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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 26, 2012, 01:05:35 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/115713394
Whoa-ho.
The Oregonian primitives are gone, and so franksolich is a good mood.
Not good enough of a mood to bother with listening to the primitives rant their hate in General Discussion, though.
And so this:
Lucinda (15,230 posts)
Street Vendor Food Suggestions?
If you were going to start a street food business, and wanted to keep it simple - no elaborate/time consuming prep ahead of time - what would you make?
Like shaved ice, hot dogs, hot pretzels etc...
blaze (2,216 posts)
1. Oh gosh!!! The choices are endless!!!
I think you would have to follow your passion.
My first thought was something chorizo related.... but I had some grilling at the time... so my taste buds were swayed!! >g>
Me? I wish I were in a part of town that attracted street vendors!!!!
cbayer (110,437 posts)
2. Crepes.
There is a guy around here who does crepes and I bet he makes a fortune.
They are made to order and it's even fun to watch him do it.
He has about 10 choices for fillings - spinach, cheese, mushrooms, ham, etc.
So all he needs is the batter.
Stinky The Clown (47,004 posts)
4. Crepes always fascintae me. Does he have proper crepe stoves?
The kind of stove on which you make the crepe directly. I love crepes. We only rarely make them, however, and make them in a pan, not on a proper crepe range like this one:
after which a picture of a hot-plate
cbayer (110,437 posts)
5. Yes, he has two of those, both fired by propane.
He sells them for $5-8 a piece and I estimate uses about 50 cents worth of ingredients. Of course there are other costs, but his profit margin has to be huge.
Uh oh.
Windfall profiteer, just like the greedy oil and drug companies.
Stinky The Clown (47,004 posts)
6. Crepes are one of those things that always generate high profit
They have a mystique in the US that they're exotic and take a lot of skill to make. All they really take is some practice. The batter is very cheap to make and the fillings are basically just thick, extended sauces.
Still, I love 'em.
grasswire (34,688 posts)
3. I saw a cart the other day offering only roasted ears of corn
...and they were doing a bang-up business. Advertised as "fire roasted" so I don't know what kind of oven they were using.
^^^hmmmm.
One wonders if the pie-and-jam primitive's ever made walnut pie.
Major Nikon (5,418 posts)
7. I would either go with an espresso or gelato cart
The former if it's to be used in cold weather and the later if it's to be used in hot weather. If you wanted to make it year round you could do one of each.
pinto (94,496 posts)
9. Kabobs. There'd be some prep time, but quick to grill and serve on the street.
I'd lay them in a folded flat bread "holder" with some napkins & done.
The defrocked warped primitive, who's as mean and ugly as a rattlesnake:
Warpy (64,293 posts)
10. In a flour tortilla or on a stick is best
People on the street don't like to use cutlery and they don't like to be drenched in juicy stuff.
I love street food. Too bad it was regulated out of business here.
^^^hmmm.
One wonders which party regulated it out of business.
pinto (94,496 posts)
11. Ices. Simple, cheap and quick.
Crushed ice in a cone drenched with a choice of syrups. Lime, lemon, strawberry, vanilla, etc. I'd step it up a notch with flavored honeys or some kind of mocha concoction. And cinnamon sticks.
And those little toy horns for the kids.
Gormy Cuss (25,578 posts)
12. Grilled cheese.
Lots of ways to vary it without adding too much prep by using a variety of breads and cheeses. Bread's already sliced and many cheeses can be purchased already sliced or shredded.
I'd probably make it very complicated though, with leafy add-ons, multiple mustards and flavored mayos, sliced tomatoes. I probably shouldn't be running a food truck.
As a little lad, franksolich one time when out trick-or-treating on Halloween, went to the house where a mean old lady lived--no other kids were willing to go there--who invited him inside, and while he sat on a chair in the kitchen, made a grilled cheese sandwich for him as a treat.
Whole-wheat bread, real cheddar cheese, real butter, made on a cast-iron skillet.
On an electric range.
TreasonousBastard (19,542 posts)
13. There was a guy who showed up at all the block parties and food fests with...a pickle barrel.
Just a pickle barrel, tongs, some toothpicks (big toothpicks!) and napkins. Got it from the pickle guy on the Lower East Side.
I don't know how much the barrel cost wholesale, or how many pickles are in a 40 or so gallon barrel, but at 2-3 bucks a pickle, he usually left after 3-4 hrs with an empty barrel.
One day I saw him and he was pissed because he had 5 pickles left when it was over-- ruined his day.
franksolich doesn't buy food out on the street; he goes inside respectable restaurants instead.
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pinto (94,496 posts)
11. Ices. Simple, cheap and quick.
Crushed ice in a cone drenched with a choice of syrups. Lime, lemon, strawberry, vanilla, etc. I'd step it up a notch with flavored honeys or some kind of mocha concoction. And cinnamon sticks.
In America, we call that a "sno-cone". Don't act like you invented the damn things, Pinto.
Pretentious DUmmy is pretentious.
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And sno-cones don't really qualify as food, either.
Frankly, I'm a bit confused. Then again, someone has probably been watching Food Network, Bravo, or whatever network shows that food truck "reality" show.
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Wonder why DUmmy grasswipe didn't suggest a pie shop.
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The company I work for did a food truck fair in the parking lot for United Way. Talk about overpriced. Eight bucks for two tacos. Six dollars for a grilled cheese sandwich.
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All food trucks should sell food at cost to help the poor & take EBT cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All food trucks should sell food at cost to help the poor & take EBT cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell, the food should be free. Each according to their ability...
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Hell, the food should be free. Each according to their ability...
If that were the rule, DUmmies would starve to death.
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Hell, the food should be free. Each according to their ability...
That makes me think about that bread company that opened a couple years ago that just told people to pay what they thought it was worth. I'm too lazy to Yahoo! It right now though.
KC
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Hell, the food should be free. Each according to their ability...
:rotf: