Street food is food that can be sold in or around a street from a non-permanent set-up like a food stall or truck, catering to pedestrian customers and ready to eat immediately. They’re often finger foods, but don’t have to be. There are, for example street food soups.
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Read this as Donner Kebabs and thought that was a pretty funny coincidence.
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This feels more correct to me, but I like all the suggestions so far. An example of something that is kind of obviously street food but would be hard to eat while walking is the Halal Guys platters. When I worked in NYC I loved grabbing a Halal Guys and walking up to Central Park to eat it on a bench. Their sandwiches could be eaten on the go, but their platters are fork food for sure.
Of course it’s still street food if you eat it with a fork, what are we doing here.
Yes, but there are fine lines. Like if I have to find a place to sit and eat it then it’s not a “street foody” as something that can just be consumed anywhere.
I always just kind of associate anything being bought on the street as street food. Some of those things can’t easily be consumed while walking.
It’s not street food, unless it’s been lying on the ground overnight.
It’s not street food unless it’s from the Rue region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling road kill.
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Burritos are the quintessential San Francisco street food. Helps that a good Mission burrito is tightly wrapped in foil so you can eat it one handed.
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This is what Elon yeeted as a comment to a news story that LeBron’s son had some type of cardiac arrest during college basketball practice.
What a ■■■■
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Is that real? Don’t see it on his timeline or replies.
Edit: Never mind, found it. JFC he replies to every tweet he sees.
Sure, but a big messy burrito wouldn’t be street food is my point.
In most places in the world, street food is food that you buy from small shops on the street. Structural integrity has nothing to do with it.
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those dudes are like that
also actually spending time blocking everyone who replies anything even if they aren’t disagreeing
I don’t even waste my time doing that and it’s one person a year tops
I recently ate a doner kebab while walking back home to test the street food criteria.
Now I should note that the doner kebab in Turkey and outside is quite different. Outside it’s more like a Subway sandwich. In Turkey, there are fewer ingredients, way less sauce, and said ingredients are fresher in my experience.
Of course, I was in Prague so I had the outside kebab which was quite messy. Edible while walking but not something that you’d say feel comfortable eating while walking alongside a romantic partner due to the excessive sauce. It also should be said that I went inside a place to get it rather than getting it from a food stand or food truck as the skewer they’re shaving the meat off of is quite large.
How this changes your defintion? I have no idea. It’s purely anecodtal.
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The main street food in Colombia is arepas. You can find them at a few places in LA, but I’m a little surprised they aren’t more common in the US. In LA at least pupusas are much more common, due to our large El Salvadoran population.
We have an Arepa food truck in my little town of 50k people.
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I have to make my own arepas myself like a chump.
One benefit of making my own arepas is I have PAN flour on my shelf. The PAN lady is hot.
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love me some arepas, there’s a place that sells them down the street from my work but they’re only open for dinner. I’d probably do lunch there weekly if they had a normal schedule.