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You might be a Californian if...........?
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You might be from California if you spend more time discussing foreign foods than any native creations.
I assume there's a lot of foodies in cali?
Likely so. Very recently most of them have become obsessed with the Food Truck craze.
Yes. I think it was a marketing ploy to fix that name right quick so to expand the market for selling food. I think there must have been problem for chef's and entrepreneurs to start new businesses with the old business model of renting space in a building.
Theres a marked difference between the roach coaches and the trucks selling high end food, though.
A roach coach from Royal Catering comes to serve lunch at Santa Fe Dam where Im doing my community service. I wouldnt eat anything they have to offer.
The Food Trucks at the LA artwalk etc. have some really good food and none of that "hmm, is this going to make me sick in an hour" mystique.
The thing is that most big cities have all kinds of street food, but in L.A. there is a law that the only cooked food you can sell on the street is hot dogs. That is why food trucks are popular here. They are our 'street food'.
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Didn't know about that zoning ordinance, but it makes sense. When I went to see Rage Against the Machine with Muse in LA the walk to and from the Olympic was littered with nothing but hot dog vendors.
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Every club in LA/Hollywood after last call is sure to have at least one cart selling bacon wrapped hotdogs.
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not in the club, of course. Outside on the screets.
It's an LA staple
It gave me a little bit of LA pride to see that Weinerschnitzel started selling them...but I refuse to try it. I know it's going to be a watered-down version
It's an LA staple
It gave me a little bit of LA pride to see that Weinerschnitzel started selling them...but I refuse to try it. I know it's going to be a watered-down version
You might be from California if you spend more time discussing foreign foods than any native creations.
That's one of the perks of living here. California is one of those places where you can pretty much be a tourist in your own backyard
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not in the club, of course. Outside on the screets.
It's an LA staple
It gave me a little bit of LA pride to see that Weinerschnitzel started selling them...but I refuse to try it. I know it's going to be a watered-down version
I got that.
We do leave the club after playing, and I never got the tantalizing waft of grilled onions seducing me like that one Rage/Muse show.
I got that.
We do leave the club after playing, and I never got the tantalizing waft of grilled onions seducing me like that one Rage/Muse show.
I kinda figured you did, but found it hard to believe you didn't encounter any of these bacon wrapped hot dog vendors. Seems like you can't miss em. Just wanted to make sure
not in the club, of course. Outside on the screets.
It's an LA staple
It gave me a little bit of LA pride to see that Weinerschnitzel started selling them...but I refuse to try it. I know it's going to be a watered-down version
The irony is that what we think of as L.A. hot dogs are actually the way hot dogs are served in Mexico. Always wrapped in bacon and served with crema, though they often just use mayo here. I remember eating them in Guadalajara, and outside the Coliseum after futbol matches when I was a kid, before discovering they were sold outside all the night clubs at 2 am.
