Three Hole Punch: Summer Road Trips for Snakes, Bulls, and Wieners

This week: Weekend getaways and vacation plans involving a dead fast-food restaurant chain, a seafood-loving snake, and a freedom-loving cow.

A Road Trip to the Wiener King

A lot of you wrote in after I wrote about the rise and fall of the Wiener King: A once-promising fast food chain based in Charlotte that once had dozens of locations before shriveling up and disappearing in the 1980s. At least one of my readers was an actress in a Wiener King commercial. Several others pointed out that even though the corporation is long gone, former Wiener King buildings are still out there today, with architecture that’s easily recognizable (anyone who’s immediately recognized a repurposed Pizza Hut knows what this feeling is all about).

However, only one of you was so bold as to make a pilgrimage to the last remaining Wiener King in America.