I am going by South of the Border-can I get anyone anything?

[underpants]

THIS is the actual South of the Border website... I'm not kidding
http://www.pedroland.com/

BUENS DIAS, AMIGO! pedro VER' GLAD YOU COME!!pedro got 112 meelion amigos, who stay weeth heem, opp teel now all satisfy come back, send frans...thees make pedro ver' HAPPEE...like for frans come back all time...pedro hope YOU make 112 meelion and wan hapee amigos! you come back soon, too, yes? Find your distance to Pedro's!

[Rhythm]

1. Yeah, i desperately need some plastic dog poop, and a big rubber alligator!

I think that's what i bought the last time I went there...

[underpants]

2. Big rubber Poop

Got it!

[supernova]

3. Giant Highway-sized sombrero

I could really use one of those.

[underpants]

5. Si`

[pagerbear]

4. Boiled peanuts!

Yum!

[underpants]

6. I'll see if they have any

[pagerbear]

7. There will be lots of roadside boiled peanut stands in SC.

Are you going to Myrtle Beach? Whatever for?

[underpants]

8. YES

what for??? Sun fun and ............fun!!

[pagerbear]

9. I hope you have lots of fun there

I'm from NC, so I can name beach destinations in NC and SC that might be a little less....er....commercial.

[underpants]

11. Oh I know

but my wife and I just decided to do this two weeks ago and we know Myrtle really well at least it is a fun bar-on-the-beach place and that is what we are looking for.

[Squatch]

10. Where the hell is that? I've never seen any road signs for that place.

:sarcasm:

[underpants]

12. I think is , relatively, near this place

[datasuspect]

13. that is as offensive as pickaninny imagery or blackface

not your fault, way too many people are okay with stereotypical racist imagery of latinos.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. We went there to buy fireworks on the way back from Myrtle

Beach. What.A.Dump.

[underpants]

16. Pay toilets

I mentioned this to a co-worker and she said that her only recollection of it from childhood was that she had to get a quarter from her mom to go to the bathroom.

I love cheesy crap like this-not really to buy but to go and observe how a mind got to that point AND the people who clearly stop here on purpose.

We got fireworks from there 5 years ago coming back from our honeymoon. Being that we never went to Myrtle or anywhere other than Va. Beach and then Nags Head (my wife grew up in Roanoke -everyone there goes to Myrtle) this was new to me.

It is QUITE the dump! It's like one giant Stuckey's!!!

[stuntcat]

15. I grew up next to South of the Border >:{

I've had enough of that, thanks :7

[underpants]

17. I can relate

I grew up near Williamsburg

[supernova]

18. I remember when SotB

was nothing but a little roadside cafe next to an open broomstraw field (so you could shoot off your fireworks that you just bought.)

To observe what it has become in my lifetime is just ..... *sigh*

[meegbear]

19. Bring me a stereotypical happy Mexican with burgers and fries

[mitchum]

20. "Chili Today...Hot Tamale!"...

I love South of the Border...because it's soooooooo wrong :)
The founder of South of the Border, until his death just a few years ago, was a longtime Dem who gave lots of $$$$$$$$$$$ to the SC Democratic Party.

[underpants]

25. I agree that is what makes it so interesting to me

and thanks for the info I was not aware of that

[LynneSin]

21. I use to do these Ecology field trips during spring break at Sapelo Island, GA

We would always drive it down and our professor (who was also the driver) refused to stop at South of the Border. We would annoy the shit out of him by reading all the signs as we passed them and just plain bugging him to stop (mind you, we had a keg in the van that was tapped and flowing).

Never did get to stop there

[underpants]

23. MMmm

now that sounds like some fun!

[deepthought42]

22. Well...I already have a Pedro's Bug Buster...

What would you recommend? lol

[underpants]

24. Made something in a

[deepthought42]

31. Do I want to know what that is?

;)

:rofl:

[Burma Jones]

26. Can you get me Discounts to Orlando Attractions

I make the trip down 95 three or four times a year, although I hang a left at I-40 and go to Wilmington....

Drove by SotB last month on the way to Myrtle Beach.......we didn't stop......

[jmowreader]

27. Just another case where prohibition made someone rich

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20061120/ap_tr_ge/travel_trip_south_of_the_border

The guy who started South of the Border was a beer dealer in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 1949 Robeson County took the Local Option (that means you couldn't buy beer there anymore) and the beer seller moved to Dillon County, SC, and set up the South of the Border Beer Stop right on the state line.

Now that family is so filthy rich South of the Border will survive into eternity.

Every time someone tries to interfere with people getting fucked up on the weekends, this happens. National Prohibition made the Mafia a permanent part of the landscape. Drug prohibition put Medellin on the map. And the Local Option caused...well, this.

[underpants]

29. See mitchum's post #20

He must have been an oldschool Big D Dem

[jmowreader]

30. I saw his post

which doesn't change the fact that the guy who started South of the Border was attacked by his local government (they banned the sale of his product) and he retaliated by going just out of their jurisdiction and going large. Which, of course, is the only intelligent thing TO do.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

28. 10 margaritas please, I have to stay late at work

[underpants]

32. Mmmm roadside margaritas

:P

[deepthought42]

33. On second thought...

I'm going to Myrtle Beach for vacation next month... I'll just pick something up myself. Would you like anything? ;)