Food recommendations on I-10 East from Corona, CA to Houston, TX

Since this is now my personal Xanga/livejournal/Myspace page — and because the recommendations on the podcast thread were so exquisite I’m already listening to them while packing — I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask. I’m planning on doing 10 hours days from Corona to El Paso and then El Paso to Houston, so I don’t want to stop for a long lunch — nor will the three howling cats in my rented SUV — so places I can call in advance and eat on the way would be preferred. I’ve been looking online for such places, but they’re either far too fancy, which will kill my cats, or they’re perfect but have been recently burned down. I shit you not: four of the five places that initially excited me have burned down in the past few months.

So … recommendations? Including on the drive itself, places to stay that are cat-friendly, etc. Basically any recommendation you have that doesn’t amount to “DON’T BE DEAF YOU ANNOYING LITTLE COCKSUCKER.” (Which, when you think about it, is probably The Donalde’s way of saying he’s going to miss me when I’m gone. Not enough to stop sexually harassing his students, but enough to feel a pang above his waistline when he does so, you know, in the part of his brain where shame ought to live.)