Is Your City Inundated with Food Trucks?

[otc]

Originally Posted by BB1

To many white middle class city dwellers the food trucks likely represent an "authentic urban experience", similar to how they fancy themselves as being more cultured than their comrades whom still live in the drab suburbs. It is their alternative to the fast food chain restaurant. Just because they may despise the fast food chain and what it represents to them, they have not truly broken their habit of desiring greasy fast food while on the go.

How about if it is just that some of them make tasty food and I am bored with the spots within walking distance of my office.

If some awesome taco truck pulled up around the corner, I'd definitely eat there. I'm not willing to go the distance and follow some truck on twitter so that I know where it will be and when (there aren't a lot of them in chicago) but if I was heading out and saw one parked, I would definitely give it a try.

I think the low startup costs and overhead of the food truck let them get a little more experimental than the high-rent lunch places around my office...also you can move them somewhere else at night since there are zero people in this neighborhood once the offices start to empty.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by willpower

They brought in $180 over 4 hours.

Your friends lost their ass in that 4 hours.

Originally Posted by dexterhaven

Ha ha Did you copy this out of a magazine? First of all, it is "who still live." The word is "who." And although these trailers are foodie havens (I shudder to use the word "foodie"), I would not say that they are the food snob's fast food substitute. Eating at most of these places requires a significant investment of time. And the food is often not comparable to what is offered at McDonald's or Wendy's. It has aspirations towards the gourmet. The popularity of these places is due to gluttony, which to the modern urban white person has transformed from a sin into a virtue.

Jeebus, man! Chill.

Originally Posted by willpower

Even during the winter?

^This is the one thing holding me back from starting a food truck here. I know I can make a go of it 8 months a year or so, but I don't know how to make it work in the Dakota winter.

 

[Find Finn]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

Am I the only one thinking those look pretty good for a kebab?


We don't really have food trucks, we only have weinerwagons /pølsevogn (yes that is what they are called), though some people have begun trying to do bagels etc.

 

[Davidko19]

Originally Posted by otc

If some awesome taco truck pulled up around the corner, I'd definitely eat there. I'm not willing to go the distance and follow some truck on twitter so that I know where it will be and when (there aren't a lot of them in chicago) but if I was heading out and saw one parked, I would definitely give it a try.

this. In LA its everywhere. Hell, they have festivals where the trucks go, people pay $20 to get in and THEN pay to wait in line and eat.

Last friday I was hungry at work and walk about 200 feet to the corenr gas station and what do you know, mexican taco truck. Pork brains, skin, head, the works. Nothing fancy but real peasant, working man foods, no gourmet ****. I stuck with the al pastor and asada.

Im going to start doing cocktail trucks. Portable manhattans!

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

^This is the one thing holding me back from starting a food truck here. I know I can make a go of it 8 months a year or so, but I don't know how to make it work in the Dakota winter.

Put a snow plow on the front and sell hot chocolate??

 

[changy]

Originally Posted by Davidko19

this. In LA its everywhere. Hell, they have festivals where the trucks go, people pay $20 to get in and THEN pay to wait in line and eat.

Last friday I was hungry at work and walk about 200 feet to the corenr gas station and what do you know, mexican taco truck. Pork brains, skin, head, the works. Nothing fancy but real peasant, working man foods, no gourmet ****. I stuck with the al pastor and asada.

Im going to start doing cocktail trucks. Portable manhattans!

Put a snow plow on the front and sell hot chocolate??

These are the trucks I like, I usually go when I'm lazy, cheap or drunk. What I don't get are the "gourmet trucks". A couple months ago, my coworker took me to an organic truck that serves quinoa and grass-feed beef , it also cost me 11 dollars or so for a lunch box. Mind blown.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

Why so?
Looks like Sizzler.

 

[Raralith]

What the hell, have I been living under a rock? I loved street meat when I worked in Manhattan, but I rarely see food trucks in Los Angeles except for the standard taco truck. If I had to take time this week to have this for lunch, does anyone have a suggestion of what I should get, and where I can find them?

 

[willpower]

Originally Posted by Raralith

What the hell, have I been living under a rock? I loved street meat when I worked in Manhattan, but I rarely see food trucks in Los Angeles except for the standard taco truck. If I had to take time this week to have this for lunch, does anyone have a suggestion of what I should get, and where I can find them?


What part of town are you in?

I like Kojitruck, The Grilled Cheese Truck, Slices (really, really good pizza for LA), the Greasy Wiener


http://kogibbq.com/

 

[Biscotti]

Originally Posted by BB1

To many white middle class city dwellers the food trucks likely represent an "authentic urban experience", similar to how they fancy themselves as being more cultured than their comrades whom still live in the drab suburbs. It is their alternative to the fast food chain restaurant. Just because they may despise the fast food chain and what it represents to them, they have not truly broken their habit of desiring greasy fast food while on the go.
What do you consider yourself? I'm so tired of this line of thinking - we may as well just all die.

 

[shellshock]

overheard in vroman's today a couple of 20-30something hipsters, this one guy telling the other two people about his friend's food truck that he is going to start... some gems i heard:

-the problem is that the food trucks are all blending together, and hes really going 'out there'
-the best part is he's a total hipster
-he is going to post on twitter and facebook about his daily offerings

also heard him say something about a coffee shop and only offering books that "our group of people would like"

what the hell is a mcsweeneys?? anyone?

 

[Wesley Bills]

Originally Posted by texas_jack

Thankfully here in Richmond that trend has not arrived.

Oh sorrowfully, don't you think?

All these Food Trucks are not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Mr. White]

When I was young and stupid, I worked in construction, warehouses, and factories. I ate off roach coaches, hot dog carts, or grabbed a microwave burrito in 7-Eleven. I don't anymore.

 

[Master Milano]

shitload coming in tribeca now lmao frite burgers and some ripoff dumpling things made by white guys, lovely

 

[willpower]

Literally just had a grilled cheese with macaroni and cheese in it from ....The Grilled Cheese Truck. The line was 20 minutes long, and it was another 10 minutes to get the sandwich. Good... very good, but ultimately not worth the wait.

 

[HORNS]

Hipsters love long lines - it's a scene in itself.

The only food truck I go to is El Toyanase for its tongue burritos.