It’s no secret that I have experience with road trip food. On the long road trips of my childhood, carefully prepared bologna sandwiches and Lay’s potato chips, pretzel rods and cold grapes were the fare of choice. As I got older and started taking road trips without my family, McDonald’s stops became the norm (apart from my two-year vegan era, during which I survived on canned chickpeas, unsalted plantain chips and motel vending machine Oreos for two weeks straight on one particularly budget-conscious trip).

It wasn’t until I was in adulthood that I recognized the glory of QuikTrip, the southern rest stop phenomenon that boasts a wide variety of roller food, some of which I wholeheartedly believe is delicious (try the cheesy pepper jack taquito and thank me later).