Why are hipsters so into waiting in line for brunch?

[Piobaire]

Wasn't brunch invented by chefs to keep their food costs down and to use up all the bits and pieces slowly rotting in the reach ins and walk ins?

 

[mordecai]



Wasn't brunch invented by chefs to keep their food costs down and to use up all the bits and pieces slowly rotting in the reach ins and walk ins?

This doesn't bother me as much as it does some people. I mean if I have stuff about to go bad at home I'll make what I can from it.

 

[Luddite]

"Brunch" is what I order when I'm eating breakfast after noon and haven't showered or shaved.

It's ******* wonderful. And slightly less embarassing than admitting that it's breakfast.

 

[Piobaire]

Wasn't brunch invented by chefs to keep their food costs down and to use up all the bits and pieces slowly rotting in the reach ins and walk ins?

This doesn't bother me as much as it does some people. I mean if I have stuff about to go bad at home I'll make what I can from it.

Yeah, but you don't charge yourself money for the treat of eating food going bad.

 

[ehkay]

When did you move to Brooklyn, Matt?

http://ny.eater.com/archives/2012/04/brunch_3.php#reader_comments

 

[patrickBOOTH]



When did you move to Brooklyn, Matt?
http://ny.eater.com/archives/2012/04/brunch_3.php#reader_comments

A bunch of old, pissed off renters in a gotten expensive area. **** them. I don't do brunch, but I am going to now.

 

[Bradford]

Along the same lines, what's with hipsters waiting in line for food trucks... and the love of food trucks in general?

The 4th Sacramento Mobile Food Festival was today and once again, thousands of people showed up to wait in line for hours to get food from the various trucks. I attended the first one last year, but left when I realized that it would take up to three hours to get anything to eat.

I've tried a few of the local trucks when I've found them and while they are sometimes good, it's not because you get food out of a kitchen with wheels.

However, hipsters seems to absolutely love these things.

 

[fwiffo]

The same thing happens in Toronto with food trucks. I never understood why I have to pay exorbitant prices and queue to eat food on the street with no cutlery or service. It seems in vogue now for a chef (or more likely a former cook) in between establishments to try this, get some publicity, investors, capital or all of the above, and then move on to opening a permanent place.

 

[eg1]

Food trucks do not come to suburbia.

 

[Bhowie]

I've never eaten from a food truck.

 

[Piobaire]

Food trucks have been around for decades. There was a pretty thriving company where I grew up that had a huge fleet of trucks that would show up at factory gates at all the right times for the workers to get a soggy fried egg sandwich, bad coffee, etc. The food was all packaged at a central commercial kitchen, trucks loaded up, and off they'd go.

This is just another hipster perversion of a very well established blue collar tradition.

 

[eg1]



Food trucks have been around for decades. There was a pretty thriving company where I grew up that had a huge fleet of trucks that would show up at factory gates at all the right times for the workers to get a soggy fried egg sandwich, bad coffee, etc. The food was all packaged at a central commercial kitchen, trucks loaded up, and off they'd go.
This is just another hipster perversion of a very well established blue collar tradition.

Not to mention, the "chippy" or chip-wagon, some of which are mobile, and others not

 

[erictheobscure]



Food trucks have been around for decades. There was a pretty thriving company where I grew up that had a huge fleet of trucks that would show up at factory gates at all the right times for the workers to get a soggy fried egg sandwich, bad coffee, etc. The food was all packaged at a central commercial kitchen, trucks loaded up, and off they'd go.
This is just another hipster perversion of a very well established blue collar tradition.

I'm not a fan of the food truck trend, but given your description of the original, I'm happy with the recent perversion.

 

[speedy4500]



Along the same lines, what's with hipsters waiting in line for food trucks... and the love of food trucks in general?
The 4th Sacramento Mobile Food Festival was today and once again, thousands of people showed up to wait in line for hours to get food from the various trucks. I attended the first one last year, but left when I realized that it would take up to three hours to get anything to eat.
I've tried a few of the local trucks when I've found them and while they are sometimes good, it's not because you get food out of a kitchen with wheels.
However, hipsters seems to absolutely love these things.

Food trucks remind hipsters of their adventures eating road-side snack foods prepared by locals during their back-packing trip in Honduras.

Or maybe they like food trucks just to enforce the feeling of being hip since most food trucks do the whole Twitter thing, so you can only find the food truck if you're "in the know."

Most likely some combination thereof.

 

[Gibonius]



Food trucks do not come to suburbia.

Around DC they sure do.