Food Trucks

"The Los Angeles local is part of an ever-evolving history of mobile food vendors, which began with the ‘chuckwagon’ created in 1866 by Charles Goodnight

Goodnight’s invention was used to feed herdsmen on long cross-country cattle drives and soon was followed by night lunch wagons serving construction workers in New York in the 1890s and mobile canteens in the late 1950s. The appearance of the slang term ‘roach coach’ served to define the cheap and grubby reputation of these mobile food vendors."

"But now with more than three million food trucks and five million food carts in the US, the competition between mobile vendors serving cut-price gastronomic experiences has reached fever pitch."

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