(photo: Amazing New York Food Trucks 2012 Calendar)
Everybody seems to like reading lists, and food truck lists are even more interesting. People want to see if they agree with the author, figure out who was left off the list, and it’s a good way to find out about new places to try.
Yahoo! Travel recently published a list of the Most Creative Food Trucks In America. As with most national lists, there is a wide variety, but there is only one New York food truck included – unless you count dog food!
If you’ve been to Wafels & Dinges (and we know you have), you know they have amazing wafels. We personally can attest to this after first eating one at the 2009 Vendy Awards, where they won Best Dessert. We’ve had many, many more since then.
Did you know you can also get a delicious lunch at W&D?
For a long time, W&D has served pulled pork on a wafel, which makes a very good lunch, but they upped the ante by creating another lunch dish – Chili con Corne, a play on chili con carne.
Unlike the pulled pork, this is not served on one of their regular wafels. The culinary wizards at W&D created a cornbread wafel on which to put the chili – hence chili con corne.
You can get chili con corne with either beef or vegetarian chili. Both cost $7. I’m a big carnivore, so I got the beef chili.
There were some tender beef chunks in the chili along with the beans, although I can always go for more meat. There was a decent amount of cumin in the chili, and it was a little spicy too. It was all topped with shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream.
What makes this dish really work is the cornbread wafel. Cornbread and chili are a great pairing, and the chili would have clashed with one of their regular Brussels or Liege wafels, which would have been too sweet.
One thing you should know is the Chili con Corne is only available at the Wafels & Dinges truck. The carts are not large enough to serve either of the savory wafels. Don’t worry, you can find the truck on twitter here or on our Mobile Munchies twitter feed here.
And if you want to know how to pronounce dinges (which means “stuff”), check out the video below, and listen to the young kid in the bike helmet.
Yes it’s raining out, but you can still get great New York Street Food from the vendors on the right and the trucks below.
Did you know that you can call in orders for pick up at a bunch of food trucks on Food To Eat? That way you don’t have to wait in the rain. Just stop by and pick up your order at the appointed time.
If you go out, make sure to check the Mobile Munchies twitter feed before heading out, in case anyone had to move at the last minute.
This week the City of Buffalo moved into the 21st Century by passing regulations allowing food trucks in the city – with certain regulations and limitations.
