These Are Your Favorite Foods To Eat While Driving

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No 1 loves eating while they drive. All of us, fixed nan choice, would prime location other to prosecute successful nan ritual of fueling our bodies — a room counter, a table, a sofa successful beforehand of a TV pinch mindless YouTube playing. But sometimes we're forced to make owed pinch eating en route, sometimes a agelong thrust takes america consecutive done a meal, and we conscionable request nan calories truthful we tin support connected trucking. In those situations, what do you prime to eat?

That's nan mobility I asked each of you earlier this week, and coming I'm sorting done your answers for my favorites. Plenty of you are buzzkills, refusing to fto thing beyond a vessel of h2o successful your cars, but nan remainder of you look to beryllium normal quality beings tin of recognizing that a car is conscionable an object, and it's okay to sully nan interior pinch nan smell of a chili dog. Let's return a look astatine nan foods you picked. 

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Soup aliases fondue, depending connected my appetite.

Soft-shell crab erstwhile visiting nan Chesapeake Bay region, aliases full lobster if connected nan Maine coast.

Submitted by: JustinQueso

Really, JustinQueso? Your go-to melted food crockery is fondue?

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If I'm eating while driving location is 1 cleanable food: nan McDonalds 2 cheeseburger worth meal.

The buns are moist truthful there's nary crumbs. The toppings are minimal, truthful thing drips connected your shirt/lap. The sensation is capable and consistent. The fries are crisp, nan soda is cold. Pre-covid you could beryllium successful and retired of nan drivethrough successful astir 4 minutes.

Is this nan tastiest meal? God no. But for now, it is arsenic adjacent arsenic we tin perchance get to nan nutrient pellets of nan future. 

Submitted by: Buckfiddious

Sometimes you conscionable request macromolecule and calories, and McD's has them both. 

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I dislike eating while driving. It's messy and not nan smartest aliases safest choice. In a pinch erstwhile there's a clip crunch, I will get thing but it has to beryllium a wrap aliases different nutrient that reduces nan distraction and messiness potential. But usually I will conscionable hold until I get location wherever I tin eat properly.

Submitted by: Biff Magnitude

A wrap is simply a coagulated option, but you person to unrecorded successful fearfulness of nan bottommost coming open. 

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In nan car? Candy. Every different nutrient leaves crumbs, gets each complete my hands, and/or has nan imaginable for disastrously landing successful my thigh and connected nan seat. No thanks. Anything other I'll propulsion complete astatine a remainder extremity to eat aliases spell to a restaurant.

Submitted by: NotLewisHamilton

I like nan thought of being truthful against eating nutrient successful nan car that you overgarment your steering instrumentality successful chocolate. 

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A large vessel of Wendy's chili, scorching basking murphy crockery from Panera, Panda Express' Orange Chicken pinch other atom (if I usage chopsticks, it scares nan passengers a spot more, and a (YUM!) chili dog!!! (I had 5 much that day...)

Submitted by: Xavier96

I still retrieve erstwhile we first sewage a Sonic successful my assemblage town. Needless to say, I've had plentifulness of chili dogs successful cars. I deliberation astir of nan chili dogs I've eaten successful my life person been successful cars. 

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It's mostly truffle ham sandwich : not excessively overmuch condiment to drip (curry condiment tin beryllium difficult to get disconnected achromatic pants) while still tasty, aliases Grenoblois (Bleu du Vercors aka bluish food + walnuts + salad).

But since I sewage an EV, I tin safely spell to messier and tastier things arsenic classical Kebab sandwich, Tacos aliases moreover Poutine (which get nan sanction "frites à la québécoise" these days) and eat them retired of nan car, which is overmuch much comfortable.

Snacking? fruits are my favourite (but I whitethorn request a codriver to peel citruses).

Submitted by: Niko PetrHead

Fun fact: The "navigator" successful rally is really a misnomer. That's nan citrus-peeler, to guarantee nan driver doesn't get scurvy while rallying. You're besides nan first personification to opportunity poutine, and now I desperately want poutine for dinner.

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My go-to roadworthy travel nutrient is beef jerky, bugles (a operation of nan regular and caramel flavors). h2o aliases lemonade. If it's early greeting aliases a redeye thrust java successful a spill impervious recreation mug.

If I'm connected a clip crunch past chickenhearted nuggets/strips & fries.

Submitted by: Saabster

I understand that beef jerky and bugles were abstracted suggestions here, but now I'm wondering if they'd really activity together successful a benignant of roast-beef-sandwich-on-brioche way. 

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Anything you tin clasp pinch a azygous manus and is contained successful a wrapper truthful nary mess. I person eaten for illustration a taco doorbell chickenhearted burrito and a mini burger earlier but that's astir it. And nan evident for illustration chips, aliases possibly chickenhearted nuggets. Basically thing you don't person to interest astir making a messiness with. That said I haven't eaten while driving successful AGES

Submitted by: Liffie420

You whitethorn deliberation that specifying a chickenhearted burrito from Taco Bell is unnecessary, but I'm present to show you it's not. The crushed beef burritos person measurement little structural integrity. 

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Banana. It's speedy to eat and a healthier replacement to fries and chickenhearted nuggets. I person a insubstantial cup successful my cupholder to propulsion nan peel successful until I tin get to an existent trash tin to dump it.

Submitted by: Giantsgiants

Giantsgiants is connected a full caller level, pinch food-specific infrastructure successful their car fresh to spell successful lawsuit they get peckish. 

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I don't eat while driving. For one, it's nary different than different forms of distracted driving. And for two, my woman is simply a sloppy eater and I don't want to person to cleanable up aft her.

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Hear maine out
First of all, it's messy and gets your car dirty.
Second of all, it's is ANOTHER distraction for each nan inattentive drivers.
Third of all, if you tin get to a thrust thru, chances are you are adjacent capable to a (real) restaurant.
Fourth of all, your car is not a eating room.

Nobody eats thing successful immoderate of my vehicles. We will spell to a edifice if you're quiet aliases hold till we get to nan destination. Water is good if it's successful a vessel aliases thing for illustration that. 

Bottle of water. Other than water, thing is allowed to beryllium consumed wrong immoderate of my cars isolated from my beater truck. I erstwhile drove transverse state pinch a family personnel and he was benignant of quiet astatine 1am truthful we stopped astatine a Pilot Travel Center. They were trading mini-Pizzas fresh to eat from nether a power lamp display. He was astir to get successful my car pinch nan pizza successful his manus aft taking a bite. I directed him to nan trunk lid to usage arsenic his array and decorativeness his nutrient earlier getting successful nan car.

This is each PTSD from complete 20 years agone erstwhile I had a benignant of bully car and a rider spilled reddish Gatorade while successful nan beforehand rider seat. I had achromatic interior but nan stains successful nan carpet and level mat ne'er came out. Not a large woody if you person a beater but it was horrible connected my first bully car purchased. 

Why eat successful nan car? Drive, some hands connected nan wheel. I retrieve a communicative from astir 25 years back. German engineers were appalled by nan placement of cup holders successful American cars. Does your java array person a steering instrumentality successful it? No? Then why should your car emulate a kitchen? 

Nothing. No nutrient successful my vehicles. It makes them gross 
Which is why moreover a 20 twelvemonth aged Lexus has nan faint pleasant tack shop smell of good maintained leather and caller carbon-filtered air, not fishy accelerated nutrient grease from dropped crumbs and fries. 
If I want to eat, I extremity somewhere.

No nutrient successful nan car. No portion successful nan car. So, nary messiness and nary smell successful nan car

Nothing. If you don't driblet nutrient connected yourself, you're going to driblet it successful nan car. I'd alternatively eat astatine said edifice aliases conscionable hold until I get home. 

Submitted by: Give Me Tacos Or Give Me Death, Mustangmania, Chris Gill, Tex, Rick C., Winter Cat, Luc Desaulniers (minardi), Marcus C

Man, you each return your cars measurement excessively seriously.