It's almost unfair, but Iron Chef Bobby Flay, said to be burdened with the ownership of 20 restaurants worldwide, can exercize the same option if he wishes. He could forego opening the fancy restaurants, not hire the surly wait staffs with necessary health care coverage, cancel the orders for 20 ton air-conditioning units, refuse to agonize over wine lists. Bobby could simply do what I was dreaming about; buy a food cart, get a permit and tow it to an area of high foot traffic.
Of course, you have to be very good making one thing. What about a hot italian sausage with avocado, center cut bacon and grilled pineapple on a ciabatta bun?
Or switch things up with cheddar cheese, bacon, italian sausage and chipotle sauce?
Or, what about tacos made with blue corn tortillas?
After toying with the idea for a couple of months, I chose not to make the $3,000 investment in a food trailer. Nena didn't think it was a good idea for me to be parked in the vacant lot next to Valentino's on Central Blvd at 1:00 am selling hot dogs. So, instead, I started playing with the idea of writing a blog.
Blogging is so similar to operating a food cart, it's uncanny. There is no overhead. No large brick building like the Brownsville Herald has to maintain, air-condition, pay property taxes on. You don't have to buy hundreds of newspaper racks and worry about scrappers taking them to recycling yards. No fancy, smancy reporters or columnists to salary. No nightmares about the escalating cost of newsprint and subsequent destruction of native forests to make the paper pulp. Just direct vendor to customer delivery of a juicy morsel. So simple.
So, I weighed my career options. Blog or hot dog stand? Cheesy article or cheesy taco? A blogging expert from Austin helped me with my decision. He said that the number of blogs worldwide had passed the 1 billion mark and that most were inconsequential. Billion with a "B"? Wow! That reminded me of the old ad trying to convince Americans to buy the Renault automobile. "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong!" the ad read. Well, actually, they were wrong. Renaults were not all that. With all my pie charts drawn, all the evidence in, with spousal semi-approval either way, one fact tipped the scales in favor of the blogosphere: No Permit Needed
Glad you pick the blog!!!
ReplyDeleteyou are fucked up delusional old fart who thinks people actually give a shit about you. we don't. you're just another gringo pretending to like mexicans cause you are surrounded by us.
ReplyDeleteThe anonymous amoeba who wrote the comment posted at 4:16 p.m. is the quintessential Internet tough guy who makes his community's blog rounds, laughs while commenting, and then walks back to the couch to wait for the wife to come home from her job at Wendy's. Devoid of any skills other than making that weekly walk to the unemployment office, individuals like this one are nothing more than ambulatory shitbags leaving their trail of bean-tamale feces from one side of town to the other. They'll moan and groan when the wife yells at them to get a job, but they'll watch her go off to work and then lumber toward the computer. Ignorant of any half-intelligent thoughts, they spew four-letter words spiced with a throated racist one. These people are aberrations, the result of bad breeding; that is, the result of an uneducated father and an ugly mother, he from Matamoros and she from Brownsville's Southmost subdivision...
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"..he from Matamoros and she from Brownsville's Southmost subdivision.."
DeleteReally /D-PM? I was born in Matamoros and currently reside in the Southmost area, should I consider myself less than others? Am I to be considered a douche because of my birthplace and area of residence? Thought better of you.
you shoulda done the hot dog cart.
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ReplyDelete....May I humbly add that this amoeba is the type that buys Quintnilla's sanctimonious bullshit and/or votes for the likes of Presas-Garcia, Escobedo, or any member of the Hernandez clan.
Are you saying that was Juan "El Sonso" Montoya? Wow!
DeleteBad choice, Jim. Feeding people hotdogs is much better than feeding them more of the same crap that "billions", including a few in Brownsville, are stroking their egos with.
ReplyDeleteI heard someone say the other day that all Americans want these days is entertainment and to eat. It is apparent that you had a winner with either the food cart or this entertainment blog. These days people eat too much and believe what they hear/read. So, we have big asses and small minds.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your blog - keep in coming! If the "haters" above don't like it, they do not have to follow it. To each his own. Also, please keep up your articles on the corruption and misdeeds at BISD. People need to know and perhaps this time they will actually go out and vote and get their friends and family to do the same. Alot of folks are fed up with Caty and her reign of terror. She needs to go!!!
ReplyDeleteDitto on "keep up your articles on the corruption.."
DeleteHowever, please don't become another McHale or Cheezmes, or worse yet, Maclovio. Too many of those already.
Jim I am glad you did not choose the food cart,you would still be wondering the city deps to get the permits lol
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