Food trucks in Paris
 

David Lebovitz thinks it might be a good idea. http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2012/04...ucks-in-paris/

Do you agree?

I'll never agree with someone who thinks "rouille" is a mayonnaise made with red peppers.

Oh, that blog is really sad. If Paris is no good, let's just cancel the whole city and put another Phoenix or Seattle there instead.

I thought this was particularly "wrong" http://www.cantinecalifornia.com/ Then my daughter said, "Why not? We have boulangeries in California? Maybe it's time for a good hamburger or taco in Paris? They seem to be very popular.

I agree these food trucks are very popular and the city seems to be going through a burger craze, But it seems to me all the hype is coming from the anglo-food press, quickly followed by the Telerama crowd. I get the Telerama crowd, they are in search of memories from their time abroad. And I get that the anglo food press is nostalgic for home. What I don't get is why these writers are so very, very nostalgic.

That is one of the oddest 'articles' I've read in a long time. As others have said it seems like a lot of the anglo food press trying to foist ideas onto other cities, where there's need or particular call for it.

Food trucks obviously work well in the States and there are more springing (rolling?) up in London all the time, but I think one of the last things Paris needs are huge trucks parked up all over the place, encouraging long queues to buy fast food.

And "cassoulet wraps"? One word; no.

Actually, I read that Haagen-Dazs is going to be operating a half dozen ice cream trucks around Paris this summer.

I will not be one of their customers. How can they compete with the good ice cream in and around Paris??

Ice cream trucks I can understand. Being English, Ice cream trucks have been around for goodness knows how many years before the first vegan, burrito truck popped up in the Bay Area.

It's not as if food trucks are new to France, everyone's that been there must have seen at least one wood-fired pizza truck, or in larger town centres, the good old kebab van.

Maybe these are the only foods French people want, or need, to buy from a van. I'm sure if there was a desire for a gourmet coffee truck or somewhere selling cassoulet wraps (!) I'm sure it would exist by now.

The rather esoteric desires of one food writer don't mean there's actually a need for any more food trucks...

Pizza and couscous vans are extremely common in the suburbs and around France.

I certainly don't want to go to Paris for a burger or fast food.
Here, food trucks are usually around the universities.

The anglo websites are pushing it as the height of "chic."

I don't think these are the typical "roach coach" types of trucks you used to see. They are huge in San Francisco/Silicon Valley with all kinds of ethnic and gourmet offerings.

Then again, Silicon Valley is not Paris, so I'm sure it benefits from food coming to the people. In Paris, the food is already everywhere and food trucks are just obstacles.

kerouac, could you explain why the food trucks are successful in Paris so far?

Which anglo websites - like Le Monde?

I think there was a fair amount of tongue in cheek in his post... And having read other stuff he writes, he loves Paris and lives there, so I'm not sure I get some of the comments here...