Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks?
Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks?
I can hear an Ice Cream truck coming from blocks away and it's instantly recognizable.
Why aren't there Taco Trucks cruising around the neighborhood with an instantly recognizable sound and menu? All the grownups would come running outside waving to the Taco Truck.
The Taco Truck was invented in 1974 so it's been 50 years now. I've known the sound of the Ice Cream Truck since I was like 3 years old, but I barely even know where the Taco Truck is. You've got to follow them around on social media...
Because they don't drive around looking for customers the way an ice cream truck does. They need to actually park so they can hook up to gas/electric lines and actually cook.
Because they are not trying to target kids, in a semi-subliminal way like icecream trucks do.
In Glasgow ice cream trucks deliver drugs.
They do, you just can't hear it
It's like how elephants communicate
I am really much more interested in why all the food trucks seem to be taco trucks. It's like it's some kind of national conspiracy.
Where is the pasta truck, the stir fry wok truck, the BLT truck, the foie gras truck, etc.?
I don't know about where you live, but here there's thousands of different cuisine trucks. Burger trucks, Indian, Portuguese, pasta, Korean, baked potatoes, etc.
We have food trucks where I am that serve cuisines other than Mexican food, even though Mexican is by and large the dominant food truck type I encounter.
I've seen vegan food, macaroni, southern United States cuisine, pizza, and African cuisine. In larger cities, I've heard of stuff like a grilled cheese truck. They are out there! But now I would be happy to see a Chinese food truck or a Vietnamese food truck.
Damn, I need to find a foie gras truck!
Come to Rhode Island.
We have a surplus of JWU culinary arts graduates who can only afford to cook in a van down by the river.
lmao, I can't believe someone actually beat me to this. I don't live there now, but used to and worked in Cumberland in that CVS business park. There's a little pull off spot in there where food trucks setup shop during lunch hour. I've never seen such variety in my life!
Also, no taco truck is better than Pollos Locos, especially at 2AM while drunk stumbling out of the Scurvy.
ETA: wait a sec. Jason, DJ, Rhode Island. You don't work in that same business park, do you?
ETA2: nvm, I stalked your posts a little bit and I very seriously doubt you are who I thought you might be. Weird coincidence, though!
You don't have a variety of food trucks where you live? We have fry trucks, sushi, smoothies, fries, pierogies, burgers, you name it.
We have like eight food trucks in the region and they're all Taco trucks.
Mena, AR has two BBQ trucks and a Hibachi truck. It's not all tacos.
La cucaracha! La cucaracha!
Just to be clear I don't want to own and run a Taco Truck, I just heard the Ice Cream Truck and wished it was a Taco Truck.
Seems like missed opportunity to me, though.
Put ice cream on tacos
They tried that, but it got cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Taco
I feel like I saw one once that was playing “The Elephant Never Forgets”, used as the theme song on the Mexican TV comedy El Chavo del Ocho
That song would work! Now to convince all the Taco Trucks to play the same song so we know when they're around the corner.
While it doesn’t answer your question this episode of the Decoder Ring podcast gives a good history of ice cream trucks and how they got the jingle.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/decoder-ring/id1376577202?i=1000446695402
Mariachi music would work
The biggest problem in my area is they hardly advertise. There are plenty of taco trucks out there but it's basically word of mouth or following their social media, and their social media isn't even written on the side of the trucks half the time.
The music is the delicious scent of tacos
I would buy lots of tacos from a truck playing “Lowrider”.
Because no matter what you come up with, it's going to be at least a little bit racist.
"It's Raining Tacos" would work.
The song is not public domain though.
I vote for "Mexican hat dance"
I've never even heard of taco trucks, that would be cool.
Well, there's food trucks and many of those sell tacos. But no songs, usually, and are only moving when going to or from their setup location.