Little War

That's what guerrilla means in Spanish, but what does guerilla streetfood mean? Fidel, Che and Raoul noshing on the sidewalks of Havanna?

It's a food truck. We have quite a few of them around town, providing everything from Korean-Mexican fusion to cupcakes. In the one below a nice lady from Texas uses her raised pistol to draw our attention to her Tex-Mex tacos. Seems like there's been a lot of guns around The Lou lately.                

My Big Fat Greek Truck

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Has the food truck craze reached your city? It sure has here. They've been around for years as mobile lunch wagons, often in industrial areas. The current trend is for more upscale offerings, usually with a particular specialty. They congregate in busy areas. During the summer, a fleet of them show up in Tower Grove Park for dinner a few days a month. There is even a web site for St. Louis food trucks so you can find who is where day-by-day.

When I went down to Citygarden on Thursday there were three of them lined up on Market Street: Greek, Mexican and vaguely east Asian. I chose a gyro from My Big Fat Greek Truck. It was delicious. 

All the trucks are creatively decorated like Zeus here, hacking meat off the gyro cylinder. I understand that the artist was in his/her portraits class when they painted this but had not yet reached the nose and mouth units.