The Grilled Cheese Truck

I can put you in touch with Randy, builder of the Blastolene. We went to highschool together.

alex wrote: By reading the following comment, reader enters a confidentiality agreement whereby reader will not share any of the ideas contained herein with any third party, nor employ any ideas contained herein for any profitable means. Now that we have that out of the way... I have developed an evil plan to build a street food empire based on converted school buses serving specialized, semi-snooty foods. You'd have your hot dog bus (with Sonoran hotdoguero-inspired fare), your fry bus (serving primarily proper pomme frites, but other fried delights), your kebab bus (mediterranean skewered, grilled meats), your noodle bus (mainly SE asian styles), your sweets bus (with miniature versions of fancy plated deserts), your gelato bus, etc. All embedded with GPS so as to be easily located, each one Tweeting its daily menu. And then there's the flagship: the double decker bus, which will serve a multi-course tasting menu for the tables on the open-air top deck, with each course served (while stopped, of course) at a location with a scenic tourist backdrop around the city. Live jazz accompanies. Of course, once I become the Bus Emperor, I'll have to have one of my own to cruise around town in style. So, I'll take a front-engine short bus chassis and build a 20's style speedster body on it, a la Blastolene cars. Yes, that will do nicely...

You realize this exists and all you are adding is school-buses and that last bit where you get to be Emperor, right? Not that it can't work... anyway. I love me some kebobs.

I saw a whole episode of some show on the food channel discussing this exact business model and following some of the trucks around LA.

Uhmm... i would rock the hell out of the grilled cheese burger, with bacon and an egg. I may try that this weekend.

Or tonite.

Keith wrote:

I'll never quite understand how poutine never caught on here in the states. I mean c'mon you have fries, cheese, and gravy. That has win all over it.

I'm convinced it's just because of the name. And also because most people outside of Wisconsin don't like cheese curds. For whatever reason.

WTH is "mexican" coca cola?

Coke made with real sugar not fructose. Like Dublin Dr. Pepper.

93celicaGT2 wrote: I'm convinced it's just because of the name. And also because most people outside of Wisconsin don't like cheese curds. For whatever reason.

oldsaw wrote: WTH is "mexican" coca cola?

Made with Sugar rather than nasty corn syrup.

bludroptop wrote: Business Plan: Combine 25 cents worth of bread with 50 cents worth of cheese. Add heat, sell for $4 bucks, repeat. Could rival the hot dog cart for low overhead, high profit.

Exactly. There is another truck that drives around and sells what ever burritos or meat or whatever for too much. Forget what they call that one, but its a huge fad lately. News coverage and everything. Typically 30 minute + line for overpriced and simple foods.

Driving by you see people taking pictures of themselves waiting, people track the thing online... Its crazy. My roommate went and said it was "ok" and still watches out for it so he can go back. Something about having to wait in a huge line, and having to track the damn thing down makes it irresistible to idiots.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: You realize this exists and all you are adding is school-buses and that last bit where you get to be Emperor, right?

Oh yeah, totally. It just doesn't exist in this market.

And calling myself the Emperor is really the motivation anyway.

Marty! Magically Delicious.... wrote:

Keith wrote:

I'll never quite understand how poutine never caught on here in the states. I mean c'mon you have fries, cheese, and gravy. That has win all over it.

I once made poutine for a Japanese exchange student in Australia. There was some definite cultural pollution that day.

Appleseed wrote: I can imagine the Hippies freaking out over that thing at a phish show.

One of my customers claimed he lived for a few years traveling Grateful Dead concerts selling grilled cheese sandwiches out of his VW bus to all the stoners.

That might be one of those legend stories too.....

I got a free grilled cheese after the U2 concert in town. I was working the parking lot, and the guy couldn't get anyone to buy it, so he gave it to me. Made with good sharp Wisconsin cheddar. Not as good as Pine River VERY OLD cheddar, but good none the less.

And i want me some squeaky cheese curds. Cause that's how you know they're fresh.

Somewhat related, Tillamook had some VWs chopped to promote their 'baby loafs':

pete240z wrote:

Appleseed wrote: I can imagine the Hippies freaking out over that thing at a phish show.

One of my customers claimed he lived for a few years traveling Grateful Dead concerts selling grilled cheese sandwiches out of his VW bus to all the stoners. That might be one of those legend stories too.....

No legend. FACT. I know far too many Hippies and have been to enough Phish shows for this to be an urban legend.

You wanna make mad money? Hang out around army bases (heck maybe all military bases). Especially places like Ft. Irwin where everyone goes to train. We where 2 hours into the desert and the burrito trucks STILL knew how to find us (with permission of course). Imagine a bunch of soldiers who've been sucking down MRE's suddenly being offered Coke and sandwiches. Instant gold.

Dr. Hess wrote: Try grilled cheese and leftover home made hashbrowns. On World Famous Dr.Hess' Bread. Ummmmm...

when can I come over?