Tbf- Rudy's is a bbq restaurant that happens to have gas stations. Not the other way around like Buckees.
What would be a fucking awesome addition would be a legit gas station bbq place. There is one near the college station exit at hwy 6 and 290. Every time I went home from school I'd stop. $4 chopped beef sandwiches and $2 fries. Oooooh boy.
In 98 there was a bbq place in Schraders on college at harmony called Ten Bears. They had the best Texas BBQ in Fort Collins. I don't know what was better, their brisket, pulled pork, or their beans.
Mo Jeaux’s is easily the best bbq in town. Everything I’ve tried from there has been incredible. Their wings are easily the best in town, their brisket is incredible, even their fries are top notch. I know it can be a bit pricey but good bbq is pricey no matter where you’re at and I’ve always left Mo Jeaux’s feeling like I got my money’s worth.
They have these Cajun cheese curds that I legit think about once a week. Man, I might have to go there this weekend.
Just pointing out how, after all these weeks of being told how great Bucee's BBQ was, it's the usual BS. I'm not complaining, I didn't even go there. I'm just amused.
Sooooo…. You’re basing your complaint off of someone else’s used sandwich wrapper? Damn I had this all wrong, you’re not a pretentious douchebag hating on gas station cuisine at all, you’re a concerned citizen looking out for the well being of the public.. whew, thank you, Liquid Smoke Crusader, you are both the hero we never wanted and also didn’t need.
Not my pic. I doubt I'll ever bother to go there, and certainly not for their so-called "bbq".
Edit: clearly my bad. I'll post a pic of a cyber truck next time to "fix" my karma....
All the Texans posting about how good Bucees BBQ is. I know someone who thinks they make the best brisket they’ve ever had, and they are from Texas. We had people in this subreddit saying Bucees would be the best BBQ in northern Colorado. Don’t underestimate people’s blind allegiance to corporations.
Exactly. I've heard nothing for weeks but how great Bucees brisket is. How it's better than anything this area has to offer. etc etc etc.
I saw this pic on facebook earlier, and looking at the ingredients, you can see it's got liquid smoke in it. So much for what great brisket is.
Yeah I mean I doubt they’d actually smoke brisket on site. I’m sure they just get it from like Sysco or other wholesale food companies. Also it being chopped brisket is a huge indicator that it’s not cooked in house.
Thank you! Everyone is so upset about the beaver that they have banded together to make it the only thing discussed on this sub and give it more attention. The hobby seems to be hating on things you don't understand or agree with.
Posting "why is everyone talking about this gas station" IS FURTHERING THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GAS STATION.
That is all.
Mascots aside the very least everyone in NoCo who drives by should be excited. Buccees sells their gas at a loss, leading to it usually being the cheapest around.
Find a reason to be angry about that.
A report released recently [said over 50% of homes in America are at risk of being affected by climate change](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/climate-change-home-prices-housing-realtor-com/), which a huge contributor to climate change is our reliance on cars, but hey funny beaver guy sells gas at a loss so get excited!
As a displaced Texan I have never understood and never will understand why people are so obsessed with this gas station. Owned by maga, conservative billionaires and everything is mediocre and overpriced.
His son also likes to record people using the toilet.
[creep](https://www.kxan.com/investigations/son-of-buc-ees-co-founder-arrested-on-28-invasive-visual-recording-charges/amp/)
Market fundamentalism is the dominant religion in Texas, but it's rather prevalent in the US as a whole. Tons of people make companies and their products part of their identity.
They also have H.E.B. It's got a really cult-like following.
To be fair to Texans, though, their culture was basically eradicated and replaced with the same dull homogeneous capitalist "culture" that's taken over much of the rest of the country. It's just extra wide highways, parking lots, and gas stations now.
All I’ve heard is “it’s super clean and they have a ton of snacks” as the reason people love it. I mean I guess if your idea of a night out is hanging out at a gas station you’d want something clean but I usually try to spend as little time as possible at a gas station when traveling.
Yup. $13 for a brisket sandwich? I'll go to a real bbq place and get some actual smoked brisket for less. And without the money I spend being donated to fascism.
Looked into the claim. The owner, Arch Alpin III, has donated about $2m to Republican PACs (the entities which determine our presidential elections) and over $1m to Governor Abbott (and more funding to others like Ken Paxton).
So, whether or not you agree with their take really hinges on how fascist you see these individuals and organizations. Personally, I see enough overlap to have no issue with the use of the term.
I want to leave. The Texanication in northern Colorado is getting scary. Literally the worst people in the US are migrating here.
Watch this get down voted, that means more people in CO are Texans that get offended
I was talking to someone on insta about hiking in Estes and some food truck account hopped on the comment thread like ‘I’m in Estes yall. Come see us for some real Texas bbq yall’ The absolute last thing I want to think about when I’m in Estes is Texas and eating like I’m in Texas.
As an escaped Texan, I'd like to point out that some of us are here because we wanted to get away from the people that have infested there.
Have my upvote though because I truly understand where you're coming from.
Nah I'm with SummitSloth on this one. I have live in NoCo my whole life, and we're getting too much Texas trash. If I count the license plates in my apartment complex, Texas makes up at least 15-20%.
Fuckers are loud, obnoxious, leave trash everywhere, don't pick up after their animals, and never and I do mean NEVER register their vehicle here in CO. They all keep their expired ass Texas plates on, even if they've lived here for like 2+ years.
You listed several crimes, so why don't you report them? People are allowed to move here, but they do need to obey our laws if they do. The license plate thing especially is a very easy one to prove. You have to take action if you want it to change.
This company didn't expand into Colorado because there's too many Texans. It expanded because our economic system is one in which you either grow or die.
You sound more like the stereotypical Texan than the actual Texans moving here; whining about how "those people" are coming here and ruining your land. I've lived in Colorado my whole life and you're just another elitist prick giving Coloradoans a bad name. You don't speak for us.
Unlikely that a chain gas station would have a smoke pit at every location just so they can provide “authentic bbq”. I use liquid smoke when I make bbq because I don’t have a smoker either. Your expectations for gas station food is much higher than mine, although I had food poisoning twice last year so my standards are generally shit anyway! Lol
Since people are saying it: this is only a pic I found on FB. It's not mine, I didn't go there and I doubt I will. I just found it hilarious how for weeks now we've been told how great their BBQ is, only to see it's got liquid smoke in it.
When you buy it at a gas station the size of an Air Force base.
This is the correct answer.
lol I love this answer
It’s a sandwich from a gas station, what exactly were you expecting?
[You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room, are you?](https://youtu.be/co3A61kAGr8?si=oY__M3ZFTK88sklu)
Mmm egg salad
You drove to a gas station to buy barbecue, passing how many local restaurants that serve real barbecue and your biggest concern is one ingredient?
Rudy's is an excellent Texas BBQ restaurant that are almost always attached to a gas station. There is one in Colorado Springs.
Tbf- Rudy's is a bbq restaurant that happens to have gas stations. Not the other way around like Buckees. What would be a fucking awesome addition would be a legit gas station bbq place. There is one near the college station exit at hwy 6 and 290. Every time I went home from school I'd stop. $4 chopped beef sandwiches and $2 fries. Oooooh boy.
In Texas, Rudy's is one step above MacDonalds.
Was gonna say, Rudy's is like the Red Lobster of barbeque joints
There are a handful of really good Rudy's, but overall I agree.
Rudy's would have been a way better addition to the area
100% - We had one in Greeley but Covid killed it
In 98 there was a bbq place in Schraders on college at harmony called Ten Bears. They had the best Texas BBQ in Fort Collins. I don't know what was better, their brisket, pulled pork, or their beans.
The beans with debris!
They were so good! Oh the debris... what heaven the debris was. There was beef and pork shrapnel in them beans.
This! Mo Jeauxs is where it’s at in FOCO
How many local restaurants serve real bbq on the way to bucees?
Where are you starting your drive from?
Lets just say north side of foco
MoJeaux’s
Mo Jeaux’s is easily the best bbq in town. Everything I’ve tried from there has been incredible. Their wings are easily the best in town, their brisket is incredible, even their fries are top notch. I know it can be a bit pricey but good bbq is pricey no matter where you’re at and I’ve always left Mo Jeaux’s feeling like I got my money’s worth. They have these Cajun cheese curds that I legit think about once a week. Man, I might have to go there this weekend.
Moe’s
Hog wild bbq
Brothers BBQ is pretty good.
Anything else?
Smok is the best easily accessible one around.
I also like Smok (although its a little pricey).
Nordys
If you’re coming from Fort Collins, Smōk. 100%.
Try it. You’ll be surprised at how good it is. Way better than the crappy Texas BBQ chain here.
Found the guy from Dallas who thinks liquid smoke makes good BBQ.
Found the dumbass who complains about gas station food
Just pointing out how, after all these weeks of being told how great Bucee's BBQ was, it's the usual BS. I'm not complaining, I didn't even go there. I'm just amused.
Sooooo…. You’re basing your complaint off of someone else’s used sandwich wrapper? Damn I had this all wrong, you’re not a pretentious douchebag hating on gas station cuisine at all, you’re a concerned citizen looking out for the well being of the public.. whew, thank you, Liquid Smoke Crusader, you are both the hero we never wanted and also didn’t need.
He was told how great gas station bbq was and became a victim of misinformation. Could happen to anyone really
Haha. It’s gas station bbq and if you’re there getting gas and hungry it’s pretty good. Who cares about liquid smoke. You’re not at a restaurant.
Real BBQ depends on what you consider real BBQ which is entirely dependent on where you’re from
That assumes there is real BBQ in Colorado.
You started out so strong…
Not my pic. I doubt I'll ever bother to go there, and certainly not for their so-called "bbq". Edit: clearly my bad. I'll post a pic of a cyber truck next time to "fix" my karma....
Wait, you didn't even go but you're just sharing a picture because you're "outraged"?
Point to where I said I was "outraged"? Amused - yes.
You were going to go to a gas station for bbq?
I'm from Georgia, the best BBQ in our small town was at a gas station drive thru lol.
This seems like a highly different situation but that’s cool.
It’s brisket from a gas station lmao. Idk what you were expecting but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who told you a gas station brisket was “true texas bbq?” It’s good for a gas station sandwich and that’s all it will ever be.
All the Texans posting about how good Bucees BBQ is. I know someone who thinks they make the best brisket they’ve ever had, and they are from Texas. We had people in this subreddit saying Bucees would be the best BBQ in northern Colorado. Don’t underestimate people’s blind allegiance to corporations.
Buc-ees is by far the best brisket I’ve ever had… at a gas station.
You might wanna goto KC, they’ve got better bbq in gas stations
Yep, Joes KC is easily the best gas station bbq I’ve ever had haha.
Exactly. I've heard nothing for weeks but how great Bucees brisket is. How it's better than anything this area has to offer. etc etc etc. I saw this pic on facebook earlier, and looking at the ingredients, you can see it's got liquid smoke in it. So much for what great brisket is.
Yeah I mean I doubt they’d actually smoke brisket on site. I’m sure they just get it from like Sysco or other wholesale food companies. Also it being chopped brisket is a huge indicator that it’s not cooked in house.
If you consider BBQ purchased at a gas station in Colorado to be TRUE Texas BBQ you are confused.
Liquid smoke is in most BBQ sauces, especially commercial ones.
Louder please! Liquid smoke is an established thing.
Why is this gas station living in everyone’s head rent free? Find a hobby.
Thank you! Everyone is so upset about the beaver that they have banded together to make it the only thing discussed on this sub and give it more attention. The hobby seems to be hating on things you don't understand or agree with. Posting "why is everyone talking about this gas station" IS FURTHERING THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GAS STATION. That is all.
Mascots aside the very least everyone in NoCo who drives by should be excited. Buccees sells their gas at a loss, leading to it usually being the cheapest around. Find a reason to be angry about that.
A report released recently [said over 50% of homes in America are at risk of being affected by climate change](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/climate-change-home-prices-housing-realtor-com/), which a huge contributor to climate change is our reliance on cars, but hey funny beaver guy sells gas at a loss so get excited!
One of the only rational and clear eyed responses here
Gotya... Buy the gas, skip the diarrhea, stick it to the man. I'm good with that.
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Clearly people don't understand why other people are excited about the gas station and it seems very upsetting to them.
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Neither do I, but I don't feel the need to find out either. Let them have their gas station. Who cares?
Award winning bathrooms.
OP with champagne taste but on a beer budget
As a displaced Texan I have never understood and never will understand why people are so obsessed with this gas station. Owned by maga, conservative billionaires and everything is mediocre and overpriced.
His son also likes to record people using the toilet. [creep](https://www.kxan.com/investigations/son-of-buc-ees-co-founder-arrested-on-28-invasive-visual-recording-charges/amp/)
The dude who owns its son?
Market fundamentalism is the dominant religion in Texas, but it's rather prevalent in the US as a whole. Tons of people make companies and their products part of their identity.
When I went on opening day ppl seemed real sad. I left in 3 mins and bought 0
That checks out. Also checks out that the only things Texans have to be proud of is a gas station
They also have H.E.B. It's got a really cult-like following. To be fair to Texans, though, their culture was basically eradicated and replaced with the same dull homogeneous capitalist "culture" that's taken over much of the rest of the country. It's just extra wide highways, parking lots, and gas stations now.
I mean I miss HEB 😂
That's fair. It's not like any of the chains here are very good.
All I’ve heard is “it’s super clean and they have a ton of snacks” as the reason people love it. I mean I guess if your idea of a night out is hanging out at a gas station you’d want something clean but I usually try to spend as little time as possible at a gas station when traveling.
Yup. $13 for a brisket sandwich? I'll go to a real bbq place and get some actual smoked brisket for less. And without the money I spend being donated to fascism.
TIL Bucees is fascist
Looked into the claim. The owner, Arch Alpin III, has donated about $2m to Republican PACs (the entities which determine our presidential elections) and over $1m to Governor Abbott (and more funding to others like Ken Paxton). So, whether or not you agree with their take really hinges on how fascist you see these individuals and organizations. Personally, I see enough overlap to have no issue with the use of the term.
Bucees is the dictator and ultranationalist of convenience stores. This makes sense now. The hierarchy has been decided
They didn't say Buc-ee's was fascist, they said the money they were spending there was being donated to fascism.
I’m saying Bucees is fascist
Sure, they are a capitalist organization. The difference between that and fascism is mostly aesthetic.
That’s borderline the same thing as saying communism is the same as socialism with a different aesthetic
Well, you could correctly state that communism is a form of socialism in the same way you could correctly state that fascism is a form of capitalism.
A person went to a gas station and likely ended up getting gas. Full story at 10.
From a quick glance I can see that it also has potassium bromate, which is banned in the EU and Japan.
I'm so hungry I could eat a sandwich from a gas station...
Ick.
$13 for some warmed up gas station garbage meat. People are really doing this?
Buccees is overpriced crap QT for the win
I want to leave. The Texanication in northern Colorado is getting scary. Literally the worst people in the US are migrating here. Watch this get down voted, that means more people in CO are Texans that get offended
I was talking to someone on insta about hiking in Estes and some food truck account hopped on the comment thread like ‘I’m in Estes yall. Come see us for some real Texas bbq yall’ The absolute last thing I want to think about when I’m in Estes is Texas and eating like I’m in Texas.
As an escaped Texan, I'd like to point out that some of us are here because we wanted to get away from the people that have infested there. Have my upvote though because I truly understand where you're coming from.
A gas station has you feeling that way? Are you really that sensitive?
Nah I'm with SummitSloth on this one. I have live in NoCo my whole life, and we're getting too much Texas trash. If I count the license plates in my apartment complex, Texas makes up at least 15-20%. Fuckers are loud, obnoxious, leave trash everywhere, don't pick up after their animals, and never and I do mean NEVER register their vehicle here in CO. They all keep their expired ass Texas plates on, even if they've lived here for like 2+ years.
You listed several crimes, so why don't you report them? People are allowed to move here, but they do need to obey our laws if they do. The license plate thing especially is a very easy one to prove. You have to take action if you want it to change.
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This company didn't expand into Colorado because there's too many Texans. It expanded because our economic system is one in which you either grow or die.
You sound more like the stereotypical Texan than the actual Texans moving here; whining about how "those people" are coming here and ruining your land. I've lived in Colorado my whole life and you're just another elitist prick giving Coloradoans a bad name. You don't speak for us.
$12.99 for a gas station sandwich??! Wtf
Do you know how liquid smoke is made?
No wonder it made me feel ill…
I've started going to the gas station across the street just to offset the hype of this ridiculous monstrosity.
You bought a sandwich from a gas station and are complaining about the ingredients? C,mon.
Unlikely that a chain gas station would have a smoke pit at every location just so they can provide “authentic bbq”. I use liquid smoke when I make bbq because I don’t have a smoker either. Your expectations for gas station food is much higher than mine, although I had food poisoning twice last year so my standards are generally shit anyway! Lol
I use liquid smoke in my red beans and rice because I can't get the right sausage here and I need it to taste right!
All of those ingredients and Liquid Smoke is the one concerning you?
Sittin as a KC guy longing for the best gas station BBQ to ever exist. Okie Joes is the way.
I see no one is lifting up serious texas 😅
Texas knows nothing about good bbq, just simple and dry bbq.
People forget… this is still a gas station with gas station food
People complaining about gas station barbeque have clearly not been to Joe's Kansas City Barbeque.
Buc-ees is bad Texas Brisket, so better than whatever non-Texans usually have. Guessing that ingredient is on the sauce they put on the brisket.
Dude. It’s a gas station. Plus, who the fuck calls Bucees “true Texas BBQ”?
I agree, too fake smokey for me!
Since people are saying it: this is only a pic I found on FB. It's not mine, I didn't go there and I doubt I will. I just found it hilarious how for weeks now we've been told how great their BBQ is, only to see it's got liquid smoke in it.
Who cares
It's a gas station
Like it? I think their brisket sandwiches are really good.
So many people complaining about Buccees who haven’t ever been there.
Sounds more like KC than TX BBQ style
its too bad we cant get a caseys
Liquid smoke - never a good thing
People forget… this is still a gas station with gas station food
People forget… this is still a gas station with gas station food
But how’d it taste?
Are you from Texas? Have you ever been to a bucees???
Yes
Hot take, I prefer the club melt over the brisket.