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    Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries

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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    05/27/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    Where I live, we don't need mobile trucks. We've got so much space, you'd be better off just opening a joint, space is so cheap.


    I recommend Oklahoma Joe's, located scenicly in a Gas Station.



    [www.oklahomajoesbbq.com]

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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    I am a fan of the Taco Bus in Seattle. It combined memories of going to elementary school in a Crown bus, and then eating tacos for lunch while I was there in one handy food dispensary!


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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    A whole flock of strange carts appear at lunch in downtown Richmond because there are shockingly few restaurants close by. Some are sent by great restaurants, some are run by strange loners--my family cautioned me about some 60 Minutes expose that showed carts parked in storage areas at nights, where rats and waves of insects had at them, but nobody I know has gotten sick yet, including me.
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    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    There's a Venezuelan empanada truck on the way to work, but it's kinda overpriced. Federal street in Denver, on the other hand, is filled with taquerias and pho places.
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    05/26/09

    @discontinuuity is now meme-free: Where's the empanada truck?????
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    05/26/09

    @philibuster: In Golden, CO near the traffic circle where Jefferson turns into S. Golden, north of the high school and across from Golden Bowl.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    Yuk, I would never be able to have any food from any of those cars. I blame those Citroëns vans/ kitchens along the french provincial roads, that would sell you anything fried on virtually every rest area... back in the 1970's.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/26/09

    @sos10: Was there, did that, and you are not kidding. Reheated 4 day old crepe with a side of fried toxin, comin' right up!
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    Just a hint here: Never buy anything from a hippy in a VW Van. Especially one with flowers painted all over.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/26/09

    @Flathead Smith: All over the hippie, or all over the van? And I need an answer fast.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    My mom ran a dental office years ago. One of their patients was a guy who owned a bunch of Taco Trucks. He made pretty good scratch, as he had staked out some prime locations- mostly late night blue collar businesses like laundries and such.


    One day he told my mom that they had a big booth that they would drive the trucks into every so often, which would then be pressurized with bug killer- like tenting your house for termites. The trucks would sit in there with the gas permeating all the nooks and crannies like a giant english muffin. He said that driving out, you could hear the tires crunching on the thousands of tits-up cockroaches that the gassing had killed. They'd have to sweep them out with push brooms.


    I can't vouch for the veracity of the story, but it makes for a pretty good visual. I still eat at the trucks if we've been out late at the game, or the bars, but then I have a pretty good constitution. But, I always check my taco for legs.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    05/26/09

    @Graverobber: We never had a single roach in any of our restaurants. We never had to spray either. Then again, every night the place was thoroughly swept, mopped, and bleached. It was steam-cleaned weekly as well.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    There was a regular roach coach at the Toyota dealership where I was a lot boy. I hated that damn thing. The food was overpriced, the servings skimpy, and the rat bastard pulled in and fired off his frigging horn that would wake the dead. He honked over and over and over. I wanted to light his ass on fire. I hated him even worse than the Snap-On guy.


    I got a rocket pop from an ice cream truck just two weeks ago. Partly I did it because I had cash in my pocket, will wonders never cease, but DANG. $2 for a rocket pop? Jeez! Never again.

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    Image of Turd Ferguson, subscriber to DAB OF OPPO Turd Ferguson, subscriber to DAB OF OPPO
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    This list is useless without the Grease Trucks at Rutgers.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    05/26/09

    @Turd Ferguson: We called them Yuck Trucks.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    They're not really mobile, but anyone ever been to the big white shrimp trailers on Ohahu?
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    Image of horai horai
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    OK, American street food is all kind of awesome compared to the burger stands we have over here.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    05/26/09

    @horai: Small Streets=Few Vendors.



    vs.


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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    05/26/09

    @Schm McSchanagains: (obviously, that's not a fair comparasson, but I was just making a point.)
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    Image of ccc40821 ccc40821
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    The VW bus is my favourite, in part because a saw half a dozen such conversions in Japan, of all places.
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    Image of Matt Hardigree Matt Hardigree
    05/26/09

    @ccc40821: Every time I see one now I consider opening up my own taco joint.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    Where's the Big Green Pizza Truck?


    How could you not have that?


    You need to amend this list.

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    Image of .357 .357
    05/26/09

    In reply to Meals On Wheels: Ten Great Mobile Eateries
    You forgot the creepy man who comes in front of my house to sell things to little children.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/26/09

    @.357: I was, of course, talking about the ice cream man.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    05/26/09

    @.357: Befitting some of today's comments, that creepy man is probably a gay mechaphiliac looking for that ever elusive tailpipe.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/26/09

    @skaycog: Is that a metaphor?


    By the way, that merits a heart-click.

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    Image of Andrew Didorosi Andrew Didorosi
    11/15/08

    In reply to Toyota Resorts To Building Taco Truck Scions Ahead Of Financiapocalypse
    It's a self-contained barrio graffiti station. Eats and paint. I can get behind that.
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