An Editor’s Guide To Kwik Trip “Kuisine”

An Editor’s Guide To Kwik Trip “Kuisine”

The good, the bad, and the questionable.


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That roadside Kwik Trip full of fast and easy food is calling your name. But what should you get? Well, our staff tried a bunch of Kwik Trip food. Consider our highly subjective rankings of the good, the bad and the ugly when you make your next pit stop. One nearly universal attribute: This stuff is salty. 

Really good!

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Maple Waffle Sandwich

Hot diggity, this breakfast sandwich fights way above its weight class. Tasty and a little addictive, with that maple flavor. Absolutely blows McDonald’s breakfast offerings out of the water. Note: This is KT’s best breakfast sandwich option, but if maple is a deal-breaker, choose the croissant sandwich over the mediocre burrito.  

Chicken Tenders

A clear winner. These thick fried babies were crunchy from the light breading, flavorful and had a lot of meat to them without being too chewy. 

Photo by CJ Foeckler

Chicken Wings

Whether you’re getting garlic parmesan or sweet and spicy, the wings (like much of Kwik Trip’s chicken) stand out from the fried food pack. The breading somehow manages to not get soggy despite sitting for, presumably, quite a while in the thick, flavorful sauce that coats these.   


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Not bad!

Corn Dog

What more can be said about the humble dog of corn? KT’s version is a simple, rustic winner that is exactly what you would expect.  

Mashed Potatoes

Are you nostalgic for the kind of deliciously pedestrian taters of your childhood cafeteria? Kwik Trip delivers. A worthy side to any KT main course.  

Photo by CJ Foeckler

Pork Rib Sandwich

Objectively, this isn’t amazing – but it also is satisfying in that unnatural (possibly unholy) McRib kind of way.  

Cheese-Filled Breadstick

You ever have a Bosco stick? That’s exactly the kind of bready, gooey, straight-off-the-assembly-line thing we’re dealing with here –but with a little more salt. For the record, that’s a beautiful thing. 

Glazers

When it comes to Kwik Trip’s housemade doughnuts, the OG is the way to go – a box of plain raised-dough Glazers. The Dunkers cake doughnut varieties veer into obvious artificial flavorings.  

Take-Home Chicken Enchilada Bowl

There’s a whole line of take-home microwavable stuff you can try, and this is one of the better options available. But also, it’s a microwavable take-home enchilada bowl, so you kinda know what you’re getting into, right? 

Urge! Kettle Chips

Kwik Trip’s house brand Urge! chips (great name) come in a bunch of varieties, many of them worthy snacks, but the kettle chips get the blue ribbon. (Sadly, we missed out on the limited edition Gas Station Roller Dog flavor.) 

No, Thanks!

Slice of Pizza

Surprisingly disappointing – chewy with an almost alarmingly sweet sauce.  

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Sad but true: ConsideringKT’s pedigree with the tenders and the wings, it’s surprising how bad this is. Dry, mostly flavorless, etc.  

Photo by CJ Foeckler

Chicken Noodle Soup

We’re not mad, we’re disappointed. Yes, it’s gas station soup, but this broth was tragically watery.  

Grilled Cheese

Don’t. This was the most unexpectedly bad thing we tried, considering the Wisconsin-ness of it all. The cheese seemed like it had only ever dreamt of being melted.  


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Archer is the managing editor at Milwaukee Magazine. Some say he is a great warrior and prophet, a man of boundless sight in a world gone blind, a denizen of truth and goodness, a beacon of hope shining bright in this dark world. Others say he smells like cheese.