• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Do You Eat Street Food?

Do You Eat Street Food?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 87.9%

  • No

    Votes: 3 9.1%

  • Other- I'll explain

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Jeepers, do people actually do that?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • If you like pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain...

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    33
Do You Eat Street Food?
Click to expand...

sometimes. i'm probably around fair food more often, but it's pretty much the same thing. as a food safety enthusiast, i wonder about it occasionally, but most of my experiences have been good. i can't think of a specific time when i got sick and could trace it directly to a food stand. i would, of course, discourage adding toppings to a sandwich that have been sitting in the sun all day with every Tom, Dick, and Hank picking around in them with their hands. i have seen that at fairs.
 
I eat street food.

There's a vendor who pushes his cart through our neighborhood every other day around 2:00 PM.

"Tama-Lays!" (tamales) he sings. . . . TA-MA is 1 note - LAYS is 1 and a half notes down.

His polished steel cart is clean, and the tamales are delicious. . . I usually get the beef, but the chicken are delightful too, so once in a while I'll get the chicken.

I'm a gringo, so I have to pay a 25¢ surcharge. . . I don't care. :cool:
 
truthatallcost said:
Food carts, trucks, stands, or the Tamale lady who goes door to door selling delicious homemade bundles of goodness, I've been eating street food since I was a kid. It was just always around, one of the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. I've eaten street food thousands of times, and never once gotten sick. It's curious to see street food as being trendy, as you can now find every variety of it in cities like San Francisco, from authentic French cuisine prepared by a native Parisians, to the trusty old $1.25 tacos made fresh at taco trucks.

Do you eat street food? If so which kinds? I'd particularly like to hear from people who've tried street food from around the world, in India or Thailand where it's part of the daily routine for locals.
Click to expand...

I've eaten street food over the years, but only in the US. In New York I've had frankfurters with onion sauce from umbrella carts, salted pretzels, knishes, chestnuts and other foods. In all states I've been in, I've eaten from various food trucks, Mexican, Italian, American. Never got sick and always liked the street foods I ate, but have eaten street foods more in my younger days and working days, now that I'm retired I make a lot of good foods at home, or take out from good restaurants and pizza places. Not many street foods available near my home.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
I've eaten street food over the years, but only in the US. In New York I've had frankfurters with onion sauce from umbrella carts, salted pretzels, knishes, chestnuts and other foods. In all states I've been in, I've eaten from various food trucks, Mexican, Italian, American. Never got sick and always liked the street foods I ate, but have eaten street foods more in my younger days and working days, now that I'm retired I make a lot of good foods at home, or take out from good restaurants and pizza places. Not many street foods available near my home.
Click to expand...

It is becoming more trendy because the start up costs are lower than a traditional restaurant and they can move around to feature different foods. My city hosts street food festivals a couple times a year which are pretty popular to bring in out of the area providers who can do whatever featured cuisine they feel like doing. We don't have any regular street vendors the rest of the year. Every few years someone might do a hot dog cart, but the health department either chases them away or the property owners eventually stop working with them to let them set up off the sidewalk on private property.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I've only eaten street food in UK, Canada and Japan.

Hot dogs, kebabs and poutine mostly, but Japan, man... Find some random joints sometimes that make the BEST Yakitori.

Barbecuing is extremely serious business for South Africans and Yakitori is one of my favorite iterations of BBQ'd meat on gods green earth.
Click to expand...

Its hard to beat meat on a stick.
 
truthatallcost said:
Thanks Bob. The picture you included of asian street food is the kind I'd like to try. From hearing others describe it, they use fresh ingredients, made to order in front of you like you said, and an average meal costs between $1-2. Sounds superior to our dining options.
Click to expand...

Went to Thailand and Cambodia last year. Ate most meals at street stands or the tiny outdoor "restaurants".

Wonderful. Our friends we traveled with got there a week ahead of us and were just getting over a bout of food poisoning. They were pretty sure it was from one of the dragon boat kitchens that post up at the tourist beaches. They travel all over southeast Asia and eat "street food" most of the time. The rare instance of food poisoning doesn't slow them down. (They don't eat off the dragon boats anymore)
 
Street food is often the best. I'm big on food truck food. We like farmer's market food. Soon as the desert begins to cool down (we're counting the feckin seconds) there will be more street vendors and farmer's markets will have more food vendors. We're looking forward to it.

When I am outside the US I rarely pass up an opportunity to eat street food. So far I've only had two occasions when I needed to stay around the hotel room the next day, Thailand and Mexico, and I've eaten at a few dodgy places.

Generally, I like street food and street food people.
 
truthatallcost said:
Food carts, trucks, stands, or the Tamale lady who goes door to door selling delicious homemade bundles of goodness, I've been eating street food since I was a kid. It was just always around, one of the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. I've eaten street food thousands of times, and never once gotten sick. It's curious to see street food as being trendy, as you can now find every variety of it in cities like San Francisco, from authentic French cuisine prepared by a native Parisians, to the trusty old $1.25 tacos made fresh at taco trucks.

Do you eat street food? If so which kinds? I'd particularly like to hear from people who've tried street food from around the world, in India or Thailand where it's part of the daily routine for locals.
Click to expand...

Yes, I do:

IMG_20171130_174416.jpg
 
What if...? said:
Went to Thailand and Cambodia last year. Ate most meals at street stands or the tiny outdoor "restaurants".

Wonderful. Our friends we traveled with got there a week ahead of us and were just getting over a bout of food poisoning. They were pretty sure it was from one of the dragon boat kitchens that post up at the tourist beaches. They travel all over southeast Asia and eat "street food" most of the time. The rare instance of food poisoning doesn't slow them down. (They don't eat off the dragon boats anymore)
Click to expand...

The trick I have found is always go to a vendor with a long line of locals. In Thailand some true street food is disappearing as now restaurants put out carts on the street. This is being supported by the government as well
 
Do I eat Street Food?
Yes, of course!
Why not?
 
SkyChief said:
I'm a gringo, so I have to pay a 25¢ surcharge. . . I don't care. :cool:
Click to expand...

Of course you don't care. Gringos have all the power. It would be moronic for you to feel threatened.
 
No, I do not eat street food...Where I live they are far away, unless you be talkin' about roadkill...
 
All the time, at my nephew's wedding a few months back in LA, they had food trucks at the reception serving dinner.

I've eaten street food all over Asia and in Europe and Africa, some of the best food I've ever eaten (including eating fried bugs in Bangkok!)
 
beefheart said:
I've eaten street food all over Asia and in Europe and Africa, some of the best food I've ever eaten (including eating fried bugs in Bangkok!)
Click to expand...
So have I - except for bugs. :)
 
I ate street food as a younger man when travelling. Now, I live in a rural place, in the summer we have chip stands. It’s just burgers fries pogos poutine that sort of thing. There is a fish truck on the reservation that sells local walleye battered and fried.
Last year a taco truck set up for a bit - that was great.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom