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I'll be the first to admit, up until about a month ago I didn't think much of Twitter. It seemed like one more reason for people to take their Blackberries out and fiddle with them while you were trying to have a conversation, plus it seemed to have all the thrill of Facebook status updates minus the pictures and occasional "Cheryl took the 'If Zeus Made Love to You, What Form Would He Take' Quiz and got SWAN! What Result Will YOU Get?" invitation. It seemed like a devolution: paper journal > blog post > Facebook updates > Tweets > sticking your head in pudding and making burbling sounds.
And then three things happened in rapid succession.
1) I got an iPhone;
2) I discovered that celebrities I was interested in, namely Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard, updated regularly;
3) By far the most important, I discovered that Twitter is apparently responsible for an entire food revolution.
Here's the story: in San Francisco, as in most cities, owning and operating a small-scale food operation is a bureaucratic nightmare of expensive permits and contradictory regulations. Unlike other cities, a growing number of folks in S.F. are getting around this by going bandit: they're loading up their carts with homemade soup, or creme brulee, or BBQ bacon-wrapped waffledogs, using Twitter to tell their customers where they'll be in an hour, hustling down there in their converted postal vans or delivery bikes, and then zooming off into the sunset.
Both as a sometime-dessert maker and a lazy SOB who likes the thought of fresh cheap gourmet food being sold to him, I Approve Of This Plan And Would Like To Subscribe To The Newsletter.
What I have subscribed to, in preparation for my trip there (yes I know I'm only going to be there for five days and am wildly over-prepping, leave me my Virgo-y dreams), is a half-dozen of these 'bandit' Twitter feeds. They're fascinating. They also make me very, very hungry. Things like:
magiccurrykart will be serving magic breakfast burritos at Bargains and Bloodys on the corner of 19th and LInda...10:30am Sunday
and
cremebruleecart Tonights flavors include chocolate rasberry, vanilla bean, lavender, frosted flakes and apple jacks. You can't handle the truth!
and even
boccalone todays details - capocollo,fennel,orange & pecorino panino, cucumber dry soda, humphry slocombe lard cookies - see you at 12 and 1220.
Would I leap up from my desk and run to the park at the thought of someone on a bicycle handing me a cucumber soda and a lard cookie? Maybe not. But I'd love to live in a city where that was an option.
And then three things happened in rapid succession.
1) I got an iPhone;
2) I discovered that celebrities I was interested in, namely Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard, updated regularly;
3) By far the most important, I discovered that Twitter is apparently responsible for an entire food revolution.
Here's the story: in San Francisco, as in most cities, owning and operating a small-scale food operation is a bureaucratic nightmare of expensive permits and contradictory regulations. Unlike other cities, a growing number of folks in S.F. are getting around this by going bandit: they're loading up their carts with homemade soup, or creme brulee, or BBQ bacon-wrapped waffledogs, using Twitter to tell their customers where they'll be in an hour, hustling down there in their converted postal vans or delivery bikes, and then zooming off into the sunset.
Both as a sometime-dessert maker and a lazy SOB who likes the thought of fresh cheap gourmet food being sold to him, I Approve Of This Plan And Would Like To Subscribe To The Newsletter.
What I have subscribed to, in preparation for my trip there (yes I know I'm only going to be there for five days and am wildly over-prepping, leave me my Virgo-y dreams), is a half-dozen of these 'bandit' Twitter feeds. They're fascinating. They also make me very, very hungry. Things like:
magiccurrykart will be serving magic breakfast burritos at Bargains and Bloodys on the corner of 19th and LInda...10:30am Sunday
and
cremebruleecart Tonights flavors include chocolate rasberry, vanilla bean, lavender, frosted flakes and apple jacks. You can't handle the truth!
and even
boccalone todays details - capocollo,fennel,orange & pecorino panino, cucumber dry soda, humphry slocombe lard cookies - see you at 12 and 1220.
Would I leap up from my desk and run to the park at the thought of someone on a bicycle handing me a cucumber soda and a lard cookie? Maybe not. But I'd love to live in a city where that was an option.
