Mobile Food: Kogi BBQ’s Scion mobile kitchen
This is some ultimate hustler ish here…making food out the back of the car! The mobile food thing is super popular here in LA, with Korean taco trucks, Peruvian food trucks, breakfast-brunch trucks, and my homegirl running around town selling cupcakes and cookies around town (shouts out to Grufeete! Vandalizing your tastebuds!)
To be fair, mobile food isn’t new. It’s one of those things that’s come full circle and trendy again, like plaid shirts and color skinny jeans. I remember growing up in Compton, the ice cream truck would come around several times a day. We also had a donut truck make his rounds, along with the neighborhood hustle man selling meat out the back of his truck. Porterhouse steak, lobster, crab. Sure, you need a permit to sell food. And it’s probably more trustworthy (maybe, maybe not) if you buy it from the grocer. There was a sense of convenience and community involved in buying from an individual off the street. It’s almost like saying fuck you to the system and relying on your fellow man to help feed you and your fam. They came to you, you didn’t have to go to them. Back in the day we didn’t even have decent grocery stores in the hood, we had to go outside our immediate area to get fresh, quality food. Only in the past decade or so has the quality of grocers in Compton improved.
I went off on a tangent there; the whole point was to share this video where the Kogi truck dudes pimped out a Scion and made it into a mobile food unit. It’s killer when they hit a button and the grill pops out the back of the trunk. That shit is ingenious, they need to copyright it.
Hustling food on the streets like a rapper selling mixtapes is so hip hop. Follow the homies selling sweets on the streets! @Grufeete
Source: Huffington Post
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