A Southern Gas Station Road Trip

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The South is known for fantastic gas station food, and on today’s show, Dan takes a road trip from Birmingham to Memphis to try some out for himself. He travels across Alabama and Mississippi, eating pimento cheese sandwiches, tacos, fried chicken on a stick, sushi, and a very specific regional pasta dish.

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0:00.0	Would you say pomeo or pimento?
0:04.5	How hard do you pronounce the tea?
0:05.7	I'm trying to, I'm trying to assimilate here.
0:07.7	Pimento, yeah.
0:08.7	Yeah.
0:09.7	Yeah.
0:10.7	So I, let me...
0:11.2	Actually, I won't even tell you how bad I had misspelled the sign.
0:15.6	So that's a whole other thing.
0:16.7	Right.
0:17.7	Yeah.
0:18.7	That's like, you know.
0:19.7	All right, so I'll say it again, one pimento cheese sandwich.
0:21.3	Okay.
0:22.0	You could live here.
0:24.4	You can be tall.
0:27.1	This is the Sporkful.
0:32.9	It's not for foodies.
0:33.9	It's for eaters.
0:34.7	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:35.9	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people. And this is our sporkful month in the South. Last week, I talked with legendary Memphis restaurateur Karen Blockman Carrier. She shared so many great stories. She talked about growing up in a kosher home in Memphis and throwing a party in high school where one of our friends unwittingly
0:54.2	started frying up some bacon and then right then Karen's parents walked in the door.
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