Melba's Jammin said:Hmmmm. So, would the truck that parks at the Farmers
Market be considered as above? They sell Asian stuff, I
think (most of our market vendors are Hmong); not sure
about what else.
Sounds about right. Most of the trucks here in the SFBA are
Vietnamese and Mexican owned. They all make your classic
grilled grease goodies like grilled sandwiches, burgers,
dogs, d/f chicken, etc. The Viet trucks tend toward little
Viet entrees like shrimp/rice or chinese sausage/rice and
Viet eggrolls (my fav). The Mex trucks carry the usual
taqueria fare.
I was initially put off when I first came into contact with
these rolling ruination of regimen runabouts, quickly
noticing everying coming off the grill literally dripped
oil! Even a tuna melt had cooking oil oozing from every
pore. I quickly realized toasting was not an option.
Everything was tossed into a pool of oil on a hot grill.
Toast, buns, tortillas, etc, nothing was immune. I suspect
some of the newer folk to our shores were even grilling the
lettuce. And, everything that wasn't grilled in this manner
was just deep fried. I figured it was the new immigrant's
exposure to America's great purchasing power. Hey, we can
buy a 55 gal drum of cooking oil for a buckannahalf! Hose
that grill! But, those were the early days. Eventually good
business sense prevailed and a grilled sandwiches like
chicken salad became just that and not a chicken salad oil
sop. Needless to say, a low-fat salad bar is nowhere to be
found on these calorie clogged cuisine carts.
nb