Dh had to drive 45 minutes to get to fast food (or a grocery store) while growing up. They really were the middle of no where. He even had to drive 35 minutes to get to school from middle school up.
He still talks about how lucky our kids are to get to eat out. While he was growing up they didn't have much. His dad was a farmer with three kids and his mom was a stay at home mom (and then went back to teaching once all of the kids were in school full time). So they never really had any money. They would save up and go out to Pizza Hut (almost an hour away) once every few months. His parents still live on a gravel road...and my dh still gets tickled to death that we can afford to wrap the boy's Christmas gifts. When he was little they didn't get them wrapped (no money for wrapping paper, it was either that or the gifts).
Or so he tells the stories...sometimes I wonder if he had to walk uphill both ways to school in a blizzard without shoes too!