Food Trucks: Ben Keeney

I am would in no way consider myself a "foodie". Case in point, I had to look up how to actually spell foodie. It's not something that I am proud of or look to others who are super interested and maybe even picky as being pretentious. I really do respect foodies. I am interested in how much flavor they can decipher with their smell and taste buds. The more that I think about it I would say that I am also a little bit jealous and wish I could only like things that other foodies liked and not be totally content with Taco Bell or Lotaburger (Jess knows).
In recent months I was obsessed with Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare on Netflix. I was super intrigued how Gordon could detect immediately the quality of how they cooked it, if the food had been frozen or wasn't local and fresh. I loved how he explained to the watching audience, in so many colorful words and British expressions, what was wrong. You see I am very analytically inclined by nature and foodies when they just say, "this sucks" without any explanation as to why leaves me thinking, "Now what the hell am I supposed to do with that?" (Amy and Jess know) But Ramsey explains it and I tend to agree with him about how restaurants are supposed to look, sound and taste.
You might be asking what this has to do with food trucks. You might not be asking that at all, either way it really doesn't matter because I'm going to talk about it now. Food trucks make everyone a foodie. First of all it's cool. It's like a secret restaurant that magically appears in around you. That's one thing that makes it cool, but also it seems like it just doesn't take a lot to start one, which may or may not be true. But because it seems that way, I feel more comfortable to be critical and gracious. Another really cool thing is that they are obviously local. Lastly, and probably the best thing about Food Trucks is that they are simple. There aren't a lot of choices. All the options are (or should be) the best they can offer.
Here in Albuquerque, the food trucks are like doughnut shops in the NW. If they aren't amazing they just aren't going to last very long. There are 2 that I really like. The Supper Truck is the best one. Here they serve Shrimp and Grits...amazing and BBQ pork soft tacos with southern style coleslaw. They are so good. I will say that one time they served waffle chicken tacos, that was super gross. Mostly because the waffles were mini Eggo. I don't know if they ran out that night or something, but it really sucked. I was truly sad because Chicken and Waffles are evidence of God common grace on all his creation that truly loves everyone. Regardless of that sin, Supper Truck is amazing. The other I think is called Europa, he parks in my church parking lot around lunch time on Sunday. "He" is a french dude name Joffrey. Joffrey makes really long hot dogs with melted cheese on top and with a certain amazing spicy mustard.
I do like food trucks. They are usually good quality because of the low overhead, the down-to-earthness that cultivates loyalty and the uniqueness that is plain fun.