what would you serve on your food cart?

i'd go with a classic approach

banh mi
cuban sandwiches
grilled cheese

tomato soup
gazpacho
congee
meatball pho

chinese donuts
regular donuts
pretzels

I have dreams of opening a soup restaurant. soup food cart would be 2nd best because I have specific ideas about my soup restaurant & the interior & stuff but if that didn't work out then I would serve soup from a cart. the cart is called underrated soups which is probably a poor business decision on my part.

sweetbreads

cupcakes & thymus

appropriately rated soups

a guy down the street opened up a vegan soup place in a hole in the wall. its called soup. he looks like a billy goat.

vegan tacos, probably

rice & beans - cup or bowl, choice of rices/bean varying on different days but always available are yellow/white (rice) & red/black (beans) maybe chick peas too

I can't say I cook anything well enough that I'd open a food cart to sell it. I don't think there's many cookie carts out there.

wait I'm cooking this? what about hiring recent immigrants

rice & beans/vegan tacos ftw, i think because something about cheap & filling feels ideal as well as appealing. used to go to a jamaican food cart that did porridge every morning w/a different addition - plantain, honey, w/e, & you could do the same thing with daily rice & bean variations.

I will patronize m coleman's & thomp's food carts 4-5x week

i feel like no one has really stepped up to the original post tho

xxpost sounds great! the jamaican trick of cooking beans ("peas") w/coconut milk would be my secret weapon.

curried billy goats plus handjobs in the back if you have the right groupon

soups beginning with c (available by the cup only):

chili; chowder; cheeseburger

authentic flatbread & filling mix and match station:

injera, tortilla, pita;
falafel, beans and rice, doner kebab, daily wat

dessert nachos. dessert pizza. dessert seven layer dip.

daily wat, aw hell yeah that would be great some lil ol injera wraps

I think maybe my cart is called Simple Soups. like a lot of food carts around here really have an angle, like dolled up grilled cheese stuff - which has a plain grilled cheese, but the main thing is more "I hadn't thought of that" stuff like the grilled cheese w/avocado (which is amazing btw) but my cart will have like
--split pea soup
--carrot bisque
--lentil soup
--tomato soup

so the menu looks totally underwhelming but then when you taste my tomato soup you are like HOLY FUCKING CHRIST I HAVE FOUND RELIGION TOMATO SOUP IS AWESOME THANK YOU BASED AEROSMITH.

if you have vegan chili i am there.

maybe on Fridays we loosen up and serve this vegan chili sin carne I'm eating today which I made night before last & is kind of a molé chile and is incredibly delicious and good

lol, x-post!!!

it's from Isa Chandra's Vegan with a Vengeance cookbook btw & it was easy to make and the leftovers are even better than they were on day 1

yeah lots of soup better after a day or two. really excited about the farm share we are splitting with a friend. gonna totally soup it up this summer.

my menu would take clues from "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

I would sell specially repurposed versions of frozen burritos from 7-11. they would be partially thawed, treated with a dry rub of paul prudhomme's magic cajun seasoning and some brown nutrasweet, and then carved into the perfect dipping shape for a fondue setup using movie theater nacho cheese sauce and/or melted coconut m&m's + sriracha

also something i like to call the Spamometer.

savory "gogurts" constructed around a base of cream chipped beef and applesauce that you suck up with a straw dusted in garlic powder or garlic sauce. and maybe some edible necklaces made from raisin bran

isa chandra and her 'just whip up a batch of the p3 seitan' recipes bug me

takoyaki
momos
churros

"DUMPLINGS! and Iced Teas Of The World" would be effing awesome.

iced tea on the move is a treat for sure. i miss delis for this reason.

mac n cheese

vegan south indian tex mex

masala dosa w refried beans and guac (salsa or tomato chutney for dipping)
dal tadka burritos
chipotle veggie samosas
chana masala tamales

mango and coconut nieves for dessert

hmm maybe I would sub out my mac n cheese truck for a dal truck

kick ass insane dal

oh yes, doubles.

maybe some shark and bake.

m bison you are a great man of our time

finally, some recognition

when i sleep tonight i will dream of chana masala tamales

I would go with an offal-inspired menu.

haggis
head cheese
calf brains
kidney pie
sheep's liver
beef heart
tongue sandwichs
prairie oysters

...in this way I would not be troubled with too many customers and could spend my lunchtimes kicking back and chilling out.

and yr truck wd smell like ass

theres the name for his food truck DOES IT TASTE ASS OFFAL ASS IT SMELLS

just falafs

I was actually talking at the weekend about doing this for a living (I may have been a bit drunk).

Sausages
Cake
Whatever else I think of the day before

Definitely beer. Preferably brewed in the cart. Somebody please help me figure out how to get a license for this in the US.

aldo if you can combine sausage + cake that would be a thing

1) Take one Twinkie(tm) and slice in half lengthwise.
2) Insert sausage.
3) As condiments, offer: jam, honey, applesauce.

do u sell insulin injections too?

artisanal hot dog water

Is the water itself artesianal (or from an artesianal well) or were the hot dogs that were cooked in it?

he should carry both, good for business

I'm sure I can make sausage and cake work. I just need to think about it.

if the cake was cornbread I'd vote you up for a congressional medal

hot dogs served in water reused for 3 weeks. "soft" pretzles that shatter on impact if you throw them on the ground. all food will be served on a grill with a swarm of flies buzzing around as a permanent fixture.

Well every cornbread I've ever tried has tasted like Madeira cake, so not much of a stretch.

I made some pork and pineapple sausages with jerk seasoning before, I could see them working with that. Otherwise I was thinking maybe a light pork breakfast sausage with carrot cake and chili cream cheese.

That said, pork and apples are good together so maybe the same sausages with a dense apple cake with lots of ginger.

Venison and chocolate is pretty classic, but that's more bitter than sweet. Pork might be the only option.

I have a good slightly sweetened cornbread recipe that does not taste like madeira cake

anything with the word "artisan" in front of it

artisan cheez whiz

in Portland, anything with "artisan" + old timey font + 18th century imagery = assload of morons waiting in line

omg artisanal font truck

s.clover otm:

Doubles
Bake and shark
Aloo pies

Some pirozhki on the side for variety.

xpost Saucisson en brioche is pretty much sausage in a cake.

i like skip's around the corner from me. kielbasa AND meatball grinders. the two food groups!

http://www.hiddenboston.com/images/SkipsRoadsideDiner.jpg

can I open a truck called FRENCH POLISH

Of course, despite contributing to this , outside of London it is only burger vans that also do bacon/sausage/egg baps.

Tofu pad thai (with egg and fish sauce and dried shrimp)
Tofu pad thai (with egg and fish sauce)
Tofu pad thai (with egg)
Tofu pad thai (vegan, with mock dried shrimp (smoked, shaved coconut))

Papaya salad

just demo'd a new addition to my nonexistent south Indian tex mex vegan food cart

pesarattu quesadilla made w daiya pepperjack

btw my logo will be an artist rendering of the classic virgin Mary icon w Ganesha style elephant face and four arms

it will be called DOSA AMOROSA
I feel like I've talked abt this somewhere

my menu would take clues from "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:23 AM (2 weeks ago)

p-p-p-p-p-plantains!

you could call the foodtruck "Pleasant Plantains"

hey d you ever eaten at the food carts around yale med school, behind the hospital? there's some good stuff there

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xp nope! the med school is pretty far south of the main campus, but yeah I've heard good things

i've been at the hospital for the past month or so on a rotation and i eat out there any chance i can get. great food, really wide selection, and cheap! this one dude's gyro is the best i've ever had

btw my logo will be an artist rendering of the classic virgin Mary icon w Ganesha style elephant face and four arms

I am pretty stoked about this image tbh

kev you should hit me up if you're here on a weekend, I'm in new haven pretty frequently. I'm generally skeptical of the food carts I see in new haven tho.

Perhaps ILX should start a food truck, featuring a daily special from dr. strongo's neuvo cuisine?