Get that lunch, Angie!
Lunch trucks confound me. The food is good, though usually not AMAZING (this taqueria was pretty darn good though), they have 0 amenities, and the overhead is waaayyy less than brick and mortar. So why are so expensive? I have yet to meet one that I left thinking, 'wow, what a great deal!' Some, the food is actually pretty amazing, but those are generally outliers. There are exceptions, of course, like Tagan and Chris Couch's Gypsy Kit truck in Texas, those guys are both reasonably priced and pretty extraordinary.
I will say that it feels like an adventure. Especially late at night, when a truck is lit up like a state fair. The buzz of the generator and the possibility of something wonderful from a rolling kitchen all amount to something unique. And if you schedule to meet a friend somewhere, it feels a little clandestine, like a secret meeting... as long as they show up, otherwise, it's just you and your food alone in the night.
The convenience of the food truck can't be overstated. They pop up in the weirdest places. Which is funny. Growing up, food trucks rolled out to construction sites, which made a lot of sense, those guys only had a few minutes to grab lunch. I always wondered though, who decided which trucks would hit which sites? Did multiple trucks roll in some days, but not others? And how many sites did a truck have to hit to be profitable in a day. At 15 min a site, in a 90m span, you would probably only hit 3 places. But they are most certainly convenient.
Anywho, I digress, @angieromy heroically gathers lunch for us a few weeks ago. I am finding that I really enjoy the challenge of rendering dense subject matter in just a few minutes. Mmmmmm #buritto #foodtruck #taqueria #sketchbook #artofmiggy #berkeley #eastbay
