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The Motor Mouth food truck can now legally operate in Cleveland

Being a lifelong New Yorker, I truly believe living here is better than any other place on Earth – but as a food truck lover, Cleveland just surpassed New York.

Over the past six months, Cleveland city leaders have been speaking with food truck operators, street vendors and restaurants to come up with the law, which goes into effect immediately.

After a six month trial period, food trucks are now free to operate in Cleveland, with a few restrictions.  BTW, the city council vote was unanimous.

Click through to see a sensible approach to this issue.

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It might have been well below freezing in Cleveland last weekend, but more than 1,000 people turned up at Lincoln Park in Tremont, for the 1st C-Town Chow-Down.

Lines were up to 75 people long for items like like pulled pork bahn mi and lobster truffle pierogis, but the longest lines of the day were at the Seti’s Polish Boy truck, where patrons waited for the giant Polish Boys sausages, touted by none other than Cleveland’s own Iron Chef Michael Symon.

“This just shows what kind of food town Cleveland is,” Bryant said, as the pair were handing their steaming boxes of noodles. “It’s 20 degrees and people are waiting 2½ hours for food.”

The event, officially dubbed The C-Town Chowdown: A Culinary Convoy of Cleveland’s Finest Food Trucks, is expected to be a monthly gathering.

It's so cold, maybe Fahrenheit should be Kelvin. (Oops, that's already taken.)

Click through for more info on the participating trucks, which also served mofongo, ceviche, pad thai, spring rolls and many other dishes, including of course, (salted caramel chocolate) cupcakes.

Thanks to Peggy Turbett of the Cleveland Plain Dealer for the details.  Hope you didn’t get frostbite covering this story.

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