hyperbole, by j0rdan s.

I paid $10 for a torta last weekend, and this thread is giving me flashbacks

like if you go to mexico or peru there are little stands selling tamales, empanadas, etc. and they are all super cheap. i am not expected that cheap in the US, but something still cheap and small would be nice.

What, hot dogs not doing it for ya. $1.75 for a skinny wiener covered in Hunts is enough to fill anyone

maoz is a european chain started by israelis, not really based on anything

i know this is changing and is already true in cities/neighborhoods with large immigrant populations (especially those with warm climates), but i really wish the US had a culture of cheap, snacky, but delicious street food. sometimes i don't want a whole meal and i don't feel like paying a lot of money, and i just want something tasty and good for less than $3 bucks. the US basically has chain fast food to fill in the need for cheap food but it's all garbage. i don't mean an overpriced food truck, lots of food trucks in boston just sell regularly priced meals, not snacks. just little stands that have good food.

― marcos, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:36 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

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america has good street food everywhere it has good streets

Nah, most american food trucks are garbage

yeah, it's sad that most food trucks dump their low overhead into the paint job rather than passing it along to the customers.

new york is really the only place where you can get good hot food late for cheap because of halal carts

also poor countries are just going to have cheaper street food than rich countries, I mean even that dude selling empanadas in sunset park has to pay brookyln rent

and i guess LA too but i assume there's more driving involved whereas in ny you can basically walk out of any bar in manhattan/some parts of brooklyn and stumble on a $3 chicken pita or whatever

maoz is a european chain started by israelis, not really based on anything

― iatee, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:43 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah ok, i was totally wrong then

yeah but that's not because other american cities have bad food culture it's because they are just bad places in general

xp

The ubiquity of halal carts actually works against nyc imo, need more taco trucks

Nyc probably barely cracks the global top 50 in terms of street food imo

yeah but that's not because other american cities have bad food culture it's because they are just bad places in general

― iatee, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:48 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, fuck off dude

classic nyc provincialism

sorry i don't mean to be a dick iatee

I meant to say except for where you live

i don't really care *why* american cities have bad (late night) food culture, just that they do

lol xp

Nyc probably barely cracks the global top 50 in terms of street food imo

I mean who cares about 'street food' I just want to eat food, I can get it to go, ny does crack the top 50 of food

the street food fetish is like a cult of authenticity thing, oh man that was cooked 10 feet outside of the building instead of 10 feet inside of the building, it's real food

Nah, most american food trucks are garbage

― 龜, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 8:45 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, it's amazing how disgusting most food trucks in l.a. are at least, i've gone to so many bars that have food trucks parked outside and the food is such bullshit. lots of the pioneering food trucks are good, though even some of them are awful.

street food tends to mean something because of the inherent limitations of the medium xp

I wager a 4H fair in Iowa would probably be at least top 20 tho

Eh there are advantages to street food

Hawkers don't have to pay rent for one thing, obv there's costs with a truck and getting a license

But if you're running a stall that you hitch to the back of your car

And you're running illegal or in a place with lax licensing

It reduces the barrier to entry

Also it's harder to do smokey stuff indoors like open pit charcoal

And sometimes food just isn't improved by sitting down and eating it, it has to be on a stick

fair stall food usually benefits some sort of club where adults drink beer and host their kids' birthday parties. I don't care about your club. what's your overhead?

-Signed, someone who has eaten fried squid on a stick

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/shfood/IMG_4963.jpg

I am fine w/ paying less money for food and eating it on a stick, but often places in buildings also offer cheap food on a stick

like the above photo looks suspiciously like a room in a building

I took it outside!

龜 otm multiple xps.

the point of street food is that you can take it and go and eat outside at the place of your choosing. take-out from a restaurant with all the boxes and containers and stapled paper bag is a totally different thing.

I mean if you want to get technical yes some stalls are actually just street-facing rooms inside a building, but they don't have places to sit and everything they sell is on a stick and it's cheap, it's still street food imo

Even if it's indoors, hawker centers in Singapore or wet markets in HK are still within the street food ambit imo

snow cones' portability make them the ultimate street food. but they are unfairly cast as dessert only. where are your hot dog syrups? your taco syrups?

http://i.imgur.com/cpYLuwf.jpg

Like even though the food here is being prepared 'inside' this is still street food

manhattan's street food culture is limited by permits, similar to taxis you can probably say that the current system is stifling but zero limits would also be a mess

on Sunday i paid $11 for two smallish fish tacos in ASBURY PARK

as u were

Zero limits would probably flood the streets with people which would make it harder for private car ownership, it's a win-win I think you can agree

'hyperbole by j0rdan s.'

literally every inch of space in manhattan would have someone's street cart or another in it, eventually everyone would starve to death because nobody could move

NYC's draconian permit system drove the brave and the few to Madison Square Park, one of the few places in Bloomberg's fascist NYC where one could operate a shack in peace

I think we all know how that story turned out

The piles of dead bodies in the street would further inhibit the movement of cars, again a win-win xp

an ex gf of mine once defended china's total lack of street food regulation by saying "it's so much simpler than in america, if you get food poisoning from a cart just don't go there again"

eh dead bodies don't usually stop cars

If everybody could just operate a food cart instead of having to rent storefront property then rents all across the city would go down too

In short, deregulate NYC

龜, food libertarian

the more NYC looks like kowloon walled city the better imo