The closest Sonic to me is about 2 hours away--the only one in the whole of North California, so far as I know. I would *kill* for some cheese tator tots a cherry limeade. Or, for sweet tea--done right. Or, white gravy done right. Or, enchiladas--etc.

Or, a decent thunderstorm.

And, they don't do cicadas out here. Summers without that sound are just strange.

*Shrugs*

My wife and I got dinner from a Sonic in Fort Worth a few years back; whoever was on the other end of the squawkbox was either hard of hearing or making fun of my McDonald's-trained effort to be as intelligible as possible. And when we got the food back to our hotel (downtown, thus a long drive) it was cold.

There's a Sonic not too far from home though -- maybe I'll give 'em another try.

And I wonder why there are so many clustered in the San Joaquin Valley of California, and the next one north from there is in Yuba City? What -- too good for Sacramento, are they?

I'm an OKC native living in Seattle now after several years in Portland, and I second almost all of those misses. Especially the thunderstorms...there's rain here, but it's really not the same.

I was never much of a Sonic's man -- instead, I miss Del Rancho and Long John Silvers.

I have never been to a Sonic. AFAIK, Sonic doesn't operate in South or Central Florida (south of the I-4 corridor). Sonic doesn't operate (any more) in San Diego. Sonic doesn't have an outlet here in East Podunk, WA. (Judging from Todd's response, they're not in Seattle, either.)

In fact, I have only seen one Sonic in my life, and it was only open for about three months before it closed. There was a Sonic next door to Burger King in Chula Vista, CA, for a short period of time, but it didn't seem to do much in the way of business, and quickly disappeared.