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 Early in 2007, my BFF and I did a weekend in New York City. My plan involved a carriage ride through Central Park, preferrably while it snowed, and perhaps while the Pogues serenaded us with their "Fairytale." His plan involved stopping at every hot dog cart we saw as we wove our way through the city. Due to global warming, it was a balmy 70 degrees that weekend and the Pogues were apparently busy, but I did get my carriage ride and we dutifully stopped at just about every cart from the Village all the way up to East 72nd Street. I ate hot dogs, pretzels and had an unfortunate incident with a roasted chestnut on Fifth Avenue. And never once did I see anything more than a bruised and battered banana or a sorry-looking apple on any of the carts. New York is gearing up to issue 500 new licenses for carts in the city, but the catch is that the carts are only allowed to sell fresh vegetables and fruits. No hot dogs. No Polish sausages. No giant sodium-avalanche pretzels with frighteningly plastic shiny cheese-stuff. I'm pretty sure that even a vegetarian chick pea falafel is illegal! I'm all about tradition, but can I get a "hells yes"? Do you know how much I would patronize such a cart? A ton. Seriously, if I don't plan ahead during the day, my only options for vegetation near my office are either to go to a very large suburban grocery store in the next suburb over and dig through their precut options or swing through McDonald's and get one of those dismal apple and walnut trays. That's it! Do you know what I wouldn't give for a full-service, all-healthy fast-food joint? A place where the majority of the choices are completely wonderful, well-balanced and loaded up with vities? As God is my witness, if I won millions of dollars in the lottery, I would make that venture happen. No French fries. No scary gray meat. No trans fats or high fructose corn syrup or scary lettuce that is coated with some kind of youth chemical because it never rots. Smoothies instead of milk shakes, steel-cut oatmeal instead of the soggy grease bombs that pose as croissant sandwiches. Grilled chicken and poached salmon instead of nuggets and Filet-O-Fish. And glorious naked vegetation as far as the eye can see. A thing of beauty, that's what that is. So yay for New York and their fresh fruits and veggies carts! Now get cracking on Whole Fast Foods, okay? (via the yummy and addictive Slashfood) 4 CommentsLeave a comment |
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This is awesome, welcome news for sure!! Thanks for sharing. THIS is why I love NY ;-) It's such a progressive city. Being from Jersey and all, I will always have love for the Big Apple...and if I could BUY a fresh apple on one of those carts, well, that'd be darn incredible.
I'll have to say, in Philly our carts actually do pretty well with good food options. Most of them are standard egg sandwich/ gyros/ cheesesteak places, but at least during the summer there are quite a few fruit carts. I think I can walk to at least three of them from my location in Center City. The big shame about them is that they tend to go into hiding for the winter!
Well, I don't think it's a bad idea, I mean more fruits and veggies are always nice, but there's no dearth of fresh options to be had walking around the City. Every bodega and salad bar corner store has fruit, oatmeal, etc to be had cheaply and quickly. I never ate better than when I lived there. *sigh*
this is great news. i recently saw several of the fruit stand guys with organic strawberries and blueberries. i wish i knew if I could trust them -- why do I feel like they are just reusing the containers?
anyone have any insight?