Food from a truck?

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**marv335**

I regularly get fresh veg from the side of the road, usually some old Saudi selling stuff from his farm, out the back of his pickup truck.
In the UK we have a fish van that comes round a couple of times a week, we get fish from them and it was fresh on the dock that morning

**Yodhrin**

ProtoClone wrote:
Man, love me some food trucks!

As long as it looks like I won't get sick from the truck, I'm fine with it.

I think the idea of a mobile butcher/fish monger truck is actually kind of great! I would imagine setting up at farmers markets would be a snap. My only thought would be that I want to know the farm, where it is, and to be able to come see it. If they are dealing in fish, I would only be interested in local species because anything else is not going to be fresh.

We had one of those come around up at my Gran's place when I was wee. The local butcher and fishmonger clubbed together and bought a refrigerated truck and then had the butcher's son drive it around all the nearby housing estates every couple of days, did great trade and kept them in business when a lot of other similar shops couldn't compete with the supermarkets.

Personally I'm not a fan of buying food from anywhere that's mobile enough to escape if I go back to complain

**hungryp**

Lol, I love that there's two completely different things being discussed here at the mention of "food truck." When you're in an area with a good local source, that roadside wagon is some of the best food you're going to find, usually source to table, no sitting in transit/storage for God knows how long. Deeeelicious!

**Dreadwinter**

We have a couple of "food trucks" in my area that work on a route. My Grandparents buy steaks and such from a guy with a food truck route and I have never had any issues with it. They are pretty cheap, definitely not the best steak I have ever had, but worth the price. My friends also know a guy who sells salmon on a route. I have had some of it and it was phenomenal. According to them he catches and prepares it all himself and then starts his route. Really good stuff.

**AlexHolker**

Ouze wrote:
I think there's a distinction to be made between

1.) Buying fruit or produce off a truck, which I definitely wouldn't hesitate to do since it's self-evident if fruit or produce is spoiled, generally,

2.) Buying lunch from a established "food truck" which is always at the same spot (or more or less same location), which I also wouldn't hesitate to do any more than I would hesitate to go to any other restaurant, and

3.) Buying meat & seafood from a transient refrigerated truck, because those tend to be either a.) stolen b.) spoiled, or close to, or c.) the food version of the white van speaker scam.

That's my view as well. The advantage of the first to the seller is that the farmer cuts out the middleman by selling some of his produce straight to the customer. The advantage of the second is that it caters to a group of people all in one place who are looking for lunch. The advantage of the third is that you can't find them to complain when you realise you've been ripped off.