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I got back from a trip to New England a week ago and they have these little standalone food court mall things all along their highways. Every one of them has between 4 and 6 fast food restaurants, two convenience stores, a gas station, and really nice washrooms. They were amazing and I wish we had them here. According to the guys I was visiting, they have them, like, every 25 kilometres all the way down to Florida. Also, I tried a lot of really good food. New York Bagels are incredible. New Haven Pizza too.      
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ooh what's "hoboken style" cake??
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Dec 27, 2022 19:42
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Dr. Honked posted:ooh what's "hoboken style" cake?? It’s a neighborhood in new jersey I think, where Buddy from cake boss is from!
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Dec 27, 2022 19:51
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Rest stops are an American institution. *salutes flag and mumbles the blessings of the maker* |
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Those places look legit inviting, because...Buttchocks posted:Rest stops are an American institution. I don't know if that's just an east coast thing like in the OP, because everywhere else I've been, rest stops are just a parking lot, a couple of bathrooms, some picnic tables, and a little area to wander around or walk a dog or whatever. Maybe a couple of vending machines with sodas and chips and candy. Then there's truck stops, which can vary from on the low end just being a large gas station convenience store, to on the higher end places with a restaurant, showers, a lounge, a fast-food place or two, etc. But they don't typically have like a food court type setting with a bunch of different places to choose from. Anyhow those places look neat, thanks for sharing the photos, and I laughed at the one that says "VINCE LOMBARDI" over the entrance for no reason I can think of lol.
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Yeah. I’d seen plenty of rest stops and truck stops before this, from Alberta to Manitoba, and from North Dakota through to Tennessee, but none like this. I think the guy I was visiting with at the time said they were all state owned or something? And they are each named for some random American, and have a mural depicting them inside. Some of the figures were horrible, but the rest stops themselves were crazy nice.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:24
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Tiberius Thyben posted:each named for some random American Pulling up to the food court rest stop and it says "THE UNIBOMBER" or something over the entrance, lol.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:35
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Twenty Four posted:Pulling up to the food court rest stop and it says "THE UNIBOMBER" or something over the entrance, lol. Still an improvement over JFK’s!
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Rest areas in Japan temd to be like this unless you get like really rural.
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These are normal rest stops to me but most of the time if I'm on a long drive it's between the mid-atlantic and New England so I even know one of the ones you posted. These are the only places I ever eat Taco Bell these days and I look forward all year to getting to eat some small salty potatoes with cheese sauce.
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Is the Vince Lombardi one on 95 south right after the cross bronx expressway? Because the one I'm thinking of has a popeye's chicken in it. Yum
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I sort of miss Popeye's way too much.
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the rest stop with Roy Rogers was always an exciting landmark as a kid going from Boston to Rochester. never got the food though, I think there was a chicken fingers place there too
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:Is the Vince Lombardi one on 95 south right after the cross bronx expressway? Because the one I'm thinking of has a popeye's chicken in it. Yum It might be that one. It was early on the drive from Stamford to Philly (have some friends there, and wanted to try a Philly cheesesteak. Also found this ad, which looked like a background asset in a PS1 or 2 game. 
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Tiberius Thyben posted:It might be that one. It was early on the drive from Stamford to Philly (have some friends there, and wanted to try a Philly cheesesteak. Also found this ad, which looked like a background asset in a PS1 or 2 game. I'm gonna cry just looking at this, I miss Philly so much
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I have pretty much never been to the east coast. Now that I don't live in America anymore I wonder if I ever will.
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The 5 freeway in southern california has no need for rest stops for the most part because it's really built out and you never go more than a few miles until you hit an exit that has a motel and a gas station and a smattering of fast food restaurants. The exception is the stretch between San Diego County and Orange County, where the Camp Pendleton marine base is. About halfway (about 10 miles, I think?), is a little turn off for a rest stop that has Twenty Four posted:I don't know if that's just an east coast thing like in the OP, because everywhere else I've been, rest stops are just a parking lot, a couple of bathrooms, some picnic tables, and a little area to wander around or walk a dog or whatever. Maybe a couple of vending machines with sodas and chips and candy. But if you make the trek up the 5 freeway from los angeles to san francisco, all rest stops tend to have gas and fast food.
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sb hermit posted:The 5 freeway in southern california has no need for rest stops for the most part because it's really built out and you never go more than a few miles until you hit an exit that has a motel and a gas station and a smattering of fast food restaurants. I know it is intentional and planned, but I swear some rest areas are in such perfect locations that every time I take a specific highway, I am almost guaranteed to stop there. I can think of a truck stop on the stretch of the 5 you mentioned between LA and SanFran that I think I stopped at every time I made that drive. It's probably still there? Also so many truck stops or gas stations right on a state border where gas is way cheaper than on the other side, and you wonder what the hell people are thinking that are fueling up on the side where it's like 50 cents a gallon or whatever more expensive than the other place half a mile down the road.
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interstate five
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Twenty Four posted:I know it is intentional and planned, but I swear some rest areas are in such perfect locations that every time I take a specific highway, I am almost guaranteed to stop there. I can think of a truck stop on the stretch of the 5 you mentioned between LA and SanFran that I think I stopped at every time I made that drive. It's probably still there? Probably! Until the high speed rail between san francisco and los angeles is complete (it will never be complete) there will always be people who will take "the 5" to and from those locations, so there will always be money to be made from those rest areas. They may have gotten some updates so they may look different. quote:Also so many truck stops or gas stations right on a state border where gas is way cheaper than on the other side, and you wonder what the hell people are thinking that are fueling up on the side where it's like 50 cents a gallon or whatever more expensive than the other place half a mile down the road. Primm Valley Resort and Casino is in Nevada, within sight of the California Border on the interstate that links Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Yes, it's a cash grab, but I remember always making a stop there when my parents would take the kids on a road trip to zion canyon or bryce canyon. It's a great place to let the kids relieve themselves while the parents get a taste of las vegas. I think it had an amusement park as well.
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New Hampshire only has a small slice of I-95, the main coastal north-south corridor, and you can bet they have optimized their rest stop dollar making opportunities. not only is there a giant liquor store right off the highway in each direction (with obligatory bathrooms), but the actual highway signs are very clear that you can buy LOTTERY TICKETS at these stops. forget relieving yourself and gassing up your car, it's the lottery tickets and reasonably priced booze that bring 'em in around these parts. OPEN SUNDAY, thank gently caress! the powerball is up to half a billion again and none of the stores in this shitass state are open, just gonna grab the keys and hop over a few state lines. what were those wine coolers you liked again?
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Youremother posted:Did you get any Papa Gino's OP I miss that poo poo. Afraid not. Did one New York pizza place recommended by a friend in Brooklyn, a pizza place called “APIZZA” in one of the train stations in Boston, and a place called the Colony Grill in Stamford. The New York pizza was a bit disappointing, but the New Haven from APIZZA was what I had imagined New York style to be, so it balanced out.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Afraid not. Did one New York pizza place recommended by a friend in Brooklyn, a pizza place called “APIZZA” in one of the train stations in Boston, and a place called the Colony Grill in Stamford. The New York pizza was a bit disappointing, but the New Haven from APIZZA was what I had imagined New York style to be, so it balanced out. the one and only APIZZA I know of is Sally's and that is fine pizza indeed (although Pepe's is better  ). do they have Sally's in a Boston train station now? what is this world coming to??
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The best pizza in the world is the one that's in front of me. Unless it's Saint Louis style.
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Escape From Noise posted:The best pizza in the world is the one that's in front of me. Unless it's Saint Louis style. It's like you want to fight me.
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Sally's and Pepe's are both amazing and I love them very much. I give everyone big guff about making GBS threads on St Louis pizza but really it's good it's just not pizza lol
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Manifisto posted:the one and only APIZZA I know of is Sally's and that is fine pizza indeed (although Pepe's is better Here’s a photo of the place! Probably unrelated to yours, I’d imagine, but really good IMO  Also, here’s a pigeon taking way too long to order from the bakery 
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Here’s a photo of the place! Probably unrelated to yours, I’d imagine, but really good IMO yep looks like stolen valor to me, however glad the pizza was good, and I hope the pigeon finally got their order in
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So, I’d only ever heard of St Louis Pizza second hand, and the concept is downright depressing. However, once my mother in law went down there on a trip with no idea what it was. When she came back, she just had to tell us about this horrible pizza she had, with a tasteless thin crust, and processed cheese, and raw green peppers. That’s my St Louis Pizza Story. Up there with Altoona style, it sounds like.
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Manifisto posted:New Hampshire only has a small slice of I-95, the main coastal north-south corridor, and you can bet they have optimized their rest stop dollar making opportunities. not only is there a giant liquor store right off the highway in each direction (with obligatory bathrooms), but the actual highway signs are very clear that you can buy LOTTERY TICKETS at these stops. forget relieving yourself and gassing up your car, it's the lottery tickets and reasonably priced booze that bring 'em in around these parts. OPEN SUNDAY, thank gently caress! the powerball is up to half a billion again and none of the stores in this shitass state are open, just gonna grab the keys and hop over a few state lines. what were those wine coolers you liked again? they also jammed like two separate (but the same) shopping malls, an airport, and a 24/7 diner over there too. they really succeeded in making it a roadtripper hotspot because newington is The Place To Stop on my trips up to maine
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Tiberius Thyben posted:So, I’d only ever heard of St Louis Pizza second hand, and the concept is downright depressing. However, once my mother in law went down there on a trip with no idea what it was. When she came back, she just had to tell us about this horrible pizza she had, with a tasteless thin crust, and processed cheese, and raw green peppers. It's a cracker crust and it's got provel processed cheese on it and it's melty delicious garbage
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Holland Oates posted:cracker crust ah, just like the matzoh "pizzas" that many jewish children are forced to pretend to enjoy
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Farecoal posted:I love cracker crust pizza. Also in Illinois we have highway oases "The redevelopment of the oases has been the focal point of alleged political corruption.[citation needed] The four oases are administered by a court-appointed manager following default of Wilton Partners" yep sounds chicago adjacent alright
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Having grown up in New England and now living in Illinois it's a real twist to find out that highway rest stops like this aren't completely universal. I can't even go to the highway oasis near me because Illinois has a loving fetish for toll roads or something |
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sb hermit posted:Primm Valley Resort and Casino is in Nevada, within sight of the California Border on the interstate that links Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Yes, it's a cash grab, but I remember always making a stop there when my parents would take the kids on a road trip to zion canyon or bryce canyon. It's a great place to let the kids relieve themselves while the parents get a taste of las vegas. I think it had an amusement park as well. I took a look around here (Primm, on the Nevada / California border) on google maps, because, I really like looking at all sorts of maps and thinking about places, and with this in mind... Manifisto posted:New Hampshire only has a small slice of I-95, the main coastal north-south corridor, and you can bet they have optimized their rest stop dollar making opportunities. not only is there a giant liquor store right off the highway in each direction (with obligatory bathrooms), but the actual highway signs are very clear that you can buy LOTTERY TICKETS at these stops. forget relieving yourself and gassing up your car, it's the lottery tickets and reasonably priced booze that bring 'em in around these parts. OPEN SUNDAY, thank gently caress! the powerball is up to half a billion again and none of the stores in this shitass state are open, just gonna grab the keys and hop over a few state lines. what were those wine coolers you liked again? I fully expected a casino right on the border on the Nevada side here, since this is "how you get to Vegas" from the southern half of Cali, but I wasn't expecting a big store that only sells lottery tickets on the California side. As in, it's called "The Lottery Store", that's what they do, period. I guess despite Vegas being the gambling capital of the united states, there's no lottery or scratchers in Nevada, so people drive 40 miles from Vegas to Primm then 40 miles back to get a powerball ticket and some scratchers. It's nuts! Keep in mind this isn't even a real town, just a few casinos / resorts, a truck stop, fast food, outlet stores, and a single apartment complex for employees on one side of the border, and the lotto store all by itself on the other. There's basically nothing else but empty desert for dozens of miles in either direction. Rows of slot machines on the Nevada side, rows of scratcher machines on the California side!  I guess they get a little bit of a line when the powerball has a big jackpot... 
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They also have the beloved robot/sheriff Primm Slim, and the Vicky and Vance Death Car!
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Twenty Four posted:
Interesting! Too bad that they probably don't serve you free drinks while you play scratchers.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:They also have the beloved robot/sheriff Primm Slim, and the Vicky and Vance Death Car!
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