Warm Cookies: Favorite roadside pleasure

[Gilda]

My new favorite roadside pleasure (besides Black Bear Diners in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada) is warm, freshly baked cookies available 3 for $.99 at, of all places, ARCO gas stations' am/pm stores! These yummy 3" round cookies look, smell and taste homemade and come in many flavors including Cinnabon-Cinnamon Chip, Pumpkin, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal, TMGS "Too Much Good Stuff "and more. Each small brown bag with a cellophane window bears the time the cookies were baked and the "date by" to be enjoyed. When fresh-baked goods can be few and far between on camping trips I look forward to "gassing" up and indulging my sweet tooth at these stations. Yes, the company is trying to create "brand loyalty" and I'm falling for it big time.



What is your favorite (family-friendly) roadside pleasure, food or otherwise?

[Jennifer in Denver]

I just gained five pounds by reading this post.

[The Vance Family]

Black Bear Diners are also in Arizona. One just opened in Tempe.

[Jon in AZ]

Brings back childhood memories of camping all over NA in a tent trailer. We never ate out, but Mom had one weakness indulged every afternoon we could find one: a small Dairy Queen ice cream cone for all. Sure gave us kids something to look forward to during a long day in a crowded car! You can bet in those pre-Internet days we kept our eyes on every billboard... DQs seemed to be plentiful back then.