The wife and I watched No Reservations last night. As usual Tony sampled street food in his travels. Which always makes me wonder why we don't have street food around here. A hot dog cart does not count. Is it a product of our food culture? It seems every place Tony visits around the world has it. What makes us different?
I will qualify my post by saying I have not been to the larger cities in the U.S., such as New York or LA, so they may have more options I do not know about. But all the cities I have been to do not have the street food options I see on No Reservations. Instead they all have countless fast food places selling nondescript tasteless meals. Does the food industry have anything to do with this? Are there laws in place preventing street food from being sold?
Having freshly prepared food should not be so hard to find. Especially at a reasonable price. Instead we have prepackaged and heavily processed food everywhere. And we are the worse for it...
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I'm not sure if you are in Cleveland, but for some reason I thought you were. There's a new company that just got approval from the city. It sounds exciting and they are certainly excited too. "...we are mobile and open 6 am- 3am around cleveland. We will be in university circle for breakfast, csu/playhouse square for lunch, and switch between ohio city, coventry, and west 4th for late nights. With a cart you are limited to your locations. But we are working with them in order to build the street food scene in Cleveland ohio."
http://www.facebook.com/DimAndDenSum
I am in the Cleveland area. I did see the info on DimAndDenSum and am excited to try and find them around town!!! It just surprises me that we do not see more of something like them in our area.
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