There was an old National Lampoon one-panel ages ago that featured a waited uncovering a heaven-knows-what on a platter before a customer in an upscale restaurant. The caption was:“It’s a fried telephone book! We gave it a fancy French name, and you ordered it!”
Incidentally, driving food wagons is not necessarily a glamourous occupation. When my younger daughter turned 18 in the early 80’s, she took a summer job driiving an ice cream truck. (She was a little slip of a thing then, weighing about 98 pounds.) She covered the southeast tip of St. Petersburg, from 22nd Ave. S. to US 19, including a trip across the Sunshine Skyway bridge. There was no A/C, and the cabin of that thing must have been at least 120°. One day I rode with her, and saw a man point to her and say, “I want that one!” She quit after two weeks because her knees went out over all that getting up and down. She had the luxury of quitting. The “lifers” were stuck with that kind of work.
I live in the Cleveland area, and here mobile food trucks are big business! You can see them pratically every day during the lunch rush, and also during major sporting events. Recently, while going to a baseball game downtown, we noticed several food trucks serving everything from bottled water to hot dogs!!!
I used to have a racing snail – ‘S Car Go’, we called him. I had his shell surgically removed to give him a weight and aerodynamic advantage, but it just made him sluggish…
Oh, you’re right! Excusez-moi! I should have remembered that from my high-school French! While I’m at it, I just asked my daughter about the temperature in the ice cream truck, and she said it was 140°, not 120°. Seems that there was a metal box beside her that separated her from the engine. Whew.
Some of these food trucks are excellent! Way better than bottled water and hot dogs. Lobster bisque at one truck, sushi at the next and gelato at the third for an international meal (can’t get that a single restaurant).
rpmurray almost 12 years ago
Isn’t “gourmet” French for “dog”?
yoda1234 almost 12 years ago
There was an old National Lampoon one-panel ages ago that featured a waited uncovering a heaven-knows-what on a platter before a customer in an upscale restaurant. The caption was:“It’s a fried telephone book! We gave it a fancy French name, and you ordered it!”
Gokie5 almost 12 years ago
les escargots?
Gokie5 almost 12 years ago
Incidentally, driving food wagons is not necessarily a glamourous occupation. When my younger daughter turned 18 in the early 80’s, she took a summer job driiving an ice cream truck. (She was a little slip of a thing then, weighing about 98 pounds.) She covered the southeast tip of St. Petersburg, from 22nd Ave. S. to US 19, including a trip across the Sunshine Skyway bridge. There was no A/C, and the cabin of that thing must have been at least 120°. One day I rode with her, and saw a man point to her and say, “I want that one!” She quit after two weeks because her knees went out over all that getting up and down. She had the luxury of quitting. The “lifers” were stuck with that kind of work.
hcr1985 almost 12 years ago
I live in the Cleveland area, and here mobile food trucks are big business! You can see them pratically every day during the lunch rush, and also during major sporting events. Recently, while going to a baseball game downtown, we noticed several food trucks serving everything from bottled water to hot dogs!!!
phlash almost 12 years ago
I used to have a racing snail – ‘S Car Go’, we called him. I had his shell surgically removed to give him a weight and aerodynamic advantage, but it just made him sluggish…
hippogriff almost 12 years ago
Gokie5: I think that would be l’escargots, and I don’t want them either.
Gokie5 almost 12 years ago
Oh, you’re right! Excusez-moi! I should have remembered that from my high-school French! While I’m at it, I just asked my daughter about the temperature in the ice cream truck, and she said it was 140°, not 120°. Seems that there was a metal box beside her that separated her from the engine. Whew.
SDSillyCyclist almost 12 years ago
Some of these food trucks are excellent! Way better than bottled water and hot dogs. Lobster bisque at one truck, sushi at the next and gelato at the third for an international meal (can’t get that a single restaurant).
greatbest almost 12 years ago
always funny.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 12 years ago
That’s so nice!
tegm over 11 years ago
hahahahahaaha oh that’s sweet :D