A Dream Come True

That's right, that's me working on The Parlour ice cream truck! It's one of Durham's newest food trucks to enter the exploding world of food trucks. Food trucks have been around forever, but used to be exclusively for hot dogs, halal food, and smoothies. In the past few years food trucks of every type have turned up everywhere!

When I lived in New York, coworkers and I went in search of good food trucks for lunch. It started innocently enough, with Halal food, but it escalated all the way to waffles. I enjoyed many a meal from the likes of Kwik Meal Cart, Rickshaw Dumpling Truck, Schnitzel and Things, Wafels and Dinges, The Korean Noodle Soup Cart, must I go on? I'm getting hungry and beginning to really miss New York.

Over the past year the food truck movement has been massively fueled by the show, The Great Food Truck Race. A Food Network show that pits food trucks from around the country against one another. One of Durham's own, Only Burger, won a Food Network Contest based on favorite hometown trucks. It got a lot of publicity and I believe there was a cash prize. They piggy backed on the success of their truck, and opened a brick and mortar store location this past fall. Both businesses have been wildly succesful. The true American Dream.

So, it's no wonder that so many other people have started food trucks in and around the Triangle. You'll often find me eating at one of them outside of Fullsteam (a local brewery), or I've been known to track one down a time or two. Food truck rodeo, yes please! Sadly, our trucks aren't well received everywhere they go. They are harassed with the politics of being a mobile restaurant business, and some local cities and towns have made every effort to ban them. Luckily, Durham is not one of those places. Ask anyone here, food trucks aren't going anywhere!

I've talked about the food trucks in the past, and my phone is loaded with pictures like this:

Dandelion Kitchen, Minnesota, MN

Kokyu BBQ, Durham, NC

Therefore, when I overheard that Parlour needed some help on their truck, I was in heaven. Working on a food truck is a dream come true for me. I got to check an item off of my bucket list and I've been bragging about the experience all week. Seriously, that is pure joy you see on my face: