A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the world’s smallest food truck that sold doner kebabs from a converted Smart car in Austin. We may have found the world’s 2nd smallest food truck in Chicago.
Jay Sebastian and his wife, Carrie Clark, sell British pasties and their company is called Bridgeport Pasties. (We understand Bridgeport is a neighborhood in Chicago.)
These are warm, flaky, “hand-held potpies” in the same family as an empanada or calzone. But these are made with pie crusts, which make them lighter and flakier than empanadas or calzones.
On a related note, we also recently heard about a very small food truck coming to New York City early in 2012.
Click through for more details on both.
So how are they selling Bridgeport Pasties? From a small, electric vehicle, the Global Electric Motor car, or GEM.
The GEM was originally manufactured by Chrysler and costs about 1/3 of the price of the average gas-powered vehicle. The GEM is a low-speed vehicle with special plates that doesn’t go faster than 26 mph. It cannot legally be driven on streets with posted speed limits over 35 mph, which is fine for downtown Chicago.
The eco-friendly vehicle also has ZERO emissions! In fact Bridgeport Pasties’ twitter slogan is “BIG FOOD…small footprint”.
Similar to our cupcake trucks, no cooking is done aboard the vehicle. The pasties are cooked fresh in a bakery and sold out of the side of the GEM. You can follow the Bridgeport Pasty Truck on twitter here.
As for the tiny food truck we recently heard about, it is expected to be on the streets of New York by mid-January. For now, we have been sworn to secrecy, but when it gets closer to launching, you can read about it first on New York Street Food.
