Great Food Truck Race

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I have only watched the first ten minutes or so of the Fort Worth episode of the Great Food Truck Race, and I have a big, hearty Eff You to the French truck. They went to a local French restaurant to get supplies, which I'll grant is a good move, but then the guy being interviewed said that he didn't think any stores here had frog legs.

Well, let me tell you, Mr French Food Truck Guy, that even the grocery store that I shopped at when I lived over off of Eastchase and I-30, in a rather less than good part of town, had frickin' frog legs. You might want to check your assumptions at the door: Fort Worth is one of the foodie-r cities I've ever lived in, and a couple of phone calls could have sourced you frog legs.

Now, if you don't mind, I've got to get back to compiling my order for my local supplier of grass-fed, dry-aged beef.




(I've got yesterday and today off for attending a conference this weekend, but I've got way too much to do right now to watch the rest of the show this morning, so it'll have to wait for a while more.)

Comments

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Yeesh.

Other than that, how is the show?

[telophase]

So far, eh. I prefer the reality competitions where the mechanism is creativity under pressure - Top Chef, Project Runway, etc. To be sure there's some creativity for the food truck guys, but there's only so many endless shot of trucks looking for parking places that I can take.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Eyerolling with you. A lesson too in "you won't know if you don't ask."

Frog legs are used often in Cajun cooking, aren't they? I'd expect to find them pretty widely available now. I've had them in a kind of fusion Caribbean (what it was fusing with I don't know but it was good)(Asian maybe...?) place recently in California.

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Yup. I don't expect them in every store, but Central Market, the Whole Foods, and a few other places would most likely stock them.

I was quite proud of the Austin crew for hitting the Fiesta for their supplies - Fiesta has the cheapest prices on produce in town of the grocery stores I've been to. (And specializes in Hispanic foods, too. It even smells like an open market; I get nostalgic for the markets I vaguely remember from my days in Africa when I go in there.)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I cringed at that, too.

I also confess that part of the reason I'm cheering for NomNom is that I want the people who sneer, "Sure, they're doing okay in San Diego, but nobody in middle America eats Vietnamese!" to be proven wrong.

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I watched a bit more of the episode, and I have to say that the NomNom truck person who said that we don't get banh mi sandwiches here is probably also making assumptions - DFW has a HUGE Asian population, and there are more than one areas of town with concentrations of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and other Asian stores, shops and restaurants. I'd be astounded if I couldn't get banh mi here.

Yeah, I can't get it downtown, but downtown tends to be populated with tourists and college students in the evenings, so beer, bbq, steak, and Mexican is more the style.