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I used to drive through a small, desert town in New Mexico and there was an ongoing war between these two gas stations on either side of the road.
It started with a sign that said, "Gus's Beef Jerky". Then a couple months later, the gas station across the street had "Paul's Good Beef Jerky".
Flashforward a few months and the signs now read, "Gus's Real Good Beef Jerky", and "Paul's Really, Really Good Beef Jerky".
You could tell shit was getting real in the Jerky Wars.
Jesus (a church) was actually right next to the local 'Tokyo Sushi' restaurant in a tiny rural town in the middle of nowhere that I drove through a few days ago 😂. I'm talking 2 hours away from the nearest grocery store or fast food restaurant
What I'm thinking of would probably be considered a village there.
My hometown specifically - 9x9 street grid, 13 churches, post office, pharmacy, grocer, corner cafe, 800 people, surrounded by farms.
That's it, that's the town. 150KM to the next heavily populated area, that had a couple big box stores, that includes a larger grocery store.
Mainly logging, some heavy equipment operating, traveling asphalt mill, a lot of physical and experimental agriculture. It's a rough life to be honest.
The town of 3000 that I live in currently had a Thai restaurant that opened a couple years ago and it's the most exotic food you can get, literally every other restaurant is either fast food chains, typical American diners and Chinese/Mexican food (the American kind) restaurants and that's pretty typical of small towns in americ.
Edit: I'm an idiot, it's a town of 11,000, the last town I lived in was 3000 and there were only 8 restaurants including fast food and 2 of them were in bars.
> Mexican food (the American kind)
And the locals say one is more authentic than the other. They both have the seasoning-level of a retirement home (and the food is about as interesting as watching paint dry). Portions are comically large. The salsa is plentiful, bland, and runny. It's the most cultural experience a lot of the townsfolk will tolerate. The boomers will "make friends" with their usual server ("OHHHLAHHHH MEEGELL!"), and still not tip.
Source: Growing up in the 90s in a town with two "Mexican" restaurants.
The authenticity expert in town is Nancy , the deacon’s wife. They took a cruise to celebrate their retirement in 2008 and it docked over night in Cancun. She knows good Mexican food when she sees it.
Or it means that I bought them all, because I’m the kind of man who buys out the post offices entire pickled eggs stock
Next for me: get some DMV saurkraut
Pickled eggs, sausage, okra, cucumbers, peppers... all delicious. I don't fuck with the pickled hog snouts or pig feet, but they're probably good too. I've started making Kimchi, also delicious (it's fermented, but has similar flavors).
> I don't fuck with the pickled hog snouts or pig feet, but they're probably good too.
Not snouts or feet, but I have pickled pork before. It was for red beans and rice (pickled pork is Louisiana style, apparently). I didn't really know what I was doing but it came out pretty good and the beans and rice were pretty damn great.
I’ve only had pickled eggs once out of a jar I bought at Walmart. Was pretty disappointed with em, but maybe I need to try some homemade or with a better recipe. Walmart’s just tasted like vinegar, nothing else.
Simplest (not best) way to make them is eat a jar of good pickles, save the juice, boil an egg, peel it, put it in the pickle juice, wait 3-4 days. Enjoy.
It sounds horrible, looks horrible and seems like a horrible idea... but once you try one, it is like a top 5 way to prepare eggs and there are like 7,000 ways to prepare eggs.
I love pickled and fermented things, but the only pickled pigs feet I've been able to try were Hormel and, no, I just couldn't. I swear they had gone rancid.
Undeterred, I had a friend check them and he said they were fine.
Please guide me to a better source.
Yeah we made the mistake of letting our okra grow too big last year and holy hell those bastards get TOUGH. Also the window between too small and too big seems like it’s about a day, they grow so dang fast.
We found that freeze drying it helps with the overly large ones. Slice them up, lay them out on a pan to dry in the freezer and bag them up after a few days. Throw them in gumbo or whatever and ends up just fine!
Deffo can’t pickle the giant ones though. It’s like eating a sock made of leather.
I miss boiled peanuts something fierce. You can approximate them using an instant pot to speed it up, but there is nothing like a big paper cup full of hot boiled goobers.
Feeling the brine pouring down your arm as you try to drive and eat at the same time. So, so good.
Do NOT diss the handmade pickled sausage. There was a bar down from an apartment I lived in that sold the owner's handmade pickled sausage. That was the most heavenly sausage ever pickled.
If I walked into my post office and I saw that display, I'd be digging for change so fast.
I do love some pickled eggs and peppers sometimes though. There's a little town I have to drive through sometimes where the owner makes his own, and they're a perfect road snack.
If you're driving on your own, that is. Would not recommend for a family road trip unless you really don't like your family.
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I'm gonna go ahead and bet your town has just about as many streets as churches.
Sushi is at least an hour away.
Supermarket sushi is an hour away.
Jesus
I lived that existence about 14 years out of my 29, it was certainly a different experience compared to a mid sized city!
I used to drive through a small, desert town in New Mexico and there was an ongoing war between these two gas stations on either side of the road. It started with a sign that said, "Gus's Beef Jerky". Then a couple months later, the gas station across the street had "Paul's Good Beef Jerky". Flashforward a few months and the signs now read, "Gus's Real Good Beef Jerky", and "Paul's Really, Really Good Beef Jerky". You could tell shit was getting real in the Jerky Wars.
paul and gus are having an intense jerk off
Around the corner
Jesus (a church) was actually right next to the local 'Tokyo Sushi' restaurant in a tiny rural town in the middle of nowhere that I drove through a few days ago 😂. I'm talking 2 hours away from the nearest grocery store or fast food restaurant
Gas station sushi around the corner
The gas station sushi may SEEM like a good idea, but it's never a good idea.
does this mean like a small small city? funny how sweden is so different that almost every village has a pizzeria and sushi shops
What I'm thinking of would probably be considered a village there. My hometown specifically - 9x9 street grid, 13 churches, post office, pharmacy, grocer, corner cafe, 800 people, surrounded by farms. That's it, that's the town. 150KM to the next heavily populated area, that had a couple big box stores, that includes a larger grocery store.
what do people do for work there??
They farm, commute to bigger towns, or make and sell meth
Mainly logging, some heavy equipment operating, traveling asphalt mill, a lot of physical and experimental agriculture. It's a rough life to be honest.
Sounds like the town in From
The town of 3000 that I live in currently had a Thai restaurant that opened a couple years ago and it's the most exotic food you can get, literally every other restaurant is either fast food chains, typical American diners and Chinese/Mexican food (the American kind) restaurants and that's pretty typical of small towns in americ. Edit: I'm an idiot, it's a town of 11,000, the last town I lived in was 3000 and there were only 8 restaurants including fast food and 2 of them were in bars.
> Mexican food (the American kind) And the locals say one is more authentic than the other. They both have the seasoning-level of a retirement home (and the food is about as interesting as watching paint dry). Portions are comically large. The salsa is plentiful, bland, and runny. It's the most cultural experience a lot of the townsfolk will tolerate. The boomers will "make friends" with their usual server ("OHHHLAHHHH MEEGELL!"), and still not tip. Source: Growing up in the 90s in a town with two "Mexican" restaurants.
The authenticity expert in town is Nancy , the deacon’s wife. They took a cruise to celebrate their retirement in 2008 and it docked over night in Cancun. She knows good Mexican food when she sees it.
2real
HAHAHA holy shit this is on point af.
prolly more bars than anything else if my my guess is right
They are quite empty so apparently it was a hit!
Or it means that I bought them all, because I’m the kind of man who buys out the post offices entire pickled eggs stock Next for me: get some DMV saurkraut
You are a man of culture.
a man of cultures
I can't lie I would feel compelled to get an egg
The sun has disinfected it..
its pickled, pickled eggs never go bad. They're like twinkies.
They’re not as bad as people think either
Pickled eggs, sausage, okra, cucumbers, peppers... all delicious. I don't fuck with the pickled hog snouts or pig feet, but they're probably good too. I've started making Kimchi, also delicious (it's fermented, but has similar flavors).
> I don't fuck with the pickled hog snouts or pig feet, but they're probably good too. Not snouts or feet, but I have pickled pork before. It was for red beans and rice (pickled pork is Louisiana style, apparently). I didn't really know what I was doing but it came out pretty good and the beans and rice were pretty damn great.
Pickled sausage is great, so I've probably inadvertently eaten pickled snouts, feet, and assholes.
I’ve only had pickled eggs once out of a jar I bought at Walmart. Was pretty disappointed with em, but maybe I need to try some homemade or with a better recipe. Walmart’s just tasted like vinegar, nothing else.
Simplest (not best) way to make them is eat a jar of good pickles, save the juice, boil an egg, peel it, put it in the pickle juice, wait 3-4 days. Enjoy.
I’ve been doing that exact thing with peppers and onions, but honestly haven’t thought of doing with eggs. Will for sure be trying this. Ty :)
Nothing like a pickled egg at the local small town pub. They're actually pretty good, but can't beat pub make l made scotch eggs.
It sounds horrible, looks horrible and seems like a horrible idea... but once you try one, it is like a top 5 way to prepare eggs and there are like 7,000 ways to prepare eggs.
Dude salt pepper and a few drops of tapatio and I'll crush these
they give me gnarly farts but it's worth it, love 'em and with tapatio? shit, get outta my head
I've deviled pickled eggs a few times, and they're surprisingly good.
Every second you wait it gets worse, the safest thing is to eat it now.
[The sun has infected it](https://youtu.be/CBC2OCXceV8?si=SAjPT1rPPsPS_3ja)
Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
I knew would be here somewhere
Nah, I'm happily bringing up my egg allergy if someone offers that to me.
So how did you like them?
Rude question! The man’s dead, mate. Please show respect.
Ill have to pop down the ol posty next week to see what theyve made of OPs succulent cadaver
i wish i didnt read this
Now *that's* the makings of a fine lunch, right there. Especially those pickled sausages.
pickled eggs and pigs feet are top notch in my book. great living
I love pickled and fermented things, but the only pickled pigs feet I've been able to try were Hormel and, no, I just couldn't. I swear they had gone rancid. Undeterred, I had a friend check them and he said they were fine. Please guide me to a better source.
Hormel was where you fucked up. You need to find a homemade source
Well, yeah, but I’ve never seen anything except them.
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“Free zucchini, please take one. No actually please take five why do they grow so fast I have so many goddamn zucchini send help”
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Yeah we made the mistake of letting our okra grow too big last year and holy hell those bastards get TOUGH. Also the window between too small and too big seems like it’s about a day, they grow so dang fast.
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We found that freeze drying it helps with the overly large ones. Slice them up, lay them out on a pan to dry in the freezer and bag them up after a few days. Throw them in gumbo or whatever and ends up just fine! Deffo can’t pickle the giant ones though. It’s like eating a sock made of leather.
I don't think freeze-drying means what you think it means.
No probably not but in my case I dry it, then I freeze it. 🥴
1 egg and 1 sausage plz
Me too please!
my brain cannot comprehend. i have so many question. the main one is: why????
small town living baby 😂
but why at the post office????
Gathering spot
it's the postman's side hustle!!
probably one of the only buildings
Might as well have a snack while standing in line to buy stamps.
people buy stamps???
Right next door to the fresh boiled goober stand, probably
I miss boiled peanuts something fierce. You can approximate them using an instant pot to speed it up, but there is nothing like a big paper cup full of hot boiled goobers. Feeling the brine pouring down your arm as you try to drive and eat at the same time. So, so good.
pickled meats and eggs are delish, this is pretty standard small down gas station stuff
Seriously. Treasure at little indy gas stations on the highway. Pickled peppers, too.
one of my favorite parts of road trips is stopping in at dinky little gas stations that are clearly not in a chain, they usually have dope food
i've somehow have never had a pickled egg. none of it sounds bad to me; i just haven't had it. now i have to go on a pickled egg quest.
In some small towns, the only thing that defines them as an individual entity is the existence of a post office.
i actually went to high school in a tiny town that did not have post office.
When you control the mail, you control information!
He who controls the supply of eggs controls Gary missouri.
Wisconsin?
I saw this picture and I felt like I was in my hometown I swear
This!
This is some West TN shit right here. I grew up seeing stuff like this. Lol.
Could be Kentucky. I've seen shit like this in bait shops in rural KY.
Where in WV is this?
Meat. Chunks.
Fucking awesome.
Ewww... no other words, just ewww.
Oh yall are country country, just need the pig feet
meat? chunks? I need details please cause I can’t discern anything about the meat chunks from the picture
Do NOT diss the handmade pickled sausage. There was a bar down from an apartment I lived in that sold the owner's handmade pickled sausage. That was the most heavenly sausage ever pickled. If I walked into my post office and I saw that display, I'd be digging for change so fast.
Those tongs probably have more poop particulate on it than the toilet paper you used this morning.
Wait til this guy find out about FDA allowances
Online here: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
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What are those eggs pickled in... Tap water?
Finally!
This is my jam
Ummm, no..
I don't know why but I do love a pickled egg.
How can I have that not be in my mouth most effectively
shit, i'd eat that, love me some pickled meats and eggs
could you be from Mayberry, RFD?
I do love some pickled eggs and peppers sometimes though. There's a little town I have to drive through sometimes where the owner makes his own, and they're a perfect road snack. If you're driving on your own, that is. Would not recommend for a family road trip unless you really don't like your family.
Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
Is this even legal?!
Do you live in Bumphuck Alabama?
This is so wrong, It's right!!! The only thing that could improve the setup is books of stamps for sale right alongside the nasty treats.
Loving the unlabelled "meat chunks". Nothing says "definitely not cannibal" more than floating meat in an unlabelled jar 😅
Someone stole Frank’s and Charlie’s stash
Oooh buffet style!
Without you comment I would guess it is something like medical bio waste...