The Fast Food Thread

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When I lived in Toronto I ate from food trucks pretty regularly, and there were regulated areas where they could be, and the city put in rows and rows of permanent outdoor tables/benches. It was an awesome setup. The city even kept the area cleared of snow in the winter.
 
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Downtown Minneapolis is having on of its streets totally redone right now that was already a "no cars allowed" area for 2 blocks where a farmers market sets up twice a week as well and I think they are doing the same over there. They wont do the winter stuff though, it gets too cold here to sit outside in the winter.
 
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There's a brewery right near me(Funky Buddha). They have a 'tasting room' or as normal people call it, a bar. They don't serve food, but always have food trucks outside. I like them, but agree that the standing around part can be a pain in the ass, depending on what they are serving. Luckily Funky Buddha just announced they are opening a full kitchen at the brewery. The place is full of hipsters though. It's good beer, so I can deal.
 
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Cinge_sl said:
Why would you need to start another thread? I think the food trucks(though i've only ever heard them call roach coaches) is perfectly fine here. Unless something has changed about them since I last ate at one.

I remember the one that used to come to construction site every day(electrician union) had amazing biscuit and gravy, and it was pretty cheap. Granted the stuff like drinks(bottled juices, soda, water) and snacks(chips, peanuts etc) were marked up, but that's paying for convenience.

I would never consider them "hipster" though.
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Hipster is when you take an everyday item and shit it all up to hell with shit you don't even want to shit about.
We already have the $5 cereal bowl, and here's $4 toast in SF
http://www.themillsf.com/menu/
 
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Soygen_sl said:
There's a brewery right near me(Funky Buddha). They have a 'tasting room' or as normal people call it, a bar. They don't serve food, but always have food trucks outside. I like them, but agree that the standing around part can be a pain in the ass, depending on what they are serving. Luckily Funky Buddha just announced they are opening a full kitchen at the brewery. The place is full of hipsters though. It's good beer, so I can deal.
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There's a place like that near my cottage in Michigan. Great beer, no food, stupid hipsters. It used to be a bank, and my kids love bringing dinner there and sitting inside the old vault, complete with a foot thick door and working locking mechanisms.
 
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Guys,

There are really no food trucks in WV except there's this painted up RV that does "fusion teriyaki" that sometimes parks right outside my office for 5 hours running some 80s generator and it's a loud rickety run down piece of shit. I never eat there and I never will and I hope all its customers die of giardia or some other oregon trail type shit.

That's all I have to say about food trucks.
 
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Try it once, P. Until then, you're just posting in ignorance!
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
The technology has existed forever.

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Vaclav

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Tarrant_sl said:
Yeah, homemade pizza texas toast is pretty awesome.

I was thinking about it today when I saw them on Undercover Boss... we used to have a bunch of Rallys here but now there's only one and it's a pain to get to. I used to love that place.
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They didn't just name change to Checkers? I thought Rally's was just their name in TX territory?
 
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lanx_sl said:
Hipster is when you take an everyday item and shit it all up to hell with shit you don't even want to shit about.
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I thought hipster was when someone shit up something miniscule, overlooked, or antiquated. The whole handlebar mustache thing for example. Until the hipsters adopted those en masse I had known exactly 1 old retired dude my whole life who sported one, like 20 years ago. Never saw him twirl it though. The closest his hands ever got to it was to grab the cigar he was chewing on.

Anyway ...

The spaghetti sauce I mentioned earlier is the best sauce from a jar I've ever had, bar none.

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lanx_sl said:
or you can just yelp it too, all food trucks have yelp reviews, b/c mostly they're stationary. (for business)
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I feel like I'm in an entirely different food truck universe than the rest of you. Our food trucks are never in one place more than 15-20 minutes, and have a set route they travel all day, typically pulling up right in front of a particular business. If you don't catch it when it is nearby, you missed it. Almost every business they stop at sets their break times to coincide with the truck showing up. 99% of them are owned and operated by Vietnamese/Laos/Korean etc. or Mexicans, and they barely speak english. A perfect example of this is when a coworker ordered a cheese steak sandwich from one. They asked him to repeat it several times, until finally supposedly understanding. What he got was a roll with mozarella sticks lined up in it.

I've never seen anything remotely resembling a hipster food truck around here, and I'm thankful for that.

On a more fast food related topic, I got In 'n' Out yet again last night on my way home from the movies, and I realized that I cannot remember a time when they have ever fucked up my order. Ever. Granted, I go there less than other places because it isn't as close, but still, there should have been a fuckup or two if they had the same rate as all the other places. I genuinely think it is due to them hiring "clean cut" young people and paying them well, as opposed to the predominantly old/fat/non-English speaking employees that don't give a fuck at other places nowadays.
 
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Soygen_sl said:
Yelp is garbage. Also, I was joking with Picasso.
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Yelp is very reliable on the west coast.

The term "hipster" means almost nothing anymore. It's really a generic term for a young non-bro. Sense of style? Hipster! Foodie? Hipster! Likes craft beer? Hipster!

Basically anyone with a refined, developed, or knowledgeable taste in anything is considered a hipster these days. See the Star Wars threads in the Movie forum. So many hipsters.
 
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My issue with Yelp is more they accept money to promote good reviews and bury bad reviews. So you don't really know if something is highly rated because they're paying for Yelp Premium or if it is actually good through genuine means.
 
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All this hipster talk is causing me to have an existential crisis

Are boardgame cafes hipster? Oh god..

What am I?

What is the point?
 
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