Text 2910, 78 rader
Skriven 2013-07-27 16:45:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2858 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: cross cultural
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Hi Dave,


 NB> The model being gas, restaurants and convenience stores... not
 NB> necessarily the full truck stop and all the rigs...  ;)   A similar

 RH> Quite a few places like that along the interstates--Perro, Love's,
 RH> Flying J, etc. They can handle the full sized rigs; some of them even
 RH> provide showers for truckers as well as eats & fuel.

 DD> Did you mean Petro instead of "Perro"? The Iron Skillet restaurants at

Yes, slip of the typing fingers there.


 DD> the Petro Travel Stops are most excellent road food. Our local Love

I think we may have tried them once or twice over the years,


 DD> Brothers has a McDonalds for a restaurant. But, right across the
 DD> street is a Huddle House. Guess which gets more business from the
 DD> truckers.

Three guesses but the first 2 don't count? There was a Huddle House (had
never heard of the chain before we moved to GA) not too far from where
we lived in Savannah. We had a few meals there--decent, not spectacular
but not greasy spoon either. They had one thing on the menu that became
one of Steve's favorite orders--sweet potato fries. Now they've hit the
supermarket freezer cases so he doesn't have to go to HH (not sure where
the nearest one is) to get them. (G)

 DD> All truck stops I have visited, even those without a restaurant
 DD> provide showers for truckers - free if they buy at least 100 gallons
 DD> of fuel. If they don't provide showers for the long haul guys to wash
 DD> off the stink and sweat they don't survive long as a stop for
 DD> over-the-road trucks. Petro and Truckstops of America both provide, in

I'm not as aware of it unless I hear "#1, your shower is ready" sort of
announcement in the background.


 DD> addition to showers, a coin-op laundry facility and a driver's lounge
 DD> - which can be nice when you are out of clean undies and a long way
 DD> from home. Or just want a place to unwind that doesn't stink of diesel
 DD> fumes and doesn't vibrate.  Bv)=

The laundry facilities would be nice, especially if you go from one job
to another, without the chance to get home and restock on clean clothes.
And, yes, I can see where a place to relax a bit without the smell of
diesel fumes would be nice.

 DD>       Title: Huddle House Western Breakfast Wrap
 DD>  Categories: Five, Pork, Eggs, Cheese, Vegetables
 DD>       Yield: 1 Serving


Looks good to me. We ate at an IHOP in NJ when we were there with my
aunt last week; Steve had the Colorado omelette (filled with several
kinds of meat). After my stress test on Monday, we needed to get some
lunch before stopping at Harbor Freight and heading home so he plugged
IHOP into the GPS. Found the nearest one and he got the same omelette.
I'd had the spinach & mushroom one in NJ; it was good but I wanted to
try something else. Decided on the chicken fajita omelette which was
quite good. Instead of pancakes tho, I got whole wheat toast. Steve had
the whole grain pancakes with butter pecan syrup, way too many carbs for
me.

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Ruth
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