OK Norfolk, we want beer and wine carts and t-shirt vendors too

She's selling beer

We had the “first ever food truck rodeo” with live music last week.

Paid for by the city, which will raise your real estate taxes four cents, ostensibly to improve the education of our highly educated children.

But are they food trucks now instead of food carts?

You never know in Bi-Polar on the Bay.

But have you noticed?

Everything in Norfolk is starting to become “first ever.” 

“First ever” arts and design district.

“First ever” something or other.

But if Bi-Polar on the Bay officials really want food trucks or food carts or food vendors hawking everything from cupcakes to vegan hot dogs, we should also have….

Wine carts, with 7-11’s finest, MD 20/20. 

Better yet, carts with wine from Mermaid Winery.

Another street vendor

Book carts selling “used” copies of Karl Marx, Milton Friedman, the Koran and the Bible…

Used clothing carts selling hats, coats, jeans and vests, hot off the rack at the Hope House or off of the back of one of the nameless homeless in Norfolk.

Café Latte carts, for the more discerning liquid lappers.  

Beer carts.

Overflowing with frothy amber and black craft brews from O’Connor Brewing Co. and other home grown crafty breweries.  

T-shirt vendors.

Vendors selling pirated DVDs and CDs on the street.

Copycat iPhones and iPads.

Art.

And while we are at it, why not have flea markets every weekend and pawn shops and payday lenders…

Let’s do the Full Monty. Don’t restrict it to cute little food troll vendors.

 But I Do just love food carts.

The hot dogs are soaked in hot water and taste like rubber.

The buns stick to my fingers.

The spicy mustard is raunchy from sitting in the sun all day long.

The relish I no longer relish.

It looks good when our favorite TV characters in our favorite TV shows are shot swilling coffee and wolfing down a hot dog stuffed with chili while deciding the fate of a woman on death row.

But is that real?

No.

But we think so. We think it’s cool and hip and trendy.

Because then we will look like a city. But who wants to look like other cities?

But we aren’t a city.

Unless you count the homeless, the poor and the people in the public housing projects who will probably buy food truck food because it’s cheap.

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