The other night on the Zoom we were talking about road trip snacks. I love Cheez-Its and M&M’s, preferably together. What are your favorite road trip snacks? What is your next planned road trip?
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M&Ms, Skittles, sour gummies for sweet. ‘Cheesy Poofs’ or flavored chips, sour cream and onion for preference, back when my guts didn’t find so many things objectionable.
I can eat sour cream and onion potato chips until my stomach bursts. I should probably stop doing that.
I’m right there with you brother.
My older son will literally eat ‘Cheesy Poofs’ type snacks until he pukes, so those are off the list.
Before leaving the house: nuts, cheese, hard-boiled eggs.
On the road: beef jerky, Old Trapper if I can find it.
STEVE SMITH LOVE JACK LINK’S!!! AND BY LOVE, MEAN…
We do a lot of road trips. Our go-to used to be trail mix and Krispie M&M’s. Now with keto it’s snack-free.
I tried some carne seca on the way up here but it was ‘way too tough. I’m a wimp who like the Jack Links-type of jerky.
Just collect some road kill along the way and put it on the exhaust manifold?
Mmmm. Usually, the same stuff I use as trail food. Nacho Cheese Combos, Sour Cream and Onion Pringles, dark chocolate Belvita breakfast sandwiches, Tillamook County smoked sausage sticks, and trail mix made with dark chocolate M&Ms, honey-roasted peanuts and dried cranberries.
No road trips planned, but I’m gonna go spend three days backpacking the Cranberry Wilderness weekend after next.
I have indigestion just from reading that.
Eating while backpacking can be weird. You’re burning huge calories, but a lot of the time at the end of a fifteen or twenty-mile day, you’re just too tired and unsettled to eat anything.
Pringles and peanut M&Ms are great for stuffing down some replacement calories when you really don’t feel like eating…
Y’all don’t know you ain’t allowed to operate a motor vehicle while eating? It’s unsafe? Just wait until you’re stopped for your papers and they find food crumbs on your seat of floorboard, you’ll be in big trouble! They’re just looking out for our safety!
I used to work at this job where I’d drive up to several hundred miles 2-3 times a week. And one of my fav things when driving home was to stop at Wendy’s and get a double cheeseburger, a chicken sammich, and 2 large orders of fries and eat that on the road. I always looked forward to that.
Now a days, if I drive any distance, I get salted peanuts, tater chips, and maybe some beef jerky. Not sure about the jerky now, I think a 6oz bag is probably $40. Thanks Chiney Jo and Commie Cackles!
Once on a romantic get away wife bought me a big bag of salted sunflower seeds. I ate them for about 4 hours one after another. That evening wife wanted some sexy time. Unfortunately the tip of my tongue was raw, swollen and painful. She was very disappointed.
Her – “Why did. you do that?!
Me – “Well, you bought them for me!”
That is my. road snack story.
Sounds like you filled up a bit too much before dessert.
See, I’ve clearly been hanging out here too long because this is not the first time I’ve heard this particular Suthen story.
When you get old you run out of stories so you have to tell the ones you do have over and over….
I told that story over at TOS ten years or more ago.
Just change the ending, that’s what I do
You are a wise old man.
Fresh fruit, traditional trail mix, breakfast cereals like Chex, cheese sticks. Wife likes to do up hard boiled eggs, but it’s not my favorite.
Our next road trip is a 3.5-4 week eastern half of the country trip in October. Mostly to visit aging family with the kiddos and to camp out in cool places. General route is Little Rock, Memphis, Knoxville, Colonial Williamsburg, Washington DC, Philly, Rochester NY, Hershey PA, Columbus, Bloomington IN, Independence, and back home to Dallas.
Oh, and Wasabi peas. So long as they don’t get caked on your fingers.
Oh hell yes, wasabi peas for the win. Sometime this past year I came across a recipe for wasabi almond and made them just for the hell of it and HO.LEE.CHIT. were they good. I tried them because keto-friendly, but I resolved to make them again sometime soon.
Wasabi peas?
Guaranteed Ultra-high-pressure Nuclear Diarrhea.
“I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”
My advice would be, if you know they’re coming, build up a resistance like Westly in Princess Bride. Start by eating one a day, then 2, etc etc, until your road trip, and by then, you can eat a handful with impunity.
Until you drink and Orange Crush at the same time, and your ass almost explodes like a fountain (true story).
My hometown – that’s gotta be a family stop. Unless you’re visiting the George Eastman museum or something.
Yep, my grandma lives in Irondequoit and my great aunt is in Brighton.
Your great-aunt get the better end of that deal. Unless grandma lives near Eastman Park or the bay.
Grandma’s place is on a quiet enough street *looks at map* within walking distance of Eastridge Sr High. Wasn’t the nicest neighborhood the last time I was there a decade ago, and I’m sure it didn’t get better. Great aunt was in management at Xerox, thus the house in Brighton. Great uncle (their brother) lives in Rochester, too, but I’ve maybe been to his place once ever. Everybody meets in Brighton whenever family is in town.
I shouldn’t cast stones because all of that is better than any of the neighborhoods I grew up in.
You’re going to pass damn near my neck of the woods going from Knoxville to Williamsburg. If you feel like meeting for lunch or taking the family shooting just give me a shout.
Bruh, if you’re gonna do Colonial Williamsburg, let me know when. There’s a restaurant down that way that you MUST check out.
A few years ago we got tired of hitting the fast food places on our road trips and we now pack fixin’s for sandwiches. Much cheaper, much healthier, and much less hassle than dealing with fast food joints around lunchtime.
Slightly off-topic, when hotelling it we always stay at a place that offers a hot breakfast. No need to travel around for find our morning meal, load up and we’re on our way.
Hell yeah. I love just going downstairs and loading up on bottomless scrambled eggs and sausages and coffee.
I don’t think I really have road trip snacks, other than a decent cup of black coffee. But, when I still hiked, I was a huge fan of various trail mixes, mostly nuts and pretzels with a little sweet thrown in like M&Ms or such, and lots of beef jerky. The kind you make yourself in a low temp oven. In fact, that was 90% of what I consumed on backpacking trips, only adding miso at the end of the day, lemon tea before bed, and coffee in the AM. Makes everything so simple.
I and my pals hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on two different occasions, in 1986 and 1989. Both times our entire food stock was beef jerkey and trail mix. Got a bit tedious around Day 5 but kept us going with minimal weight and bulk.
For some strange reason, Mrs. Animal and I have tossed a bag of these in the truck for every road trip. I like them. She likes them. And that’s the only time we have them.
Gah – gross.
I’m a fan of red licorice also. I eat it during movies with popcorn. Well, I used to back when going to movies was still allowed. Most movies suck so bad now, I barely miss it.
Yep. Guilty pleasure.
Beef Jerky. Every time. Can’t live without it. Which in turn because it is dehydrated, and also very salty, dries me up like a prune. So I always grabe about a gallon of water to avoid dry mouth. Which in turns makes me have to piss like a racehorse. Which in turn absolutely kills any time I might make by speeding on the highway.
Yeah, roadtrips are complicated with me.
What is your next planned road trip?
We’re on it. Got the motorhome here in Montana for about 5 weeks then back to home. In September we will return back up here in the Jeep. Don’t want to get caught in winter weather with the motorhome.
We’ve traveled over 10k miles so far in the last year. Hope to double that in the next couple of years. Traveling was always the core of our retirement.
Should we do another Murray Meet-up?
Traveling by motorcycle is different in that, you can’t really munch on things while riding. To get anywhere from here, I almost always have to ride through a lot of desert. Every gas stop, I chug a quart of gatorade. I usually keep a full one in my saddlebag, just in case. I have been known to go to Mcd’s and get fries and pies. There’s not much else from there I ever eat, except for egg mcmuffins. I do like, and sometimes carry beef jerky. It stores well and is very motorcycle friendly.
QFT
Sounds like we could be riding partners. I like to keep some Gatorade or Ice tea in the bag just in case. Along with Combos and Slim Jim’s.
Blackjack an old riding buddy of mine puts a big bottle of water in a screw top bottle in his road glide cup holder. He cobbled together some sort of 3’ straw inserted into a hole in the cap so he can sip water during his ride.
He is cheap as any son of depression parents, so he refuses to but a camelback for hot weather riding.
I’ve never even had to resort to drinking the warm stuff from my saddlebag. I have given it to some people who’ve been stranded because their bikes broke down, and once in Nevada, I poured one out and filled it with gasoline to get to the nest station. Generally, I have to stop every 125 miles for gas and there’s always another gatorade to be had there and it’s usually chilled nicely. My record is 6 quarts in a day on a decently long ride.
And never pissing once. I’ve not been in true desert riding but have been in some long 90+ rides.
Yup. We joke that MPG stands for mile per gatorade.
I’m with zwak and the other trail-mix & beef jerky people.
I don’t get the hard-boiled eggs. While I don’t like eggs in general, it seems like the additional putrid flatulence would outweigh any positive gain even for those who do.
If you really want to have fun and your dog is on your trip with you try giving the hard boiled egg to your dog. You won’t have putrid flatulence.
This is true, I proclaim no lie at all.
One time, when I was compelled to take a flight domestically, when I didn’t want to, I was pissed. At the time, I worked for a different company who was pretty good to me, but I had been travelling for a couple years and thought I was done. They wanted my presence for BD at one last meeting. I knew I could refuse, but risk if not my whole career, at the very least that job. So I agreed.
But I got on Bing and Yahoo or whatever search engine at that time, and I searched for what couple make me fart the most and smelliest I could muster. My colleagues were going to be around me and I wanted to silently punish them.
Well, the info I found said beans (duh), broccoli (makes sense), asparagus (I thought that was pee?) and dairy, especially yogurt (huh?).
So I tried, I loaded up early, it was a pretty early flight, I even drank some club soda for the added carbonation. Then I boarded the plane, went through the whole 2.5 hour flight, and never farted one time.
We have a serious fart-science gap with China and other countries.
“What? This ghost pepper? No, it’s not even as strong as a jalapeño. Just take a small bite.”
Ugh I got played by a college roommate with that one once. Pepper people are weird.
Well, they’ve burned off their taste buds, so the burn is the only way they have any sensation from food anymore.
Illustrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44t_VCfG70
Lies.
Oh, and, we’ve got seven days in Daytona coming in July. Probably take at least a day trip on one of them. I’m bummed it’s in July, but it’s a wedding, so it is what is.
Beer and Doritos, Gods gift to Road trips,
European road-trip food.
(Yes, this actually happened.)
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Looks like dog/cat (eh?) food. A good story there?
Nah, just a trip from Germany to Spain and that’s what Mutti and Vati fed me. It’s human-food, believe it or not.
You’re crossing France of all countries and you ate that?!
I don’t know who’s eating the fancy-pants French food that ‘France’ conjures in the minds of Americans because it wasn’t average people in my experience. Everything I had in simple restaurants or on the street was nothing at all to write home about. Well, except maybe the worst pizza I’ve ever eaten in my life.
Even that would have to be better.
Once in France my (American) family stopped at an American-themed restaurant, because that seemed like a funny thing to do. I don’t remember the food, so it must not have been either great or awful, but the decor made an impression, as they went all-out with the theme. It was like a Cracker Barrel crossed with a 4th of July parade.
Once, in Amsterdam, we searched all afternoon for peanut butter. The grocery store Super de Boer had some – Uncle Sam brand American Style Peanut Butter. It was sweetened with granulated sugar. It instantly gave me flashbacks to our rotation at NTC Ft. Irwin; sand in all of your food.
I also love Chicken in a Biskit crackers. The only time I eat them is on a multi day car trip.
I like the vegetable ones weirdly enough because I hated vegetables growing up.
Beef jerkey. I need things that are easy to handle and not too messy.
The Bee gets us.
“Honestly, I couldn’t have made the case better if I tried,” said one libertarian man in New Hampshire. “Not that I try to do anything. Really I just complain a lot and argue on the internet. Oh yeah, and weed. I smoke a LOT of weed.” Still, he found enough energy to get up and go buy more guns.
Reductive as hell, partially accurate, and funny as shit. Hate/Love you, The Bee.
“said one libertarian man in New Hampshire”
DEG?
Slim Jims and Mt Dew
OR
Honey-roasted cashews and apple juice
OR
White fudge pretzel Flips and ice cold water
OR
Heath bars and ice cold water
Do NOT embrace the power of “and”.
I regularly eat both slim jims and honey roasted nuts. I don’t mess around with coated pretzels, though. Not even uncoated one’s for that matter.
I don’t eat while on the road per se. That only invites more bathroom breaks.
And my next road trip is to pester GT and Tres. It starts… tomorrow.
If you don’t hear from me after this weekend, assume the worst.
::waves hand dismissively:: It’ll be easy enough to spoof/sockpuppet your account. We’ll keep up appearances, and no one will be the wiser.
*sets up timed infodump in case of capture*
Op-Ed: You’ll Never Beat A Tyrannical Government With Just Guns
Listen, a lot of people have been suggesting this whole “blood of the patriots” language and suggesting you can just go topple a government using just muskets. It’s absurd on its face. You can’t go up against a nation that has big ships. Lots of ships. The best ships, really — some of the best ships of all time. Everyone says so. Ahhh, fantastic ships. Quite so.
Heh…money shot:
Maybe some day we’ll invent flying machines and bombs that rocket through the air. By Jove, when that happens, no rebellion in the world will stand a chance. I for one can’t wait. It will be a jolly good time, and no government will ever lose against a pathetic farmers’ rebellion again.
I’ve been reading the Bee for a long time and to be honest it was lame as hell for a long time. 8 or 10 years ago someone said hey do you want the Onion but not far left?
I wasn’t impressed. Damn, have they stepped up their game in the past few years. Now the Onion looks like the janitor mopping up the spooge at the Daily Show wank booth, while the Bee is damn near the smartest thing going, as far as mainstream satire goes.
It’s tough to keep a sharp edge over a long time, not to mention that fashions (and prime targets) change.
I’m so sick of talk radio. I have no idea why I listen to these tards. Well, I spend an hour and a half driving and L.A. music radio suck ass.
Anyway, I was listening to the Shapiro kid, who occasionally makes a decent argument for some things. This time he was talking about the cheerleader. He, of course, sided with Clarence Thomas saying the girl should be punished for saying mean things about the school. He gave the example of one student beating up another off campus and how that should be punished by the school ( which is wrong too.)
So, I got over it and stopped yelling at the radio eventually. Then, not 20 minutes later, he goes into the shuttering of that Hong Kong newspaper. “Make no mistake, this is an oppressive government punishing those who dare to speak against it!” Twenty fucking minutes later! Does the guy not even hear himself? WTF! A public school IS the government, you fool! For fuck’s sake!
I think I need to reup my satellite radio sub.
It’s a good product. Full disclosure, long SIRI
Or just pick some better podcasts.
Whenever I listen to Shapiro/Carlson, et al, I usually agree for a while, then I’m reminded of why conservatives and libertarians are different.
Mark Levin is the only one I will listen to. Okay, Dan Bongino. Those are the only two I will listen to.
Levin’s style drove me nuts. I don’t want to listen to a guy work himself up to a coronary every night. His substance was the best of all the talk radio guys, though. I have thoroughly enjoyed some of his books.
Try Bongino, he’s pretty good. He’s on during work hours out here, so I only hear him on test drives.
I was going to do a Steve Martin routine but….those really are the only two I care to listen to. They are the smartest of the lot and not by a little bit.
I listen to the local RVA guys on my commute, usually just in the evening these days though because I can listen to Styx rants in the morning while he is overseas. The local guys are good for a sortof Trumpish Republican pov. They, particularly the evening guy, get a bit too “thin blue line” for me sometimes though. The morning guy is very calm and fair in interviews.
I can listen to Styx rants
Mostly about how they’re every bit as good as Cheap Trick, Chicago, or Journey and deserve to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, too?
If so, I can see their point. Prog rock acts get no love.
Styx? No. And no to Foreigner as well.
In the early nineties, Leonard Peikoff used to have a radio show here in L.A. THAT was some good radio. That’s where I first heard the Bedmenov interview and a bunch of other cool shit. Lot’s of Friedman. Guy was cool. Also used to listen to Larry Elder a bunch back then.
Today: jerky and coffee.
Then: Twizzlers and White Crosses
White crosses like the one’s we had in high school? Black beauties also?
How old are you?
55
Then yes. We took the same drugs.
Happily.
Cross tops? Set the wayback machine!
https://youtu.be/bOb2BqiGZGA
They’ll keep you driving…
White Settlement, TX to Minneapolis.
Motorhead – White Line Fever.
For those who prefer country, Merle Haggard. (Note: different songs, same name)
Jimmy Barnes, Driving Wheels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQn7_EtIhUg
Can’t forget this one:
https://youtu.be/ckM51xoTC2U
@ Tundra: classic
Good and Plenty . . . which I segregate from one another…
Actually, while I like licorice, I have not had it in years.
What are you some kind of progressive?
I suppose you can still shoot Roman Candles at your brother while social distancing.
With wacky names like “Party Pig Snappers” and “Tie Dye Surprise,” fireworks are a favorite way to celebrate the Fourth of July. But safety concerns led states to implement regulations against which fireworks people can purchase and use.
In Virginia, the law clearly defines which fireworks certified individuals can work with for fireworks, and the “permissible fireworks” for other people to use.
Only certified operators of fireworks or pyrotechnicians can handle fireworks deemed illegal for public use in Virginia. Those illegal fireworks for public use include firecrackers, skyrockets, torpedoes or any other firework “which explodes, rises into the air or travels laterally, or fires projectiles into the air.”
People shoot mortars around my neighborhood all the time. I’m pretty sure the laws don’t matter. And I like the framing of something being “permissible” on a holiday for a declaration of sovereignty. “Land of the free and home of the brave” is a lie.
Yeah, fireworks are illegal AF where I live and they are ubiquitous on the 4th and NYE, and becoming increasingly common on other days. Selective enforcement FTW.
We’ve had fireworks popping off on the Peninsula for about a month now. Not as many as last year, but certainly more than 2019 and earlier. When going to Florida, I always stop in SC to load up on the good stuff.
Combos and Dr. Pepper.
Combos are TIGHT.
I don’t eat them at home only during road trips.
#MeToo
Fits in the door compartment and is not messy. Gotta keep the whip clean.
#methree.
Plus spicy pork rinds. It’s also pretty much the only time I drink corporate soda like Mt. Dew.
Cheddar cheese cracker… *Homer drool*
I’ve made a meal of those on occasion over the decades.
Cheetos, or as we refer to them (for the after-effect) “orange fingers”. Also pretzels and jerky.
OK, now to go OT. I’m reading Gurri’s book and a brief bit of context then a quote. He is writing (in 2014) about the 2011 protests – Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, and Spain most prominently, and less so, Occupy and the London riots. He has further set the stage by laying out the center (authority) and the border (territory we all would be comfortable in, but far more extensive than our little slice of it here) and the technologic underpinning he calls the Fifth Wave.
I think that is a lovely description of an event that had yet to happen, on Jan 6, 2021.
I’m so fucking pissed about the Jan. 6th thing. Solitary confinement, swat raid on that B&B, Bofa snitching on any customer who paid for something near there, all the fucking bullshit rhetoric about insurrection and attempts to overthrow the government. Just months after a whole summer of antifa/BLM. You know who else locks up minor protesters and throws away the key?
I am with you. It is infuriating. The whole insurrection bullshit is a fabrication, yet the summer riots are not and the people who organized and led those riots have not been exposed. My money says they collect govt. paychecks.
Now the cootie bugs used as a pretense to destroy the economy? Creepy Joe reading from a script designed to destroy the country?
This road does not go somewhere good.
Yeah, and that’s really the point, particularly when you look at the context of the other protests he was discussing – exactly that reaction.
BLM/antifa wasn’t a threat to the legitimacy of govt, so it didn’t scare them.
Yep. They are brown shirts. They are creating mayhem on behalf of some elements in government.
I forgot, the Bolsheviks had them also but I don’t know what they were called.
Road trip snacks: Twizzlers, Good ‘n Plenty, with a McD #7 (two cheeseburgers, fries and a drink). I rarely have any of those any other time.
Backpacking/long hike GORP: One can peanuts, one big bag plain M&M’s, one big box of raisins.
Next roadtrip: TBD since I have to get somewhere with enough space to road trip. For sea trips I should go to and from Lanai in August, and Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and return Labor Day weekend. Snacks will be chips, mixed nuts, and sandwiches.
just an FYI, dbleagle – I did find the miles policy for interstellar objects, but it was… well, disappointing.
Cheese sticks and nuts = fewest crumbs.
Sorry to go OT, but I found an interesting article. The article focuses on how execrable the FBI is. And they are. But, you know what I observe? People in his neighborhood knew and respected this guy for years. It sounds like he’s done a hell of a lot for them. And these arseholes are ready to hate and shun the guy on command. Screw them. I hope Mr. Bolanos and his mother are able to get the hell out of that shithole.
Very interesting and light on sugar.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/
All part of the plan.
Last roadtrip was Memorial Day weekend driving from VA to MO and back. Didn’t snack at all on the road – too calorie/carb paranoid at the moment (and ate a lot while visiting friends in Columbia). Just coffee and the occasional diet soda.
I don’t really pack a lot of snacks for a road trip. I guess some bags of costco trail mix for Mrs. Parnell and Clif Kids Zbars and juice bags for the kids. Maybe some chips too, but the children are animals who will eat one chip and scatter the rest of the bag all over the rear seats, so we’re trying to cut back on that.
I usually plan the road trips though, so I’ll figure out a place to stop for a meal, or at least go through a drive thru, in advance.
As far as the next road trip, I think a summer road trip is out at this point due to various summer camp and family commitments. At the end of the year is our 20th wedding anniversary, so I’m hoping to drop the kids off with the in-laws and drive up the coast to Napa to the B&B we stayed at on our honeymoon. Unless there’s a spontaneous trip to Vegas or something, that’ll be the next road trip.
On the way there: coffee, bottled water, protein lunch packs (salami, hard boiled egg, cheese, fruit).
There: booze, booze, drinking booze, booze, beer.
On the way home from there: Skittles, Spree, Starburst, SweetTarts, diet Dr. Pepper
Not much of a “road trip”, but I booked a nice hotel room in Everett, WA for Saturday through Tuesday. Apparently it’s going to be a deadly heatwave in the PNW over the weekend, and I want air conditioning. Maybe even a pool? More of a staycation. With A/C. Taking water, Perrier, bourbon.
Skittles ruined my life. Green apple–BAH!
https://youtu.be/Iz1aWg_Y6fM
Such a nice guitar sound. Thanks!
Here’s a heat wave https://youtu.be/Ml6wDPmncF8
Nice. I love KEXP.
Just posted King Gizzard below. From KEXP and damn nice audio mix for a radio station live performance.
I have a flask that is a fake cell phone. I tried to sneak it in to the Simi Blues festival once, and when the security guy picked it up, my kid ( who was about 6) yelled out, ” that’s not really a phone!” The guy figured it out and realized it was full of Glenfiddich 21 year old scotch. I opted to walk it back to my car rather than let him “dispose” of it. That was the last Blues fest. RIP.
Hmmmm. An hour in time-out or scold yourself for teaching your kid to lie? It’s kind of a toss up.
Meh, so far it working out for the best. He constantly tells on himself. I never have had to wonder how something got broken. I remember being the polar opposite. Never admit to anything.
Spree blech! What is that weird coating?
Hey Egould- not sure where you’re coming from to get to Everett, but if you’ve got the time – and it sounds like the weathers “nice” – take the drive up to Mt Vernon (think that’s the name – its been a while) on I5 and cross over to Whidbey Island. If you’ve never seen it before, Deception Pass is awesome! Then drive south and take the ferry across to Mukilteo.
Won’t take more than a few hours total and some good restaurants in Mukilteo too.
There’s also a museum at the Boeing plant just south of Everett that looks good – may have planes flying if its good weather – but I lived there 2 1/2 years and never visited so ymmv.
Hawt
https://youtu.be/9ZJp7eL79ic
I’m lazy. I hit whatever fast food on my planned stop. Gas, pee, food, back on the road.
I’m going to a weird birthday party this weekend. A ex-hockey player friend of mine is Turing 40.
He invited a bunch of hockey players, musicians, regular shit lords like myself and a whole lot of people I won’t know.
I heard there will be a ice luge so I imagine things getting out of hand at some point.
Should make for a interesting Saturday.
That’s sounds like a hell of a people watching opportunity.
The rock stars and hockey players all have good looking wives that will get hit on by the random part goers.
Should be fun to watch.
Pics
I hope to not be in them. I hate the social media posters putting drunk people online.
By the way do Quebecians drink a lot? My sample size is small but I guess I’ll find out.
Yes.
Hence, pics.
Was that his score on the Test?
I doubt he would pass. He took a lot of pucks to the dome as a goalie.
Mike and Ikes and bold chex mix… Not at the same time.
If there is a war, Australia is ‘frankly stuffed’
Sky News AU is one of my favorite news feeds.
Aussie land is going to be invaded by the CCP. I dreamed that many years ago.
“we can always rely on America”
Dude, we live here. We can’t rely on America.
Yeah, Chiney Jo got their back. Hahahahaha.
Rely on a country where the insane, the drooling idiots and grifters just elected a president that is bought and paid for by China? If that is what they are counting on they really are fucked.
All of our leftists are counting on destabilizing western society and culture so they can grab total power. How surprised they will be….
Was it Solzhenitsyn who said “…and they never saw it coming.” ?
That’s pretty much spot on.
That was seriously one fucked up dream. And like all of them I have like that, I kept having it over and over for a while and remember it basically forever.
In the dream, the Chinese invade the AU, coming in of course from the north. And there’s this doorway, just a steel doorway out in the middle of nowhere and the Chinese soldiers are forcing the Aussies to go through this doorway to the south and there’s nothing on the other side of the door, it’s just like a doorway to the other side if the doorway. But the Chinese soldiers are just focused on forcing them to go through it and they’re beating them with these whips.
My road trips these days mostly revolve around Track Days, so I just pack the same things I snack on at the track — mostly Quaker Chewy granola bars and old-school Lance peanut butter cracker sandwiches, complete with oddly-hued orange crackers. I’d like to get my mitts on some proper biltong, but that’s impossible to find, unfortunately.
Question: how far does a drive have to be to qualify as a “road trip?” I typically take the Bosslady to Orlando (2 hours each way) about once a month for one reason or another, is that far enough to count?
My typical Track Day trips are from North Central Florida to:
Atlanta / Braselton, GA (750 mi R/T)
Birmingham (950 mi)
New Orleans (1100 mi), or
Danville, VA (1200 mi).
The latter two involve overnight stays on the way there and back.
Next road trip that’s not track-related will be a trip to the Outer Banks, hitting Sea Island on the way back. 1600 miles, give or take.
Second question: what’s your preferred road trip vehicle? I’ve done 1000 mile trips in subcompact Hondas and Toyotas, and our preferred tripper was the wife’s GLK 250, if only for the diesel fuel economy. Right now I’m rocking this rig, and I’m quite happy with it. Frankly, it’s like sitting in your favorite Barcalounger, getting massaged, and listening to your favorite tunes while the miles disappear effortlessly beneath your wheels.
(14 MPG towing the Porsche, though — eek!)
I’m usually in the Saabrolet (9-7x) if the family is with me. It’s good for about 15 without a Porsche in tow. My bike gets about 40, but that’s solo.
My Ford Edge is a good for road trips with 4 in the car. 25-30MPG high seat, great infotainment system for switching off music choices, and lots of cup holders.
My mustang sucked due to the tiny gas tank, but it made up for it with the ability to turn into a time machine when needed.
Radar detector is also a must have. I just got a Uniden R3. It filters out all of the false positives from Honda and Audi collision avoidance systems.
My F150 is far and away the best road trip vehicle I’ve ever had.
I thought the Volvos were comfy, but not even close.
The new pickups are like the Caddy’s of the 60’s. So comfortable and solid. Great road trip vehicles except for the gas mileage.
I don’t know how it compares.
https://bullandcleaver.com/
My Mooney M20J only gets about 16 mpg, but I can go from western PA to the Outer Banks in 2.75 hrs.
Wish I could still do the same, but I had a STEMI back in October, so I’m limited to terrestrial transport for the forseeable future.
Guilty pleasure road food: Beef & cheese sticks! I’m not sure what brand I usually grab at the C-store. It’s not Slim Jims. Maybe Jack Links? Also Pepperoni Pizza Cracker Combos and, if I want something more substantial and can find some rolling around on the grill, a couple of Tornados – preferably the “A.M. Flavors.”
There’s enough chemicals you cannot even pronounce in a bag of Pepperoni Pizza Cracker Combos to rival the radioactivity of Chernobyl. The shelf life of those is measured in half-life in the millions of years.
They give me a dazzling smile, even in the dark.
A real glow, right?
Tornados are my go-to road food.
::fistbumps kinnath, then snatches the last Egg, Bacon, Cheese & Salsa::
I initially misread that as you KOing kinnath.
For the last Tornado? Would.
Sorry, kinnath. Nothing personal.
No worries. I have other options.
Back on topic – I highly recommend these, particularly the dark chocolate.
In addition to the box o’ flavor X you can get a large box of samples or order a customized variety pack. It has been my staple ‘work in the woods’ for a long while. They are freakin’ delicious and calories with little time or effort.
https://www.kindsnacks.com/kind-minis/
I have a thing against nuts in my chocolate so I’m going to have to pass 🙁
I am speechless. Ok then. If you run across any let me know, I will take care of it for you.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Aw, nuts.
I’ve had a couple of the dark chocolate ones, found in the all-too-handy staff break room at work. Pretty darn good…if a bit on the small side.
Swedish Feeesh!
Corn nuts and Chicken in the Biscuit. Mountain Dew Throwback (real sugar, real good) to wash it down.
I can’t even.
I have never been more disgusted than sitting next to some asshole on public transportation with corn-nut breath. And it’s happened more than once. ?
lol.
My wife hates the smell of Fritos cornchips so I can’t eat them anymore.
Well, they’re not good for you anyway, everyone on this site is going to die from junk food poisoning. And then they do, they’ll be more well preserved than Tutankhamun was.
I’m still living off the reserves of a bag of Combos I ate a decade ago.
I remember when I was a kid and one time I was at my grandparents place, I was maybe 10. She had all of this food storage, like all of these pantries so big I could get into them. And that’s one of the reasons I liked to go there. One day, I was in this one pantry exploring and way back in the back, there was this box of Hostess Twinkies. I loved those things, well I loved most junk food and that’s the only time I’d get it, so I’d gorge out.
So I was eating those like one after the other and my Grandma comes in from outside and she’s looking at me sort of funny. And she says ‘I don’t have… let me see those’. So she takes that box and in a minute she looks alarmed and says ‘Don’t eat those’, and I say ‘No, they’re really good, give em back!’. Apparently they were at least 10 years old. They were just fine, lol.
One time when I was a kid I bought a Zagnut bar from a candy machine at some building in Ft. Hood, TX. I was walking home from school or something. I took three bites into the candy bar and then noticed there were bugs crawling all over the bar, the wrapper, my hand, my mouth. I freaked out ran home crying.
My story has nothing to do with expired Twinkies.
Twinkilicious Bourdain (@2:00): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfHVK4x4JF0
Goodnight all. It is way past my bedtime. Have fun.
G’night sleep drifter. With microtonal guitars https://youtu.be/U72rbtrufws
Dream weaver and the Sandman. Sleep tight, bro.
Ugh, junk food.
I just ordered sushi again from the best sushi place around here. It’s also the most expensive. And to prove that the Chinese are really assho, there’s this. This place opened up around 3 weeks ago under new management and they were going around putting there flyers on doors and so my wife took one off of ours and was showing it to me. And it was Saturday, so I said ‘want to try it’? So she says sure. So I ordered some and we loved it. so I ordered again last week and tonight my wife wanted it again.
So I get online and try to put in the order and the site says ‘You’re outside of our delivery range’, you can order from Grubhub. So I’m thinking WTF? I just ordered last week and they delivered. So I’m like WTF and ordered it from Grubhub. Which was like $20 more than the last 2 orders of the same thing. Then this is the real kicker. It’s actually THE FUCKING RESTAURANT who is delivering the food, but they’re doing it through Grubhub. What even in the fuck? When they knocked on the door is was the same little Asian chick who delivered it before.
I don’t think I will be ordered from them again, it’s good, but it’s not worth $20 more because they’re pulling some sort of scam over on their customers.
Ouch. Yeah, I’ve always felt there’s something scammy about all those online ordering outfits. Maybe because some of the advertise themselves as “not being scammy”.
Well, I get it if the only way you get delivery is if you use Grubhub or Doordash or whatever. But when you charge that much more because you’re using Grubhub, but it’s not a Grubhub driver bringing it, but the restaurant is doing it, fuck that shit. That’s definitely scammy. They just somehow figured out they can make more money doing that. Sigh…
Usual work coffee (black, chicory blend) in one thermos. Tea in another.
Individually wrapped items are best. Love the Asian penchant for wrapping individual items like a single cookie. Perfect.
I use individually-wrapped sugar cubes for my coffee. I don’t use sugar for any other reason so I figured why not?
The Champagne cocktail is another reason to keep actual sugar cubes around the house.
Pro tip: don’t use your good champagne for this. A Crémant or even Cava will do just fine.
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I didn’t know any sugar cubes came wrapped.
Ayup.
Better yet, they’re a little smaller than the unwrapped kind, if you like a little less sugar in your coffee.
Well, good night folks, I need to wake up in the morning. I think I’ve prepped most everything I reasonably should.
Please be careful on the road! See you soon!
G’night. Sleep EZ https://youtu.be/FtR4jnjIXII
Columbo busted Donald Pleasence. All these bad guys are so full of themselves. It’s the hubris, the arrogance that always leads to their downfall.
Just one more thing…
Sunflower seeds and good jerky can keep me driving for hours. We also pack hardboiled eggs and bologna and cheese sandwiches cut into quarters.
I’m calling her one of our own.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/24/we-thought-it-wouldnt-come-here-student-challenges-school-board-to-explain-how-shes-an-example-of-white-privilege/
I’m am sure those that sat across from her while she laid bare her soul sipped coffee and probably popped a boner.
Happy, sad, outraged and optimistic all in one on her stance.
My high school
This school system was the cream of the crop 10 or 15 years ago. Still didn’t love the experience, but it had everything a public school could offer, and it was the kids around my age who reaped the rewards. However, the decline was apparent before my brothers graduated. The growth had caught up culturally with the schools. We weren’t a rapidly growing former farm community anymore, we were a massive suburb with all the concomitant bullshit.
It seems like the suburban public schools, wherever I look, are struggling to avoid being overrun by negative forces.
This time it wasn’t Yoko who broke up the band.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mumford-marshall-leaving-band-speak-freely-politics
I’m thinking there is a good chance that the Manna from heaven that God provided to the wandering Israelites was low sodium Wheat Thins.
Even if not, they are a fine road trip snack.
*thumbs through Old Testament*. Um….
McAfee is watching over us. Lunchtime sketch.
https://ibb.co/h8bZB6Z
Wow! That’s excellent!
Great! Now I’m going to see those eyes in my dreams! 🙁
Good night!
Night, GT.
You are getting good Straff.
x2
Thx, guys. Every sketch has something I like and things I don’t. Trying to keep the good stuff and not do the bad stuff again.
I’m sure even Michaelangelo was saying “WTF did I do it like that?” when it was over.
Impressive! Your shading is really coming along.
Well done! Can I steal that and print it out? I want to hang it on the bookshelf behind me for when people come to see me.
+1500 wierdo points for me.
Ugh. I have to deal with a butt-hurt coworker (more accurately, a person who works for the same employer as I do).
Last Friday I called an impromptu meeting with the program manager and the “strategic development” guy in charge of a contract because I was being asked to provide EE support from my staff. I wanted to know exactly what we were being asked to do and whether the project was healthy (I’m not into sending my staff into suicide missions).
I concluded the project was off the rails and that the project manager should issue a Stop Work until we assessed where we are, what we want to achieve, and where the dollars are allocated.
Now the “systems engineer” has sent an email flaming me for my meeting, which he declared was underhanded and disrespectful.
I’m pretty sure I’m the fall gal now. I’m going to wash my hands of it and polish my resume.
Ugh, workplace politics. Sorry you have to deal with that. But it sounds like you’ve got an amazing skill set though that will take you far 😉
Shit like that makes me daydream about moving to a little cabin with a woodworking shop and making a living selling furniture and wooden decor items… Maybe someday.
I hear you on the isolated cabin thing.
What’s extra weird about this particular issue is that the guy who sent the email flaming me (did i mention he copied it to my boss and to my boss’s boss?) is someone I’ve known for years, even before I started at this company 3 years ago. We’ve been out socially before, several times, though always in a work/social/group context.
So he could have easily just called me up and aired his grievances with me 1:1 if he’d wanted to. He chose to go nuclear.
I summarized this briefly to my husband (who’s also been out socially with the guy) and he asked, knowing the dude was back from a three week medical leave, “What was his medical leave for? Gender reassignment surgery?”
I guffawed.
Does seem like the dude has sand in his vagina.
Kind of feel sorry for people like that, who can’t tell friend from foe.
LOL
I was an EE manager years ago and my boss asked me what I wanted to be doing in ten years.
Making furniture and not dealing with idiots was my response
Also, any of you lot live in Colorado Springs? Is it an ok place to live?
I did 12 years ago, nice city, pretty conservative overall. lots of work,
The closest Glib would be Q. He is somewhere over that way I think. I lived in Manitou Springs around 1990’ish so long ago I would have no useful information. I haven’t been there in decades. I do know it is growing like all the front range.
Hey, Black Helicopter! How’s it swinging? Little to the left, little to the right? Mornin’!
Yo Fest, Mornin.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57598101
Asshoe.
AsshoeS. Who plants a tree at the corner of their property to overhang someone else’s property? Put it in the middle of your own yard, asswipe.
That photo depresses me. It reminds that’s how our masters want us to live, if we are elite enough. Postage stamp lots and tiny houses crammed together.
Yep. More rules, more happy!
Not on a lot that small, but trees have been used as boundary markers for a loooong time where I grew up.
OT but have to share this anecdote. Younger cow-worker complaining about how sensitive her generation is. I replied that it because we have taught kids for fifty years or so not to ask “Why not?” and have instead inculcated “Why should I ?” The entire concept of “What’s in it for me?” has overtaken any sense of civic duty. I’m guilty of this failure, don’t get me wrong but to stand back at the barn fire and ask “Was lighting the hay on fire a mistake? Should I have not done that?” seems pretty disingenuous. Bitching about Millennial problems to a Gen-X guy that’s been working shit jobs for forty years is mighty lame. She’s coming around.
Well, my bags are packed. Gotta fill up the gas tank and see about making it to Cleveland. Eight hours on the road today (7.5 by GPS estimate, added in expected minimum delays)
I hope you have a grand excursion, UCS! See all the things that I never will and enjoy the fuck out of the experience!
Safe travels.
On Topic – Favorite road trip food? Copious amounts of beer while sitting in the passenger seat. Judi’s a capable driver and a photographer so pee breaks are never a problem. #Winning!
My go to has always been, white cheddar popcorn, twizzlers and jerky.
I prefer red Super-Nibs. I could eat a whole pack. The results were less than satisfactory on the morrow.
One more day, I can barely walk my hip is so jacked up. Im waiting for my doctors office to call me for an appt. Insurance? So what
Feel better, Friend!
Sorry to hear that, Yu. Hope you get better soon.
Oof. Sorry to hear that.
The temps are going to hit or exceed 100 degrees American here starting tomorrow. I’m hiding in the house. Judi is going hiking. Think I’ll fill the puppy pool and share it with the dog. Beer delivery (Thanks Covid panic!) will be my friend. Sunday is going to suck monkey balls. Clients are getting the bare minimum of service.
Get a load of this asshole.
I guess “unethical” and “immoral” have left the station.
NYC needs to give Gozer a shot a redemption.
I’m old and broken enough that I could probably go on some lame-assed disability claim. I hate that shit but I won’t be compelled. My body, my choice, right?
That’s where we hit the wall, isn’t it? If my Company tries that shit, I’m done like dinner. Fuck You, Fuck You and especially Fuck You! No fucking way. They are inching toward it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plbgQKQFVcA
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That was interesting.
Have some morning devil’s weed music.
Funky.
Things are getting weird out there y’all.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/06/police-break-up-exorcism-at-pa-home-depot.html
Say what now?
That’s gonna make that shit even more expensive!
Snacks.
On topic: These travel very well and are easy to eat on the go.
The best road trip food has not yet been mentioned:
Chicken Tenders. Protein, satiating, easy to eat, low crumb generation, available at finer truck stops across the country.
I could give a care about travelling about. That part of life left me some time ago. https://youtu.be/-0SmXVrLlZ4 Sorry for the downer, folks!
Vacation Day 2! Unlike yesterday, I have nowhere to be but here this morning. (Yesterday was a wildly successful hair doctor appointment.) Thus, I’m getting in some camping at Tranquility Base. Cloudy at the moment, but quite pleasant. 75 degrees American per the local weather powerhouse TV station’s app. I have a whole list of gotta-do’s, but I can’t really do them while Tom T is asleep, so…
…aaaallllll riiiiight!
Well, two of the gotta-do’s involve a weed whacker and a vacuum cleaner, so I invite you to use your imagination. 😉
Double euphemism for the win!
As for road snacks, I just bring coffee, maybe get Dr. Pepper on the way. I eat at various Waffle Houses, Cracker Barrels, and (if available) local diners.
I just got a complete run of Dallas. It is even more awesome than i remember.
We avoid Waffle House ever since a couple of musician friends of our died suddenly within hours of eating there (almost certainly after gigs.) I’ve come to believe musicians should avoid eating at Waffle House, just as they should stay off airplanes.
“All musicians should avoid music of any kind!” St. Fauchi
Shoulder pads on women!
LOL my exact thought
“Dynasty” was the Queeniest of that particular bit of fashion sense! I walked in on my buddy Toobin’ it to the cat-fight scene. Awkward.
That’s hilarious!
Should have knocked first in retrospect.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
::sharpens scissors to cut those abominations out of new clothes if they make a comeback::
As earlier pointed out, old trapper if I can find it and the larger plastic canister of the cranberry, almond, cashews trail mix. We’ll throw together a cooler with ice and drinks if it’s going to be a 10 hour or more road trip.