Roach Coach del Escuela

Roach Coach del Escuela


I just encountered something I've not seen before. As I was passing a
nearby private school - junior high and high school, I'd say - a In'n'Out
Burger truck was setting up at the curb in front. In'n'Out is a
popular, probably regional chain. The truck looked a little larger than a
conventional roach coach but not much. It was just before lunch time.


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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

> I just encountered something I've not seen before. As I was passing a
> nearby private school - junior high and high school, I'd say - a In'n'Out
> Burger truck was setting up at the curb in front. In'n'Out is a
> popular, probably regional chain. The truck looked a little larger than a
> conventional roach coach but not much. It was just before lunch time.

Sounds like they're taking a lesson from McDonalds: "Get 'em hooked
while they're still young".

-sw

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On May 9, 12:37 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> I just encountered something I've not seen before.  As I was passing a
> nearby private school - junior high and high school, I'd say - a In'n'Out
> Burger truck was setting up at the curb in front.  In'n'Out is a
> popular, probably regional chain.  The truck looked a little larger than=
a
> conventional roach coach but not much.  It was just before lunch time.
>
Not a roach coach, they call them "cookout trailers" and you rent/
charter them for special events, corporate outings, stuff like that.
Everything is prepaid, they don't take cash at the site. The school
must have been having some function. While they offer burgers,
shakes, soft drinks and chips, they don't offer fries. I guess the
trucks are not equipped with fryers.

In 'n Out created these in response to demand. Far as I know they
have no plans for using them for conventional roach coach business.
Demand is high, you have to book them months in advance. -aem

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On May 9, 2:37 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> I just encountered something I've not seen before.  As I was passing a
> nearby private school - junior high and high school, I'd say - a In'n'Out
> Burger truck was setting up at the curb in front.  In'n'Out is a
> popular, probably regional chain.  The truck looked a little larger than=
a
> conventional roach coach but not much.  It was just before lunch time.

"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
I'd love to have one of those trucks.
>
> --
> Blinky

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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela


"Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASSACT@brick . net > wrote

>"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
>the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
>are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
>I'd love to have one of those trucks.

Looks like hard work, but why don't you buy one? You start
early but you can knock off early, too.

nancy

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On May 10, 7:54 am, "Nancy Young" <rjy...@comcast . net > wrote:
> "Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASS...@brick . net > wrote
>
> >"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
> >the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found.  Many of them
> >are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
> >I'd love to have one of those trucks.
>
> Looks like hard work, but why don't you buy one?  You start
> early but you can knock off early, too.

Right now, I really like my job, and am not looking for alternatives
in the short term. I'm 47 now, and stacking and unstacking 300 chairs
in an afternoon is fine, but as the years go by, 57, 67...

I'm sort of apprenticing in early childhood education, and I've got
great mentors. Funny, but the one educational obstacle is that I'd
need to satisfy a foreign language requirement, and Spanish would be
my choice, also consistent with operating a taco truck :)
>
> nancy

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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela


"Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASSACT@brick . net > wrote

On May 10, 7:54 am, "Nancy Young" <rjy...@comcast . net > wrote:
> "Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASS...@brick . net > wrote
>
> >"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
> >the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
>> >are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
>> >I'd love to have one of those trucks.
>
>> Looks like hard work, but why don't you buy one? You start
>> early but you can knock off early, too.

>Right now, I really like my job, and am not looking for alternatives
>in the short term. I'm 47 now, and stacking and unstacking 300 chairs
>in an afternoon is fine, but as the years go by, 57, 67...

Yeah, time to prepare for Plan B, I'd say.

>I'm sort of apprenticing in early childhood education, and I've got
>great mentors. Funny, but the one educational obstacle is that I'd
>need to satisfy a foreign language requirement, and Spanish would be
>my choice, also consistent with operating a taco truck :)

Hah, you can go either way with that skill under your belt.
"Hola, Isabel, donde esta la biblioteca?" anyone?

nancy

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

Nancy Young wrote:

>
> "Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASSACT@brick . net > wrote
>
>>"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
>>the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
>>are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
>>I'd love to have one of those trucks.
>
> Looks like hard work, but why don't you buy one? You start
> early but you can knock off early, too.

And as far as disparagement goes, right -- that's why some of them play
"La Cucaracha" to announce their arrival. It's become simply a name, and
one I've certainly heard used - neutrally - far, far more than "taco
truck" here in Los Angeles. Of course, of one is just dying to find
trouble, one could also claim that "taco truck" is disparaging since they
make much, much more than tacos -- but I'm not one to to look for trouble
in every nook and cranny and invent it when it's not found.


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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On Sat, 10 May 2008 10:13:47 -0700, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

>And as far as disparagement goes, right -- that's why some of them play
>"La Cucaracha" to announce their arrival.

I don't think most gringos even know what La Cucaracha is. It's just
what they think of when they think "Mexican".... that and the Mexican
Hat Dance.

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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 10:13:47 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> And as far as disparagement goes, right -- that's why some of them play
>> "La Cucaracha" to announce their arrival.
>
> I don't think most gringos even know what La Cucaracha is. It's just
> what they think of when they think "Mexican".... that and the Mexican
> Hat Dance.
>


La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar,
Porque le falta, porque no tiene
Enchiladas pa' comer.

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar,
Porque le falta, porque no tiene
Gasolina pa' correr.

gloria p

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:45:50 -0600, Gloria P <gpuester@comcast . net >
wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 10:13:47 -0700, Blinky the Shark
>> <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> And as far as disparagement goes, right -- that's why some of them play
>>> "La Cucaracha" to announce their arrival.
>>
>> I don't think most gringos even know what La Cucaracha is. It's just
>> what they think of when they think "Mexican".... that and the Mexican
>> Hat Dance.
>>
>
>
>La cucaracha, la cucaracha
>Ya no puede caminar,
>Porque le falta, porque no tiene
>Enchiladas pa' comer.
>
>La cucaracha, la cucaracha
>Ya no puede caminar,
>Porque le falta, porque no tiene
>Gasolina pa' correr.
>

LOL - Back at ya!
* w w w .wtv-zone . com /REMEMBERTHEN/midis18/mexican.mid

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Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On May 10, 8:52 am, Bobo Bonobo® <CLASS...@brick . net > wrote:
> On May 9, 2:37 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
>
> > I just encountered something I've not seen before. As I was passing a
> > nearby private school - junior high and high school, I'd say - a In'n'Ou=
t
> > Burger truck was setting up at the curb in front. In'n'Out is a
> > popular, probably regional chain. The truck looked a little larger than=
a
> > conventional roach coach but not much. It was just before lunch time.
>
> "Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
> the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
> are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
> I'd love to have one of those trucks.

Roach coach is the term for the lunch wagons that go around from
business to business selling pastries, sandwiches, soup and sometimes
hot entrees, as well as drinks and other snack items. Not just taco
trucks. The ones in NE are usually pretty mediocre. Think steam table
on wheels.

maxine in ri

Re: Roach Coach del Escuela

On Sat, 10 May 2008 05:52:06 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
<CLASSACT@brick . net > fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>"Roach coach" is a disparaging term, most often used for taco trucks,
>the source of some of the best lunch fare to be found. Many of them
>are sparklingly clean, same as goes for brick & mortar restaurants.
>I'd love to have one of those trucks.

Then you'll want to wine and dine your favorite LA City councilperson
who has mandated that all the taco trucks have to move every hour on
the hour. With the price of gas going through the stratosphere, it
will likely put a bunch of those guys out of business, but it will
keep the restauranteurs off the City Council's collective butt. (Like
anyone who thought to patronize a restaurant would have his/her mind
changed at the curb in favor of a taco truck, which is what the
restauranteurs claim.)

And if you want to do a nearly daily eyeball rolling at what the girls
and boys of the LA City Council and various committees, etc.
do/mandate/calendar, sign up for notification of their agenda(s) here:

* parc3.lacity.org/ens/index.cfm?dept=clk

And if you *really* want to make yourself nuts, seek out the gazillion
sub-agencies, sub-commissions, sub-committees, districts,
conservancies, authorities, boards - oh, and that's before we get into
the City's *special* agencies, commissions, committees, districts,
conservancies, authorities and boards that are appointed for some
really, really important function such as the subcommittee that
drafted the snarky resolution re: the taco trucks, because the City
Council has really, really important crap to decide (this is taken
from an actual City Council meeting agenda report):

MOTION (CARDENAS - HUIZAR) relative to declaring the WorldFest 2008 on
May 10, 2008 a Special Event (fees and costs absorbed by the City =
$1,000).
08-1087 CD 6 b. MOTION (CARDENAS - HUIZAR) relative to declaring the
Keep Sun Valley beautiful event on May 3, 2008 a Special Event (fees
and costs absorbed by the City = $1,500).
08-1088 CD 14 c. MOTION (HUIZAR - CARDENAS) relative to declaring the
Eighth Annual Cinco De Mayo Celebration Job and Health Fair on May 5,
2008 a Special Event (fees and costs absorbed by the City = $4,540).
06-1127 CD 11 d. MOTION (ROSENDAHL - PERRY) relative to declaring the
Annual Summer Carnival on May 18, 2008 a Special Event (fees and costs
absorbed by the City = $1,460).
TUESDAY 05-06-08 PAGE 18
06-1366 CD 11 e. MOTION (ROSENDAHL - PERRY) relative to declaring the
Mar Vista Neighborhood Association Annual Block Party on June 21, 2008
a Special Event (fees and costs absorbed by the City = $1,857).
08-1090 CD 13 f. MOTION (GARCETTI - PERRY) relative to declaring the
Echo Park Community Parade 2008 on December 13, 2008 a Special Event
(fees and costs absorbed by the City = $5,794).
08-1091 CD 13 g. MOTION (GARCETTI - PERRY) relative to declaring the
Interactive Display event on June 11, 2008 a Special Event (the event
sponsor shall reimburse the City for all fees and costs associated
with this event).
08-1095 CD 9 h. MOTION (PERRY - HUIZAR) relative to declaring the
Relay for Life-Downtown Los Angeles on August 2-3, 2008 a Special
Event (fees and costs absorbed by the City = $10,082).
08-1092 CD 9 i. MOTION (PERRY - ROSENDAHL) relative to declaring the
American Idol Finale on May 19-21, 2008 a Special Event (the event
sponsor shall reimburse the City for all fees and costs associated
with this event).
08-1093 CD 9 j. MOTION (PERRY - GARCETTI) relative to declaring the
International Worker’s Day on May 1, 2008 a Special Event (fees and
costs absorbed by the City = none submitted).
07-1122 CD 9 k. MOTION (PERRY - GARCETTI) relative to declaring the
Annual Mother’s Day Celebration on May 10, 2008 a Special Event (fees
and costs absorbed by the City = $2,420). ITEM NO. (28)
07-1126 CD 14 CONTINUED CONSIDERATION OF MOTION (HUIZAR - PERRY)
relative to declaring the L.A. Fiesta Broadway 2008 on April 27, 2008
a Special Event (fees and costs absorbed by the City = $162,977).

And unless my math has gone south, that's $189,210 in utter crap that
the City is undertaking as expenses.

And that's just one of the two meetings per week that generate more of
the same. And they're zeroing in on the taco trucks as a hazard to
SoCal??? Jeez, am I glad I live in Orange County.

Oh, wait, we have our own brand of idiots down here!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd (monitoring the City Council for my job)
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"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

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