Meanwhile, a food truck in Belgium has capitalized on the "
roach coach" insult by selling skewered bugs, dubbed "crickets on a stick." "They aren't really crickets, they're grasshoppers," explains owner Bart Smit, "but it sounds better to say 'cricket on a stick."
IN THE FUTURE, WE WILL ALL EAT BUGS
It's hoping to do for juicy thighs what The Great British Bake Off did for soggy bottoms, but the eight contestants on BBQ Champ wouldn't even get a job in my local kebab van, or as I like to call it, the
roach coach. At least BBQ Champ's host Myleene Klass was honest when she said: "I'm not a cook," because neither is anyone else - at least not on charcoal anyway.
A real tong lashing
Other than ice cream and the occasional hot dog or pretzel, my only wheeled food experiences were with what is called a
roach coach. Those vendors serve job sites that lack eating options by parking nearby and selling basic breakfasts, lunches, and snacks--wrapped foods, mostly, and not necessarily of any particular quality or freshness.
Pint of view: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... short ribs? Food trucks live and die by social CRM
Danny is torn between his life as a Yale junior and his spring break job on his father's lunch truck, "The
Roach Coach."
Greater Boston Cooperative Library Association reading list--grades 11 & 12
On race days, trailers park in the lot and turn into stores with varied product lines that put the old factory parking lot "
roach coach" (my favorite term for lunch wagons) to shame.
Little things mean a lot: with a little ingenuity, retailers can turn that blacktop into greenbacks
The 'toon trio spend most of their time fighting various baddies such as the ferocious Mojo Jojo, a mutant chimp intent on conquering the world, and
Roach Coach, a brilliant but out-of-control robot cockroach who's also bent on world domination.
MegaMirror: Powerpuff Girls ready for dust-up
Either people envisioned sandwich carts that set up shop outside construction sites, or they saw them as what many called "
roach coaches" serving "street meat"--in short, not exactly places you'd want to buy a meal if you didn't want to regret it afterward
KEEP ON TRUCKING: Food trucks seek to simplify the dizzying menu of municipal regulations
Their units were often called "
roach coaches" because food safety was far from guaranteed.
Retailers on wheels and contamination
Roach coached him for seven of eight fights before Rourke retired from the ring unbeaten.
Mickey Rourke begged his boxing coach not to give up on him