This is making me hungry, and making me wish I lived closer to a truck stop.
LA Times: How a crackdown on immigrant drivers ignited an Indian food frenzy — at California truck stops
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@ai6yr There's a stretch of I-40 in NW Arizona where there's no cellular or public safety radio coverage, and hence no cops. Nearly every time i've traveled this stretch, I've encountered at least one of these Sikh fuckers playing dangerous games on the road.
Good riddance. I hope they cook better than they drive.
Looks like the closest ones to me are in Hesperia and on the I-40 after Barstow. Looks like Holbrook, Gallup also on the I-40, yummy. Of course by the time I am in NM I'm off looking for green chile.
@ai6yr there’s one in Wyoming that has a huge billboard along I-80. If only I could eat most Indian food 😢
There's one on I40 at Newberry Springs. Not one of the best, but very cheap.
@ai6yr You almost certainly have a Sikh gurdwara nearish to you. Very welcoming, the “langhar “ is open to every person regardless of belief. Typically wonderful vegetarian Punjabi food.
@winissen I'll have to look that up! We do have several Indian groceries locally with fabulous food... but the fact these are on travel routes is the real bonus (no more crappy hamburgers and terrible gas station hot dogs on road trips! YAY!).
I can't read the paywall'd article, but punjabi truck drivers (a story in itself) led to punjabi (and vegetarian) food at truck stops especially outwest, and in some very white-reactionary places. The food is often very good!
I no longer do road trips -- tl;dr -- but I was making the effort to stop at everyone one I found. Of course there's some really crappy food here and there, but even those are at least not heart-attack dinners.
And very many of them are good. I've had positively good vegetarian dinners on the side of an interstate.
The punjabis are tough and tolerant. I had one experience near the AZ/NM border on I10 where the big hair white lady at the counter was hostile as I asked where the indian food was (lol, a tiny counter off to one side, almost invisible) and multiple patrons came in to pay for gas with guns on their belt.
I'm so glad they've moved into long distance truck driving.
@ai6yr Curry cafés like that are the best. We're lucky to have lots in the UK (not roadside, mind, but in towns and cities).
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"chai tea" 😔
And now I'm craving some biryani and samosas 🤤
@me_valentijn There *was* a random gas stations along the 101 in Woodland Hills with fabulous samosas, but I don't go that way enough to know if they still do.
@me_valentijn Darn, seems like maybe not open anymore. 😢
@ai6yr @me_valentijn Also, you're looking about a thousand miles too far south. https://www.oregonlive.com/food/2024/11/indian-food-trucks-offer-taste-of-home-for-south-asian-truck-drivers-on-oregon-roads.html
@ai6yr Bookmarking this. Will be a while for me to get to the US again but at some point I'll find my way out West again.
@ai6yr if anyone is ever on I5 going by Corning, CA, Indian Curry Corner is excellent https://yelp.to/cLqVSwVnnl
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