Sam Devine

It seems that the biggest thing around right now is food from a truck- not a box from some massive 18 wheeler- but food cooked in a small “kitchen on wheels”. My sister was going on and on about how awesome this is and how all the cool people are always hanging around these trucks, so today when I went with her to do an interview, I saw a couple of these “rolling roach coaches” outside the studio and thought I’d give it a chance.

The first one I tried was beyond awful! I waited in line for 30 minutes for the worst cupcake of my life! How do you mess up a cupcake? It’s a cake- in a little cup, right? This thing was as dry as a hunk of wood and the frosting was mushy and tasteless (frosting is basically butter & sugar- how can you go wrong with butter & sugar??)

Feeling like a doofus who’d wasted her time, money, & appetite on a stupid trend, I slunk over to the next truck, expecting more disappointment (why? I was there, I was still hungry, and I smelled vanilla coming from this other truck and no one can walk away from vanilla). EUREKA! I found heaven on wheels! French toast sticks! Serious yummage! Who thought of this? It’s genius! My BFF & I ate enough French toast sticks to build a ladder from here to Mars! The only bad thing was that the video crew tracked me down & got footage of me shoving French toasts sticks into my face (with syrup ooooooozzing down my chin) and my mom saw it and was… pleased (no) /proud (not quite) /peaved (BINGO!)

So, my official take on fancy-shmancy food trucks:

Cupcakes = meh!

French toast sticks = more!!!!!

I hear there is a grilled cheese truck out there that is off-the-charts! Grilled cheese? I have GOT to give that a try.

Sam