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[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 70 points 4 months ago

581 miles? You can still see a Buc-Ees in the rearview at that distance.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I see you're a flat-earther

[-] Xtallll 57 points 4 months ago

No, you just underestimate the size of a buc-ees.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Buc-ee's would have to be 220,000ft tall to be able to see it from 580 miles away.
Not accounting for refraction.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago

Have you been to a Buc-Ees?

Hundreds of pumps. It's a goddamned ocean of concrete and steel. You can use the main building as a shelter for a mid-sized town and have enough bathrooms. It's a fucking department store serving as a gas station.

They're goddamned massive.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Hundreds of pumps And no open ones because everyone parks and sits there while they go inside

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, sadly, it seems no matter how ample the parking, people will still just take a pump.

I kinda get it, but at this point, we should all know better. Leave one person behind to pump and park, you're going to be in the building for awhile just trying to get snacks and get checked out. I've never seen our local less than packed inside.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago
[-] r128@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

god i love new york

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe by car it's just around the corner, but walking it's 581 miles.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

“I would walk 581 miles, and I would walk 581 more” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Buc-ees is serious business though.

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

I randomly went to one a few weeks ago thinking it was just a truck stop. I was not prepared for that.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

I’ve never been. What’s it all about?

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago

It's just unnecessarily huge. I've never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It's honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It's like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn't even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Ever been to a walmart in a small town on saturday?

Where the only thing to do in town is go to the walmart.....

Its that but with enough gas pumps to fuel the military

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 4 months ago
[-] bamboo 6 points 4 months ago

Also this bit from The Simpsons

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

It’s good advertising. People see the funny billboard and snap a pic for social media.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 months ago
[-] lud@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago

Advertising. If they didn't do that people wouldn't have posted pictures of it on social media.

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It’s an institution around these parts and they don’t want you to forget it.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Best poop you’ll have on the road!

[-] Tower@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

There's one in Arizona heading north between Phoenix and Tucson that says 951 miles behind you.

[-] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wall Drugs Store, South Dakota

[-] VerilyFemme 6 points 4 months ago

When my family went to see Mount Rushmore, I didn't know what Wall Drugs was. That changed as soon as we hit the state line. Those guys must have more billboards than Alexander Shunnarah.

[-] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think by the time you're halfway though the state, you become slightly brainwashed hahaha

[-] socsa@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago

"You will soon enter the state of Texas. Have you considered not doing that?"

[-] PyroNeurosis 3 points 4 months ago

With the u-turn it implies they are doing the right thing and leaving Texas.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

Posting advertising today I see

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

this is what Americans call "just around the corner"

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Just an average commute.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

This guy has never heard of South of the Border

[-] atocci@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Just gonna make a quick pit-stop

[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago
[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Those beaver nuggets are the real deal.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Bucc-ee's is love, Bucc-ee's is life. The curse is real. I passed one without stopping and 15 minutes later, a rock shattered my windshield.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I'd never heard of Buc-ees, and now I see that's because they're only in Texas. The only time I've been there, besides in an airport for a layover, was in 2014 when I drove on the 40 through Amarillo. According to Google maps, there is a (closed) Bucc-ees on the 40, but it looks like it was built very recently as it isn't there in 2023, the latest images on there.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They're spreading to states near Texas. Like a cancer that is, admittedly, nicer than most rest stops but is still just some fucking brand that reminds you the average person is a programmed chimp for making any kind of deal out of them.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I looked up some pictures of them and they are admittedly a spectacle, unmistakably American.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

My town was supposed to get a bucees, but they were requiring that the town expand the road to accommodate the immense amount of traffic that a bucees pulls in. Fortunately they got told to pound sand and they backed out. I like bucees. I think they're overrated AF, but I do appreciate a nice rest stop. What I don't want is one anywhere near where I live. I went to one one time where the traffic was backed out onto the interstate.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Um, there's way more than just Texas.

They're also in AL, CO, FL, GA, KY, MO, SC, and TN

[-] Knives@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

NC is having one built soon

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Because America is so expansive the next Buc-ees in that direction is probably 800 miles away.

[-] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People are crazy for bucees. It's a road trip staple. It wouldn't surprise me if the idea behind this is to get people to reroute their road trips next time just to stop at bucees.

[-] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

The barbecue is good, but that sauce is way too sweet. I need to try the burritos. Those fresh tortillas look 🔥

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