty!!

It's always possible. I really liked the regular beef, maybe the cheddar just wasn't to my taste. For the longest time Arby's was the only fast food place my wife and I would stop at on a road trip. After a few bad experiences with totally wrong orders and dismal quality we stopped going.

Curiously we recently discovered that there are things on the menu at Burger King we can eat. We hadn't been there in over a decade, having struggled to find anything that wasn't smothered in gunky sauces even when we asked for something without sauce.

 

[Lamb]

It's always possible. I really liked the regular beef, maybe the cheddar just wasn't to my taste. For the longest time Arby's was the only fast food place my wife and I would stop at on a road trip. After a few bad experiences with totally wrong orders and dismal quality we stopped going.

Curiously we recently discovered that there are things on the menu at Burger King we can eat. We hadn't been there in over a decade, having struggled to find anything that wasn't smothered in gunky sauces even when we asked for something without sauce.

We really only do fast food when we travel and the choice depends on which line at the service station is shorter. It's usually McDonald's or Dairy Queen. Sometimes there is a Burger King. The Popeyes chicken line is always way too long. There's also a Roy Rogers place that's decent for fast food.

 

[tango]

We really only do fast food when we travel and the choice depends on which line at the service station is shorter. It's usually McDonald's or Dairy Queen. Sometimes there is a Burger King. The Popeyes chicken line is always way too long. There's also a Roy Rogers place that's decent for fast food.

I think the last time I ate anything from McDonalds was in 2016 when I took a bite out of something my wife had ordered. I can't stand the stuff. I'll eat ice cream from DQ but never really felt the urge to go for their food.

If we stop on a long trip it's sometimes Arby's (although seldom, for reasons I already described), Burger King or Chick Fil-A. If we can't find one of those we usually just keep driving. These days we take snacks so we're not hungry if we don't find something we're happy to order.

 

[Josiah]

I am insane when it comes to clean and neat.

I don't allow food in my car.

With the boys... if we need to eat, we STOP the car, we get out, we sit somewhere and eat, then pack it all up and put it back in the car.

Cars - like everything else - are to be clean. Look clean. Smell clean. Be clean.

Yes, I'm a little, well..... I admit it.



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