Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
I think we're in the largest gas station in the world.
Look how many gas pumps there are on both sides.
This is insane.
This is Buc-ee’s.
If I remember rightly, there's some amazing road trip snacks here.
Wow.
This is my overwhelming memory of Buc-ee’s.
Flipping beaver nuggets. I don't even know what these are.
I just remember they taste like...
I feel sorry for the beavers because we're going to be eating their nuggets today.
Of all the animals, the best nuggets come from beavers.
Everything's Buc-ee’s own brand.
Spicy pickled eggs.
Just in a jar.
Oh look, sweets!
That's Lego Ollie, it's candy Lego.
What?
Juno would love that.
Yeah, that's way too much sugar for her.
She's not getting that.
This is all salsa.
There's more salsa than I've ever seen in my entire life.
And we’re in a gas station.
I'm genuinely overwhelmed.
This isn’t an exaggeration.
There's more selection of own brand food here than there are in any supermarket in the UK.
That's a beaver nugget scented candle.
Are you serious?
It's ginormous.
There's proper Texan stuff.
What a beaver nugget scented candle.
I mean it weighs about 5 kilos.
You gonna take that home for Lizzie?
Gabie would not appreciate that.
Not sure I want my house to smell of beaver nuggets.
I'm not sure I want my house to smell of any kind of nugget.
No, no, definitely not.
Buc-ee’s cinnamon roll.
Ohhh, yes.
Oh, fudge!
Look at this. This is praline fudge!
They've got a sampler.
Do you want a sampler?
That's a lot of fudge Ollie.
Is this banana pudding?
Banana pudding.
In a cup.
Banana pudding!
This is like a gas station that let the intrusive thoughts win.
Oh, THAT is a sausage on a stick.
I mean as an Englishman, you're talking my language here.
It's basically a Texan sausage roll.
We have to get a sausage on a stick, come on.
We've heard of kolaches.
What the heck are they?
There's literally a sign on the wall right there Ollie.
What's a kolache?
Bread, meat, cheese.
All three food groups in one package.
All three of the food groups in existence.
What's like the most popular?
Well, should we just get a basic one, a sausage cheese kolache?
That sounds like a good idea.
Let's start slow.
Oh my gosh.
This is the jerky.
That is unbelievable!
It's like a beef morgue.
What's the best?
Everything's the best.
What's the most popular flavour of jerky?
This is crazy.
It is actually crazy.
There's a giant beaver.
What is going on?
Do you think Juno would like that?
I feel like she might be a bit scared by it.
I'm a bit scared by it.
You wake up and you just look.
Yeah, it does look a bit like you.
It's true.
What are these?
Cinnamon glazed pecans.
Holy balls.
We definitely need these.
Hello, how are you doing?
We got a bit carried away, much like your entire store.
Have you ever been to the UK?
If you go, just prepare to be disappointed by petrol stations.
Yeah, they're nothing like this.
There's more food in this store than there is in the entire United Kingdom.
All right, let's go and try some snacks.
Starting with a giant sausage on a stick.
Wrapped in like a very sorry looking tortilla.
I mean, the tortilla was born thinking it was going to be a burrito and instead,
It was just wrapped around a soggy sausage on a stick.
After you mate.
Okay.
Oh, you don't have to grab it with your hands.
Looks good.
It actually looks like a beef sausage.
That's good.
That is good.
Why is that good?
I was so ready for that to be terrible.
Like if I'm passing a Buc-ee’s and I'm peckish, I'd definitely just smash one of these.
Imagine that on a road trip, right?
You just pull up, start yamming sausage and tortilla.
What was this thing called?
It's a kolache.
All three food groups, cheese, sausage and bread.
After you mate.
OK, why?
Sorry, you're weirded out by me feeding you.
It's a very big bite.
It reminds me of Greggs actually.
No it doesn't.
How do they get the sausage and cheese in?
I think they fold it at the bottom.
It looks like there's a fold.
Maybe they plant a sausage seed and it grows inside the bun.
The sausage and the bun have a special kind of hug.
And then the sausage grows inside.
Stop!
Buc-ee’s is a family friendly place, Ollie.
I'm not sure where the cheese comes from.
Stop.
Howdy partners.
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All right, back to Buc-ee’s.
Finally, on the savoury front, maple cherry beef jerky.
Sounds like a vape flavour.
Where does this stuff come from in your brain?
It's incredibly accurate.
This is the biggest piece of beef jerky I've ever seen.
Ooh!
Oh, it's like actually cherry.
I'm waiting for the meat flavour.
There's no meat flavour.
For some reason I thought it would be like maple wood, cherry wood, you know, smoky flavouring.
That's actual just cherry, like the fruit cherry flavour.
Honestly, we're probably going to make some enemies here.
Disgusting.
I hate that.
It honestly just tastes like vape flavoured jerky.
Great, thanks.
It tastes like when you're walking behind someone who's vaping,
and all you get is just like clouds and clouds of vape.
You're trying to enjoy really quite high quality jerky,
but you just keep getting a cloud of vape smoke.
OK.
Save the rest of that for later.
Can we just say Buc-ee the beaver freaking punches hard, man.
It's ridiculous.
We're at a gas station in the middle of like a huge highway.
What on earth?
And for a beaver to build that.
They don't even have.
Do they have opposable thumbs?
I think they do, actually.
Yeah, they normally just stick to dams.
The hot, freshly made praline pecans.
Is that what these are?
Prah-line? Pray-leen? Is it prah-line?
Pee-cun. Pick-an?
Pra-line.
Pick'un
Pih-cun
Pi'caan.
Pi'caan?
Pee-cun.
Prah-line pickun.
Stupid.
That's just so good.
Wow.
That's the best thing we've had yet.
You can get warm, roasted, sugar roasted nuts in England,
but they are sold by illegal roadside stalls.
And basically one in ten is actually a deep fried cockroach.
Urghhh.
It's impossible to tell the difference.
Impossible to tell the difference.
That's my favourite thing yet.
Freshly made cinnamon bun.
Oohh!
Ah, it's warm underneath!
Look at that.
And it's melting.
Cinnamon butter's like dripping off of it.
Go for it, mate. Get in there.
- I think we should Lady and the Tramp this. - No...
Go for it.
I think we should.
So messy. Look how messy that's going.
In honour of the beaver.
Eat it!
Come on.
No.
It's already all over your mouth.
Wow, you went straight back in for another bite.
That's the first thing you've done that.
What?!
That has no right to be that good.
Oh my gosh.
It's incredible.
This is made in-house in a petrol station.
This is truly the land of opportunity.
You want to try a beaver tail or beaver nuggets?
We're onto the beaver goods.
We're onto the beaver's lower half.
Back to the beaver nuggets.
The iconic Buc-ee’s beaver nuggets.
This is all I remember from the things that were sent to us in the UK.
I remember them being great.
I remember them being very good.
Cheers, mate.
I don't know what it's made of, but it's so good.
We've said it before, beavers have the best nuggets.
We can Lady and the Tramp the tail if you want to.
Okay. Thank you.
- I'm giving you my permission. - Okay, let's do it.
It's long enough.
How is this my job?
Oh my gosh.
What the hell? I'm angry.
It's like a puff pastry cinnamon roll and it's incredible.
I would be so big if I lived in Texas.
Like I don't want electric cars because this place is going to go out of business as a gas station.
And then we're going to be deprived of all these incredible things.
Ollie we’ve come here and we haven't bought any gas.
I think they're going to be fine.
But how do you think they've been able to invest
in the R&D that has led to these magnificent things?
Fossil fuels, right?
Never have fossil fuels created something more beautiful.
And yes, okay, maybe the Earth is going to be destroyed,
but maybe it's worth it if you get to try this stuff.
Everything he's saying right now is from a high of cinnamon sugar.
Holy crap, this is heavy.
It's honestly about the weight of a brick.
Literally a brick of fudge.
This has got pecans in it and everything we've tried with pecans in has been really good so far.
I want that one.
Oh, it's SO big.
I'll snap this in half.
We'll snap this one in half too then.
Okay, okay.
Oh my gosh.
- I don't know if it's snaps very well. - It doesn't snap.
Wow, you've just squished it into oblivion.
Oh, that's disgusting.
It's fine. It's fine.
You made it so much worse.
Alright.
Alright, cheers.
Wow, holy crap, we're going to die.
It just dawned on me we're going to die.
Last up.
I'm actually, I'm honestly kind of sad.
I'm sad because it's been such a voyage of discovery and delight.
You know? It's like I'm coming to the end of a day at Disneyland.
And there's no time to queue up for any more rides.
We've got five bags of stuff we're going to take with us.
This is banana pudding in a cup.
There's no way this is good.
Look at the jiggle to it.
Cheers.
Damn it, he's done it again.
I really want to hate that.
I really want to hate it.
It tastes so artificial.
Bloody Buc-ee has done it again.
But it does taste good.
Who is this beaver savant hanging out on the side of highways in Texas?
Just a culinary genius funding his entire enterprise off fossil fuels.
He should be a bad guy.
You should hate him.
But I love it.
I'm rooting for him.
This has been amazing.
I mean, I must say, I feel a great affinity for Buc-ee.
He, like me, has huge front teeth protruding out of his mouth.
I thought you were gonna say huge nuggets.
Sorry.
He clearly makes the intrusive thoughts win.
He's like, I'll start a gas station.
And you're like, let's have three pumps.
He's like, no. How about we have 3,000? You know?
300.
Let's have a gift shop. How about we have a mall?
Let's have everything.
Yeah.
Buc-ee’s, it does feel like what happens when you just answer every question with the answer "Yes".
It's so nice that for both of us, the thing we were most excited about lived up to it.
I don't feel entirely comfortable with the comparisons you're making between
Terry Black's generational cultural heritage barbecue, and this.
A beaver literally built a friggin mall.
A gas station snack.
But those praline pecans were genuinely incredible.
Maybe the best nuts I've ever had.