During the past 2 weeks I’ve had a few friends tell me that one of the local 7-Eleven convenience stores had been transformed into a “Kwik-E-Mart”, the cartoon convenience store that the Simpsons shop at. Being a huge Simpsons fan, I had to check it out.

It took us 45 minutes to drive down there. Luckily, and as you can see from the above pic, they went all out. They were even selling actual items from the Simpsons TV show, like Buzz Cola, Krusty O’s, pink donuts, and Squeeshies. Sadly, there was no Duff beer. Below you can see my brother Kyle holding a box of Krusty O’s.

I couldn’t resist buying a box, along with a huge case of Buzz cola, a Homer cookie, and a Squeeshy. The place was pretty packed, and it seemed like everyone else was doing the same. I’m glad I only bought one box though, I saw several people buying 2-4 boxes. They’ll probably be pretty bummed out when they get home and find out it’s just fruit loops inside (I was somewhat annoyed at this – come on, Krusty O’s != fruit loops).

Before this, I don’t think I’d ever been to a 7-Eleven. So even though there were decorations everywhere, I wasn’t sure how far they’d gone to make their business look like a Kwik-E-Mart. I thought it was cool they had gross looking hot dogs for sale though. If that’s what they normally sell, I’m surprised anyone eats them.

Everyone else in the store was taking pictures like crazy too. You couldn’t move 5 feet without getting in the way of someone’s photo. However, I highly recommend a trip up to one of these stores. It’s probably the most fun I’ve ever had in a convenience store. You can find the closest one to you here:

http://www.7-eleven.com/kem.asp

Here are some more photos I took:

http://www.patorjk.com/images/kwikemart/freezer_man.png – The freezer man!
http://www.patorjk.com/images/kwikemart/kyle_buzzcola.png
http://www.patorjk.com/images/kwikemart/kyle_comicbookguy.png
http://www.patorjk.com/images/kwikemart/kyle_outside.png
http://www.patorjk.com/images/kwikemart/pat_chiefwiggum.png

As a side note, the Buzz cola is just generic soda, and it doesn’t taste that great. So don’t buy a huge case unless you’re doing it for the cans. Same with the Krusty O’s – they just generic fruit loops. The Squeeshies are good, you should definitely get one of those. They were out of pink donuts when we got there, but I imagine they taste like any other donut you buy with pink frosting. There were a couple of other Simpsons themed products, but those were the main ones.