{"id":1851,"date":"2009-12-08T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2009-12-08T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:07:17","slug":"am-pm-mini-marts-burgers-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"AM PM Mini Marts &#8211; Burgers and Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ampm_exterior_3_eng_570x380.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"ampm_exterior_3_eng_570x380\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ampm_exterior_3_eng_570x380.jpg\" alt=\"ampm_exterior_3_eng_570x380\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AM\/PM mini marts are co-located with ARCO gas stations;\u00a0 ARCO (and AM\/PM) are U.S. brands of British Petroleum.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 70s, AM\/PM started offering heat-to-eat hot dogs &amp; burgers, and eventually expanded to a wide variety of snack and to go foods, nestled among a pretty respectible condiment bar.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started stopping there, I was living in suburban Los Angeles, and I was delighted I could get burgers or dogs any time of day or night.\u00a0 Those first years, the price point was 2 \/ $1.00.<\/p>\n<p>30 years later, they are up to 2 \/ $3, but still a deal.\u00a0\u00a0 I dove into two spicy hot dogs the other day, much akin to a Johnsonville polish,\u00a0 not natural casings, but a nice snap nonetheless.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And of course, I loaded them up at the condiment bar.\u00a0 A nice snack.\u00a0 About 900 AM PM locations in the US West.\u00a0 (Exterior photo from AM PM website).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/AMPM-PNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1853\" title=\"AMPM PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/AMPM-PNG-300x186.png\" alt=\"AMPM PNG\" width=\"476\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AM\/PM mini marts are co-located with ARCO gas stations;\u00a0 ARCO (and AM\/PM) are U.S. brands of British Petroleum. In the late 70s, AM\/PM started offering heat-to-eat hot dogs &amp; burgers, and eventually expanded to a wide variety of snack and to go foods, nestled among a pretty respectible condiment bar. When I first started stopping&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=1851\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AM PM Mini Marts &#8211; Burgers and Dogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,16],"tags":[472,474,475,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}