Appreciation post: that gas station sushi I tried actually had a real nutrition label

I grabbed a spicy tuna roll from a 7-Eleven in Nashville last Tuesday expecting the worst, but the label showed 22 grams of protein and only 8 grams of fat. Has anyone else found hidden nutrition wins in places you'd normally avoid, or was this just a fluke?

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mileslane12d ago

Stopped at a truck stop in rural Nebraska last month and grabbed a packaged chicken salad sandwich from a gas station cooler. Figured it would be some mayo bomb with zero actual chicken. Checked the label and it had 18 grams of protein, only 5 grams of sugar, and the first ingredient was actually chicken breast, not some weird chicken puree. Turned out to be one of the most solid road trip meals I've had. Sometimes these places stock better stuff than the grocery stores because they have to appeal to truckers who actually need real food to keep going.

baker.christopher12d ago

Haha man I gotta push back on this. Truck stop chicken salad is a gamble I'd never take again after one gave me the worst food poisoning of my life in Kansas. Those sandwiches sit in coolers that barely work half the time, and you're trusting food that's been on a shelf for who knows how long. Give me a grocery store deli any day where I can see the date and it's not been baked under gas station lights for three days.

patricia3212d ago

Guess 18 grams of protein is worth gambling on whether that cooler was actually running. Nothing says fine dining like questionable mayo that's been vibrating down the highway for 300 miles.