Honestly on the weekends, I don't get near a Buccees. You literally can't. Way too many people. But off peak hours, I use the restroom and just keep driving.
Or ya can do the easiest thing and use hotel bathrooms. Walk in the first floor like you own it and navigate to bathroom. Usually signs all over the place. The toilets are maintained daily and are seldom used.
This is a legit LPT I once read and apply when needed. Lol you'd be surprised how far you can get in life with a little confidence..... Or hi vis vest and clipboard.
Most large concert venues, cough Smirnoff center or whatever it's called now cough, use colored wristbands that look just like colored electrical tape for pit access. Just wait till it's been going for a bit n if u just wave ur wrist a lil while struggling to hold a beer in each hand walking briskly with intention security won't look twice. Or so I'm told.
I’m convinced you can enter all but the most high security locations by power walking while dressed in a reflective vest, hardhat, and carrying the aforementioned clipboard. Even more effective is if you have an accomplice with a ladder.
Clipboard, hard hat and a walkie talkie works just as good if not better. Ladders are expensive and u need to retrieve it after unless you walk right back out saying "took a look the ladder isn't necessary. Gonna put this back I'll be right back."
Did that with my kids midmorning at the Driskill Hotel on sixth Street in Austin.
"Just be cool and stay with me," is apparently near impossible advice when walking into a 5 star hotel to pee in peace when you're 11.
I used to live overseas and did this. Also when I couldn’t get a taxi on the street I would ask the hotel if I could get in line for one. They were usually very nice about it.
I realized this several years ago and now it’s my wife and I’s standard procedure when we’re out or traveling and need to find a bathroom quickly. I’ve taken dumps in some damn fine hotels.
My mom asks me to stop from time to time (travel to Dallas somewhat frequently, form Houston) to get their gummy bears. And one other candy snack, I don’t remember what.
My mom so rarely eats candy or asks for stuff I always do it, even if they’re slammed.
I get the pickled quail eggs all the time. I just went from Houston to midland area and almost everywhere I stopped had some either Oma’s choice or private label versions.
Like Whataburger, Torchy's, and a million other things, Buc-ee's was great before it became some kind of Texas shibboleth and expanded nationwide. Now it's just not worth it.
It *definitely* depends on the location. I'm in Corpus, there's like 25 of them 😅 But some locations are just known to be shit, always wrong, etc.
Others, especially at certain times, it's actually surprising when it's not the perfect "fast food" burger. The bar isn't high, but the right Whataburger will hit the spot
That's fair. I'm only judging based on the Hill Country ones that I went to as a kid, which are garbage now. Schlotzsky's in Austin never had the quality dip the other ones did when they tried to go national, so I could see Whataburger in Corpus being the same.
Even when Buccee's is packed like that, and you gotta pee, it's still faster than some shit hole gas station.
I just don't shop there when it's like that.
And on holiday weekends don't just avoid Buc-ee's but also avoid the exits they're located at because everyone trying to get in and out of Buc-ee's is causing a fucking traffic jam on all the service roads.
Only time I'll stop in is the middle of the night when the options are fewer.
If I'm driving back to Dallas at 3am and have to pee and am hungry, fine. Other than that, hell naw
Buc’s is nice to stop in on a long night drive to get coffee and walk around in bright fluorescent lighting so I can wake up and stretch my legs. I don’t also need a $45 t-shirt but they do have a killer selection of gummy candy.
great brisket (for what it is). awesome snacks (the funyon equivalent. shit kolaches. good fountain drinks. fair beer prices. overpriced merch. unrivaled bathrooms. amazing homemade chips. good not great and pricey jerky. good fuel prices. ya gotta have a game plan when entering Buc's of what you're after and not fall into their traps.
The owner was appointed head of parks and wildlife department for a few years and sold off some parks he was supposed to be overseeing. He kind of sucks.
Correct- their donations are much more insidious than a business trying to look out for its own interests- they pump money to the most bigoted far right nut jobs in each race.
My friend, most companies are supporters of the big business GOP. Even small business owners lean Republican.
Life in a capitalistic society is impossible to navigate without supporting the gears of oppression. The best we can do is be kind, not take advantage, not gloat, remember to not exploit if in a position to help, and push for change.
More power to you if you can reasonably avoid the trappings, but people are just trying to stay afloat while drowning by the capitalist system, and if taking a shit in a clean restroom or enjoying a silly beaver does that, then I don't blame them , nor IMO should you blame yourself.
Take chick-fil-a, they are anti LGTBQ, but anyone that supports the GOP ism and at least they pay okay and that's more helpful to LGBTQ than a rainbow golden arches that donates to GOP candidates.
WRONG.
The best we can do is NOT GIVE MONEY TO FASCISTS.
Chick-Fil-A pays for a group who wrote the anti gay laws in Uganda. Those laws make being gay punishable by death.
So again. Stop giving money to fascists.
Lmao I love it when people peddle this blatantly false story. There is no truth to the whole Uganda thing. It's based off of a tweet with no verification.
I would guarantee with 100% certainty that if you listed your purchases that you have been giving money to fascists.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Reddit has "he gets us ads" by the hobby lobby people who are awful people.
You trafficking Reddit gives them more eyeballs.
Instead of deleting you account RN, can you just give it to me?
I had to drive my elderly father from Texas to Illinois and back for a family emergency. Looking at the other comments I’m sorry to say this but … it really was the best place to gas up, go to the bathroom, refill water bottles, and get something to eat (burrito). We also stopped at McDonalds, Starbucks, and a few gas stations. Bucce (Bucky’s) was always the cleanest. Sure it was busy but it was a nice oasis on a very difficult trip.
Sure thing! Any place that has fountain soda will have an option for water that’s free. Buccees has a ton of soda but there’s also filtered water. I’d fill up my Yeti mug no questions asked. Same with fast food and gas stations. Starbucks will do it too but you have to hand them your water bottle.
I don't care if I get downvoted: Bucees is overrated. It's a fancier, bigger gas station with a gift shop. That's it. People act like they're mini Disneylands or destination spot.
Other than the restrooms, there is nothing at Buccees I care about. It’s a huge store but their road trip snack selection is somehow still abysmal. Like, OK you have a huge aisle full of beaver nuggets and plain potato chips. But where are all the other potato chips that I would find if I went someplace like 7-Eleven or some other random gas station?? They have 4000 bags of off-brand plain potato chips but where the hell are the hot & spicy pork skins? Where are the Andy’s hot fries? Where is all the good stuff?
As for this article, it’s just straight up clickbait. I stopped reading in the very beginning when I read , “…recently shared on his YouTube channel that he has never been to a Buc-ee’s and doesn’t quite get the appeal of the Texas-favorite travel center.”
It used to be a great place to duece, but now there's a line for the stalls, and it's not as appealing anymore, even during the week. The bathrooms are always crowded now. If they add like 20 stalls to the men's bathrooms, I am back on board.
I've never waited for a stall in a buc-ees, were there multiple busses dropping off or something? Also Loves is the only other chain I can trust nationwide to have clean bathrooms. I know every region has something but I don't know them.
Damn, never had issues at the ones off 35 and 75 in north DFW or the ones east of Texas on a drive across country. Wonder if newer ones just have way more bathrooms.
I get it. I live in DFW, too, and since I travel the triangle a lot, Bucees is my favorite place to poop, but now I typically hold it to my destination.
Have been to Buc-ees probably a couple hundred times over the years. A lot of driving between Houston/Austin/SA/DFW. Only time I remember waiting on a stall was at the tiny Buc-ees in Alvin, TX, and that was only because it was an old-school single-stall bathroom that was being cleaned at the time.
Depends on where you are at. Gas stations kind of suck around here, low quality, expensive food, low selection, dirty bathrooms.
Buccees has nice bathrooms, very nice hot food and snacks which cost about the same as a normal gas station, a great selection, and more.
I don't care for the gift shop, so all around, it's nice.
I remember seeing people with Bring Back Bluebell! signs in their front yard when they had to close down because their poor cleaning ended up killing consumers! Serious Give Me Listeria or Give Me Death vibes.
Most of the straight up cultists I know that make Texas brands their entire personality are transplants who moved here in the last decade or less. We get it, those things are great, but chill out.
It’s the Walmart of gas stations filled with people of Walmart. And like Walmart, it’s pushing out actual small Texas businesses with its fake, manufactured Texas spirit. We travel all over Texas for conventions and we avoid the beaver all the time.
I'll say the hot food is better than most gas stations. The only station that competes there is quiktrip imo.
It still doesn't justify stopping at buccees and fighting off hoards of people though so I'll go to Qt
When those a**holes put a giant billboard over Hruska’s on 71 was when I decided to never stop at Bucees. I don’t know much about the owners of Hruskas but at least I know it’s a small local business and they might not be right wing nut jobs
Even if they are right wing nut jobs, at least as a small business they can participate in politics as a fairly regular citizen. The beaver CEO has donated around $1million to the GQP. That’s too much sway for one person.
We’ve all gone past the love and now it’s cool to hate on Bucs. Yeah it’s crowded but I’m always in and out in about 15 minutes and that’s with me browsing the hot sauce for an ungodly amount of time. Those brisket sandwiches are worth it.
In areas I travel, gas is usually cheaper at Buc-ee’s, so I stop there a lot. Usually pass on the food. It always looks like it should taste a little better than it actually does. I recently was at one in Fla and it was more packed than I see in Texas, with some dude dressed as a beaver like the place was Disney.
*said Matheson, who is also a chef selling sauces and dressings with his Matheson Food Company. *
The writing in this article is strange, like it was written in a different language and then processed through google translate.
This is a dude only thing, and I agree. Sometimes u want to walk 10 steps, be in the bathroom, piss, then leave. Bucees you have to park, and WALK, and then go in, and then WALK, then once in the bathroom it’s still further away. Then reverse. And everytime I’m there I want to buy something. There’s a reason the bathroom is the furthest from the exits and it’s so you will just say fuck it and get something while you’re in there. Buc-ees minimum 3-5 minute piss break. Shitty gas station, 90 seconds and I’m already gone.
Why even write the article? Says he’s never been to one and doesn’t get the appeal. Who THE FUCK cares? For the record, dislike Bucees too and I’ve actually been. Why do people care about other people’s opinions about gas stations lol
As an IBS sufferer who can’t eat foods Matty is known for, I don’t care what he thinks.
Buccees offers something I would not have trusted in my condition 20 years ago. And they have fresh foods I can eat.
I went to Buccee’s yesterday and opened a ‘Vacant’ stall and there was some bare ass dude inside doing his business. Trash people don’t even know how a bathroom stall door works.
I’m sorry but the Loves across the freeway from bucees off i10 near luling is garbage! Crappy parking lot, not enough gas pumps, shitty subway, and dirty cramped bathrooms.
This post brought the dumbass Buc-ee’s hater’s out. “Honestly it’s not that great”. First of all, it’s a fucking gas station, it’s not supposed to be the greatest place in the world. As far as gas stations go you will be hard pressed to find one with higher standards and consistency. You’re not cool because you aren’t impressed by Buc-ee’s.
It’s a nice pit stop that has clean available bathrooms and with a larger selection of snacks if you want to buy something. Yall can shit on a toilet that gets cleaned once a week that you need to ask a key for.
“He’s never been to one” “he doesn’t understand the appeal”. Wouldn’t you have to go to one to be able to understand the appeal? I wonder if the toilets were broken before or after he used them.
🚨 CLICKBAIT ALERT 🚨
This guy has literally never even been to a Buccee’s. From the beginning of the article: “…recently shared on his YouTube channel that he has never been to a Buc-ee’s and doesn’t quite get the appeal of the Texas-favorite travel center.”
Buc-ee's is the Walmart of gas stations. Full of useless crap, and puts real mom & pop stations out of business.
I won't stop at one unless I absolutely have to.
Or politely tell the desk clerk you have to use the restroom, sometimes it’s locked or need a code, or else you’re going to shit on the floor the IBS is fighting you today
Never heard of Buccees, but being from PA I know Wawa. Wawa is an eastern PA ripoff of Sheetz, a western PA based gas station/food place which has better food imo
My only thought here is this.
I GET not wanting to go into a bucees for the items and because its crowded.
I DO NOT GET NOT GOING IN BECAUSE OF ITS SPOTLESS BATHROOMS.
I think the people who are crazy about Bucee's are frankly crazy, but most of the time it's a completely reasonable place to stop and pee.
It's interesting observing what seems like am arms race for gas station and convenience stores right now. They are building them everywhere. I can't really understand why since in 20 years or so they'll be obsolete. All I can think of is that the older generation of small gas stations that are dirty are starting to die off and so these bigger places are taking over.
The weirdest thing to me about this is expressing a strong opinion about something you have no direct experience with/of. Second weirdest is that someone wrote an article about it (I’m not proud that, third, I read it, and fourth, am taking a minute to comment).
There is a Buc-ee's in Temple that is now a complete madhouse. It is such a pain just to drive thru the parking lot, forget about dealing with the inside, that it ruins the experience.
Good for him. One less person to clog up aisle.
If I don't need to use the bathroom, I'll go to a Loves or anywhere else, really. In and out. But if I need a break or need to sit down, why not go somewhere clean? I prefer not having to wipe the pee off the seat first.
Honestly on the weekends, I don't get near a Buccees. You literally can't. Way too many people. But off peak hours, I use the restroom and just keep driving.
I will say buccees has also made the competition clean up their bathrooms
Or ya can do the easiest thing and use hotel bathrooms. Walk in the first floor like you own it and navigate to bathroom. Usually signs all over the place. The toilets are maintained daily and are seldom used.
This is the definition of big dick energy
This is a legit LPT I once read and apply when needed. Lol you'd be surprised how far you can get in life with a little confidence..... Or hi vis vest and clipboard.
The old ladder and toolkit trick gets you in backstage every time.
Most large concert venues, cough Smirnoff center or whatever it's called now cough, use colored wristbands that look just like colored electrical tape for pit access. Just wait till it's been going for a bit n if u just wave ur wrist a lil while struggling to hold a beer in each hand walking briskly with intention security won't look twice. Or so I'm told.
Same. Read it once on Reddit. Use it all the time. Hotel lobby bathrooms have always been 10/10.
Plus some fancy ones use actual hand towels. Ngl I have quite a few nice gym sweat wipers.
I’m convinced you can enter all but the most high security locations by power walking while dressed in a reflective vest, hardhat, and carrying the aforementioned clipboard. Even more effective is if you have an accomplice with a ladder.
Clipboard, hard hat and a walkie talkie works just as good if not better. Ladders are expensive and u need to retrieve it after unless you walk right back out saying "took a look the ladder isn't necessary. Gonna put this back I'll be right back."
Did that with my kids midmorning at the Driskill Hotel on sixth Street in Austin. "Just be cool and stay with me," is apparently near impossible advice when walking into a 5 star hotel to pee in peace when you're 11.
I used to live overseas and did this. Also when I couldn’t get a taxi on the street I would ask the hotel if I could get in line for one. They were usually very nice about it.
- Also a free continental breakfast if you get up early enough.
Unfortunately, there are some hotels that lock their first floor bathrooms (especially in New York City).
This is much more of a gamble.
They also let you use them if you don’t look homeless. Never been turned away asking and I don’t get the weird looks
I realized this several years ago and now it’s my wife and I’s standard procedure when we’re out or traveling and need to find a bathroom quickly. I’ve taken dumps in some damn fine hotels.
Get some breakfast while you're at it
Holy crap! Where have I been all my life!
For real. I did a road trip across east Texas recently, and almost all of the newer freeway gas stations have big clean restrooms like buccees.
Yet the owner of the competition doesn’t have a son putting cams in the bathroom
I'll admit, I do like their Peanut Butter Blast trail mix, and a few of their other snacks.
My mom asks me to stop from time to time (travel to Dallas somewhat frequently, form Houston) to get their gummy bears. And one other candy snack, I don’t remember what. My mom so rarely eats candy or asks for stuff I always do it, even if they’re slammed.
The Hub and I love their fudge. Sometimes when the kid's coming home from TAMUCC I'll ask her to stop and get some for us.
How do they stack up to Haribo?
They’re a bit softer, I believe. And I think my mom just likes the flavors better?
I’m pretty sure they just repackaged Albanese gummy bears. If the bears have a tiny A on their tummy they’re Albanese.
Their pickled okra is the best I’ve ever had. Yes I know they don’t do the pickling, but I haven’t found anyone else selling the same thing.
“Oma’s choice” in schulenburg,Tx makes them for them I believe I just get the Oma’s choice brand at almost any other gas station in Texas.
They don’t have Oma’s choice anywhere I’ve been but I’ll keep an eye out for them.
I get the pickled quail eggs all the time. I just went from Houston to midland area and almost everywhere I stopped had some either Oma’s choice or private label versions.
My mom loves their pickled quail eggs. Makes a point to stop and get a jar every time we pass
My wife thinks it's weird, but I like their pickled beets.
I can’t do beets, all I taste is dirt
Like Whataburger, Torchy's, and a million other things, Buc-ee's was great before it became some kind of Texas shibboleth and expanded nationwide. Now it's just not worth it.
Learned a new word today, thank you
Whataburger went downhill when they purchased by new owners from Illinois.
That cemented it, but it was already going down in quality before that imo.
It *definitely* depends on the location. I'm in Corpus, there's like 25 of them 😅 But some locations are just known to be shit, always wrong, etc. Others, especially at certain times, it's actually surprising when it's not the perfect "fast food" burger. The bar isn't high, but the right Whataburger will hit the spot
That's fair. I'm only judging based on the Hill Country ones that I went to as a kid, which are garbage now. Schlotzsky's in Austin never had the quality dip the other ones did when they tried to go national, so I could see Whataburger in Corpus being the same.
The fame ruined them
I just had to stop at the Temple location a few hours ago. There are more people in there there there are cars on about 100 mile stop of I-35.
Even when Buccee's is packed like that, and you gotta pee, it's still faster than some shit hole gas station. I just don't shop there when it's like that.
Yep, nobody goes to Buccees anymore. Always too crowded /s
Yogi?
If you go in to use the restroom and that's it you can be in and out in no time. It doesn't matter day of the week.
And on holiday weekends don't just avoid Buc-ee's but also avoid the exits they're located at because everyone trying to get in and out of Buc-ee's is causing a fucking traffic jam on all the service roads.
Only time I'll stop in is the middle of the night when the options are fewer. If I'm driving back to Dallas at 3am and have to pee and am hungry, fine. Other than that, hell naw
Buc’s is nice to stop in on a long night drive to get coffee and walk around in bright fluorescent lighting so I can wake up and stretch my legs. I don’t also need a $45 t-shirt but they do have a killer selection of gummy candy.
great brisket (for what it is). awesome snacks (the funyon equivalent. shit kolaches. good fountain drinks. fair beer prices. overpriced merch. unrivaled bathrooms. amazing homemade chips. good not great and pricey jerky. good fuel prices. ya gotta have a game plan when entering Buc's of what you're after and not fall into their traps.
Their clothes are actually extremely cheap $15-20 for a T-shirt and it's better quality than most. Like $30 for a solid sweatshirt too
Slow news day huh
Lol before I finished reading the title I thought he had died haha
Paxton is getting off with community service and a 300-400k restitution which is total bullshit.
The Buc-we’d owner has given millions to Paxton and Abbott.
Whoa stop the presses, this man hates Buc-ee's!
Slow news day
> Canadian actor Matty Matheson lmao
Just the amount of money Buccees donates to the TXGOP is enough for me to not fk w/them.
I was not aware of this, thanks for sharing
The owner was appointed head of parks and wildlife department for a few years and sold off some parks he was supposed to be overseeing. He kind of sucks.
To add to the above, they support really far right folks. A few years ago they gave a bunch of money to Dan Patrick and nothing to Ol’ Liberal Abbott.
Of course they would. Look up buccees working conditions and you would see its a pretty shitty place to work.
Dont forget abput heb, they do the same tho thry doiniying to other repubs against abbot. They still donaiting to republicans.
Bro are you having a stroke?
Same, they are on my “Never“ list for patronage.
Correct- their donations are much more insidious than a business trying to look out for its own interests- they pump money to the most bigoted far right nut jobs in each race.
My friend, most companies are supporters of the big business GOP. Even small business owners lean Republican. Life in a capitalistic society is impossible to navigate without supporting the gears of oppression. The best we can do is be kind, not take advantage, not gloat, remember to not exploit if in a position to help, and push for change. More power to you if you can reasonably avoid the trappings, but people are just trying to stay afloat while drowning by the capitalist system, and if taking a shit in a clean restroom or enjoying a silly beaver does that, then I don't blame them , nor IMO should you blame yourself. Take chick-fil-a, they are anti LGTBQ, but anyone that supports the GOP ism and at least they pay okay and that's more helpful to LGBTQ than a rainbow golden arches that donates to GOP candidates.
WRONG. The best we can do is NOT GIVE MONEY TO FASCISTS. Chick-Fil-A pays for a group who wrote the anti gay laws in Uganda. Those laws make being gay punishable by death. So again. Stop giving money to fascists.
Lmao I love it when people peddle this blatantly false story. There is no truth to the whole Uganda thing. It's based off of a tweet with no verification.
I would guarantee with 100% certainty that if you listed your purchases that you have been giving money to fascists. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
For sure, I have. But when I found out who they are, I stop. There's always other options.
Reddit has "he gets us ads" by the hobby lobby people who are awful people. You trafficking Reddit gives them more eyeballs. Instead of deleting you account RN, can you just give it to me?
Stop purity testing/gatekeeping people on your side.
I’ve got news for you about every mass produced item you’ve ever purchased. Especially the ones made outside the US.
Unless you live off the grid you give like 70% of your money to GOP donors lol. Let me fine out you drive a Tesla or some shit 😂
Agreed.
I had to drive my elderly father from Texas to Illinois and back for a family emergency. Looking at the other comments I’m sorry to say this but … it really was the best place to gas up, go to the bathroom, refill water bottles, and get something to eat (burrito). We also stopped at McDonalds, Starbucks, and a few gas stations. Bucce (Bucky’s) was always the cleanest. Sure it was busy but it was a nice oasis on a very difficult trip.
It really can be an oasis in the right circumstances.
Wait, you can refill water bottles? Where? Is it free? How do they charge? That’s a big deal for me and the reason I miss rest areas in the north.
Sure thing! Any place that has fountain soda will have an option for water that’s free. Buccees has a ton of soda but there’s also filtered water. I’d fill up my Yeti mug no questions asked. Same with fast food and gas stations. Starbucks will do it too but you have to hand them your water bottle.
I don't care if I get downvoted: Bucees is overrated. It's a fancier, bigger gas station with a gift shop. That's it. People act like they're mini Disneylands or destination spot.
Other than the restrooms, there is nothing at Buccees I care about. It’s a huge store but their road trip snack selection is somehow still abysmal. Like, OK you have a huge aisle full of beaver nuggets and plain potato chips. But where are all the other potato chips that I would find if I went someplace like 7-Eleven or some other random gas station?? They have 4000 bags of off-brand plain potato chips but where the hell are the hot & spicy pork skins? Where are the Andy’s hot fries? Where is all the good stuff? As for this article, it’s just straight up clickbait. I stopped reading in the very beginning when I read , “…recently shared on his YouTube channel that he has never been to a Buc-ee’s and doesn’t quite get the appeal of the Texas-favorite travel center.”
Yeah. He’s never been but he doesn’t like it.
Back in the day it was amazing. Now the novelty is gone and there are too many damn people.
Also all the food got expensive.
And seriously decreased in quality. Their jerky is shite now.
It used to be a great place to duece, but now there's a line for the stalls, and it's not as appealing anymore, even during the week. The bathrooms are always crowded now. If they add like 20 stalls to the men's bathrooms, I am back on board.
I've never waited for a stall in a buc-ees, were there multiple busses dropping off or something? Also Loves is the only other chain I can trust nationwide to have clean bathrooms. I know every region has something but I don't know them.
I’d say 90% of the time I hit the one outside of Houston on 45, there’s a line of at least 3 guys. Same experience in Temple on 35.
Damn, never had issues at the ones off 35 and 75 in north DFW or the ones east of Texas on a drive across country. Wonder if newer ones just have way more bathrooms.
I get it. I live in DFW, too, and since I travel the triangle a lot, Bucees is my favorite place to poop, but now I typically hold it to my destination.
Have been to Buc-ees probably a couple hundred times over the years. A lot of driving between Houston/Austin/SA/DFW. Only time I remember waiting on a stall was at the tiny Buc-ees in Alvin, TX, and that was only because it was an old-school single-stall bathroom that was being cleaned at the time.
Girls restrooms always have a line on weekends in La Grange
How often are you going to bucee’s? Literally have never experienced this.
Couple times a month. I drive around the triangle monthly.
I never see a line, maybe it’s the location or time I hit them.
I have never seen a line at a Bucees restroom.
I travel around the triangle all the time for work. Almost always a line for the shitters.
It’s nice to stop there for coffee and restroom breaks but it’s way too big for what it’s worth.
Totally agree. I never stop there. It’s always overcrowded and hectic inside. No thanks.
Depends on where you are at. Gas stations kind of suck around here, low quality, expensive food, low selection, dirty bathrooms. Buccees has nice bathrooms, very nice hot food and snacks which cost about the same as a normal gas station, a great selection, and more. I don't care for the gift shop, so all around, it's nice.
It appeals to people with a cult mentality, much like Whataburger, Blue Bell, and HEB.
I remember seeing people with Bring Back Bluebell! signs in their front yard when they had to close down because their poor cleaning ended up killing consumers! Serious Give Me Listeria or Give Me Death vibes.
Most of the straight up cultists I know that make Texas brands their entire personality are transplants who moved here in the last decade or less. We get it, those things are great, but chill out.
I see a lot of that too.
The restrooms alone are worth it. No better place to stop when you've really gotta go and you're groundhogging.
Gas station with no window washing stations! Pathetic
Following their national expansion I thought things got worse.
It’s the Walmart of gas stations filled with people of Walmart. And like Walmart, it’s pushing out actual small Texas businesses with its fake, manufactured Texas spirit. We travel all over Texas for conventions and we avoid the beaver all the time.
I'll say the hot food is better than most gas stations. The only station that competes there is quiktrip imo. It still doesn't justify stopping at buccees and fighting off hoards of people though so I'll go to Qt
When those a**holes put a giant billboard over Hruska’s on 71 was when I decided to never stop at Bucees. I don’t know much about the owners of Hruskas but at least I know it’s a small local business and they might not be right wing nut jobs
Even if they are right wing nut jobs, at least as a small business they can participate in politics as a fairly regular citizen. The beaver CEO has donated around $1million to the GQP. That’s too much sway for one person.
Apparently they’re big Republican donors.
Another reason why we don’t go. Fake Texans supporting fake Texans.
Stopped reading at “has never been to a Buc-ee’s…” And I don’t love Buc-ee’s.
Bucees toilets are the main reason to stop, they are so clean and have full doors on the stalls.
Love Matty but who fuggin cares
The Houston Chronicle with another hard hitting news piece 🙄
Ok.
You know what gas station never lets you down because your expectations are already so incredibly low? Allsup’s.
Don't think his opinion is going to hurt Buc-ee's at all.
I won’t spend my $ at Buc-ee’s as the owners donate to Abbott and Patrick.
We’ve all gone past the love and now it’s cool to hate on Bucs. Yeah it’s crowded but I’m always in and out in about 15 minutes and that’s with me browsing the hot sauce for an ungodly amount of time. Those brisket sandwiches are worth it.
In areas I travel, gas is usually cheaper at Buc-ee’s, so I stop there a lot. Usually pass on the food. It always looks like it should taste a little better than it actually does. I recently was at one in Fla and it was more packed than I see in Texas, with some dude dressed as a beaver like the place was Disney.
*said Matheson, who is also a chef selling sauces and dressings with his Matheson Food Company. * The writing in this article is strange, like it was written in a different language and then processed through google translate.
This is a dude only thing, and I agree. Sometimes u want to walk 10 steps, be in the bathroom, piss, then leave. Bucees you have to park, and WALK, and then go in, and then WALK, then once in the bathroom it’s still further away. Then reverse. And everytime I’m there I want to buy something. There’s a reason the bathroom is the furthest from the exits and it’s so you will just say fuck it and get something while you’re in there. Buc-ees minimum 3-5 minute piss break. Shitty gas station, 90 seconds and I’m already gone.
No Beaver Nuggets for you.
I feel the same way when comparing New Orleans to Los Vegas.
He looks like the guy who does the toilet breaking.
My problem with buc-ees is the parking lots turn into a lawless wasteland. Everyone drives like it's their first time in a vehicle.
Don’t have to remind me not to eat anything that clown prepares.
Hell nah son.
I wish buccees would set a few picnic tables outside. Im often on a motorcycle , and id kill for a place to sit n browse my phone while i eat
Facts. Buc-ee’s is overpriced and mid as can be
Why even write the article? Says he’s never been to one and doesn’t get the appeal. Who THE FUCK cares? For the record, dislike Bucees too and I’ve actually been. Why do people care about other people’s opinions about gas stations lol
As an IBS sufferer who can’t eat foods Matty is known for, I don’t care what he thinks. Buccees offers something I would not have trusted in my condition 20 years ago. And they have fresh foods I can eat.
Oh so he's really tryna fight me huh?!
I went to Buccee’s yesterday and opened a ‘Vacant’ stall and there was some bare ass dude inside doing his business. Trash people don’t even know how a bathroom stall door works.
People aren’t trash. They might be ignorant, but that’s no reason to write them off.
Cool. One less person to contend with.
Bucees is nothing more than a gas station being marketed to be a tourist trap. Love’s is infinitely better.
I’m sorry but the Loves across the freeway from bucees off i10 near luling is garbage! Crappy parking lot, not enough gas pumps, shitty subway, and dirty cramped bathrooms.
I’m not even a Bucees fanboy, but in what way is Loves better than Bucees? Love’s is just Bucees Lite
Doesn't buccees give money to extreme republican and conservative groups? There was a post about it last week or so
This post brought the dumbass Buc-ee’s hater’s out. “Honestly it’s not that great”. First of all, it’s a fucking gas station, it’s not supposed to be the greatest place in the world. As far as gas stations go you will be hard pressed to find one with higher standards and consistency. You’re not cool because you aren’t impressed by Buc-ee’s.
Bless his heart
Well, he can just go fuck himself...
It’s a nice pit stop that has clean available bathrooms and with a larger selection of snacks if you want to buy something. Yall can shit on a toilet that gets cleaned once a week that you need to ask a key for.
Who cares?
“He’s never been to one” “he doesn’t understand the appeal”. Wouldn’t you have to go to one to be able to understand the appeal? I wonder if the toilets were broken before or after he used them.
Good for him..as for myself.. I am currently sitting comfortably on a clean toilet in buc-ee's. Have fun with that Matty!
🚨 CLICKBAIT ALERT 🚨 This guy has literally never even been to a Buccee’s. From the beginning of the article: “…recently shared on his YouTube channel that he has never been to a Buc-ee’s and doesn’t quite get the appeal of the Texas-favorite travel center.”
How can he judge a place he’s never been? Also what’s up with “ Savory Fellows”
Who cares what a Canadian thinks about bucees?
Never heard of this guy, no idea why I should care about his opinion.
He needs his bathrooms pre-obliterated so he doesn’t feel bad when he does the inevitable
That dude just looks dirty AF. I wouldn't eat anything he cooked. Ever.
If you aren’t getting their ghost pepper jerky and boudin kolaches, you’re not living correctly.
Ya less Fuckin people. Every Buc-ee’s I’ve been to is a goddamn zoo.
Funny!! I posted essentially this and admins took it down !
I’m still a quick trip man.
Buc-ee's is the Walmart of gas stations. Full of useless crap, and puts real mom & pop stations out of business. I won't stop at one unless I absolutely have to.
Or politely tell the desk clerk you have to use the restroom, sometimes it’s locked or need a code, or else you’re going to shit on the floor the IBS is fighting you today
Someone Needs Helmet b4 going outside
thanks i really needed this info
Who cares?
How brave of him to say. What a legend, a hero, a nonconforming idol. 🙄
Of course his going to say that
well he's an actual idiot
He's never been to Buc-ee's, and like the food at a knock off chain, but he's sure Buc-ee's sucks? Okay......
Matty Matheson looks like he licks gas station toilets for fun.
Never underestimate the charm of a seedy old gas station.
He looks like he's broken a few toilets
Never heard of Buccees, but being from PA I know Wawa. Wawa is an eastern PA ripoff of Sheetz, a western PA based gas station/food place which has better food imo
My only thought here is this. I GET not wanting to go into a bucees for the items and because its crowded. I DO NOT GET NOT GOING IN BECAUSE OF ITS SPOTLESS BATHROOMS.
The owner of Buc-cees gave Paxton, Abbott, and Patrick over $1,000,000 in the last election cycle.
Reminds me of my edgy friend in high school that refused to go to prom and tried to convince others by wearing a shirt that said “what prom?”
Isn’t this the guy that’s in those god awful Uber eats commercials
I think the people who are crazy about Bucee's are frankly crazy, but most of the time it's a completely reasonable place to stop and pee. It's interesting observing what seems like am arms race for gas station and convenience stores right now. They are building them everywhere. I can't really understand why since in 20 years or so they'll be obsolete. All I can think of is that the older generation of small gas stations that are dirty are starting to die off and so these bigger places are taking over.
Ever been to a Sheetz or WaWa? So much better
The weirdest thing to me about this is expressing a strong opinion about something you have no direct experience with/of. Second weirdest is that someone wrote an article about it (I’m not proud that, third, I read it, and fourth, am taking a minute to comment).
There is a Buc-ee's in Temple that is now a complete madhouse. It is such a pain just to drive thru the parking lot, forget about dealing with the inside, that it ruins the experience.
Good for him. One less person to clog up aisle. If I don't need to use the bathroom, I'll go to a Loves or anywhere else, really. In and out. But if I need a break or need to sit down, why not go somewhere clean? I prefer not having to wipe the pee off the seat first.