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Provo • Actor and internet meme sensation Chuck Norris made several stops at Utah Maverik stations Wednesday and Thursday, promoting his new brand of "premium artisan water," dubbed CForce.

Several hundred fans — many who sweated out the long lines to meet Norris beneath a hot sun and looked like they could use a tall drink of the product being peddled — waited their turn for a minute-long meet-and-greet with the action-movie star. Norris stood comfortably under a shaded canopy at the Maverik gas station at 1530 N. State St. in Provo, shaking hands and posing for photos that admirers could later download through a website (no selfies allowed).

Also on display was Truck Norris, a tricked-out, American-flag-adorned vehicle, which people were told they could win by joining a Maverik promotional club.

The 77-year-old Norris never wilted — because, of course, the sun wilts under Chuck Norris — as he happily engaged in small talk with each fan, many who grew up watching his movies or his '90s TV series "Walker: Texas Ranger."

Maverik sells Norris' CForce bottled water, tapped from an underground aquifer at his Texas ranch. According to a product website, CForce water "doesn't flow from the ground; it bursts from an artesian spring with the same unharnessed power and intensity you'd expect from Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick."

On Thursday, some of Norris' Utah County fans said they wish he — an outspoken Republican who penned an op-ed last year in support of Donald Trump — would seek public office, or at least be named the new director of the FBI.

"We need to get him in to Washington!" enthused one man. "I think he would clean it up. I think he's the man for the job."

But would Norris want the gig? Probably not, he told The Salt Lake Tribune.

But "if someone has to clean it up, and it has to be me," Norris said, "I'll take the job."

rkane@sltrib.com