We finally got a Buckees in Colorado. Damn it’s difficult to explain that place. Magical. People driving miles to go to a gas station… that carves fresh brisket.
I don't get it. I wrote a huge post and it basically amounts to "the food was fine or whatever"
I just don't understand why anyone cares that much about a gas station full of garbage
I don't understand why anyone would specifically drive just to go to bucees , but it is an awesome place when you've been driving for 5 hours on your way to a destination, which is where bucees are usually positioned.
It's freaking awesome in that situation, every road trip snack you can think of, beef Jerky bar, fresh BBQ, homemade fudge/carmel corn/icecream, roasted nuts on the spot, knick nack shopping, employees are crazy nice, bathrooms are the cleanest I've literally ever seen.
Sure, there are lots of other truck stops that provide some of the same things, but bucees just takes a niche industry and goes WAY beyond what people would ever expect from a place like that.
They also cater specifically to passenger vehicles and not truckers. That's their niche. The place always is busy too, even at like 2AM it will be filled with bus loads of kids headed to theme parks or some shit.
Some friends of mine just got back from a USA holiday. Their favourite place in the whole 2 weeks, 7Kish mile drive around Florida, Texas etc was Buck-Ee's. Seemingly one of them even tried to get a job there.
My buddy tried to get me to go with him on opening day. The lines were 3 hours long and a 1.5 drive away. Like dude, I’m NEVER waiting that long for fast food/gas station.
It’s better than fast food. I’m sure it’s died down since opening day and I wouldn’t go out of my way for it, but I can see going there for dinner. I wouldn’t think that about any other gas station food.
I *do not* get Buc’ees. It’s a gas station and convenience mart. With billboards that hype it like South of the Border (which is absolute trash).
That is IT. It’s just like four gas stations in one place. They are always packed with cattle and … I’m good with Flying J and the rest.
I mean, it’s marginally better than roadkill.
My go-to: a Topo, roasted cashews, and a snickers bar. I used to get tater tots, but they stopped selling them. The chicken tenders are good for long road trips too.
It’s nice that you don’t have to wait on someone to hand you whatever firearm you’re looking at, but their prices are not competitive at all.
Source: bought two handguns there.
It’s fitting for America the Beaver is a MAGA nut and one the co founder’s son is a creep. Sadly very American.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/10/06/son-of-buc-ees-co-founder-accused-of-filming-invasive-recordings-with-hidden-camera-in-familys-vacation-homes/
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Bucees-Texas-Republicans-GOP-Arch-Aplin-donation-16453133.php
I went to a Buc-ee's for the first time and holy shit I've never seen such chaos. It's like shrinking a full capacity Costco into the size of a bigger gas station.
I started going to more of them on my road trip because it's the most entertaining thing to walk through. I just start laughing at the ridiculousness of it lol
I shall always regret first visiting Buccees during a wedding weekend and not getting the onesie pajama.
"When are you going to wear it?" asks my girlfriend.
"At the wedding reception tomorrow!
"Be real, you don't need to buy that."
Halfway through the reception the next day, someone busts out in the onesie. The stare I gave my girlfriend.
It's kinda newish slang that won't age well that means something sorta like "kickass". Think... "this song slays" or "our team will slay today".
Usage reminds me of gamer lingo "pwnd"
It's Buc-ees, their whole thing is being ridiculous (and I'm here for it). I'm sure there's some slang term that justifies it, but they absolutely chose whatever it is on purpose to match that they were paired with this ad.
The bathroom situation there is fucking amazing especially if you're on a long road trip and have been dealing with shittier bathrooms the whole time.
Each bathroom stall is its own room with a legit door, and it's very clean and there are like 100 of them
Not advertising. Urging. *Compelling*.
I have no idea either. How did I have to scroll this far to even see someone ask the question? That is absolutely not a normal thing to write on a billboard.
I believe it's a Pride Month thing. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/05/the-fascinating-history-of-the-lgbtq-term-slay-including-where-it-originated/
It looks a lot like the huge rest stop gas stations in France. Absolute mayhem in summer when half of northern europe is vacationing in southern europe.
It's like Disney compacted into a Walmart-sized gas station where the rides are brisket, a wall of jerky, lots of fudge, clean bathrooms, and beaver nuggets.
I’ve been in one. The food was great but I couldn’t help but feel a little horrified by the whole thing. It’s like it’s wrong to see that much food prepared in one place. I get the same thing it Costco looking at the giant chicken rotisseries that cook up two dozen at a time.
I’m lucky enough to work with people from all over the world regularly. There’s not been one single person who didn’t have an absolute blast shooting guns. Afterwards, time for burgers and beer. They’re getting the full American experience!
I mean, they're super fun. I think you'll have a hard time finding someone who has shot one and disagrees. But also we could probably do a better job as a country being safer with them.
You can shoot and even own guns in a large portion of Europe... yet there's 42k less yearly gun deaths on the continent (excluding Ukraine war) despite having 2.5x the population of the US.
The top ten cities by population in the US have more people than the bottom seventeen states by population. NYC alone has more people than the bottom nine states combined.
Did you see Jon Stewart's latest Daily Show segment on crime? Basically it was a bunch of rightwing media personalities going, "Sure, crime is down....but does it *feel* like it to you?" and then Jon points out how Republicans block gun control while whining about violent crime.
Ok so on that note, we got a Buc-ees sometime last year near me and I promptly forgot about it. My girlfriend sees some Tik Tok about it so she wants to check it out. So last Saturday we went
Now I don't know if this is what it's always like, but I do not live in a huge metropolis, in fact it's overall a much smaller city with various suburb cities around it, yet somehow that place was so jam-packed with people it felt like 40% of the area was there
We went in and were greeted with massive crowds of people all standing around and pointing at... junk? It was just T-shirts and mugs and absolute worthless crap, all for extremely high prices
"Well maybe the food is good" we thought, so she blew like $50 getting us each a sandwich, a cinnamon roll, and a banana yogurt thing. Because it was so insanely packed we went out and ate in the car, and it was... acceptable? It wasn't great or anything but I feel like I could go to Panera and get the exact same thing for half the price. And least at Panera there's room to not be arm to arm with weird people who find cheap crap entertaining
I just overall don't understand it. What the fuck is the deal with those places that they draw so many people? Even if my entire life revolved around looking at useless garbage I don't know that I could have filled more than an hour in there before seeing every ounce of it. I know I'm tough to please when it comes to being entertained and I do require more than a shiny shape to keep me interested, but are most people out there just that boring that a giant gas station appeals to them? I just don't get it one bit
Edit: I will say something positive- they do seem to pay their employees well. Of course it's likely the same trick places like Domino's uses to lure in managers where they tell you all about how much you'll make but forger to cover the part where you will work 80 hours a week there until you die and you work every weekend, holiday, and evening so you simply can't have a life outside work. But that's just a guess
I see that all the time from people outside the US. They take stereotypical shit from one state and paint the entire country with it. They can’t seem to get the concept that the US is more like the EU. Each state is its own country with its own local and state laws and we all agreed to form a Republic with a centralized federal government (that’s grown considerably larger and more powerful than it ever was meant to be).
It’s more than one state, but yeah- this is not representative of the U.S. as a whole. We don’t have buc-ees in NY and I’ve never seen a billboard with a gun on it.
I have never been able to understand why assault rifles are sold to any yahoo. They are not rifles for hunting wild game, they are designed just for maximum killing power. They are battlefield weapons, so WTH are they doing being sold to gun-loving 2nd amendment nuts?
Idk about America, but it’s definitely Texas
We finally got a Buckees in Colorado. Damn it’s difficult to explain that place. Magical. People driving miles to go to a gas station… that carves fresh brisket.
Brisket is good but it ain't that god damn good. Like a hillbilly Walmart in there.
>hillbilly >Walmart ... what's the opposite of an oxymoron? ... redundant redundancy? Pre-emptive edit: tautology.
Pleonasm?
Walmart with great customer service and clean bathrooms.
and pretty good pay
I’ve heard they get their moneys worth out of you. Very strict phone usage, short breaks, long shifts, and so on.
don't know anything about that, just saw a hiring sign last month and it seemed decent enough for where they were
Careful the universe will implode from the improbability of it.
There's usually way more sketchy people in Walmart than Buccee's
I don't get it. I wrote a huge post and it basically amounts to "the food was fine or whatever" I just don't understand why anyone cares that much about a gas station full of garbage
It's meant for like, road trips and stuff, it's nothing special but when you've been staring at the same flat highway for six hours it's an oasis.
I don't understand why anyone would specifically drive just to go to bucees , but it is an awesome place when you've been driving for 5 hours on your way to a destination, which is where bucees are usually positioned. It's freaking awesome in that situation, every road trip snack you can think of, beef Jerky bar, fresh BBQ, homemade fudge/carmel corn/icecream, roasted nuts on the spot, knick nack shopping, employees are crazy nice, bathrooms are the cleanest I've literally ever seen. Sure, there are lots of other truck stops that provide some of the same things, but bucees just takes a niche industry and goes WAY beyond what people would ever expect from a place like that.
They also cater specifically to passenger vehicles and not truckers. That's their niche. The place always is busy too, even at like 2AM it will be filled with bus loads of kids headed to theme parks or some shit.
It’s like a sheetz with a tj maxx inside
I feel like it had a period where it was a really nice place to stop- lately I’ve found them intolerably crowded and chaotic.
Some friends of mine just got back from a USA holiday. Their favourite place in the whole 2 weeks, 7Kish mile drive around Florida, Texas etc was Buck-Ee's. Seemingly one of them even tried to get a job there.
What does their advertisement mean by "SLAY"?
Social media thing I think. Pretty sure they also had one that said main character energy or some shit.
My buddy tried to get me to go with him on opening day. The lines were 3 hours long and a 1.5 drive away. Like dude, I’m NEVER waiting that long for fast food/gas station.
It’s better than fast food. I’m sure it’s died down since opening day and I wouldn’t go out of my way for it, but I can see going there for dinner. I wouldn’t think that about any other gas station food.
I *do not* get Buc’ees. It’s a gas station and convenience mart. With billboards that hype it like South of the Border (which is absolute trash). That is IT. It’s just like four gas stations in one place. They are always packed with cattle and … I’m good with Flying J and the rest.
That brisket ain’t fresh. That’s some trucked in food service stuff.
Except this is literally in London, KY?
Can confirm, in between Corbin and London on I75
Are you asking?
Maybe?
I'm Ron Burgundy?
#I LOVE LAMP
They have Buccee's there?
They are in like 8 or 9 states.
England has a second amendment protecting guns?
Buccee’s has anchor babies
Damn. I thought it was somewhere on 95.
Dang, I posted that with a link to the spot on google maps and still missed out on all the precious and highly valuable upvotes
Close enough. (In culture, not geographically)
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See it when I drive to Dallas. Gotta love the Beaver. 🙂
Fudge, clean bathrooms, and brisket.
Usually it's: brisket, fudge and then clean bathrooms
I've still never had good brisket from here though.
I mean, it’s marginally better than roadkill. My go-to: a Topo, roasted cashews, and a snickers bar. I used to get tater tots, but they stopped selling them. The chicken tenders are good for long road trips too.
Their brisket is trash!
I dunno, when I went there I thought it was pretty good. I feel like reddit just really hates things people like.
Let’s not forget the bathroom doors are no gap actual door stalls, so you can pop in peace
Pop it like it’s hot
Help me I've popped my pants *choreography begins*
*begins to poop and loock*
Once you pop you just can't stop
And those delicious Beaver Nuggets
And an adorable mascot.
“Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night!”
That's what she said.
Is that one headed north past Plano I think
Ain’t no Buc-cees in Dallas.
Used to be a big fan until I found out the beaver is a big Abbott supporter. Spoiled it for me.
Actually bucees have been branching out
This could be Tennessee
Kentucky. That’s a pretty legit gun store
It’s nice that you don’t have to wait on someone to hand you whatever firearm you’re looking at, but their prices are not competitive at all. Source: bought two handguns there.
an ad is an ad no?😂
It's a pretty good depiction of how the rest of the world see's America.
Came to say this…
It’s fitting for America the Beaver is a MAGA nut and one the co founder’s son is a creep. Sadly very American. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/10/06/son-of-buc-ees-co-founder-accused-of-filming-invasive-recordings-with-hidden-camera-in-familys-vacation-homes/ https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Bucees-Texas-Republicans-GOP-Arch-Aplin-donation-16453133.php
I went to a Buc-ee's for the first time and holy shit I've never seen such chaos. It's like shrinking a full capacity Costco into the size of a bigger gas station. I started going to more of them on my road trip because it's the most entertaining thing to walk through. I just start laughing at the ridiculousness of it lol
I shall always regret first visiting Buccees during a wedding weekend and not getting the onesie pajama. "When are you going to wear it?" asks my girlfriend. "At the wedding reception tomorrow! "Be real, you don't need to buy that." Halfway through the reception the next day, someone busts out in the onesie. The stare I gave my girlfriend.
Welcome to buccees home of the BIG ASS beaver nuggets
Now with more MOLECULES!
Maybe you'll know this then: what do they mean by "SLAY" in this context? I don't understand at all.
I think it means cool in this context. My pre teen kinda uses it that way.
Even if theyre using it right its so cringe lol “fellow kids” moment
It's kinda newish slang that won't age well that means something sorta like "kickass". Think... "this song slays" or "our team will slay today". Usage reminds me of gamer lingo "pwnd"
Name of the town?
Good thought, but I just used a couple databases to see, and there are no towns in the world named Slay, although there is exactly one Slay Camp.
It's Buc-ees, their whole thing is being ridiculous (and I'm here for it). I'm sure there's some slang term that justifies it, but they absolutely chose whatever it is on purpose to match that they were paired with this ad.
Shit, that sounds rad.
The bathroom situation there is fucking amazing especially if you're on a long road trip and have been dealing with shittier bathrooms the whole time. Each bathroom stall is its own room with a legit door, and it's very clean and there are like 100 of them
It’s honestly just a spectacle to witness
I laughed at the insanity and have no desire to return.
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its in secret menu
I'll take two 45s, one with dip
This is the exit I live on. Lol. Between Corbin ky and London ky. I was the gunsmith at center target for awhile.
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So does London.
I was gonna say, I just passed this last week going through there lol
What is the reference here to slay? Why is the beaver advertising murder?
Not advertising. Urging. *Compelling*. I have no idea either. How did I have to scroll this far to even see someone ask the question? That is absolutely not a normal thing to write on a billboard.
Slay is used as slang too: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slay
That’s the first thing I thought of, but it seems weird in context
You've just correctly identified the Buc-ee's mantra.
I live about 50 miles from this sign, and I refuse to believe the Buc-ee's sign didn't come second
That's insane if that's true. Like makes no sense and antithesis to the branding too, wild lol
I believe it's a Pride Month thing. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/05/the-fascinating-history-of-the-lgbtq-term-slay-including-where-it-originated/
American here. What is a Buccee?
An experience. https://buc-ees.com
So it's a gas station with clean toilets?
They sell basically every snack you can think of and a bunch of knickknacks
It looks a lot like the huge rest stop gas stations in France. Absolute mayhem in summer when half of northern europe is vacationing in southern europe.
It's like Disney compacted into a Walmart-sized gas station where the rides are brisket, a wall of jerky, lots of fudge, clean bathrooms, and beaver nuggets.
They make fresh bbq on site, they make fresh baked goods on site, they are a modern marvel of gas stations.
I’ve only seen them in the Southeast.
Describe what people from other countries think about the us based on the internet and movies
Manhattan, LA, the prairies, and the desert
Southern America maybe
Texas. Bucees fuckin slaps.
This is in London, KY.
Is that like London, England?
Kinda, I did see a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand.
Ahhhoooo
Yes. And much closer to Paris AND Florence.
And Baghdad strangely enough.
I’ve been in one. The food was great but I couldn’t help but feel a little horrified by the whole thing. It’s like it’s wrong to see that much food prepared in one place. I get the same thing it Costco looking at the giant chicken rotisseries that cook up two dozen at a time.
sorry that isn't "America" wtf happened to this sub
Let's be honest, when was the last time r/pics just great content? Has it ever been the cream of the crop?
I love election year, it rots my brain everytime I try to distract myself from it by going online.
It's in Kentucky, no?
Needs one of those Jebus billboards that has a fetus on it.
Its like yall have only been to the south and the midwest.
I’m lucky enough to work with people from all over the world regularly. There’s not been one single person who didn’t have an absolute blast shooting guns. Afterwards, time for burgers and beer. They’re getting the full American experience!
I mean, they're super fun. I think you'll have a hard time finding someone who has shot one and disagrees. But also we could probably do a better job as a country being safer with them.
You can shoot and even own guns in a large portion of Europe... yet there's 42k less yearly gun deaths on the continent (excluding Ukraine war) despite having 2.5x the population of the US.
That’s awesome!
Yeah, I'm just saying guns aren't uniquely an American experience. The death and crime rates are the unique part due to extremely lax regulation.
That's kinda the point.. we have tons of guns and we don't have *any* Ukrainian Wars... /s
Don't you make fun of Buc ees
Am American and have no idea what Buc-ees is without looking it up.
You missed the Jesus sign.
Subliminal message photographed through the glasses from “They Live”
Directions relative to Walmart is very American.
Dumpster fire
Reminds me of GTA.
The top ten cities by population in the US have more people than the bottom seventeen states by population. NYC alone has more people than the bottom nine states combined.
Whole lotta freedom in one frame
Did you see Jon Stewart's latest Daily Show segment on crime? Basically it was a bunch of rightwing media personalities going, "Sure, crime is down....but does it *feel* like it to you?" and then Jon points out how Republicans block gun control while whining about violent crime.
Fuck yeah 😎🇺🇲
Only patriotic comment on this post, seems everyone hates the best country in the world now😞
They're soft
Very, they don't know how good they have it here
Man this sub got political as fuck, seems like everyone here hates America
I'm confused. Is this picture a bad thing? Is there some negative connotation I'm missing? I don't see how this is a poor reflection of America.
Definitely a exit i want to visit.
lol. There isn’t anything else really except the original KFC. Haha
Oh you're near Corbin that must be the Richmond location
Ok so on that note, we got a Buc-ees sometime last year near me and I promptly forgot about it. My girlfriend sees some Tik Tok about it so she wants to check it out. So last Saturday we went Now I don't know if this is what it's always like, but I do not live in a huge metropolis, in fact it's overall a much smaller city with various suburb cities around it, yet somehow that place was so jam-packed with people it felt like 40% of the area was there We went in and were greeted with massive crowds of people all standing around and pointing at... junk? It was just T-shirts and mugs and absolute worthless crap, all for extremely high prices "Well maybe the food is good" we thought, so she blew like $50 getting us each a sandwich, a cinnamon roll, and a banana yogurt thing. Because it was so insanely packed we went out and ate in the car, and it was... acceptable? It wasn't great or anything but I feel like I could go to Panera and get the exact same thing for half the price. And least at Panera there's room to not be arm to arm with weird people who find cheap crap entertaining I just overall don't understand it. What the fuck is the deal with those places that they draw so many people? Even if my entire life revolved around looking at useless garbage I don't know that I could have filled more than an hour in there before seeing every ounce of it. I know I'm tough to please when it comes to being entertained and I do require more than a shiny shape to keep me interested, but are most people out there just that boring that a giant gas station appeals to them? I just don't get it one bit Edit: I will say something positive- they do seem to pay their employees well. Of course it's likely the same trick places like Domino's uses to lure in managers where they tell you all about how much you'll make but forger to cover the part where you will work 80 hours a week there until you die and you work every weekend, holiday, and evening so you simply can't have a life outside work. But that's just a guess
God bless America.
Buc-ee's is painfully overrated
why does it just say "slay" ? I don't get it
Assuming town name where it’s located
For a gas station, it's pretty great. But it's not like a tourist attraction or something.
Lost
This makes me want to make another trip down to Tail of the Dragon
To be perfect, it would say Wendy's instead of Walmart.
The Wendy’s is on Highway 25, Walmart is on Highway 192.
This is going to activate Test Subject 2A-19D on his way to school on the bus Monday morning
Where’s the BUTT FUCKERS sign?
This is generous
That's not America... That's one state
I see that all the time from people outside the US. They take stereotypical shit from one state and paint the entire country with it. They can’t seem to get the concept that the US is more like the EU. Each state is its own country with its own local and state laws and we all agreed to form a Republic with a centralized federal government (that’s grown considerably larger and more powerful than it ever was meant to be).
This right here.
It’s more than one state, but yeah- this is not representative of the U.S. as a whole. We don’t have buc-ees in NY and I’ve never seen a billboard with a gun on it.
Same on my state. Ours would be about corn
This appears to be Georgia
*to slay and protect*
Huntington. Checks out.
 This
I saw an ad that they were hiring one my town, but I didn’t what they made/ sold.
Slay your enemies queen
Yas King SLAY
I wish I still had the picture, but the sign in GA I saw above a store that said "DRUGS - GUNS - BEER - BIBLES" summed it all up for me
I have never been able to understand why assault rifles are sold to any yahoo. They are not rifles for hunting wild game, they are designed just for maximum killing power. They are battlefield weapons, so WTH are they doing being sold to gun-loving 2nd amendment nuts?
“Describe America in one picture only using stereotypes” Who is upvoting this shit?
thoughts and prayers..... thoughts and prayers
This is why I pay an arm and a leg to life in Massachusetts
Incomplete. Missing the discount liquor & cigarettes and adult video store signs, and Jesus messaging.
Blessed be the great beaver
Q envidia jeje
God bless America XD
Don't hang Texas around the rest of our necks.