What do you want at the rest stop?

[pll]

Some of the best treats I've had in rest stops in long rides:

• Roasted potatos with rosemary, olive oil and sea salt (at Rebecca's Private Idaho)
• Plain rice, either with salt or soy sauce (at Mountains of Misery)
• Fig spread and ham flat rolls in some sort of flat bread (at the Horribly Hilly Hundreds)

The worst I've had has been surprise creamy cheese in a sandwich.

Edited to add: small cans of coke in the later rest stops in century rides are awesome!

[ny biker]

Some of the best treats I've had in rest stops in long rides:

• Roasted potatos with rosemary, olive oil and sea salt (at Rebecca's Private Idaho)
• Plain rice, either with salt or soy sauce (at Mountains of Misery)
• Fig spread and ham flat rolls in some sort of flat bread (at the Horribly Hilly Hundreds)

The worst I've had has been surprise creamy cheese in a sandwich.

Edited to add: small cans of coke in the later rest stops in century rides are awesome!

I admire your willingness to do rides with names like "Misery" and "Horribly."

Interesting comment on the cream cheese. A few weeks ago I did a search to find a recipe for roll-up sandwiches and found one that used turkey and cream cheese. I had suggested serving roll-ups at one of our rest stops next year and wanted the recipe to illustrate what I was talking about. They had turkey roll-ups (sans cream cheese) at a ride that I did last fall and I was going to do that ride again this weekend and hoped to be able to ask them if they made the sandwiches or bought them pre-made, but I had a recent change of plans so that won't be possible.

As for pie -- that's the type of thing I used to think would be too heavy to eat during a ride, but I had some during a metric last summer and it really hit the spot.

[pll]

Soft cheeses are particularly treacherous! On another century ride, on a day that was nippy, they had hot potato soup at the midpoint rest stop.