This, this, this is mythical.

Hey, can I, uh, get $25 on Pump 3?

Sure, would you also like a croissant, a hot dog, a hamburger, and a donut while you wait?

Yeah, can I get some $8 novelty sunglasses as well?

I didn't say that.

This is a hot dog as a sandwich.

Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what? That makes no sense. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. What? Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host Josh Cher. And I'm your host, Nicole Innihniati. And from here on out, we will only be wearing clothing items that have been sourced from some sort of convenient store attached to a gas station. I have never. Oh, Buckeys? Not only Buckeys. You can, like, go into like some A.m.s and 7-Elevens will have a random t-shirt rack. Oh, are you for real?

Dude, I was in one in Burbank and they had, they were selling t-shirts for the local high school. You could buy some John Burroughs High School T-shirts. That's like high-key awesome. I almost bought one, but I thought it would be, I don't know, kind of weird. I don't know. Does the school get any money? I don't know. I don't know the relationship.

Interesting.

But the point is, we are talking all about kids. Does a school get any money? I don't know. I don't know the relationship.

Interesting.

But the point is, we are talking all about convenience store foods today.

We are pitting the two, I don't know about biggest.

The biggest for me growing up, convenience stores in America, 7-11 has about 9,000 locations.

AMPM, only about 1,200 locations. Yes, I did see that as well in my research. And AMPM is not international. 7-Eleven is very international. They're actually owned by a Japanese company now. This happened recently, right? This happened relatively recently, yeah, yeah. And there's a whole thing with, like, the Japanese corporate. Because if you go to 7-Eleven in Japan, I've been. Oh, you've been. Tell me about it. Tell me about it. Oh, it's awesome. I mean, like, they're first of all wonderful. The vibe is wonderful when you go in. And they have, it's smaller than your average 7-Eleven. They have rows and rows and rows upon drinks.

That's the first thing I noticed.

The sheer volume of beverages that they have is staggering to like their food.

Now, their food is beautiful.

When I tell you that they have the best egg salad sandwiches,

they have onigiti stuffed with whatever your heart could desire, everything from Umaboshi to a spicy mayo salmon situation. Gosh, they have, they even have like hot drinks,

which I love in cans. So they have a section where it's like hot coffee or hot tea drinks. In cans?

In cans? Just sitting there on a warmer. Wow, they really are living in 3025, man. It was great. It was great. I love it. And I can't wait to go back to Japan and eat an exiled sando. Well, we ain't got no Japanese 7-11. But didn't they, did a 7-11 try to bring Japanese style sandals over? They did. So what's going on right now with 7-Eleven is a lot of them in America, America, Ray Kroc actually, I believe, like pioneered the franchise system. Sure. In the same way that, like, Henry Ford didn't invent the car, but he sort of like invented the, what is it called? The, oh my God, I'm so dumb. Wheel.

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