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gooooooood I wish ZA had better food truck culture :(
we have great food overall, but food truck culture just isn’t really a thing here. food trucks do exist but largely seen at festivals/gigs. at best you’ll usually get something like a parking lot braai, that some or other shop does every n days/week/whatever, as a way to try pull more customers.
“Food truck culture” is pretty much a hipsterism as far as I can tell. It’s a posh way of describing regular food of a sort that often gets sold from the back of a van everywhere except it’s made by and for white people and costs twice as much. Their original purpose of selling affordable food reasonably quickly to workers who want some hot food instead of bringing their own lunch to work but don’t have a long enough break to go anywhere to eat was gentrified away a while back.
igwym (haven't dealt with it myself but have seen the Named Famous Food Truck Enterprises phenomenon which sprung forth from that) but that's not quite what I meant
we just don't have food trucks here - we have some roadside spaza shops, interspersed on some more of the busier intersections of cities. largely these will be packets and produce. some of the ones in very high traffic areas might do hot/cooked foods, but off the top of my head I can only think of 4~5 places in my side of the city where these exist
(and since I figured this would be unfamiliar to anyone who isn't from ZA, I briefly checked the internet to see whether there's decent imagery to convey what I mean and .... no. there is none. so I guess I'll have to go create it)