Bike Trips and Fast Food...

[screwtop]

I try to avoid fast food if I can, and usually travel with a zip-lock bag of peanuts and a couple of bottles of dihydrogen monoxide in the Marsee to hold me over at gas stops. I'm proud to say that I haven't had a Big Mac, Wopper, or Chicken McNuggets since they stopped packaging them in styrofoam.

BUT, I have to admit that I simply can't resist Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits! When I pass a sign for Popeyes on the intersatate, I've gotta stop for that 2 piece spicy leg and thigh w/ red beans, hoeny and biscuit :yum (and the obligatory diet coke, of course!). Then, I pray I make it to my destination before the IBS kicks in:uhoh .

Anybody else got a fast food vice when on the super slab??

[SheRidesABeemer]

My favorite fast food cheap eats is off the dollar menu at Wendy's - a baked potato and a chili. Pour chili over split potato...yum. $2.00 :dance

[sgtboring]

:yum I love them.

[SNC1923]

McDonald's breakfast sandwiches (bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit for me) are the staple of riders who want something tasty, filling, and fast so they can get back on the road. Ate one almost every day from California to Wisconsin and back.

When time allows, I always seek out a local eatery to better get the feel of the local community.

[Mongo]

I like it all! :eat

Which is why I can't eat any :cry

[KGT1200]

Gas station hot dogs with a little mustard. Fill the tank, use the john, grab a dog less the phoo phoo condiments, wash down with a fountain diet coke (diet part to COUNTER the fat in the dog).


My friend told me that these dogs are made from pigs lips and pigs anuses, but I don't care as long as it's blessed koscher!

Red

[jacko]

Doesn't anyone cook road kill on their exhaust pipe any more besides alton and I?

Jack

[riderR1150GSAdv]

Quizno's or Subway subs. At least you can get veggies on them that aren't drowning in 'secret' sauce...

[SheRidesABeemer]

Quizno's or Subway subs. At least you can get veggies on them that aren't drowning in 'secret' sauce...

OMG nothing puts me to sleep faster on an afternoon ride!!

[Rasbutan]

Then, I pray I make it to my destination before the IBS kicks in:uhoh .



Ohhhh, that's IBS...not ABS. :laugh :laugh

I was wondering why your ABS was set off by Popeye's chxn.

[jdmetzger]

When I'm really putting in some miles, I hardly have lunch. I eat a breakfast bar or something before I leave; usually with a little bit of OJ or something sugary. After that, I might stop at a gas station and have some jerky - maybe some Mt. Dew (but not enough that I'll be required to make a separate bathroom stop). Jerky; meal of champion riders. :thumb

[screwtop]

My favorite fast food cheap eats is off the dollar menu at Wendy's - a baked potato and a chili. Pour chili over split potato...yum. $2.00 :dance

Yeah, I used to love Wendy's too, but I got a case of staphylococcal food poisoning from a junior bacon cheesburger several years ago that took 2 week of cipro to knock out. No more Wendy's for me. :sick

[osbornk]

I like McDonald's biscuits for breakfast (whatever is on special 2 for $2) and Wendy's value menu at lunch. HOwever, lunch is frequently a bottle of diet green tea and a couple of packs of nabs. (cheese crackers & peanut butter)

[John Brase]

Not exactly food, but... Have you tried McDonald's iced coffee? I'm hooked. Reminds me of "Cafe fredo" I had all over Italy many years ago.

John

[SheRidesABeemer]

Not exactly food, but... Have you tried McDonald's iced coffee? I'm hooked. Reminds me of "Cafe fredo" I had all over Italy many years ago.

John

I am remiss to admit I LIVED at McDonalds in the afternoons. You can't get ice coffee outside of New England (or Starbucks). In the middle of the country, in the middle of the day, an ice coffee and McD's was just the trick. I think it's 3/4 cream! :dance

[einnar]

Cliff bars and water off and on all day, with something more substantial for breakfast and around 3pm-ish. Dinner whenever I stop for the day.

[jgr451]

Yeah I like Mickey's bacon and egger or egg mcmuffin,whatever they call it.'

On the serious highway though,it's Tim Horton's coffee and 2 chocolate glazed doughnuts ,first Timmies I see in the morning.Then hydration(water or Sobe Pina Colada)all day.Dinner at the end of the day,Mexican.Taco Belle if that's all there is.Followed by a nightcap of some sort.

I generally ride from 8 am to 8 pm,when making time.

[terham]

...a couple of bottles of dihydrogen monoxide...

Do you have a DOT permit for those? That sounds dangerous. ;)

[tdomek]

I used to have the irresistible Popeye's craving, but they are popping up in central Iowa now.

For me it's White Castle! Since the nearest one is 250 miles away, I partake when ever I get close to one; a sack of ten sliders and a big drink. Can't make any time when I eat there; I have to lay in the grass under a tree for a while before I can get back on the bike ;)

[riderR1150GSAdv]

OMG nothing puts me to sleep faster on an afternoon ride!!

It does depend on what sub you get. I am mostly doing the veggie stuff as a heavy meat sub put me to :snore too.
All the other 'burger' joints, with their mystery meat, don't do it for me as their greasy stuff makes me :sick

[sgborgstrom]

My food intake while on the road varies with how I happen to be sleeping. When camping it's french-press coffee, oatmeal with dried fruit and a bit of beef jerky in the morning followed by nuts/fruit/diet coke and water during the day. I've grown fond of finding a nice sub sandwich and cold beer for dinner, usually collected at the last gas stop town before stopping for the night. If I'm moteling it I like to wander around a bit after unloading the bike, so far I've been able to usually find a decent grocery store for a bagel and fruit for breakfast and a sub for dinner. The last trip I took I had trouble finding a place that would sell me a single bottle of beer, it was a six-pack or a 24oz can or nothing. :hungover (Montana and Wyoming)

Traditional fast-food just doesn't sit well in my stomach most of the time. Though I will admit to a craving for Popeye's now...

[GeneT]

Anyone a member of Costco, you can get a huge hot dog or smoked sausage on a bun and a cold drink for a buck & a half.

Another goodie, most super markets have a deli, quick, fresh, reasonable and good.

:dance

[Newstar]

Chic Filet! Love it, love it! There just aren't enough Chic Filet's in the world.

Oh, and I just can't pass buy a roadside BBQ joint. I feel obligated to try each and every one I pass buy.

[Hodag]

t-bell

[snoone]

I try to avoid fast food if I can, and usually travel with a zip-lock bag of peanuts and a couple of bottles of dihydrogen monoxide in the Marsee to hold me over at gas stops. I'm proud to say that I haven't had a Big Mac, Wopper, or Chicken McNuggets since they stopped packaging them in styrofoam.

BUT, I have to admit that I simply can't resist Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits! When I pass a sign for Popeyes on the intersatate, I've gotta stop for that 2 piece spicy leg and thigh w/ red beans, hoeny and biscuit :yum (and the obligatory diet coke, of course!). Then, I pray I make it to my destination before the IBS kicks in:uhoh .

Anybody else got a fast food vice when on the super slab??

I thought i was the only one that couldn't resist the Popeye's:eat

[Rebgen]

It's gotta be Casey's General Store for me. They are a large chain of convenience stores scattered thoughout the midwest. The lunchtime pizza special (2 slices and any size fountain drink up to 44oz.) for $3.69....yum! They make some amazingly good pizza considering it's fast food.

*Warning: They also have a decent bakery and the fudge brownies are killers....or so I've been told.;)

[KGT1200]

It's gotta be Casey's General Store for me. They are a large chain of convenience stores scattered thoughout the midwest. The lunchtime pizza special (2 slices and any size fountain drink up to 44oz.) for $3.69....yum! They make some amazingly good pizza considering it's fast food.

*Warning: They also have a decent bakery and the fudge brownies are killers....or so I've been told.;)

Two quick food on asphalt comments inspired by the last two posts..

FYI, Caseys continues their pizza reputation into Minnesota with the sometimes unique and always tasty pizza! I try without success to avoid them while riding around home (should go home and have salad or somthing)
New Prague MN Caseys is A+, and serves BBQ Chicken pizza yum!


Lastly, I had my first Popeyes Chicken out of default of too tired the first day in Gillette. Thought I was going to fill my belly without pleasure..boy was I suprised! The food was out of this world! Where have I been my whole life, anyway?

Red

[osbornk]

The best Subs I have found are made by Jersey Mike's and have it Mike's way.

[gcsitts]

We tend to like to motel-it along the way to a destination, then camp for a few days. Rallies fit us so well.

We find an eight hour day on the road is about right. We look for mid-level chain motels that offer a breakfast. We get up, pack, have a light breakfast of their juice and coffee, maybe cereal. We pack along a couple of hard boiled eggs if they have them, along with a couple of pastries. We fill our coffee thermos. At every stop we drink either water or Gatorade.

We stop after about two hours, for gas and mid-morning snack/coffee. We stop two hours later for lunch, often a dollar cheeseburger from McDonald's, two hours later for a snack, maybe the eggs, then we ride to the next motel, have a swim,, a nap, and dinner. All in all we try to eat lightly while we are riding and have the larger special meal in the evening.

If we do stop for breakfast we try to catch the McDonald's sausage-egg McMuffin two-fer offer.

[ian408]

Anyone else find this discussion gross?

I can eat at any one of those fast food places at home. When I'm on the road, I want to try places I wouldn't otherwise get the chance to eat.

Of course, on a long trip, a little Popeye's never hurt either.

[FredRydr]

Anyone else find this discussion gross?They have the statistics on us. They feed us sucker food laced with sugar and salt, and we keep returning for more. Supersize it.

I thought the Costco sausage on a bun was a great deal, until I experienced the sensation of grease gushing into my mouth with each bite.

Gross.

Fred
'07 R

[Newstar]

The best Subs I have found are made by Jersey Mike's and have it Mike's way.


If Mike is from Jersey, chances are he can make a decent sub.

I'm visiting my mom in Florida right now and we stopped at a place called Firehouse Subs (or something like that). What a disappointment!

Sorry, folks, but unless the owner of the establishment is from the Philly area, chances are it will be a sucky sub...or hoagie!

[sgborgstrom]

Anyone else find this discussion gross?

I can eat at any one of those fast food places at home. When I'm on the road, I want to try places I wouldn't otherwise get the chance to eat.

Of course, on a long trip, a little Popeye's never hurt either.

I try to patronize "local" eating establishments but it gets harder all the time. Seems like almost every town in America big enough to support a gas station and a few restaurants has been conquered by the chains we're all familiar with. If I were Alton Brown, Anthony Bourdain or Rachel Ray and making a living from the effort, it might be easier to find those cool one-store enterprises, but I'm not; I'm just a guy on his bike with a limited amount of vacation time who usually plans on too many miles to be traveled each day to stop and hunt down lunch.

While admiting this will bar me for life from the "Ride to Eat, Eat to Ride" club, I just don't like to eat much while traveling. Road tripping is one of the few time periods when I don't spend a chunk of time each day working out at the gym. Riding a motorcycle is significantly less active an activity than my day-to-day life, I just don't get that hungry sitting on my ass all day.

[owrstrich]

the trick is eating lite when riding...

thats why i dont get onion chips with the 10 sack of white castle cheeze burglers...

but i do put musturd on half...

you gotta eat...

owrstrich

[Voni]

It's Popeye's Red Beans and Rice for me!

Voni
sMiling

[Jamming]

When I travel on the bike, I eat very light. For breakfast, instant oatmeal in a cup, coffee, milk. For lunch a salad, and for dinner a local restaurant. I do my best to avoid any gastrointestinal distress.

One question though, it seems as if most BMW rallys I've attended have a chili feed on the first night. Why is that? I never thought anything about it until a friend had to sleep outside the tent, due to the after effects of the chili, and a not to understanding wife:laugh .
Needless to say we all thought it was quite funny.

Rog

[wezul]

When I travel on the bike, I eat very light. For breakfast, instant oatmeal in a cup, coffee, milk. For lunch a salad, and for dinner a local restaurant. I do my best to avoid any gastrointestinal distress.

One question though, it seems as if most BMW rallys I've attended have a chili feed on the first night. Why is that? I never thought anything about it until a friend had to sleep outside the tent, due to the after effects of the chili, and a not to understanding wife:laugh .
Needless to say we all thought it was quite funny.

Rog


:laugh Hilarious!!
Pull my finger.

[dmaust01]

Forgive me for advocating fast food....but McDonald's yogurt and coffee is a good start, particularly when it is going to be a long ride. I don't usually like a big meal before a long day of riding, particularly in the heat.
Mark

[screwtop]

I almost forgot. For Maryland and PA folks (and our friends passing through) there is the dreaded Sheets "Death Dog" or a "made to order" (MTO) sub. Gotta luv-em'!

[gambrinus]

Cliff bars and water off and on all day, with something more substantial for breakfast and around 3pm-ish. Dinner whenever I stop for the day.

+1

I try to put in a few miles and stop at the first decent place I see and have a good breakfast. The next real meal is usually when I'm done for the day. Waffle House is a favorite...


RW

[osbornk]

I almost forgot. For Maryland and PA folks (and our friends passing through) there is the dreaded Sheets "Death Dog" or a "made to order" (MTO) sub. Gotta luv-em'!


The Sheetz stations are popping all over Virginia also. Good and fast but still not Jersey Mikes. http://www.jerseymikes.com/

[SCQTT]

I try not to do fast food around home.

I travel to Asia on a fairly regular basis. I always fly NWA and try to get in and out of Detroit. The faster you can get on a 747 and settled in the better. It seems like I can usually get outbound in detroit, but always come back through LAX. I usually have a 3 hour layover in LAX on my way back.

After two or three weeks of Chinese or Japanese food you are ready for some good old Ameican food.

Here is my drill.

Drop carry-on bag in NWA lounge. Exit airport and jump on shuttle bus going to "LOT C" just pretend you have a car parked there. :p

Ride over to LOT C exit the bus, then the lot.

Walk the 100 yards (walking in LA) down Sepulveda to the In-N-Out Burger.

For the people who have not tried it, there is NOTHING like In-N-Out Burger

Have what seems like the most fantastic meal of your life.

Walk back to the lot, pretend like you just parked :p, ride the shuttle bus back to airport.

I have been doing this for years.

[owrstrich]

two double doubles protein animal musturd instead...

you gotta eat...

owrstrich

[DSBMW1]

I am not going to lie to you. I LOVE fast food. Anything w/ a dollar menu is GREAT!!! For thoes of us without much money eating for 2-3$ can make the difference between going on a trip or not. If I have $50, a weekend and 500 miles to go, where else am I going to eat?

[bobh41]

Twinkies

You hardly know you ate them.

[gcsitts]

The moderators should probably shut down this thread.

This thread is seriously destroying our long-cultivated BMW rider image of a guy or girl who rides 800 miles a day, stops at a rest stop, cooks up some roadkill stew on his pocket-size alcohol stove, sleeps with his arm wrapped through his spokes, wakes at first light, picks some berries for breakfast and is 100 miles down the road by sunrise.

Twinkies, indeed!

(My fondness is Entemann's glazed donuts.)

[SheRidesABeemer]

How about Brats, beans & bikes? :eat

Black Hills Stampede

[vincewinkel]

Damn, Gail, that photo is making me salivate!

[kbasa]

Cliff bars and water off and on all day, with something more substantial for breakfast and around 3pm-ish. Dinner whenever I stop for the day.

Same here. No big meals for me during the day. Fruit and nuts at lunch, or maybe a little smidge of chocolate, but nothing nap inducing.

Management of blood sugar goes a long way toward a drowsy-free afternoon ride.

[kbasa]

Cliff bars and water off and on all day, with something more substantial for breakfast and around 3pm-ish. Dinner whenever I stop for the day.

Same here. No big meals for me during the day. Fruit and nuts at lunch, or maybe a little smidge of chocolate, but nothing nap inducing.

Management of blood sugar goes a long way toward a drowsy-free afternoon ride.

[GeneT]

If Mike is from Jersey, chances are he can make a decent sub.

I'm visiting my mom in Florida right now and we stopped at a place called Firehouse Subs (or something like that). What a disappointment!

Sorry, folks, but unless the owner of the establishment is from the Philly area, chances are it will be a sucky sub...or hoagie!

Sorry to hear your comments that is disappointing, it was my understanding this was owned & operated by local firemen. They did originally get a terrific build up.

And you are absolutely right, if the guys are not from Philadelphia chances are the sub will be less than expected.

Having lived near Philadelphia most of my early life we were always told the reason the subs were so good it was because of the rolls and the Philadelphia river water used in them.

:eat

[GeneT]

+1

I try to put in a few miles and stop at the first decent place I see and have a good breakfast. The next real meal is usually when I'm done for the day. Waffle House is a favorite...


RW

WAFFLE HOUSE! The last of the greasy spoons, breakfast there will keep your insides lubricated all day. Better you than me.

:sick

[Newstar]

Having lived near Philadelphia most of my early life we were always told the reason the subs were so good it was because of the rolls and the Philadelphia river water used in them.

:eat

True!!! Too true!!! Nothing beats a good Amoroso roll! I was born and raised in the Philly area and I've been living just a bit south in Delaware for the past 14 years. I think I've been here too long as I realized that somewhere along the way, I began referring to them as subs and not hoagies.

Oh, and for the record, no self-respecting sub or hoagie would have mayo and pickles on it!

[gcsitts]

Oh, and for the record, no self-respecting sub or hoagie would have mayo and pickles on it!

For the edification of those of us not from Philly, what does a self-respecting hoagie consist of? Subs to us come from Subway or Quizno's.

[Newstar]

For the edification of those of us not from Philly, what does a self-respecting hoagie consist of? Subs to us come from Subway or Quizno's.

You poor thing! You need to experience the real deal!

A traditional sub/hoagie consists of the following ingredients:

Start with a good sub roll and give it a sprinkle of olive oil. (admittedly, most use a 10% olive oil blend). Sprinkle on some oregano, salt and pepper if you like. Then layer in provolone cheese, ham, capacola, genoa salami, shredded lettuce, tomato, onion. Hot or sweet peppers are also acceptable and if you are slightly outside the Philly area, pickles.

Now if you want the "Old World" style, you use aged provolone, dry capacola and salami, and throw on some proscuitto.

It don't get any better! Hey, I think we should all meet up for a good hoagie one day!

[Newstar]

If any of you get out to Las Vegas, I know there is a Cappriotti's there. They are a local Delaware family who started a small chain of sub shops. They opened in Vegas a few years ago and they do it right.

[wezul]

Vegas?
OMG.

FATBURGER!!!!!

[jdmetzger]

You poor thing! You need to experience the real deal!

A traditional sub/hoagie consists of the following ingredients:

Start with a good sub roll and give it a sprinkle of olive oil. (admittedly, most use a 10% olive oil blend). Sprinkle on some oregano, salt and pepper if you like. Then layer in provolone cheese, ham, capacola, genoa salami, shredded lettuce, tomato, onion. Hot or sweet peppers are also acceptable and if you are slightly outside the Philly area, pickles.

Now if you want the "Old World" style, you use aged provolone, dry capacola and salami, and throw on some proscuitto.

It don't get any better! Hey, I think we should all meet up for a good hoagie one day!

I'm sorry, but I still don't see much of a difference between this and what Quizno's offers me; except Quizno's also toasts the sub, which I like. :p Subway is OK, although I'm not such a big fan unless I'm starving (Say, after riding several hundred miles through cold, wet, gravel, traffic, etc).

It's like that whole "you've never had pizza unless you've had Chicago deep-dish". I've had both. The only difference is there is a thicker crust and more topping on the Chicago pizza; it's otherwise the same to me.

Now I'll have to be careful of gunfire the next time I ride through the Chicago area, after saying that. Maybe I should avoid Philly, as well? :laugh

[sjbmw]

True!!! Too true!!! Nothing beats a good Amoroso roll! I was born and raised in the Philly area and I've been living just a bit south in Delaware for the past 14 years. I think I've been here too long as I realized that somewhere along the way, I began referring to them as subs and not hoagies.

Oh, and for the record, no self-respecting sub or hoagie would have mayo and pickles on it!

While true, the BMW of hoagie (not heros, not subs, hoagies) rolls belongs to Sarcones Bakery.
They only make so many a day, and will not increase production, as it "interferes with quality".

http://www.sarconesbakery.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BLZP4mjEY&mode=related&search=

[gcsitts]

In an attempt to replicate this "hoagie" experience I plan to go to Quizno's for lunch. They offer several types of rolls. What is a hoagie roll in Quizno's language?

[henzilla]

In an attempt to replicate this "hoagie" experience I plan to go to Quizno's for lunch. They offer several types of rolls. What is a hoagie roll in Quizno's language?

EXPEN$$IVE is what I call it!:laugh

[OfficerImpersonator]

Walk the 100 yards (walking in LA) down Sepulveda to the In-N-Out Burger. For the people who have not tried it, there is NOTHING like In-N-Out Burger.

If only you could FedEx a Double Double w/ cheese, fries and a chocolate shake...

Some day, likely the day after I die, In-N-Out will open a restaurant near me. Until then, I have to travel to Southern California to enjoy the best fast food hamburger out there.

Their fries are the best, too.