• Ravenheart@lemmy.zip
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    Texan here. Buccees is WILDLY overrated. Their food used to be really good but they’ve apparently cut costs on it and now are no better than any other fast food place. They’re just a glorified, gimicky gas station. Restrooms are always clean though.

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      They seem like the weird fixation people have here in the northeast about Wawa and Sheetz. People, they are just shitty convenience stores with gas pumps. Relax!

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        They are normal until you leave the area they cover and see just how bad other gas stations are. It’s pretty bad out there

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        Its funny to think of PA as being northeast. I guess so but in the norther easter, we don’t have anything but Cumbies, 7/11s, and Circle Ks and they’re shit.

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          Cumbies

          I prefer Cum Farm, tyvm.

          Weird hearing about Circle K though. Never heard of one for 12 years while living in MD, then saw them everywhere down in Florida. Don’t recall ever seeing a Circle K in states around MD either. 7/11 is pretty ubiquitous, however in FL they always had gas pumps and in MD it was just a corner store. It’s so weird how much it can vary from region to region, and sometimes even by bordering states.

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            Circle K bought a fairly large regional brand in my area and converted them to Circle K.

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            Circle Ks are dying and 7/11 almost did in the 90s and now it’s only a straggler in a few towns up here.

            There are new replacements but they aren’t memorable enough to bother learning the names of.

      • You and me are going to have to fight now because you ranked Wawa and Sheetz as if they were equivalent. Wawa is the worst of the bunch of made-to-order food counter gas station/convenience store chains. People from Philly just gush about them because they never go any further than Bucks county and they don’t know any better.

        Rutter’s blows them all out of the water, though.

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      can’t support this enough. Once they got to the point where their brand was more important than their product, they stopped being good.

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      The thing is the bar for gas stations to be great is so low that when one puts in any amount of effort, everyone loves it. It seems every region has their favorites.

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          But their owners heavily donate to the Republicans. Yet all oil companies do, so yes I still like my Kwik Trip.

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        Everything around here is Casey’s. They have pretty good pizza actually.