Those states should send a message to conservative nazi bigots by telling Buccees they’re not welcome. Deny permits and make them as unwelcome as possible.
Nah. Retribution is less a leadership thing and more Trump’s style. It’s our job to remind the bucees guy about his statement.
I respect your kindness. I wish I could still feel that in me. I’m old, retired and angrier than I’ve ever been in my life. These nazis are an infestation at this point and it seems excruciatingly obvious to me now that my years of turning the other cheek were wasted.
I could have been pushing back against these shitbags this entire time and I truly regret being so kind to them. Conservatives see kindness as weakness. Not pushing back is how they’ve gotten this strong and overtly evil. I feel like I am partly to blame for this situation for being so nice all these years.
I have finally reached an age where I truly don’t give a single fuck about a conservative nazi life anymore and am going to make up for lost time in the very little time I have left. All that is to say I genuinely do respect your position of kindness. It just doesn’t work for me anymore because I think it will only make the conservatism even worse.
My state already has Walmart with gas stations, I’m not sure why Walmart needs brisket at 3am.
I’ve had 3am 7-11 apple pie. I’m not proud of it now, but it was awesome then.
I understand 3am brisket.
Two different cultures. Its so annoying to deal with it. Please give them a territory and let them make everything Buc-ees. I actually want these people to flourish in their own land.
It’s so weird when you walk into something that is so coded for the other culture. I don’t know how to put my finger on it, but it’s like the physical embodiment of the original opening of Big Love. Not that this CEO is Mormon, but… I’m quite sure it’s intentional and I bet it’s been studied.
Went to the buccees in Colorado recently after hearing about it since they opened up. It was fucking disgusting. Everything I got tasted like shit. The orange cream soda I got had such a chemical taste I threw the entire thing away. The pudding was shit tier and also tasted like chemicals. The whoopie pie was the sweetest most disgusting thing I’ve ever laid eyes on. The cheessteak wrap was soggy mush - the bever nuggets had the consistency of sand. The entire thing was such a disappointment. I’ll never stop again. I’ll actively avoid these tourist traps for the rest of my life. Absolute shit - totally tracks that it started in texas.
Conservatives love that chemical taste. Seriously. I was born in the rural south and if you complain about the taste of contaminated well water near processing plants, you get made fun of as a “pussy”. They intentionally won’t drink filtered water, cUz ThAt’S WoKe y’All!
What do you expect from a gas station
There was a Shell station on my way to the community college I used to stop at at least a couple times a week regardless of if I needed gas because the bean and cheese burritos were always crispy and yummy. Also the point of sale system sounded just like when Sonic got rings.
I don’t think I’d go into a buccees though. I don’t really like cults.
Shell
Way back when Sheetz first got touchscreens to order food, I’d get food there at least a few times a week. Other than grabbing something sitting under lights, that was about the fastest way to get some food, and it was actually rather decent given the price and that, yeah, it was a gas station.
It was faster than most fast food places during peak times because you’d walk up, punch in your order in a few seconds and then wait for whatever to be prepped. At typical fast food places I always seemed to get stuck behind people who would figure out the menu in real time, very slowly, rather than figuring it out while waiting in line.
I don’t go often so I can’t say if the quality changed, but I can say that in the beginning the BBQ and Beaver Nuggets weren’t (aren’t) bad. But that initial ‘wow’ factor wears off fast. Extremely fast with the nuggets – the amount of butter coats the tongue. The BBQ… yeah doesn’t taste that great. Decent breakfast sandwhich though (but that isn’t saying much).
Cinnamon and sugar roasted almonds though… Yeah, mild food poisoning is delightful. Let me just say if you eat a roasted nut from Buccees and you go “that doesn’t taste right” spit it out. Was it the oil? The nut? Who knows. But you’ll avoid having a most unpleasant time if you just eject it and probably the rest of the bag.
Still, great place to stop for Ice Tea on the road, otherwise, and the bathrooms really are clean.
A CEO lied? No way.
I’m not sure if he lied per se (or at least in this instance?) but he definitely got out over his skis saying this before the election. Even back in August, it was pretty fucking stupid since Colorado is blue and there is one of his gigantic gas stations there…
“…got out over his skis…”? I am guessing this is a phrase from places with snow.
I looked it up and at least one of the things I found claimed it started in finance, but I’m assuming those guys can afford ski trips.
As if I didn’t already have enough reasons to avoid that retail hell.
Remember this the next time you see someone fawning over buc-ees.
I’ve been there a few times. It’s…okay? Bathrooms are nice and clean, as advertised.
But I don’t really see what the big deal is. Just seems like the Walmart of gas stations.
But now that this asshat went and opened his big mouth I have no plans on going there again…ironically, there is one right off I-25 near Fort Collins in Colorado…which has been pretty much blue for years. Somehow, the place is busy as hell and seems to be doing alright.
Conservatives always have to make things so goddamned weird. Has anyone asked this guy what “family friendly” means?
To a ya’ll qaeda Christian, “family friendly” means:
Jesus is watching you masturbate, disapprovingly.
He also wants you to remember its a sin to discuss your wages/salary, and that unionizing is an unforgivable/deadly sin.
… its camp. They don’t realize they’re doing camp, because they’re in a cult, but its camp.
Right, here’s Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian.
https://youtube.com/MrsBettyBowers
10 years ago or whatever, you could tell this was obviously satire. Nowadays? Much closer to indistinguishable from shit ya’ll qaeda Christians do and say totally earnestly.
I’m not an expert, but doesn’t “camp” require at least a minimal amount of self-awareness?
I am also not an expert but my inclination is “no”.
You could, having never seen an impressionist painting, come up with an impressionist art piece on your own.
Similarly, you can act and behave in ways that follow rules and patterns you are not consciously aware of.
You can be broadly described as a parody of something, with yourself either not aware of / intending this, or even with you vehemently denying it.
You don’t have to be self aware to delve into an oddly specific, intense, and reverant form of nostalgia. You can do that without realizing that that is what you are doing.
It’s southerners trying to pretend like they have anything special other than highway-side gas stations.
The south has a lot of special things. We have specially bad public schools, specially bad public transportation systems, specially bad worker protections, etc.
It’s exactly this.
Family friendly means paying for the best lawyers for his son to fight child porn charges.
Family friendly means christian and conservative.
But I don’t really see what the big deal is.
People who make a big deal out of it are over the top, but it’s pretty good at being a gas station:
- The gas is usually priced well. I’ve seen 10% lower than anything else in the area before.
- There’s a variety of hot food, all adequate. With a group of people, it’s likely everyone will find something.
- There are a lot of snacks.
- There’s a variety of caffeine, all reasonably priced instead of the usual gas station trick of energy drinks are only reasonably priced if you buy three.
- There are always gas pumps open. No waiting.
- It’s clean, from the pump to the toilet.
If there’s one on my route and the timing makes sense, that’s where I’ll stop.
Yeah. I get all that. Most or all of the (hot) food is not vegetarian or vegan so our options are drastically narrowed, but that’s every single gas station, really.
I appreciate it being clean. It seems other chains could just step their bathroom and game up - like say, Love’s - and it’d be about the same.
What I really don’t get is when people make it a destination and want merch and so on. The signs for Buc’ees (in Fort Collins) start up in Wyoming, IIRC. You’d think it was a place like Wall Drug or something…
To me, the whole thing struck me as a bit goofy as we first pulled off the highway a few years ago. Then I walked in and the store seemed like a combo of Hobby Lobby and Walmart as far as Americana schlock being sold…definitely got a whiff of what they were probably going for. Figured it was kind of coded for conservatives.
I was right.
I’ve been wondering how you square your avatar with your politics for a couple of months now.
(FWIW, I like the food at Buc-ee’s…)
Visited a Buc-ees for the novelty of it, but didn’t otherwise get gas or anything else there to avoid supporting such a conservative-leaning business.
It’s a great place to stop if you want to waste an hour on a road trip stop.
Being a man of his word, I suppose he has no choice but to close them all.
Stop at every one. Just to use the bathrooms. And leave. The bathrooms are massive, and you get to pee on their organization at the same time.
The cool thing is, if you already owned Buc-ee’s swim trunks before you found out what a tosser he is, you can piss on them all the time and never set foot in the store!
This sounds like you’re just peeing in the pool.
Well, yeah, but now it’s justified…
nonzero chance they still profit from this due to being able to categorize you into a percentage group to sell to advertisers.
This is unlikely. Bucees makes all their money from the extremely overpriced items in the store. The bathrooms and cheap gas are only there to get you into the store. They even got sued in Alabama for selling gas below wholesale pricing, violating a state law.
This guy is such a pisser. Gunna sell him so many turlets.
Its more that they can analyze demographics based on race, perceived gender and clothing style to estimate financial brackets that shop in the store and cater ads to groups of people based on how you interact in the store. Things you looked at, how long you looked at it, your walking style, what youre doing with your hands. Its all tracked and used and/or sold to mentally manipulate you into buying.
you probably know this but I’m responding for people who may not.
Turlets and boilers. Also that one boilin turlet.
Thanks, now I know to avoid them. Much like that weird Jesus flavored chicken sandwich joint. Hard pass.
Chik Fil A so bad you can taste the gay hate in the food. Bland AF
Before all that became a thing and back when I still ate omnivore food, they did have a decent breakfast biscuit thing with chicken and that was actually pretty good. Their coffee was passable, too.
Never really did understand the appeal of the basic sandwich they have. Oh, it has a pickle? Well color me impressed! I mean, it was okay, at least it was a decent cut of meat and tasted okay, but overall the sandwich didn’t exactly “pop” as something extremely special.
But I haven’t been to one in over 20 years…if they’d drop the hate and bring back something for vegans and vegetarians, someone should let me know…
There are so many stories to delight in after this election, but this one is like manna from heaven.
Why do these idiotic businessmen open their cake holes and speak about politics at all?
His son was arrested for child pornography so he needed to manufacturer headlines to create a distraction. He’s pulling the Nicki Minaj tactic.
Narcissistic tendencies, disconnect from reality due to their self-inflicted segregation from the poors, etc.
I’m a Buc-ee’s fan and love going to them on road trips, but Ngl, this is fucking hilarious. I hope he’s seen people calling him out on this or has been asked about it. I’d love to see his reaction. You know it’ll be some backpedaling because he loves money more.
Should be asking him about his pedophile son instead
The guy with the pedo son?
Fuck buc-ees
I love how the Jalopnik writer wanted to write about the election results so bad that he grasped at the tenuous Buc-ee’s connection to shoehorn it into the website’s “car journalism” format.
